Merkel speech at 75th anniversary of Hitler assassination attempt | DW News

Seventy five years to the day since the most famous plot to kill Adolf Hitler, German Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke at a ceremony commemorating the historical event as Germany pays tribute to the conspirators who were executed for their resistance. Merkel attended a swearing-in ceremony for hundreds of troops before the memorial service. On the morning of the 20th of July, 1944, Adolf Hitler entered the Wolf’s Lair headquarters. There, he met with generals for a strategy briefing. Colonel Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg was also present. And in his bag, he was carrying an explosive device. At 12.42pm, the bomb exploded, killing several people. But Hitler, the target of the attack, was only slightly injured. The coup had failed. The would-be assassins were executed in Berlin's Bendlerblock.

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[Timodj]

Von Stauffenberg would be furious if he saw what Germany looked like today. Shameful. Germany is shameful.

[GeekSP]

Only defeated nations curse their great men for their great ambitions.

[russia]

Lol Angela has destroy Germany by allowing all does illegal to enter Germany....

[eliasziad]

Imagine being so woke that you celebrate your own country's defeat...

[crazyshorts]

This tells us who is the real master of Europe.

[KHDecoder]

History is written by the victors. The truth is hate to those that hate the truth.

[A.A_xv]

Does Germany seriously feel that guilty they’re commemorating a failed assassination attempt?

[beneaththesurface]

I randomly skipped to 6:28 "We commemorate the communist resistance fighters." That's a bingo.

[glenglen]

"There was an honor to lead the vanguard for you. I promise, there will come a time. When once again you will be proud to call yourself German. If you look at our past and what we used to be, you can only feel shame of who we are today. They did everything to make us suffer, all the millions of Germans who lost their livelihoods. Everything is because of them, everything is made by them.


These intellectuals questioned me just how we are about to begin. But know this. I have learnt it all from two people, the German farmer and the German worker.
They think that a new state will just fall from the stars! No, it has to come within from the people. You will have to look to your people for this cause. When you need strength, blood and fanaticism!


My young Germans. Here we are. My young comrades. The spirit of the people lives within you as we are one people. In the past no man looked at one another, neither understood we are so much more than our classes. We are one people. Anything else is the defilement of the spirit. So I look to you, our young, the guarantee of our future. You are our young. Not just a mere idea, not a mere formalism. No, you are our blood, our young, our future!


We will never capitulate, that we have vowed. We have vowed we wont cease our struggle until the resurrection of our people is once more. For this German people, we will never cease our work, never cease struggling, never give up. With these words we vow to never give up on our people.

You can oppress us, you can kill us, but we will never surrender to you."

[gutsjoestar]

Germany - 1940, we are ashamed because we lost in WW1 but now we got our revenge
Germany - 2020 we celebrate the fall of the Berlin wall and the reunification of Germany which was a shame for us. During 40 years we've been occupied by Soviet Russia. But we're still happy to be United into a single little tiny nations

[adamjody]

Germany has an interesting patriotic taste.

[Neulied]

Those dislikes weren't real Germans

[robbiemcc]

Pity they couldn't get rid of Starlin.

[Boxershorts]

What about America who drop Atom Bomb attack over civilian of Japan

[jazsm]

So you're basically celebrating murder. Wow

[largerthanlife]

This is so weird. Celebrating a failed assassination attempts

[RoseSharon]

Call an ambulance for the person coughing in the background!

[dragospatrascu]

at 6:30 Germany commemorates communist resistant fighters ... really ?? I mean come oooon

[JH]

She’s celebrating that her dad survived

[Imden]

I don’t know how Otto Von Bismarck will say about the Germany today but I think he will be happy or furious