BERLIN
During Michael Newman's 2012 trip to Berlin, he and his wife Dixie also visited 8 Prinz Albrecht Strasse, the Second World War home to the feared Gestapo, SS and Reich Security Main Office, and now a museum dedicated to their victims, under the name Topography of Terror. Michael describes this dreadful place in Chapters 3 and 23 of Between These Walls.
Another memorable stop in Berlin was the “Bendler Block” where the leaders of the July 20, 1944 assassination plot against Hitler were executed, and where there are memorials to the plotters. The July 20th plot, which figures prominently in Between These Walls (Chapter 47), was carried out by a number of conspirators who were members of the German military, led by Colonel von Stauffenberg, who placed a bomb intended to kill Hitler at the Wolf's Lair, the Fuhrer’s headquarters in Rastenburg, Eastern Prussia. The bomb detonated, but failed to kill Hitler, putting an end to the plot and culminating in the execution of the plotters along with over 4,000 Germans thought to be involved in its planning.
Another memorable stop in Berlin was the “Bendler Block” where the leaders of the July 20, 1944 assassination plot against Hitler were executed, and where there are memorials to the plotters. The July 20th plot, which figures prominently in Between These Walls (Chapter 47), was carried out by a number of conspirators who were members of the German military, led by Colonel von Stauffenberg, who placed a bomb intended to kill Hitler at the Wolf's Lair, the Fuhrer’s headquarters in Rastenburg, Eastern Prussia. The bomb detonated, but failed to kill Hitler, putting an end to the plot and culminating in the execution of the plotters along with over 4,000 Germans thought to be involved in its planning.
