A new exhibition on the historical Nuremberg trials will run from 22 March to 12 May 2019 in the vaulted rooms in neimënster.
From the private archives of a man with an extraordinary destiny, the Association of Interned Deportees and Families of Missing Persons from Deux-Sèvres/France have organised an exhibition dedicated to the trial of the Nazi war criminals, soon to be shown in Luxembourg. The man in question is Delphin Debenest, former French ambassador to Luxembourg, who mobilised in 1939, actively resisted from 1941, entered the Delbo-Phoenix network (Franco-Belgian intelligence network) in 1943 and infiltrated Allied air forces who then moved his headquarters from Paris to Niort after discovering his Parisian hideouts (several Luxembourgers, according to the notes of Delphin Debenest, were part of this network).
Arrested in July 1944 by the Gestapo and deported to Buchenwald and the Holzen kommando, Delphin Debenest served as Advocate General at the International Nuremberg Trials in October 1945. He was responsible for studying and interpreting the documentation collected by the Allies and investigating the medical experiments in the camps. He also conducted, in open court, the interrogation of Arthur Seyss-Inquart and participated with the British Public Prosecutor's Office in that of Ernst Kaltenbrunner.
Highlighting the Second World War and the first international military court, the exhibition is an opportunity to highlight a page in the history of Luxembourg where, in the weeks leading up to the trial, some 70 Nazi criminals were interned and interrogated in Mondorf-les-Bains. It also leads the public to question the developments of international criminal law 70 years after this founding trial.
The opening of the exhibition will take place on Thursday 21 March 2019 before opening to the public until 12 May 2019, everyday from 11:00 to 18:00.
