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At the annual Munich Security Conference today,

German Chancellor Olaf Schultz likened Vice President J.D. Vance's speech yesterday

to interfering with Germany's upcoming election.

NPR's Rob Schmitz reports from Munich. A day after Vice President Vance lectured European leaders

on allowing far right and populist parties more space in the political sphere, Chancellor Schultz sharply

criticized Vance. He pointed out that a day before Vance made that speech, he had

visited the Dachau concentration camp and said the Holocaust should never happen again. Yet,

said Schultz, the very political forces and ideas that created the Holocaust are now again

present in Germany's far right alternative for Germany Party, whose members have trivialized

the horrors of Nazi Germany's role in World War II.

Schultz says Germany does not accept people from outside interfering in its election, and where

its democracy goes is for the country to decide.

Rob Schmitz and Per News, Munich.

Also at the conference today, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky

called for the creation of a European army.

He said the continent can no longer be sure of U.S. protection.

Hamas freed three more hostages today

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