Who Won the 1970
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Europe's centre-left: a programme without frontiers
The Guardian
When Willy Brandt became postwar Germany's first social democratic chancellor in 1969, the SPD took 44% of the votes. When Gerhard Schröder became the first SPD chancellor since reunification, in 1998, the party won 41%. But in 2009, in Germany's most ...

Asian Tensions and the Problem of History
New York Times
This means doing something like what Chancellor Willy Brandt of Germany did in 1970 when he fell to his knees before a monument to the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, or when President Richard von Weizsäcker recognized the principle of Germany's “collective ...

100, 75, 50 Years Ago
New York Times
BONN — Western Foreign Ministries are carefully studying the far-reaching implications of a suggestion by Mayor Willy Brandt that the 1968 Olympic Games should be held in Berlin. Any plan laid for Berlin, even for its sewers, reverberates around ...

Ulrich Beck und Martin Schulz über die Zukunft Europas Mehr Willy Brandt wagen
FAZ - Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Willy Brandt konnte in diesem Sinne keine direkt national programmierte Ostpolitik betreiben. Der direkte Zugang zu der DDR war völlig versperrt. Das Ganze lief in der Rubrik vergeblich. Da haben Brandt und Egon Bahr die neue Möglichkeit erfunden und ...