80th anniversary of D-Day in Normandy: Highlights | AP News
WEBGerman Chancellor Olaf Scholz arrives at the international ceremony at Omaha Beach, Thursday, June 6, 2024 in Normandy. Normandy is hosting various events to officially commemorate the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings that took place on June 6, 1944.
D-Day: King and world leaders attend emotional D-Day events - BBC
WEBJun 6, 2024 · The King laid a wreath at the British Normandy Memorial in Ver-sur-Mer, near Gold Beach, with a note attached touching on the sacrifices made on D-Day.
D-Day last living links recount memories on Normandy’s beaches - NBC News
WEBJun 6, 2024 · His landing craft ferried troops to Omaha Beach, its hull soon soaked with the bloodied bodies of those scythed down by the German machine guns, mortars and artillery.
Leaders and veterans mark D-Day landings at Omaha Beach - France 24
WEBJun 6, 2024 · Leaders and veterans mark D-Day landings at Omaha Beach. As young soldiers, they waded ashore in Normandy through gunfire to battle the Nazis. On Thursday, a dwindling number of World War II ...
'They gave us our freedom' - Veterans celebrated in Normandy - BBC
WEBJun 6, 2024 · Yet this Thursday, at the official international D-Day ceremony, Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz will stand shoulder-to-shoulder with France’s President Emmanuel Macron, US President Joe Biden...
D-Day's 80th anniversary commemorations - Le Monde.fr
WEBJun 6, 2024 · French President Emmanuel Macron is welcoming hundreds of D-Day veterans alongside 25 world leaders to an international ceremony this afternoon at Omaha Beach, one of the five D-Day beaches.
Federal Chancellor Scholz at the D-Day memorial event
WEB“The courage of the liberators from Omaha, Juno, Gold, Utah and Sword Beach paved the way for democracy and freedom, for prosperity and the rule of law in Germany,” Federal Chancellor Scholz...
‘History comes alive’ as last veterans mark 80 years since D-Day
WEBJun 6, 2024 · Eighty years since the Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy on D-Day to help liberate France from the stranglehold of Nazi occupation, people from around the world had travelled to...
A D-Day commemoration that was not just about beating Hitler
WEBJun 6, 2024 · Among European leaders present in Normandy, including Germany’s Olaf Scholz, Mr Macron has been the most vociferous in warning of the threat to democracy. In a recent speech he declared that...
Olaf Scholz - Wikipedia
WEBOlaf Scholz (German: [ˈoːlaf ˈʃɔlts] ⓘ; born 14 June 1958) is a German politician who has been the chancellor of Germany since 8 December 2021. A member of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), he previously served as Vice Chancellor in the fourth Merkel cabinet and as Federal Minister of Finance from 2018 to 2021.
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