Exhibition opening: "Captured. Deported from Germany 1938–1945"

On the anniversary of the Wannsee Conference on 20 January 1942 and because of the Holocaust Remembrance Day on 27 January, the project "#LastSeen. Pictures of the NS-Deportations" shows in collaboration with the Department of Culture, Public History Munich, from 20 January 2026 to 11 February 2026 in the foyer of Bayerischer Rundfunk the exhibition "Captured.Deported from Germany 1938-1945".

More than 200,000 people were deported from the German Reich between 1938 and 1945. They were murdered in extermination camps; only a very few survived. The exhibition shows photographs of these deportations and enables visitors to engage intensively with these photographs using digital applications. In addition to the persecuted and the perpetrators, the pictures also show many spectators.

Project manager Dr Alina Bothe: ‘The images show that the process of extermination began in the middle of German cities – without deportations, there would have been no Auschwitz.’
‘Most of the images of the deportations were taken by perpetrators. Photography often contributed to the degradation of those being persecuted. We must face these images with this in mind,’ says Christoph Kreutzmüller, deputy project manager.