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Since then, a collage has been circulating online Picture of Scholz giving a speech in front of almost empty stands. are attached Screenshots of several headlines with words like “historic” or “flaming”. The claim: The press “celebrates Scholz for his UN speech exuberant,” even though no one “wanted to hear her.” ## Evaluation The accusation is not true because none of the headlines refer to it immediately after the speech by the Federal Chancellor in the rather empty UN hall has held. One refers to the anniversary of Germany's accession the UN. The headline with the word “flaming” is about the speech of Chancellor in front of the Security Council, where the word “historic” means one the German Bundestag - the latter is already over a year old. ## Facts This week the 78th United Nations General Assembly began in New York; The UN Security Council also met at the same time. Traveled for that Representatives from all over the world. Also the German Chancellor Olaf Scholz flew to New York on Sunday to arrive on Tuesday, September 19, 2023. to attend the opening of the United Nations General Assembly and to give a speech there at the meeting beginning in the afternoon. Germany was number 17 on the list of speakers, so the Chancellor spoke his speech only in the evening. The image at the top left with the empty ranks is a screenshot of an article the “Bild”, which refers to this speech on Tuesday evening. They were there Seats are actually only sparsely occupied, but that's not unusual. The The representatives use the time between their speeches for other meetings Events at the United Nations. All speeches are documented and recorded. On Wednesday, Scholz attended the Security Council meeting and spoke as a representative of Germany gave another speech with reference to the situation Ukraine from. He was very clear about the war in Ukraine made headlines. The screenshot to the right with the words “flaming speech” comes from “Merkur.de” and refers to Scholz Speech in the Security Council. The picture below on the right shows an article on the Tagesschau website with the title “In Willy Brandt’s footsteps”. The issue is that Germany in this week celebrated 50 years of UN membership and Willy Brandt was the first Speech as a representative of the Federal Republic of Germany before the general assembly. So it's more likely less about a comparison of Scholz with the achievements of his famous one predecessor than around the anniversary. The article at the bottom left of the collage with the headline: “Historical Scholz speech verbatim: “The world afterward will no longer be the same as before”» has neither one nor the other of Scholz's appearances in New York to do something. It is an article from the “Editorial Network Germany”, abbreviated rnd, which is already over a year old. He was referring to the Special session in the German Bundestag on February 27, 2022, shortly after the start of the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine. At that time the Chancellor gave one Government declaration in which he proclaimed the “turning point”. (As of: September 22, 2023) ## Links Collage on Facebook (archived) Scholz speech before the UN General Assembly on September 19, 2023 (archived) Scholz speech in the Security Council on September 20, 2023 (archived) United Nations Speaker List (archived) Scholz dates Sunday September 17th, 2023 (archived) Scholz dates Tuesday September 19th, 2023 (archived) Scholz dates Wednesday September 20th, 2023 (archived) Article from “Bild” (archived) rnd article (archived) Merkur.de article (archived) Tagesschau.de article (archived) ### About dpa fact checks This fact check was carried out as part of the Facebook/Meta independent program Fact check created. Find detailed information about this program You here. 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The press celebrated Scholz exuberantly for his UN speech even though no one wanted to hear it