Brandt Dies: Ostpolitik Architect Leaves Unified Legacy
Willy Brandt knelt at the Warsaw Ghetto memorial in 1970. He hadn't planned it. He stood there a moment, then went to his knees in the rain, in silence, in front of the monument to the Jewish uprising. He was a Social Democrat who had fled Nazi Germany in the 1930s. He had nothing personal to atone for. That was the point. He later said he did what people do when words fail them. The photograph ran on front pages across the world. He won the Nobel Peace Prize that year.
October 8, 1992
34 years ago
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