With the collapse of Nazi Germany, Kathe Kollwitz and Bertolt Brecht's country was divided into two, East and West. Partition, then, was either the outcome of a full war or it could also be caused by the war-like disposition of two groups and their animal brutality proceeding hand in hand with pernicious politics –; for example, the partition of Bengal and Punjab. Partition, again, could foment an exodus of two kinds. One, single or collective efforts, frantic and despairing, to cross over barbed wires as depicted by Margarethe von Trota in her film Alexzanderplatzor; massive, multitudinous transfers of population associated with trauma and terror as recorded by Ritwik Ghatak, S M Sathyu, Govind Nihalni and Nemai Ghosh in their films. Taken together, war and partition in this century prompted massive migrations, which dehumanized millions. Adil Mansuri singled out the individual, broken and battered, as the microcosmic victim of the entire process in his poem When the injured Sun opened his Eyes: