Overview

• At Berlin’s Plötzensee Memorial, Justice Minister Stefanie Hubig warned that remembrance must remain an obligation that inspires present-day resistance to forces threatening democracy and the rule of law.
• Culture State Minister Wolfram Weimer highlighted the often-overlooked courage of plotters’ families who endured imprisonment, surveillance and loss in silence.
• Actor Matthias Brandt used the central Plötzensee ceremony to warn of growing historical amnesia and a resurgence of hate speech and exclusion echoing Nazi propaganda.
• In the Bendlerblock courtyard, about 250 newly enlisted Bundeswehr recruits swore a ceremonial oath, linking the legacy of the 20 July conspirators to modern military service, according to Defense Minister Boris Pistorius.
• Berlin’s Governing Mayor Kai Wegner stressed that the 20 July plot revealed an “Other Germany” whose principles remain embedded in the Basic Law and Germany’s democratic framework.