How to catch a Nazi. Operation Finale - Die Ergreifung und der Prozess von Adolf Eichmann

In the organizer's words:

A Nazi criminal in hiding and his capture: Adolf Eichmann, who was largely responsible for the murder of around six million European Jews, goes into hiding in Argentina under a false identity after the end of the Second World War. The Hessian Attorney General and Holocaust survivor Fritz Bauer passes on information about Eichmann's whereabouts to the Israeli authorities, causing a group of agents to kidnap him and bring him to trial. Eichmann is put on trial in Jerusalem in 1961.

More than fifteen years after the end of the Second World War, survivors are heard as witnesses for the first time. It is only through their testimony that a deeper and more comprehensive understanding of the Holocaust develops worldwide. It is the first trial to be reported on the new mass medium of television, which is the only reason why it can have such an international impact.

70 photographs and 60 exhibits, including maps and documents, transport visitors directly to the scene at the beginning of the 1960s. They learn how Eichmann was kidnapped and gain an insight into the court case. The media interest in this case was and is great. Around 60 feature films and documentaries have been made on the subject in recent decades. In Potsdam, the exhibition is supplemented by an interactive media station that expands on Eichmann's biography, his crimes, his capture and the trial with additional facts and different perspectives.

With this exhibition, the Filmmuseum Potsdam commemorates the crimes of National Socialism and sets an example for democracy and humanity.

The extensive accompanying program focuses on the media dimension of the Eichmann trial. The exhibition is particularly aimed at a young audience with its educational program.

Price information:

10 Euro, reduced 6 Euro