Deutsche Post Berlin 10th Anniversary of Assassination Attempt on Adolf Hitler

DEUTSCHE POST BERLIN on 20 July 1954 issued a single stamp marking the 10th anniversary of the assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler. This 20 Pfennig stamp was designed by Gerhardt and released from the Allied occupied zone of West Berlin. This particular stamp is mint -- never postmarked. 

The figure of the man with his hands bound depicted in the stamp was based on a sculpture created by Professor Richard Scheibe. Since 1953, this naked and solitary bronze sculpture has stood in the very Bendlerblock (German Resistance Memorial - Berlin) courtyard were Colonel Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg and his co-conspirators were executed by firing squad.

On 20 July 1944, Claus von Stauffenberg and other conspirators attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler, Führer of Nazi Germany, inside his Wolf's Lair field headquarters near Rastenburg, East Prussia, now Kętrzyn, in present-day Poland. The name "Operation Valkyrie"—originally referring to part of the conspiracy—has become associated with the entire event.

The plot was the culmination of efforts by several groups in the German resistance to overthrow the Nazi German government. The failure of the assassination attempt and the intended military coup d'état, or putsch, that was to follow led the Gestapo to arrest more than 7,000 people, 4,980 of whom were executed.

Although the German Resistance Memorial is primarily intended to commemorate those members of the German Army who tried to assassinate Hitler in 1944, it is also a memorial to the German resistance in the broader sense.

While historians agree that there was no united, national resistance movement in Nazi Germany at any time during Hitler's years in power (1933–45), the term German Resistance (Deutscher Widerstand) is now used to describe all elements of opposition and resistance to the Nazi Regime, including the underground networks of the Social Democrats and Communists, The White Rose, opposition activities of the Catholic Church and other Christian denominations such as the Confessing Church, along with the resistance groups based in the civil service, intelligence organs and armed forces.

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