German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Friday called on citizens to stand up for democracy and freedom, as the country marked the 80th anniversary of the assassination attempt on Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. “The coup attempt on July 20, 1944 failed. The unifying goals of the resistance did not,” Scholz said at a memorial ceremony in Berlin, where he and President Frank-Walter Steinmeier laid wreaths in memory of those involved in the attempted coup against the Nazi dictator. On July 20, 1944, German army officers led by Claus von Stauffenberg tried in vain to kill Hitler with a bomb, with the aim of o…