you're watching news and our special coverage of this day of faith in german history i'm sara cali and i'm joined by my colleague now simon young to put into perspective what we have just been hearing taking place in the german parliament a day of commemoration quite an emotional day in german history we heard the german president talk about a complicated past and he ended really talking about this internal conflicts that that many germans have coming to terms with it and the sense of perhaps patriotism patriotism how one might be able to have that simon tell us a little bit more yeah i mean i think what's really interesting about the speech that we just heard is the focus on the ninth of november here in germany is usually most heavily on the ninth of december nine hundred thirty eight the day when the nazis sort of openly began to. carry out their pogroms against the jews of germany with their sas troops smashing up their jewish shops and burning down synagogues those are the images that we remember particularly on this day usually the german president has just spent over half an hou