»Facing Justice - Adolf Eichmann on Trial«
Fifty years ago, in April 1961, the Jerusalem District Court opened proceedings against Adolf Eichmann, former SS Obersturmbannführer and head of section IV B 4 for “Jewish Affairs.” The trial became a major media event. But it was not only a single perpetrator in the Holocaust who was brought before the public eye. For the first time, descriptions by victims received attention around the world. In Jerusalem the era of contemporary witnesses had dawned. Eichmann’s appearance before the court also triggered discussions about the guilt and responsibility of individuals within the Nazi system. This exhibition, designed around the original film footage from the courtroom, is dedicated to these two aspects of the trial: witness testimony and the perpetrator’s strategy.
German-English exhibition catalogue, 251 pages
ISBN: 978-3941772090
Price: € 15,00
Available: at the Memorial's museum shop and at the information desk of the Topography of Terror Documentary Centre
»What was deemed fully legal at the time ... – Soldiers and civilians tried before the courts of the German military«
The catalogue offers visitors of the travelling exhibition more detailed information on the history of military justice under National Socialism. Initially the system of Nazi military justice and the central core of its injustice are described. Selected case studies thematise the focus of the exhibition, intended to memorialise the victims of military courts and their justice. A contribution on the practice of judgment and biographies of the judges show just how willingly even military judges not closely allied with the regime absorbed National Socialist thinking and the ideology of the folk community into their judicial practice. The biographies of individual judges and the section on the exclusion and failure to deal with victims of military justice in the two post-war Germanies make abundantly clear the continuity in discrimination down into the most recent period. The victims were not legally rehabilitated until 2002.
ISBN: 978-3-89809-079-7
Price: € 19,90
available: at the Memorial's museum shop and online
»FIRE!« Anti-Jewish Terror on Kristallnacht in November 1938
The exhibition Fire! Anti-Jewish Terror on »Kristallnacht« in November 1938 and this companion volume document lesser known photographs from 1938/39 taken by both professional and amateur photographers.
The images and accompanying essays provide a vivid illustration of the actions of the perpetrators and the conduct of the German population. They make clear that the distinction between spectator and perpetrator was in fact a very fluid one. The reactions of the victims and the response from abroad are also examined.
Available:
German: via the Stiftung Neue Synagoge Berlin - Centrum Judaicum, K.Rosenberg[at]centrumjudaicum.de
Englisch: at info[at]stiftung-denkmal.de
»Materials on the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe«
The accompanying catalogue is available in the Information Centre and in book shops.
Foundation for the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe (Ed.):
Materials on the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe
160 pages
Paperback Edition:
Price: € 9,90
Available: at the Memorial's museum shop and online
Book Trade Edition:
ISBN: 3-89479-221-3 (German) or 3-89479-223-X (English)
Price: € 24,90
Available: in bookshops