Georg Elser Lesung – Jens Harzer liest das Verhörprotokoll

Georg Elser reading - Jens Harzer reads the interrogation protocol

How did Georg Elser plan the assassination attempt on Hitler in 1939?
This documentary reading tells the story of one of the most remarkable resistance fighters against National Socialism.

The actor Jens Harzer reads from Georg Elser's original interrogation transcript. Helmut Butzmann complements the reading with historical facts, pictures as well as film and document excerpts.

Georg Elser - the assassin from the resistance

The carpenter Georg Elser from Baden-Württemberg recognized as early as 1938 that the policies of the National Socialists would lead Europe into a catastrophe. Determined, he planned an assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler and the leadership of the NSDAP alone.

He spent over thirty nights building a timer bomb and installed it in Munich's Bürgerbräukeller above the lectern where Hitler spoke every year on November 8.

Documentary evening about resistance under National Socialism

The event traces Elser's life, describes the planning and execution of the 1939 assassination attempt and places it in historical context. Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg's assassination attempt in 1944 will also be discussed.

Photos, documents and film clips illustrate history and provide an insight into the National Socialist era.

A memorial for Georg Elser

For over 17 years, Jens Harzer and Helmut Butzmann have been organizing this documentary evening around November 8, 1939, the day of the assassination attempt. The event sees itself as a kind of mobile memorial to Georg Elser and his courageous resistance to the Nazi regime.