"The Shoah is a part of our identity", Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said at the German Bundestag ceremony to mark the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of National Socialism. "To suppress, trivialise, forget the Shoah today is to shake the foundation on which our democracy grew."

60 works from Ukraine are now on display at the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin. At the opening of the exhibition, Federal President Steinmeier thanked all those who are engaged in the efforts to preserve Ukraine’s cultural heritage: "All of these people bring light at a time of darkness."

"C the Unseen" – this was the motto under which Chemnitz started the year 2025 as European Capital of Culture. Federal President Steinmeier paid tribute to the motto in his opening speech.