The Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy will host a discussion drawing on family archives and historical sources. Verus Plotho will reflect in conversation with Professor Mary Elise Sarotte on the German resistance to National Socialism through the story of his grandparents, Heinrich Graf (Count) von Lehndorff-Steinort and Gottliebe Gräfin (Countess) von Kalnein. The conversation will explore both his grandfather’s role in the July 20, 1944, attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler and the significance of the family’s home, Schloss Steinort, to the plot.  Located only a short distance from Hitler’s Wolf’s Lair headquarters, that home became a hub of secret resistance activity, supporting the wider civilian and military networks planning for action on July 20th.  Plotho, who works with the German Resistance Museum in Berlin’s Bendlerblock—where some participants in the July 20 plot were executed—will discuss the less visible roles of extended families and spouses in resistance movements, particularly the risks borne by his grandmother.  He will also reflect on the moral choices, personal costs, and enduring relevance of resistance under dictatorship.