A new, permanent exhibition dedicated to German resistance under the Nazis opened its doors to visitors in Berlin on Wednesday. The museum profiles groups of German men and women who risked and lost their lives fighting Hitler.
Berlin’s newly-modernized German Resistance Memorial and accompanying “Resistance against National Socialism” exhibition were opened by Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday.
In her speech the Chancellor said a wide variety of people in Germany had resisted the Nazis and that the museum was a chance to move beyond old narratives about German resistance.
The exhibition opened to the public on Wednesday on the site of an older museum in the capital’s western Tiergarten district, just weeks ahead of the 70th anniversary of the failed Stauffenberg plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler on July 20th, 1944.
In one multimedia exhibit, visitors can watch the plot’s events unfold in a minute-by-minute account. (more)
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Source: The Local - DPA