 Olaf Scholz and Germany's President Frank-Walter Steinmeier have laid wreaths at the exact spot in Berlin where the Wehrmacht officer Klauschenk Graf von Stauffenberg was shot 80 years ago after attempting and failing to assassinate Adolf Hitler. Scholz said eight decades on, Germany can show there was an alternative to the Nazi dictatorship and stressed that democracy is dependent on the tireless efforts of each and every individual. Also speaking at the ceremony, Steinmeier warned that democracy is not a given and that hatred and violence destroy it.