1979: the Cologne trial
Thursday, February 15, 2018 at 7:30 pm
Coming by special train from Paris, a thousand participants met in Cologne on 31 January 1980 for the most important demonstration of the trial which was about to end. © Among them, 600 young people. Photo by Jacques Zelter/ Coll. Klarsfeld.
The trial of the three main leaders of the "Final Solution" in France, Kurt Lischka, Herbert Hagen and Ernst Heinrichsohn, began in Cologne in 1979. At the initiative of Beate and Serge Klarsfeld, who produced numerous documents that could be used to confuse the accused, memory activists – between 500 and 1,000 each day – went to Cologne to attend the hearings of this major trial.
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This meeting will be followed by the screening of excerpts from:
Statuant improvise, No. 1, 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 Lischka trial, the state of discussions but also the actions of the three accused under the National Socialist regime up to their life in Germany after the war.
In the presence of Beate and Serge Klarsfeld, Dr. Karola Fing, University of Cologne, Documentation Center 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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