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The German government plans to commemorate the failed assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler 80 years ago on Saturday. Chancellor Olaf Scholz aims to give a speech at a ceremony at the German Resistance Memorial Centre in Berlin. Scholz and President Frank-Walter Steinmeier are expected to lay wreaths in memory of those involved in the attempted coup against the Nazi dictator on July 20, 1944. In the afternoon, almost 400 recruits to the German Armed Forces, the Bundeswehr, are to take their oaths at a roll call in Berlin. Speeches by Scholz and Defence Minister Boris Pistorius are planned. On …

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