Merkel noted that people still have an obligation to 'oppose all tendencies that seek to destroy democracy. This includes right-wing extremism.'
July 20, 2019, marked the 75th anniversary of an unsuccessful attempt by German military officers to assassinate Adolf Hitler and potentially end World War II. German Chancellor Angela Merkel used this date as an opportunity to denounce far-right extremism and honor those who fight against it.
"Only by understanding our past can we build a good future," she said, pointing to the current Germany — a constitutional state where"citizens and government are bound by law and democracy." Chancellor said that without the resistance, this German might never have come to be. In addition to the podcast, Merkel appeared at a ceremony in Berlin on Saturday to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the attempt and remember Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg — the plot's figurehead, who was executed along with General Friedrich Olbricht, Lieutenant Werner von Haeften and Colonel Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim in the very courtyard where the chancellor spoke.
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