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Berlin - Bendlerblock

Memorial German Resistance - Bendlerblock

The courtyard in Bendlerblock
Memorial / museum in Bendlerblock for the German resistance to Hitler and National Socialism. In the middle of the courtyard is a memorial to the resistance fighters who took part in the assassination attempt on Hitler on July 20 and who were executed in 1944. On the second floor there is an exhibition about the German resistance.

Guard of Honor in Bendlerblock
 From 1943, Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg was Chief of Staff of the Army and took part in briefings at Hitler's headquarters, "The Wolf's Lair". On July 20, 1944, he placed a bomb there, but Hitler survived and the coup failed. That same night, the leading resistance fighters Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, Friedrich Olbricht, Albrecht Ritter Mertz von Quirnheim and Werner von Haeften were executed in the courtyard.

Claus von Stauffenberg

Claus von Stauffenberg is best known for his failed attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler on 20 July 1944 in the "Wolf’s Lair". Shortly after the failed "Operation Valkyrie", he was executed by a firing squad. Stauffenberg was a German Catholic aristocrat who, during World War II, attained the rank of colonel and served in Poland, France, Russia and Africa.

Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand

Stauffenbergstraße 13 - 14

http://www.gdw-berlin.de/

 

Statue of Richard Scheibe, German Resistance Memoria

 

Route:


S- og U-Bahnstation Potsdamer Platz

(10 minutes on foot)

U-Bahnstation Kurfürstenstraße

(10 minutes on foot)

 

Opening hours:

 Monday to Wednesday and Friday: 09 - 18

Thursday: 09 - 20

Saturday and Sunday and on holidays: 10 - 18

 

Wanted

 Berlin is always worth a visit - summer or winter - but where to go? Here are some slightly unusual and very different suggestions for places I like to go.


Interesting places

A B C

"Boxhagener Platz" - Old military hospital

Bendlerblock" - Memorial and museum

"Berlin Untervelten" - Berlin's "Underworld"

"Bernauer Straße" - About the Berlin Wall etc.

"Bornholmer Straße - Former border crossing east/west

"Boxhagener Platz - Green area and flea market"

D E F

"Europacenter" - Shopping center etc.

Flakturm Humboldthain" - Bunker facility WW2

"Flughafen Berlin Brandenburg" - Busy airport

"Flughafen Berlin Tempelhof" - Recreational area.

"Escape tunnels between East and West Berlin - Kold krig

"Friedhof Invalidenhof - Soldiers Cemetery

G H I J K

"Old Danish Embassy"  - Tiergarten

Gedenkstätte Plötzensee" - Memorial

"Glienicker Brücke" - Dividing East/ West

- "Pallasstrasse bunker" Bunker i centrum

" Weissensee Jewish Cemetery - Jewish cemetery

Karlshorst - German-Russian Museum"

L M N O P Q R S

"Majakowskiring"
– GDR elite in Pankow

Prenzlauer Berg"

- Memorial

"Schöneberg town hall"  - JFK tale"

"Schwerbelastungs-
körper" - Pressure gauge

" Friedhof Grunewald-Forst - Cemetery for suicides

SS residences – Zehlendorf

S T U V X Y Z

"Stasimuseum" - Stasimuseum

Teufelsberg" - NSA in Grunewald

"Tiergarten" - The Nordic Embassies"

"Tiergarten - Siegessäule" 67 meter tall victory column

"Villa Riefenstahl - Leni Riefenstahls House

"Zionskirche Prenzlauerberg - Where Bonhoeffer preached

 

Recreational areas:

"Grunewald"
- Berlins largest green areas

Strandbad Wannsee"
- Europe's largest lake bath

"Tempelhofer Park"
- Formerly Tempelhof Airport

"Tiergarten"
- Berlin's largest city park

"Volkspark Friedrichshein - Recreational area

"Volkspark Jungfernheide" - Recreational area

Food and drinks:

"Biergarden am Neuen See" in the Tiergarten.

Biergarden "Prater" - From 1837 and the oldest

Biergarden "Schleusenkrug", "Biergarden in Tiergarten".

"Mustafa’s Gemüse Kebap" - known all over Berlin

"Restaurant Zillemarkt" Unfortunately closed by now

"Zur letzten Instanz" - Oldest restaurant in Berlin