1.
CU MONUMENT
0.03

2.
CU INSCRIPTION ON MONUMENTS
0.06

3.
CU WOMAN LAYS WREATH
0.09

4.
SV BASE OF MONUMENT WITH WREATHS
0.11

5.
SCU ANOTHER WOMAN LAYS WREATH
0.15

6.
CU OFFICIAL LAYS WREATH
0.20

7.
CU ANOTHER OFFICIAL WITH WREATH
0.22

8.
MV MAN LAYS SAME
0.29

9.
CU WREATH WITH INSCRIBED RIBBON
0.32

10.
GV SEATED ASSEMBLY.. OFFICIAL
0.34

11.
LV SPEAKER ADDRESSES CROWD
0.36

12.
MV LISTENERS
0.38

13.
SV MONUMENT PAN TO SPEAKER
0.44

14.
CU SPEAKER
0.47

15.
GTV CEREMONY
0.50

16.
LV BONN-MEMORIAL CEREMONY
0.54

17.
CV ADENAUER FOLLOWS HIS WREATH
1.07

18.
MV WREATH LAID
1.10

19.
SCU ADENAUER
1.12

20.
SLV ANOTHER WREATH LAID
1.18

21.
CV ANOTHER WREATH LAID
1.22

22.
CU ADENAUER & OTHERS
1.24

23.
SV BELGIAN COUPLE LAY WREATH
1.29

24.
CU PAN WREATH
1.32

25.
CU SOLDIER PAN TO WREATHS
1.39



Initials AK/V-S/JF/SGM



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Background: NINETEEN YEARS AGO ON JULY 20TH. 1944, A GROUP OF GERMAN SERVICE OFFICERS ATTEMPTED TO ASSASSINATE THE NAZI LEADER, ADOLF HITLER WITH A BOMB HIDDEN IN A BRIEFCASE. THE PLOT WAS ABORTIVE, TODAY (SATURDAY) THEIR COURAGE IN TRYING TO END THE CALAMITOUS WAR WAS REMEMBERED IN CEREMONIES HELD IN WEST GERMANY.

BUNDESWEHR OFFICERS IN CIVILIAN CLOTHES PAID TRIBUTE WITH SPEECHES AND WREATHS AT THE FORMER NAZI WEHRMACHT HEADQUARTERS IN BERLIN. MAJOR-GENERAL VON HOBE, OF THE BUNDESWEHR, SAID THAT IT WAS IMPORTANT THAT THE YOUNG SHOULD LEARN THAT WITHOUT CONSCIENCE NO RESPONSIBLE ACTION WAS POSSIBLE. AT THE END OF THE CEREMONY, A WEST GERMAN DEFENCE MINISTRY OFFICIAL LAID A WREATH AT THE MEMORIAL IN THE COURTYARD TO VICTIMS OF NAZISM.

IN BONN, CHANCELLOR KONRAD ADENAUER WAS ACCOMPANIED BY GENERAL FRIEDRICH FOERTSCH, INSPECTOR GENERAL OF THE BUNDESWEHR, WHEN HE LAID A WREATH AT A MEMORIAL.

FOR THE FIRST TIME, FLAGS WERE FLOWN ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS THROUGHOUT WEST GERMANY TO MARK THE OCCASION. CIVIC AUTHORITIES, BUNDESWEHR AND PRIVATE ORGANISATIONS IN ALL WEST GERMAN CITIES HELD CEREMONIES TO COMMEMORATE THE EVENT.