The exhibition entitled “Against Barbarism: Commit Resist Fight” is arranged in a U-shaped space around the Kartoffelkeller, which the deportees starting building in June 1943. The black and grey tones strengthen the evocative power of the place, which has been preserved the way it was.

The exhibition is a historical fresco that thematically and chronologically presents the main stages in Nazi expansionism as well as all the forms of commitment, resistance and armed combat against Fascism and Nazism in Europe.

A blue net surrounds some documents on the tables: each document recalls a form of resistance against Nazism throughout Europe. At first there are few of them, but their number grows as resistance movements organise or expand in one European country or another.

The vertical frieze gives an overall framework; the tables provide more detailed information.

• The rise to power of Mussolini and Hitler
• Indoctrination, terror and early resistance in Germany and Italy
• Authoritarian regimes and dictatorships in Europe
• Xenophobia and racism
• The march to war
• Europe under the Nazis
• Europe at war
• London, capital of the free world
• The Resistance in France
• Resistance in occupied Europe
• Repression of Resistance movements
• Genocide and deportation
• The Liberations
• Building peace, building Europe

To exit, visitors take a stairway leading straight to the path to the camp. Then, with knowledge about the context that witnessed the birth and growth of Nazism, they walk through the gate and start visiting this place of remembrance.

• You Who Live
• Kartoffelkeller
• Permanent exhibition