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Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Saturday said the country’s armed forces belong in the “centre of [Germany’s] democratic society,” as the country marked the 80th anniversary of the assassination attempt on Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. Scholz made the comments at an oath-taking ceremony for almost 400 recruits to the German Armed Forces, or Bundeswehr, after earlier laying a wreath at the German Resistance Memorial Centre in Berlin alongside President Frank-Walter Steinmeier. The chancellor said members of the Bundeswehr must remain citizens, alongside their military duties. “Serving in the Bundeswehr t…

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