This article questions about the modalities of war representation throughout puppets or objects in the contemporary theatrical creation, starting from a corpus of several European shows: Kamp and The Big War” by the Netherlands Company Modern Hotel, which evoke respectively the extermination Nazi camps and the first Word war; Zanjas of the French company Zapoi and the older founder of the Georgian Rezo Gabriatze: The Stalingrado Battle . The focus is particular: rather than analyzing the scenic representation of violence, it is a reflection on the notion of “animation”, which belongs to the theater of puppets, to show the specific procedures of the puppets figures in this creations, making of the war the place for a dialectic between the “discouraged” humanity and the persistence of a “soul” in the same life of the objects and the matter.