When Olaf Scholz went to the lectern in the Bundestag on Sunday, he left decades of German certainties behind. The social democrat makes a government statement that no chancellor has had to make before him. A day after which nothing will ever be the same again.
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Daniel Brössler, Berlin
There he is now. He saw this moment coming, he feared it. He warned, shrill at times. He actually got on everyone’s nerves down there, the members of parliament, the foreign minister, the chancellor. They rolled their eyes when he called for guns. When he warned the Germans of a historic failure.