The German government commemorates the victims of the resistance against Nazi tyranny on July 20, 2026. The occasion marks the 82nd anniversary of the assassination and coup attempt against Hitler, carried out on July 20, 1944, by Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg and other officers. The central memorial ceremony begins at 11:00 a.m. in the courtyard of honor of the Bendlerblock on Berlin’s Stauffenbergstraße — the very site where the conspirators were executed in the night of July 21, 1944.
After a welcome by Prof. Dr. Robert von Steinau-Steinrück, chairman of the board of the Stiftung 20. Juli 1944 foundation, and a greeting from Berlin’s mayor and senator for finance, Stefan Evers, Federal Minister Karin Prien will deliver the address. She will honor those who risked their lives to overthrow the Nazi regime.
Following this, Valerie Riedesel Freifrau zu Eisenbach, chairwoman of the foundation’s board of trustees, will speak the memorial for the dead. Bundestag Vice President Andrea Lindholz will then lay a wreath at the spot where Stauffenberg and his co-conspirators were shot, accompanied by the Inspector General of the Bundeswehr, Carsten Breuer. The gesture symbolizes the close bond between the democratic state and the military resistance.
The Bendlerblock served as the headquarters from which the conspirators coordinated the coup attempt on July 20, 1944. Today, it houses the German Defense Ministry and the Memorial to the German Resistance.
Source: Bundesregierung
