May 11, 1987, the 30th anniversary of the trial
Thursday 11 May 2017 at 7:30 pm
© Le Progrès photo archive
In 1987, for the first time in France, an accused responds with a crime against humanity. For six weeks, the trial of Klaus Barbie is fully filmed and makes headlines. The victims parade on the stand and testify to the reality and atrocity of the German occupation : the rafles, the tortures, the camps.
Thirty years later, what is the true significance of this trial? What place does it hold in the construction of the memory of the Shoah ? What do the audiovisual archives of such a trial?
In the presence of Françoise Banat-Berger, director of the National Archives, Jérôme Clément, founder of Arte, Denis Salas, magistrate, president of the French Association for the History of Justice (AFHJ), Sorj Chalandon, journalist and writer, and Jean-Marie Cavada, European MEP, president of Génération Citoyens, former journalist.
Hosted by Dominique Missika, curator of the exhibition.
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