Fifty years ago in Jerusalem, the trial of Adolf Eichmann was held. The trial of the Nazi conductor of the "Jewish Section IV B 4" is at the heart of a show in Berlin's Topography of Terror.
The exhibition entitled: "The process - Adolf Eichmann to justice" is a cooperative project of the Topography of Terror Foundation, the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and the House of the Wannsee Conference - Memorial Center.
It is to be held on 18 September 2011 in the Topography of Terror , Niederkirchnerstraße 8, 10963 Berlin.
The trial of Adolf Eichmann was a turning point in the confrontation with the horror of the Holocaust. The images of the legal proceedings were broadcast worldwide. In Germany, a special daily program called "An epoch in court" was aired every night by ARD Channel and got on average 50 percent of TV viewers.
The impressive factor in the show is the attempt of making a confrontation between the perpetrator and his victims.
At the beginning there is a brief biography of Eichmann. In 1934, he joined the Security Service of the SS and the Department for "Jewish Affairs". With growing powers he become until the end of the war the person responsible for the mass murder of Jews.
Based on the careful selection of exhibits the show exposes Eichmann's defense strategy that he was a "tool in the hands of stronger powers" and highlights the considerable degree of initiative taken by Eichmann to make him one of the biggest mass murders in modern history.
