80 years ago, an assassination attempt on Hitler failed to stop the Nazi dictatorship and the world war that had started in Germany. The heads of state are remembering the sign of rebellion. What remains of it?
On the 80th anniversary of the failed assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler, Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has called for action for democracy. “Let us not leave the field to the loud despisers of democracy, but let us protect our democracy,” said the head of state after a visit to the exhibition at the German Resistance Memorial Center in Berlin. This is the best memorial that can be given to the assassins of July 20, 1944 and all others who resisted National Socialism.
Steinmeier had previously taken part in a memorial ceremony and placed a wreath on a plaque. On July 20, 1944, Wehrmacht officers led by Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg tried in vain to kill the dictator Hitler with a bomb, to overthrow the Nazi regime and end the Second World War. Stauffenberg and three other participants were shot that evening in the courtyard of the Bendlerblock. The memorial is now located there.
The Federal President said: “The resistance against National Socialism was necessary because the Weimar democracy did not have the support it needed.” Today, in a free democracy, commitment to this is still the order of the day. “Not hatred and incitement and certainly not violence. Violence destroys democracy.” Steinmeier praised the entire German resistance against the Nazi dictatorship. It is not about “flawless heroes”. It is about the fact that they were people “who did the right thing at the right time and did so at the greatest risk to themselves and their families.”
Source: Stern
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