CSPAN Key Capitol Hill Hearings May 9, 2015
[applause] mr. President , president of the german bundestag madam chancellor, president of the federal constitutional court, members of the german bundestag, excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, in the whole of german history there is no greater watershed within the 70th anniversary we are remembering today, the 8th of may 1945. It marks the end of world war ii in europe, collapse of the nazi regime, which had unleashed that war, and the end of the german reich. For 12 years, the nazis had fervently evoked German National unity. As the regime ended, it would not be clear if the germans would e...