At a ceremony in Berlin's Bendlerblock Angela Merkel warned against the move towards far-right politics, racism and anti-semitism.
The German Chancellor with the newly appointed defence minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer yesterday remembered the 75th anniversary of the Stauffenberg failed assassination attempt on Hitler.
The attempt on Hitler's life was carried out at his headquarters at the Wolf's Lair in East Prussia on July 20, 1944
After the bomb went off Stauffenberg returned immediately to Berlin. Later that night he was shot in the courtyard of the Bendlerblock, which was the seat of the commander-in-chief of the German Army.
During the Battle of Berlin, in April/May 1945 General Weidling used it as his HQ before surrendering to Soviet Red Army General Vasily Chuikov on May 2, 1945.
Following German reunification, the German Federal Ministry of Defence's Berlin office was moved the Bendlerblock.
Had the Red Army under Georgy Zhukov not defeated Paulus's Sixth Army at Stalingrad would Claus von Stauffenberg have gone ahead with his assassination attempt?
The defeat on the Volga played a pivotal role in changing the minds and hearts of many Germans towards Hitler.
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Fr Brian Mckevitt op, former editor of 'Alive' , has been suspended from public ministry since before Christmas last. Why?
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