Germany news: Resistance to Nazi terror commemorated
07/20/2026 July 20, 2026 Germany commemorates resistance to Nazi terror in Berlin Commemoration events will be taking place in Berlin to remember those who stood
07/20/2026 July 20, 2026 Germany commemorates resistance to Nazi terror in Berlin Commemoration events will be taking place in Berlin to remember those who stood up to Nationalist Socialist terror, with ceremonies being held at historic sites of the failed coup of 20 July 1944. On this day 82 years ago, Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler by planting a bomb at the Wolf's Lair headquarters.
The device exploded, but failed to kill the Nazi leader. Von Stauffenberg and three others involved in the plot to kill Hitler were summarily executed in the courtyard of the Bendler Block complex, the former headquarters of the Army High Command. The site is one of several places of historical significance linked to the daring attempt on Hitler's life. Each year ceremonies are held and wreaths are laid to remember those who died resisting the Nationalist Socialist reign of terror in Berlin.
One of the sites is the Plötzensee Memorial Center complex, which from 1933 and 1945 served as a prison and also a place of execution under the Nazi regime. According to the German government 2,800 people were executed there, among them, many opponents of the Nazis. In 1953, a monument
was created in the Bendler block to "to keep alive the memory of the men and women who took part in the resistance to Socialism and aid the Germans in the necessary process of coming to terms with this part of their history," the Domestic Protocol Office says on its website.
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