Hitler’s assassination attempt 82 years ago: Commemoration of the assassination attempt on Hitler in Potsdam

The state capital Potsdam will commemorate the failed attack on Sunday and Monday Adolf Hitler on July 20, 1944. On Sunday (11 a.m.) the memorial hour will revolve around the military resister Friedrich von Rabenau, as the city announced. On Monday, the anniversary of the attack, the importance of women in the Nazi resistance will be the focus of an event.

Mayor praises resistance

The memorial hour on Sunday will take place at the tower of the former Reich and Army Archives on the Brauhausberg, which was later the SED party hall and also the Brandenburg state parliament. Friedrich von Rabenau was head of the army archives at the time and was considered a staunch opponent of the Nazi regime. According to the city, Rabenau’s family members are also expected to attend the event. The state parliament opened in 2014 in the rebuilt city palace. A new university campus is planned on the Brauhausberg.

Potsdam Mayor Noosha Aubel (independent) also takes part in the memorial hour. Aubel emphasized that the memory of the resistance should show that the National Socialist dictatorship was not accepted by all Germans without objection. People from various circles were prepared to use their freedom to end the criminal Nazi regime.

Hitler survives – assassins are shot

On July 20, 1944, Wehrmacht officers led by Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg tried in vain to kill Adolf Hitler with a bomb, overthrow National Socialist rule and end the Second World War. The dictator survived, but the attempted coup failed. Stauffenberg and three other people involved were shot that same evening in the courtyard of the Bendlerblock in Berlin.

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