60th anniversary of the failed plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler is commemorated in Germany:

GERMANY: HITLER PLOTTERS HAILED Chancellor Gerhard Schröder honored Germany's Nazi resistance on the 60th anniversary of the most famous plot to kill Hitler, saying the army officers, civic leaders and citizens who sacrificed their lives for the movement were heroes. On July 20, 1944, Col. Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg tried to kill Hitler with a briefcase bomb placed under a conference table. Hitler escaped serious injury, and Colonel Stauffenberg and several other conspirators were killed by a firing squad that night. Mr. Schröder spoke at the Blenderblock, the former Nazi war headquarters where the men were executed. President Horst Köhler laid a wreath before a plaque honoring the plotters. (AP)