Germany’s president has asked for forgiveness for the crimes his country committed in the second world war, on the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the first German president to speak at the commemorations in Poland’s capital, joined his Polish and Israeli counterparts to mark 80 years since Jewish insurgents’ doomed uprising against Nazi occupiers. “I stand before you today and ask for your forgiveness for the crimes committed by Germans here,” Steinmeier said. The German president also berated the Russian president, Vladimir Putin for waging war against Ukraine. “With his illegal attack on a peaceful, democratic neighbouring...