OPERATION FINALE

In the organizer's words:

A Nazi criminal in hiding, a secret pursuit and a spectacular capture: the exhibition "Operation Finale" shows how the Israeli secret service Mossad and the Hessian Attorney General Fritz Bauer tracked down Adolf Eichmann, one of the most notorious Holocaust perpetrators, in Argentina in 1960, how his abduction to Israel was carried out and how he was finally brought to trial. It was the first major trial in which victims of the Holocaust testified to the crimes of the Nazis before the world public. The exhibition "Operation Finale" originates from Israel and the USA and is being brought to Germany for the first time by Adolf Rosenberger gGmbH and the State Museum of Egyptian Art (SMÄK). It will be on display at the State Museum of Egyptian Art in Munich from Friday, 24 November 2023: "The exhibition makes a contribution to remembrance work from an unusual perspective; we are showing it as part of the examination of the Nazi past at the current location of the Egyptian Museum," explains Dr. Arnulf Schlüter, Director of the SMÄK.

Adolf Eichmann - "Logistician of the Holocaust" In the Reich Security Main Office in Berlin, the former Obersturmbannführer of the SS Adolf Eichmann was largely responsible for the deportation and murder of the Jews. After the war, Adolf Eichmann managed to escape to Argentina, where he was able to go into hiding for fifteen years. As Ricardo Klement, he led the tranquil life of a petty bourgeois and surrounded himself with other escaped National Socialists. On May 11, 1960, Mossad agents seized him in a suburb of Buenos Aires and abducted him to Israel, where he was put on trial in full view of the world. Adolf Eichmann was sentenced to death on December 15, 1961.

Price information:

Tickets for your visit are available directly from the museum ticket office. Adults € 7,- (incl. MediaGuide) Concessions € 5,- (incl. MediaGuide) Sundays € 1,- (MediaGuide € 1,-)