Widerstand - Kampf gegen Hitler, Teil 7: Das Ende

This documentary focuses on the period following the assassination attempt on July 20, 1944, as well as the end of the war and the early postwar years. The trials of the July 20 assassins before the People's Court are documented with extensive original footage. Other historical film scenes depict the Red Army's invasion of Berlin, the liberation of the concentration camps, and the first steps of the new German states. In view of the East-West conflict, coming to terms with the past quickly became a secondary concern, and the memory of the resistance against Hitler was therefore initially relegated to the margins. After the failed assassination attempt on July 20, 1944, only a few escape; Ludwig von Hammerstein manages to go into hiding. 00:03:55 Adam von Trott zu Solz, Clarita von Trott zu Solz, prisons fill up, opposition members, family members are imprisoned, manhunt for Carl Goerdeler, bounty, 00:06:11 Erwin von Witzleben, Erich Hoepner, Friedrich Karl Klausing, Paul von Hase, Helmut Stieff, Hans Bernd von Haeften, Albrecht von Hagen, Peter Graf Yorck von Wartenburg, accused before the People's Court, Roland Freisler, People's Court trial, Hitler's judges, judges in the Third Reich 00:07:40 Family members deported to collective custody, Bad Sachsa, Harald Poelchau, prison director, Adam von Trott zu Solz, Hans Bernd von Haeften 00:14:19 Show trials are not published, propaganda effect could not be achieved Ludwig von Hammerstein, Carl Goerdeler flees to the East, denounced and arrested, before Freisler 00:16:34 Death by hanging, also for Caesar von Hofacker, quote: "You will be silent now, Mr. Freisler, because today it's my head that's at stake. In a year, it's yours!" Carl Goerdeler is executed in Plötzensee, one day later Roland Freisler dies in an air raid 00:18:55 Adolf Hitler retreats to the Führerbunker, Red Army conquers Berlin, Germany is liberated from the Nazi dictatorship, new hope in the Bad Sachsa children's home, Germany in ruins 00:20:39 The moment of truth, the horrors of the concentration camps are revealed, Berlin Underground, Nuremberg Trials, no one feels responsible, victorious powers, GDR, German Democratic Republic, occupation zones, Federal Republic of Germany, during reconstruction, the memory of the resistance is pushed to the margins, Director: Michael Kloft Producer: Bengt von zur Mühlen