European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 29, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Above it German students tour the resistance museum. At left a display of posters from the nazi Era. Below the rubble left by the july 20, 1944, bombing the Arrow Marks the spot where Adolf Hitler stood. A amps Norm Zeig a finding your Way the German resistance museum is at Stauffenberg Strasse 13-14, on the Landwehr anal. Take bus 24, 29 or 48, or ride the subway to Kurfus Steinstrasse. From there it is a 10-minute walk head North on Post Amer Strasse and then turn left at Reich Pietsch Ufer. From the Brandenburg Gate the museum is 1 5 minutes away on foot. Walk South along the Wall to the potsdamer Platz Border crossing then turn right onto potsdamer Strasse. Take another right off of potsdamer Strasse at Reich Pietsch Ufer. The museum is at the Corner of Stauffenberg Strasse and Reich Pietsch Ufer. The museum is open weekdays from 9 . To fat . And on saturdays sundays and holidays from 9 . To 1 . Tours should be arranged ahead of time by contacting Geden Statte Deutscher wide stand Stauffenberg Strasse 13-14, 1000 Berlin 30 from West Germany dial 030-26042202 or 221 f. A amps Norm Zeigler a amps file Bendle Block was Laid by the widow of one of the conspirators in 1952. In 1968, a Small photo exhibition opened in three rooms. In 1983, mayor Kichard von Weizsacker authorized the creation of a permanent exhibition to document the German resistance to the nazis it opened on july 19,1989. Director Gerhard Wittmer says the resistance museum has three main functions. It serves As a memorial to Quot those who lost their lives in the struggle against the nazi  it educates Young to r l0ui past promotes research and v of he period from 1933 to 1945 in Germany. The museum is mainly a photographic exhibit but e pictures Are accompanied by text. Explanatory p Mph lets Are also available for the various to Jectus one sect on details the resistance among workers movement. Another shows How the clergy and Church groups opposed the nazis. A third is devoted to the Scholls and the White Rose. The text and the pamphlets Are available Only in German now but Wittmer says most will be translated into English within a year. In addition the museum has a Library of 45 films about the nazi period and some of them Are in English. Two hour Tours Are conducted in German French and English but must be arranged in Advance. Last year the museum had More than 55,000 visitors most of them West German students. But Wittmer estimates that since the opening of the Berlin Wall two thirds of the museum s visitors have been East germans. Museum guide Ullrike Nesemann Krantz says some foreigners Are surprised by the exhibit a they thought All Germany had marched eagerly in step behind the nazi columns a but most germans know something about the resistance. Among the students it usually depends on How Good their teachers Are. After their tour this Day several of the Leve Kusen students Are smoking outside the museum Entrance. It is a blustery March Day and rain is blowing in under the overhang. They Are not saying much. A visitor asks their impressions of the exhibit. Was it Boring they shake their Heads. Quot moving Quot one of them answers. What was the most impressive part they look at each other. Quot the film about the concentration Camp Auschwitz Quot one replies. Quot nothing was covered  March 29, 1990 stripes Magazine 11