Memorial to the German Resistance
The Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand—German Resistance Memorial Center—became Berlin’s place for telling a difficult story of power, conspiracy, and execution. The site opened in 1980 in part of the Bendlerblock, a complex of offices on Stauffenbergstraße, south of the Großer Tiergarten. This is where Colonel Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg and other leaders of the 20 July plot were executed without trial after their attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler failed. The memorial is primarily dedicated to those members of the Wehrmacht who tried to kill Hitler in 1944, but it also reaches beyond that single event. It frames “Deutscher Widerstand” as an umbrella term for many forms of opposition under Nazi rule, even while historians note there was never a single, united national resistance movement during Hitler’s years from 1933 to 1945. …
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