Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and the heads of the other constitutional bodies have joined together on 8 May in commemorating the end of the Second World War in Europe as well as the liberation from National Socialism. Seventy-five years after the end of the war, the Federal President, Federal Chancellor and Presidents of the Bundestag, Bundesrat and the Federal Constitutional Court layed wreaths at the Neue Wache in Berlin to commemorate the victims of war and tyranny. Thereafter the Federal President held a speech.

Owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, the wreath-laying ceremony at the Neue Wache took place in compliance with strict hygiene regulations and without spectators. The official ceremony originally planned to commemorate the end of the Second World War as well as an international youth meeting to mark this occasion had to be cancelled owing to the pandemic.

The Neue Wache on Unter den Linden is the Central Memorial of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Victims of War and Tyranny. The interior of the building designed by the Prussian architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel contains a replica of the statue Mother with her Dead Son by Käthe Kollwitz.