3 real historical locations · Argentina, Germany
A German legal thriller about Frankfurt Attorney General Fritz Bauer, who in 1958 secretly tipped off the Mossad about Eichmann's location in Argentina — because he didn't trust his own colleagues, many former Nazis, to prosecute him in German courts.
CinemaMapped has mapped 3 real historical locations where the story takes place, spanning Argentina, Germany.
The 2015 German film depicts Attorney General Fritz Bauer's secret cooperation with Israeli Mossad to locate Adolf Eichmann in Argentina — working around his...
Fritz Bauer (1903-1968) was a German-Jewish public prosecutor who drove the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials (1963-65) and secretly tipped the Mossad to Eichmann's whereabouts in Buenos Aires. He could not act through offic...
View location →Hessian Attorney General Fritz Bauer pursues Eichmann and other war criminals in 1950s West Germany — a state where former Nazis fill the judiciary and polic...
Fritz Bauer (1903–1968) was instrumental in both the Eichmann capture — he tipped off Israeli intelligence — and the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials (1963–65). He was a Jewish gay man in a hostile postwar Germany.
View location →Bauer passes Eichmann's location in Buenos Aires to the Israeli Mossad — bypassing his own compromised West German state — in secret because he fears tipping...
Bauer's tip to Israel in 1957 was treasonous under West German law — sharing intelligence with a foreign power. He knew that routing it through official channels would warn Eichmann's protectors. He never publicly dis...
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