Willy Brandt
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Willy Brandt was a German politician and statesman who was leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany from 1964 to 1987 and concurrently served as the chancellor of West Germany from 1969 to 197
Official portrait, 1980
Herbert Frahm's Norwegian passport photograph, c. 1938–1940
Brandt's official Bundestag portrait, 1953
Brandt in 1959 as Governing Mayor of West Berlin
Kniefall von Warschau
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Kniefall von Warschau, also referred to as Warschauer Kniefall, refers to West German chancellor Willy Brandt's gesture of kneeling before a memorial to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising during a state visit
Willy Brandt
…visiting a memorial to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising crushed by the Germans, Brandt unexpectedly knelt and meditated in silence, a moment remembered as the Kniefall von Warschau. Brandt resigned as chancellor in 1974, after Günter Guillaume, one of his closest aides, was exposed as an agent of the Stasi, the East German secret…
Plaque in Warsaw commemorating Brandt's action
Willy Brandt Monument in Willy Brandt Square in Warsaw
The Warsaw Ghetto Heroes memorial.
Skwer Willy'ego Brandta (Willy Brandt Square) in Warsaw