Photo Gallery Eichmann on Trial
"Facing Justice - Adolf Eichmann on Trial" at the Topography of Terror museum in Berlin is running until Sept. 18, 2011. It is the first exhibition in Europe to document the dramatic court case.
The exhibition contains footage of witness testimony and Adolf Eichmann. It also shows press coverage from the time, including an extract from Life magazine describing Eichmann as "an expert hairsplitter" displaying "a towering arrogance."
Gabriel Bach, 84, one of the prosecutors in the Israel court, visited the Berlin exhibition. Eichmann was found guilty and sentenced to death. An appeal for clemency was rejected and he was hanged in 1962.
Although Eichmann defended himself by saying he was a minor player, a small cog in the machine, the exhibition reveals his key role. "We wanted to show that he saw and knew exactly what was going on," Lisa Hauff, one of the exhibition's curators, said. "He wasn't a man who stayed behind his desk."
Parallel to the Berlin exhibition, another show in Jerusalem is taking place to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Eichmann's trial in Jerusalem.
A shot from the original trial, taken on Dec. 13, 1961. The famous bulletproof box containing Eichmann and two policemen (left) is being transported to the Berlin exhibition in May.
