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Memorials to the victims of Nazism
A permanent exhibition in the former head-
In the “Bendlerblock” in the Mitte district of
quarters of the State Security Service (Stasi)
Berlin the German Resistance Memorial Cen-
of the German Democratic Republic in the
tre is devoted to the resistance to the Nazi dic-
Hohenschönhausen district of Berlin pro-
tatorship. It is located on the historical site of
vides an insight into the means and methods
the failed coup attempted by the group headed
of working the Stasi used to spy on, control,
by Count Stauffenberg on 20 July 1944. The
and intimidate the population. Exhibitions
Memorial Centre impressively documents
and lectures in the Stasi’s former outposts in
how between 1933 and 1945 individuals and
large East German cities keep memories of
groups took action against the dictatorship of
the dictatorship in the German Democratic
the Third Reich and made use of what free-
Republic alive.
dom of action they had.