Gedenkstätte Plötzensee

This guide to the Gedenkstatte Plotzensee in Berlin opens on August 8, 1944, when eight men convicted after Claus von Stauffenberg's failed plot to kill Hitler were hanged in this narrow brick room while a camera filmed it for the Nazi leadership. It follows Judge Roland Freisler's People's Court, which tried the plotters within hours, and Field Marshal Erwin von Witzleben, once one of the army's most senior officers, among those killed here. You'll hear how many people were put to death in this building over the following war years. Look up at the original iron beam still spanning the room.