7th December, 2011

On the radio, they remembered a moving event which has its 42th anniversary today. I wanted to share it with you. On December 7th 1970, social democrat Willy Brandt - West Germany’s Federal Chancellor from 1969-1974 - visited the holocaust memorial in Warsaw, Poland. He put down a floral wreath to remember the Jewish resistance in the ghetto in Warsaw in 1943 (Warsaw Ghetto Uprising). All of a sudden, he fell on his knees onto the dirty and wet asphalt and remained there in silence for a few minutes. Later he said, that he was kneeing there for Germany and that he was asking for forgiveness. This went down in history as “Der Kniefall von Warschau” (lit: the genuflection of Warsaw). On the same day, Brandt signed the Treaty of Warsaw (Warschauer Vertrag). A year later, he received the Nobel Peace Prize. (pic via vorwaerts.de)

On the radio, they remembered a moving event which has its 42th anniversary today. I wanted to share it with you.

On December 7th 1970, social democrat Willy Brandt - West Germany’s Federal Chancellor from 1969-1974 - visited the holocaust memorial in Warsaw, Poland. He put down a floral wreath to remember the Jewish resistance in the ghetto in Warsaw in 1943 (Warsaw Ghetto Uprising). All of a sudden, he fell on his knees onto the dirty and wet asphalt and remained there in silence for a few minutes. Later he said, that he was kneeing there for Germany and that he was asking for forgiveness.

This went down in history as “Der Kniefall von Warschau” (lit: the genuflection of Warsaw). On the same day, Brandt signed the Treaty of Warsaw (Warschauer Vertrag). A year later, he received the Nobel Peace Prize.

(pic via vorwaerts.de)



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