4 real historical locations · Germany, Poland, Tunisia
Tom Cruise as Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, the German officer who planted a briefcase bomb under the conference table in Hitler's Wolf's Lair headquarters on July 20, 1944. The conspiracy involved hundreds of senior officials and came within minutes of succeeding.
CinemaMapped has mapped 4 real historical locations where the story takes place, spanning Germany, Poland, Tunisia.
July 20 1944 — Colonel Stauffenberg plants the bomb at Hitler's Wolf's Lair headquarters in East Prussia.
The Wolf's Lair was Hitler's primary Eastern Front headquarters, a vast fortified complex in the forests of East Prussia. The bomb detonated at 12:42 pm on July 20, 1944, killing four people — but a table leg deflecte...
View location →German Army HQ in Berlin — where Operation Valkyrie is launched and where the conspirators are arrested and executed.
When news of Hitler's survival reached Berlin, the coup collapsed. Stauffenberg and three fellow conspirators were shot in the Bendlerblock courtyard at midnight on July 20. Over 200 people connected to the plot were ...
View location →Opening scene — Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg is severely wounded by an Allied air attack in Tunisia, losing his left eye, right hand, and two fingers of hi...
Stauffenberg was wounded in April 1943 near Sfax, Tunisia, during the collapse of the Afrika Korps. His injuries — which left him with only three fingers on his left hand — paradoxically enabled the July 20 plot: he w...
View location →The execution site -- where eight conspirators including Field Marshal von Witzleben were hanged on meat hooks with piano wire on August 8, 1944, filmed on G...
Plotzensee Prison in Berlin Charlottenburg was used for the execution of resistance members throughout the Nazi period. Following the July 20 plot, nearly 200 people connected to the conspiracy were executed there. A ...
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