BERLIN — Germany’s president helped inaugurate ... The synagogue is centrally located near the state parliament building. Potsdam’s original “Alte Synagoge” was desecrated in the Nazis ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has been officially nominated as the candidate for his Social Democrats (SPD) in the German city of Potsdam, near Berlin ... the Bundestag, Germany's lower house.

"For me, it is very important that Brandenburg continues to progress in the future," Scholz told dpa on a visit to a film museum in the state capital of Potsdam, near Berlin.