Schroeder to Honor War Dead in Normandy
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Germany's chancellor says "the postwar era is undeniably over."
Gerhard Schroeder (search) has accepted an invitation to commemorate D-Day's 60th anniversary.
Schroeder is the first German leader to be invited to commemorate the Allied invasion of occupied France.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The chancellor was criticized by some German politicians for supposedly planning to ignore German war dead during the visit. But Schroeder says he will lay a wreath at the grave of a German unknown soldier in France after joining President Bush and other world leaders on a Normandy (search) beach Sunday.
More than 300 Germans are buried along with about 22-hundred British and other Commonwealth troops at Ranville.