3 real historical locations · Germany
Based on Hans Fallada's novel, this film tells the true story of a German working-class couple who waged a silent campaign of resistance against the Nazi regime — leaving hundreds of postcards denouncing Hitler across Berlin — until the Gestapo tracked them down.
CinemaMapped has mapped 3 real historical locations where the story takes place, spanning Germany.
Otto and Anna Quangel silently resist the Nazi regime by leaving handwritten postcards condemning Hitler around Berlin — a lone act of defiance the Gestapo h...
Based on the true story of Otto and Elise Hampel, who left 285 resistance postcards around Berlin between 1940 and 1942 after their son was killed in France. The Gestapo spent two years tracking them. Both were arrest...
View location →Otto and Anna Quangel are tried for treason and executed at Plötzensee — the end of two years of lonely resistance in which they dropped over 200 postcards d...
Plötzensee Prison was the principal execution site in Berlin. Over 2,800 people were executed there between 1933 and 1945, including the July 20 plotters. The execution shed is now a memorial.
View location →The working-class Wedding district is the terrain of the Quangels' quiet resistance — apartment stairwells, post boxes, factory floors. Their campaign is int...
Otto and Elise Hampel (the real Quangels) dropped 285 postcards in Berlin between 1940 and 1942. All but 18 were handed in to the Gestapo. The Hampels were guillotined at Plötzensee on 8 April 1943.
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