On Monday, July 20, Berlin commemorated the 82nd anniversary of the failed assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler of July 20, 1944, which is associated with officer Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg and other representatives of the resistance against the Nazi regime. Deutschlandfunk ↗
The commemoration took place in the courtyard of honor at the Bendlerblock, where Stauffenberg and other participants in the conspiracy were executed after the failed coup attempt. Federal Minister of Education Karin Prien and Berlin's Senator for Culture Joe Chialo Evers, both of the CDU, were expected to attend the memorial event. Deutschlandfunk ↗
On the occasion of the anniversary, the chairman of the July 20, 1944 Foundation, von Steinau-Steinrück, emphasized that resistance against Nazism united people from backgrounds who, in ordinary political times, would probably not even greet each other on the street. According to his message, the example of resistance should serve as a call to overcome the divides that allegedly separate people. Die Zeit ↗
However, the commemoration was disrupted by a dispute over a wreath laid by the AfD party. According to information from the scene, Tobias Korenke, the great-grandnephew of resistance fighter Dietrich Bonhoeffer, attempted to remove the wreath. The wreath's presence thus became a political conflict during the official commemoration of the victims of resistance against Hitler. Welt ↗
The anniversary of July 20 remains one of the main symbols of military and civilian resistance against the Nazi dictatorship in Germany. This year's commemoration also showed that the interpretation of the historical legacy of resistance continues to be the subject of current political disputes. Die Zeit ↗
Commemoration of the Stauffenberg assassination attempt disrupted by dispute over AfD wreath
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20. Juli 1944 - Gedenken an gescheitertes Hitler-Attentat um Graf von Stauffenberg vor 82 Jahren - "Widerstand vereinte Milieus"
Deutschlandfunk
| 14:48 20.07.
Gedenkfeier im Bendlerblock: AfD-Kranz bei Stauffenberg-Gedenken löst Eklat aus
Die Zeit
| 14:19 20.07.
Eklat bei Stauffenberg-Gedenken – Bonhoeffer-Großneffe will AfD-Kranz entfernen
Welt
| 13:47 20.07.
20. Juli 1944 - Gedenken an gescheiteretes Hitler-Attentat um Graf von Stauffenberg vor 82 Jahren - "Widerstand vereinte Milieus"
Deutschlandfunk
| 13:40 20.07.
NS-Zeit - Gedenken an Hitler-Widerstand um Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg vor 82 Jahren
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| 07:30 20.07.
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