Victims, Followers, Perpetrators
A football club with around 10% Jewish members in the National Socialist "City of Movement": How did Jewish and non-Jewish members coexist at FC Bayern München before and after the National Socialists came to power in 1933? How did the club behave under the Nazi regime? And how did the Jewish Bayern members fare during the years of radicalisation and the Holocaust?
Well over 100 former and active members of FC Bayern had to flee for political reasons during the Nazi dictatorship or were deported and murdered or driven to suicide by the National Socialists. Behind this abstract number lie the fates of many of the club's officials, members and players.
(Not) a club like any other
The touring exhibition "FC Bayern München during National Socialism. Victims, Followers, Perpetrators" traces their paths on a world map. In addition, seven of these biographies are portrayed in more detail, e.g. those of honorary president Kurt Landauer, club official Otto Beer and businessman Berthold Feuchtwanger, brother of the writer Lion Feuchtwanger. Furthermore, the touring exhibition provides an insight into the individual phases of oppression during the Nazi regime and shows their concrete effects on FC Bayern as well as how perpetrators, followers and the persecuted were intertwined within the club.
The touring exhibition, which has been updated and expanded in terms of content and was formerly entitled “Venerated - Persecuted – Forgotten”, has already travelled a long way. It has visited many schools in the Munich region as well as fan clubs and municipal institutions throughout Germany. The exhibition has also been viewed several times in the USA, including at the Capitol in Washington and the Holocaust Museum in Los Angeles.
Information on borrowing the exhibit
The exhibition is available on loan to interested galleries, fan clubs and schools. It consists of 14 self-standing roll-ups and is intended for indoor use.
The texts are in German and English.
If you are interested in borrowing the travelling exhibition, please use our online form.