Germany honours anti-Hitler plotters

Members of the German government and military today commemorated the unsuccessful attempt to kill Adolf Hitler 61 years ago, laying wreaths at the former Nazi military headquarters where the plotters were executed.

Chief of staff Wolfgang Schneiderhan and the supreme court president, Hans-Juergen Papier, laid wreaths at the Bendlerblock building, now the Defence Ministry, where Col. Claus Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg and others were executed after their plan to kill Hitler with a briefcase bomb failed on July 20, 1944.