{"id":40694,"date":"2019-09-01T15:22:13","date_gmt":"2019-09-01T15:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40694"},"modified":"2019-09-01T15:22:13","modified_gmt":"2019-09-01T15:22:13","slug":"german-president-asks-for-forgiveness-80-years-after-start-of-world-war-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40694","title":{"rendered":"German President asks for forgiveness 80 years after start of World War II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>Germany&#8217;s President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has asked for <a href=\"http:\/\/cnn.com\/travel\/article\/poland-beautiful-places\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Poland<\/a>&#8216;s forgiveness 80 years after the start of <a href=\"http:\/\/cnn.com\/2019\/06\/07\/europe\/putin-d-day-absence-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">World War II<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;I stand before you, those who have survived, before the descendants of the victims, the old and the young residents of Wielun, I am humbled and grateful,&#8221; Steinmeier said during a ceremony in the Polish city of Wielun, the site of one of the first Nazi bombings in the country on September 1, 1939. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;I bow to the victims of the attack in Wielun, I pay tribute to the Polish victims of German tyranny and I ask for forgiveness,&#8221; he said.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)Germany&#8217;s President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has asked for Poland&#8217;s forgiveness 80 years after the start of World War II. &#8220;I stand before you, those who have survived, before the descendants of the victims, the old and the young residents of Wielun, I am humbled and grateful,&#8221; Steinmeier said during a ceremony in the Polish city of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":40695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}