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Valkyrie (2008)

Where Valkyrie says it takes place, and where it was really shot.

The Wolf's Lair was rebuilt south of Berlin and the Tunisian desert was in California, but the Bendlerblock is the real thing

Scenes and places

The air raid in Tunisia (1943)

Stauffenberg is already sickened by the regime he serves. An air raid leaves him badly wounded and sends him home.

Set in Tunisian front — Stauffenberg serves on the staff of the 10th Panzer Division in Tunisia.

The coordinate is the nearby town of Lucerne Valley; the exact filming spot is not given.

Filmed at Cougar Buttes, Lucerne Valley, California — The air-raid scene that opens the film was shot here in early 2008, after the main shoot in Germany. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Hitler approves the Valkyrie plan (1944)

Stauffenberg brings Hitler an amended copy of Operation Valkyrie. Hitler waves the changes through, handing the plotters the very tool they need.

Set in The Berghof — Hitler's Bavarian residence, where Stauffenberg presents the amended Valkyrie plan. Google Maps · Apple Maps

Only the photo shows the real Berghof; the film's rooms were built from Eva Braun's home movies.

The bomb that is not set off (1944)

Stauffenberg walks into the Wolf's Lair with a bomb. With Himmler absent he has no permission to go ahead, so he leaves and the plot stands down.

Set in The Wolf's Lair — Hitler's Eastern Front headquarters, in what is now north-eastern Poland. Google Maps · Apple Maps

The real headquarters was in a forest in Poland; the film's version stands in Brandenburg.

Filmed at Former NVA airfield, Klein Köris / Löpten — Used as the landing site of the Wolf's Lair, filmed in July 2007. The coordinate is the village of Löpten, not the airfield. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Operation Valkyrie begins (1944)

Back in Berlin, Olbricht will not mobilise the Reserve Army without proof that Hitler is dead. His colonel forges the authorisation and Valkyrie is set in motion.

Set in Bendlerblock, War Ministry — The Reserve Army headquarters in Berlin, where the plotters run Operation Valkyrie. Google Maps · Apple Maps

A memorial to the German resistance now stands in the building.

Filmed at Bendlerblock, Berlin — The film was shot at the real building after the German government reversed its refusal. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Soldiers take the ministries (1944)

Officers are told the SS is staging a coup, and troops begin to seal off the ministries. The plotters' bluff only has to hold long enough.

Set in Berlin government ministries — Reserve Army soldiers move to take control of the ministries in Berlin.

The building was Göring's Air Ministry and today houses the German Finance Ministry.

Filmed at Former Reich Air Ministry (Detlev-Rohwedder-Haus), Berlin — Street scenes at the corner of Wilhelmstraße and Leipziger Straße. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Filmed at Tempelhof Airport, Columbia Haus area — Flight scenes Google Maps · Apple Maps

Filmed at Messe Berlin, halls at the Funkturm — Berlin scenes (which scene not given) Google Maps · Apple Maps

Filmed at Beelitz-Heilstätten — Some scenes (not specified) Google Maps · Apple Maps

Filmed at Babelsberg Studios, Potsdam — Studio scenes Google Maps · Apple Maps

Characters

• Claus von Stauffenberg — A wounded Wehrmacht colonel who rewrites Operation Valkyrie to turn it against the regime.
• Friedrich Olbricht — A general who recruits Stauffenberg and hesitates to mobilise the Reserve Army.
• Adolf Hitler — The German dictator at the centre of the plot.

Questions answered on the map

• Where was Hitler's Wolf's Lair really filmed?
• Where in Berlin was Operation Valkyrie really filmed?