ALT-MOABIT Hauptbahnhof

Regierungsviertel Spree Reichstag

LINDEN UNTER DEN Brandenburger Tor

FRIEDRICHSTRASSE 7. JUNI GROSSER STERN STRASSE DES 1

HOFJÄGERALLEE T I E R GAR TEN MITTE

Bus 200 Landwehrkanal TIERGARTENSTRASSE LEIPZIGER STRASSE Bahnhof Kulturforum Potsdamer Platz Zoologischer Bus M 48 Garten REICHPIETSCHUFERBus M 85

STAUFFENBERGSTR. Gedächtniskirche BUDAPESTER STR. LÜTZOWUFER

Bus M 29 SCHÖNEBERGER UFER LÜTZOWPLATZ KURFÜRSTENDAMMTAUENTZIENSTRASSE

WITTENBERGPLATZ KREUZBERG KURFÜRSTENSTRASSE

KLEISTSTRASSE SCHÖNEBERG POTSDAMER STR. Kurfürstenstraße

Getting here Opening hours

The German Resistance Free tours around selected Bus M 29 Mondays to Wednesdays, Fridays Memorial Center o ers various parts of the exhibition, with Bus stop: Gedenkstätte 9 a.m.–6 p.m. activities for groups of visitors informative talks on resistance Deutscher Widerstand Thursdays 9 a.m.–8 p.m. who register prior to their visit. activities in German, English, Saturdays, Sundays, and Bus M 48, Bus M 85 French, or Italian. public holidays 10 a.m.–6 p.m. Entrance is free of charge. Bus stop: Kulturforum, Closed on Christmas Day, New The topics can be decided 5-minute walk We will be glad to add your Year’s Eve, and New Year’s Day on during registration or address to the German Bus 200 Free entry directly before the tour. Resistance Memorial Center Bus stop: Tiergartenstraße, Length: 90-120 minutes events mailing list on request. 5-minute walk Seminars on specific topics Public tours: U1 of resistance against National Every Sunday, 3 p.m. Station: Kurfürstenstraße, Socialism in German, English, 10-minute walk French, or Italian. U2, S1, S2, S25 Topics and length: By Station: Potsdamer Platz, coordination upon registration 10-minute walk Please register at least 6 to 8 weeks before the desired appointment. Detailed information on all our historical education programs, materials, and our exhibitions is available at www.gdw-berlin.de

Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand Many thanks to the numerous institutions Stau enbergstraße 13-14 and individuals who granted support, loans, and publication rights. 10785 Berlin The exhibition was funded by the Federal Entrance via the Government Commissioner for Culture and commemorative courtyard the Media and the Berlin LOTTO Foundation. Commemorative courtyard Tel: 030 26 99 50-00 Permanent exhibition Fax: 030 26 99 50-10 [email protected] Special exhibitions www.gdw-berlin.de The German Resistance Memorial Center The Permanent Exhibition is a site of remembrance, political education, On the second floor of the historical The 18 topics in the permanent exhibition active learning, documentation, and research. building, the exhibition “Resistance against include resistance from the workers’ It uses a wide range of means to inform National Socialism” documents the entire movement, resistance out of Christian faith, visitors about the resistance against National social breadth and ideological diversity and resistance by artists and intellectuals. Socialism. of the fight against the National Socialist Georg Elser’s assassination attempt of dictatorship. The presentation of individual November 8, 1939, is presented along with The memorial center aims to show how lives and of the formation of resistance the attempted coup of July 20, 1944, the individuals and groups took action against networks, of motives, aims, and actions of Kreisau Circle, resistance by young people, the National Socialist dictatorship from the people and groups in the resistance, the White Rose, and the Red Orchestra. 1933 to 1945 and made use of what freedom and also of the reactions by the National The subjects of exile and resistance and the of action they had. Socialist state to the challenge of resistance, fight against National Socialism from outside reveals the diverse dimensions of all e orts Germany are also closely linked. The topics against the National Socialist dictatorship. of resistance by Jews, resistance by Sinti and Roma, and resistance during wartime Site of Remembrance life show how these forms of resistance changed under the intensifying conditions The German Resistance Memorial Center of National Socialist terror. is housed at the site of the attempted coup of July 20, 1944, in the former Army High The barrier-free permanent exhibition is Command. accompanied by a wide range of media and additional materials, as well as an audio After the coup failed, Claus Schenk Graf von guide in seven languages and a German Sign Stau enberg and his co-conspirators were Language guide. shot dead that same night in what is now the commemorative courtyard. Changing special exhibitions and a varying program of events and publications o er The commemorative courtyard has been in-depth information on specific subjects. a site of remembrance of resistance against National Socialism since 1953. Braun Engels Gestaltung, Ulm