In 2020, 93-year-old Bruno D. is found guilty. His crimes took place over 75 years ago: D. was an SS guard at Stutthof concentration camp. Without people like him, without thousands of accomplices, the Nazi regime’s genocidal campaign would not have been possible. As early as 1963, Hessian Attorney General Fritz Bauer launched the first trial in Frankfurt against SS guards from Auschwitz concentration camp. The charge: complicity in murder. But why did no wave of prosecutions follow – despite the extensive evidence? And what do the potentially last trials against Nazi perpetrators mean for the survivors of the Shoah, for the German legal system and for coming to terms with German history?
Sonja Pösel
Sonja Pösel
Clarifying fates and looking for missing persons: for decades, these were the central tasks of the Arolsen Archives. Our work in the fields of research and education is more important than ever to inform today’s society about the crimes perpetrated by the Nazis. The comprehensive online archive is an essential part of what we do. As an international center on Nazi persecution, we see it as our mission to contribute to debate on remembrance and coming to terms with the Nazi period, political persecution and racism.
Gefolgt von Filmgespräch mit / Followed by film talk with Hanna Lehun
Gefolgt von Filmgespräch mit / Followed by film talk with Sonja Pösel, Cornelia Partmann (Regie)
Sonja Pösel
Sonja Pösel
Clarifying fates and looking for missing persons: for decades, these were the central tasks of the Arolsen Archives. Our work in the fields of research and education is more important than ever to inform today’s society about the crimes perpetrated by the Nazis. The comprehensive online archive is an essential part of what we do. As an international center on Nazi persecution, we see it as our mission to contribute to debate on remembrance and coming to terms with the Nazi period, political persecution and racism.
