Merkel called "patriots" those who wanted to kill Hitler | Chronic

The head of the German government, Angela Merkel, affirmed that there are moments of history in which "disobedience is obligatory"by honoring a group of soldiers who failed in their attempt to badbadinate Adolf Hitler July 20, 1944.

During an event that recalled the 75th anniversary of "Operation Valkyrie", Merkel described as "patriotic" the army led by Colonel Claus Schenk von Steuffenberg, who attacked Hitler in his "wolf hideout" refuge in the Black Forest.

Analysts and historians believe that if the attack had not failed, it could have prevented the deaths of millions of people during the Second World War, between July 20, 1944 and May 1945 , date of the capitulation of the Third Reich.

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The German Chancellor baderted that the "right to resist" for the defense of the democratic order was envisioned in the German Constitution, written five years after the fall of the Third Reich, reported the EFE news agency.

Von Sttaufenberg is considered a hero of opposition to Hitler emerged in the military leadership, while brothers Sophie and Hans Scholl, two students members of the band Die Weisse Rose – La Rosa Blanca, guillotined in 1943, symbolize the resistance social.

This Saturday's ceremony followed the traditional swearing-in of the flag in the Bendlerblock, headquarters of the Ministry of Defense and where von Stauffenberg was executed. The colonel is the one who placed a briefcase containing an activated bomb under the table, where Hitler met the General Staff, in his barracks in East Prussia, at Ketrzyns.

Inside the wallet were two guns, but only one exploded and caused the deaths of four of the twenty-four people present. Hitler was slightly injured and made a few hours later radio in the country.

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Von Stauffenberg, a 36-year-old officer, returned to Berlin unaware that Hitler was still alive, ready to continue his bargaining plan to end the war with the allies, but that night he was executed with several rebels. However, his figure is still surrounded by controversy, with some historians believing that he did not rebel against Nazism but against a war that he saw lost for Germany.

Meanwhile, thousands of people marched in Kbadel, western Germany, to protest a neo-Nazi march convened seven weeks after the badbadination of Walter Lübcke, a local politician shot in the head on the terrace of his house, in the hands of a far right. Around 8,000 people took part in the demonstration against the neo-Nazis, while 500 supporters of the radical party "Die Rechte" took part in the parade.