BERLIN – Germany on Friday celebrated its “liberation” from the Nazis 70 years ago, with the speaker of parliament Norbert Lammert hailing the willingness of the country’s neighbours to forgive.During a joint session of parliament’s two houses attended by Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Joachim Gauck, Lammert paid tribute to both Western Allied forces and the Soviet Army “who ended the National Socialist terror regime at unimaginable loss” to their own ranks.Lammert said May 8, when Nazi Germany capitulated, marked a “day of liberation” for Germans, quoting a watershed 1985 speech by then president Richard von Weizsaecker.”Today we remember the …read more
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