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Merkel in Poland: "I Bow Before the Victims"

Sep 2, 2009 | REGIERUNGonline
Gdansk

“The German invasion of Poland ushered in the most tragic chapter of European history,” declared Chancellor Angela Merkel in Gdansk, where she was attending the memorial ceremony to mark the 70th anniversary of the start of the Second World War.

German Resistance Remembered on Anniversary of Assassination Attempt

Jul 20, 2009 | Germany.info / Federal Foreign Office
Ceremony in courtyard of Bendlerblock

Each year on July 20, Germany commemorates one of the most important acts of resistance in Germany to the Nazi regime, the ultimately unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler in 1944. This year marks the 65th anniversary.

Youth Newspaper Closes Gaps in Nazi Era Press

Jul 1, 2009 | REGIERUNGonline
Chancellor Merkel and students from newspaper project

With the youth initiative step21, 70 young people from Berlin to Brno, Klagenfurt to Poznan, researched what happened in their home region at the time of National Socialism and produced a newspaper to fill in the "blank spots” left by the Nazi press.

Steinmeier on Holocaust Era Assets Conference

Jul 1, 2009 | Federal Foreign Office
Foreign Minister Steinmeier ©Thomas Imo/photothek.net

"It is becoming more and more important to keep alive the memory of the Holocaust as a warning for the future. The discussions in Prague point in the right direction, stressing the importance of information and education." 

Writing to Defeat Fear: Anne Frank Was Born 80 Years Ago

Jun 11, 2009 | Federal Foreign Office
(c) dpa - Report

"One day this terrible war will be over. The time will come when we'll be people again and not just Jews!" Anne Frank wrote in her now world-famous diary on April 9, 1944.  She was 14 and had been hiding inside a building in Amsterdam for nearly two years. On June 12, 2009, she would have turned 80.

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