1995
March 5: The exhibition opens its doors in Hamburg for the first time.
May 10: The Wehrmacht exhibition opens in Berlin. Then she moves on to Potsdam.
September 10: In his opening speech in the Stuttgart DGB House, the SPD politician Erhard Eppler, the German Eastern Front soldiers of the Second World War before blanket conviction as a criminal in protection.
1996:
June 9: On the last day of the Wehrmacht exhibition in Erfurt, police arrest two men for spraying. They had sprayed the word "lie" in yellow and black on the display panels over a length of 25 meters.
September 26: The district court of Erfurt condemns the neo-Nazi Manfred Röder for damage to property in connection with the exhibition to a fine of 4500 marks.
1997:
February 24: Accompanied by protests, Munich Mayor Christian Ude opens the Wehrmacht exhibition. The CSU faction boycotted the opening event almost closed. In front of the town hall, opponents of the exhibition demonstrate. A total of 90,000 people visit them nonetheless.
March 1: Protests from around 15,000 right and left demonstrators in connection with the exhibition turn downtown Munich into a cauldron.
March 13: The Bundestag debates the Wehrmacht exhibition.
April 13: The then president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, Ignatz Bubis, opens the exhibition in the Frankfurt Paulskirche. Lord Mayor Petra Roth (CDU) stays away from the event, her party colleague Volker Rühe, at that time Federal Defense Minister, did not accept an invitation. A total of 95,518 visitors see the documentation in Frankfurt.
May 28: The exhibition opens in Bremen without incident. Around 50,000 people see them in the Hanseatic city.
1998
18 January: Only under massive police protection can the kick-off event for the opening in Dresden take place. Days later, there is a mass brawl in a train between right and left radicals.
June 5: After a rally by right-wing extremists against the Wehrmacht exhibition in Kassel, there are violent clashes with left demonstrators.
October 24: During a demonstration of the extreme right-wing NPD against the exhibition clashes with the police in Bonn.
18 November: Ten days after the opening of the show in the city hall of Hanover, a vessel with butyric acid is parked there. With a massive outcry, the police are preventing riots between participants in NPD rallies and counter-demonstrators.
1999
February 1: Property damage in the amount of several 100,000 marks arises during the riots during a demonstration of the NPD youth against the Wehrmacht exhibition in Kiel. Within six weeks, more than 60,000 people visit the photo show, which will be shown for the first time in a building of a state parliament.
February 21: Saarland's Prime Minister Reinhard Klimmt opens the Wehrmacht exhibition in Saarbrücken.
March 9: An explosives attack is committed to the Saarbrücken adult education center, where the traveling exhibition is housed.
June 1: The show returns to Hamburg.
July 11: The Hamburg police prevented riots at an approved demonstration of right-wing extremists against the exhibition.
October 20: The Polish historian Bogdan Musial writes in the "Quarterly Journal of Contemporary History" that many of the photographs showed not the crimes of German soldiers, but those of the Soviet State Security Service. The exhibition makers reject the criticism.
4 November: After a wave of criticism, the exhibition is withdrawn due to content errors.
November 6: The controversial exhibition director Hannes Heer is deposed.
November 22nd: A group of historians starts testing the exhibition.
2000
November 15: The experts present their reviewers: After that, the show had errors and inaccuracies, but in its core statement was correct and necessary.
November 23: Jan-Philip Reemtsma declares that the show will be revised and then reopened.
2001
November 27: The revised exhibition reopens under the new title "Crime of the Wehrmacht - Dimensions of the War of Annihilation" in the Berlin Kunst-Werke.