Valkyrie 2008 was filmed at the Bendlerblock in the German Resistance Memorial Center and Göring's Reich Air Ministry building in Berlin. I have juxtaposed scenes from the film with the actual locations. We visited on 3 August 2015.

Claus von Stauffenberg, Friedrich Olbricht, Albrecht Ritter Mertz von Quirnheim, and Werner von Haeften were executed in what is now the commemorative courtyard of the Bendlerblock.

We also visited the Kammergericht, Kleistpark, Schöneberg where the People’s court of the nazis held the show trial against the surviving conspirators of the 20 July plot in 1944 to kill Adolf Hitler. The People's court was headed by one of the most hated nazis that ever lived: Roland Freisler, who humiliated the suspects before he convicted them to be executed.

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