FILE - In this Sunday, March 22, 2020, file photo, German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks at a news conference about the new coronavirus, in Berlin. World War II references are now heard daily, not because another momentous 75th anniversary, Victory in Europe Day approaches in May but because of the coronavirus. (Michael Kappeler/Pool photo via AP, File)
March 29, 2020
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Germany's Merkel shines in virus crisis even as power wanes
BERLIN (AP) — In her first address to the nation on the coronavirus pandemic, German Chancellor Angela Merkel calmly appealed to citizens' reason and discipline to slow the spread of the virus, acknowledging as a woman who grew up in communist East Germany how difficult it is to give up freedoms, yet as a trained scientist emphasizing that the facts don't lie.