Bendlerblock
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The Bendlerblock is a building complex in the Tiergarten district of Berlin, Germany, located on Stauffenbergstraße. Erected in 1914 as the headquarters of several Imperial German Navy offices, it ser
South facade on Landwehr Canal
Waffen-SS officer Otto Skorzeny enters the Bendlerblock, July 1944
The courtyard where the 20 July conspirators were executed in July 1944
Memorial to the German Resistance, the inner courtyard near where von Stauffenberg and others were executed
Abwehr
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The Abwehr was the German military-intelligence service for the Reichswehr and the Wehrmacht from 1920 to 1944. Although the 1919 Treaty of Versailles prohibited the Weimar Republic from establishing
Bendlerblock
…under Nazi rule, it was used by several departments of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW) from 1938, especially the Oberkommando des Heeres and the Abwehr intelligence agency. The building is notable as the headquarters of a resistance band of Wehrmacht officers who staged the 20 July plot against Adolf…
Entrance to the Bendlerblock, the headquarters of the Abwehr
Wilhelm Canaris
OKW secret radio service
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