West German Chancellor Willy Brandt Kneels in Front of the Jewish Heroes Monument Paying Tribute to Jews Killed by the Nazis during the 1943 Uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto, December 7, 1970
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1970
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German Chancellor Willie Brandt went down on his knees at the monument to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising on a trip to Poland. He was there to sign the Treaty of Warsaw, a key element of his “Ostpolitik,” which aimed to improve Germany’s relations with Eastern Europe. His gesture of atonement for the genocide perpetrated by Germans against Jews did not go down well with everyone back home in Germany; interest in taking collective responsibility for Germany’s Nazi past was not yet as widespread as it became in ensuing decades.
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Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 9.
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