1979: the Cologne trial
Thursday 15 February 2018 at 7:30 PM
Coming by a special train from Paris, a thousand participants meet in Cologne on 31 January 1980 for the most important event of the trial which is about to end. © Among them, 600 young people. Photo Jacques Zelter/ Coll. Klarsfeld.
The trial of the three main leaders of the "Final Solution" in France, Kurt Lischka, Herbert Hagen and Ernst Heinrichsohn, begins in Cologne in 1979. At the initiative of Beate and Serge Klarsfeld, who produce numerous documents allowing to confuse the accused, memory activists – between 500 and 1,000 every day – go to Cologne to attend the hearings of this great trial.
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This meeting will be followed by the screening of excerpts from:
Hutting expeditionary or Rehearsal Report-Ein Bericht zum Lischka-Similar by Hans-Jochen Bäumel, Johannes Kaul, Peter Kleinermanns and Albrecht Reinhardt.
(Germany, documentary, 44 mn, WestDeutscher Rundfunk WDR productions, 1980, vostf. Courtesy of Arte)
On the occasion of the proclamation of the judgment of 11 February 1980, this film describes the background of the trial of Lischka, the state of affairs of the discussions but also the actions of the three accused under the National Socialist regime until their life in Germany after the war.
In the presence of Beate and Serge Klarsfeld, Dr. Karola Fings, University of Cologne, Centre for Documentation on Nazism, Cologne, Birte Klarzyk, University of Cologne, and Anne Klein, University of Cologne.
Moderated by Stefan Martens, deputy director, German Historical Institute.
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