Museumsportal Berlin

The permanent exhibition "Resistance Against National Socialism", opened in 1989, documents with more than 5,000 photos and documents, in 26 areas, about the whole range and diversity of the fight against the national socialistic dictatorship. It informs on the political resistance against National Socialism as well as on the diverse forms of resistance basing on Christian conviction, attempted military coups between 1938 and 1944, the active conspiracy of decisive opponents of the regime at the centre of the power, on the opposition of youth, and the resistance during the daily life during war. All this includes the presentation of different traditions and attitudes as well as the situations and aims which allowed and shaped, between 1933 and 1945, resistance. It intends to show how individuals and groups resisted and used open options against the National Socialist dictatorship between 1933 and 1945.