Original objects
A handful of the very few personal possessions that survived.
A permanent exhibition inside the Old Castle, run by the House of History of Baden-Wuerttemberg, about Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, who planted the bomb intended to kill Hitler on the twentieth of July 1944, and his brother Berthold, executed with the other conspirators. Both brothers grew up in Stuttgart, in a house on this very square. The exhibition follows them from a conservative Swabian aristocratic upbringing and the circle around the poet Stefan George, through their early acceptance of the regime, to the decision to kill. It does not present them as saints: the material is frank about how late the break came, and about the kind of Germany Stauffenberg imagined after Hitler. A handful of the very few surviving personal possessions are displayed here. Entry is free and the exhibition opens Thursday to Sunday from ten in the morning until five in the afternoon. Twenty minutes to an hour is enough. Texts are principally German with English available. It is a single room but a dense one, to be read rather than glanced at. The subject is heavy and this is not a place for impatient children. The sensible plan is to combine it with the state museum inside the same castle.
A handful of the very few personal possessions that survived.
The brothers grew up on this square, in the old palace quarter.
Altes Schloss, Schillerplatz 6, 70173 Stuttgart
The plot itself is commemorated at the Bendlerblock in Berlin, where Stauffenberg was shot. Stuttgart's memorial exists because the family lived here: the brothers spent their childhood in the old palace quarter on Schillerplatz, and the state placed the exhibition beside that spot.
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