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Brandt died of colon cancer at his home in Unkel, a town on the River Rhine, on 8 October 1992, at the age of 78. [167] He was given a state funeral and was buried at the cemetery at Zehlendorf in Berlin. [168] The Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt Foundation was established in 1994.
Willy-Brandt-Placa in Warsaw Monument of the 'Kniefall' on the Skwer Willy’ego Brandta. Reviewing the Kniefall one tends to agree that it played an important part in easing the tension between the eastern and western block. The Treaty of Warsaw 1970 was signed on the very same day and it included the inviolability of the Oder-Neisse-line.
The United States Marine Band performing during a State Arrival Ceremony for Chancellor Brandt on the South Lawn of the White House, 1970. Willy Brandt (left) and Willi Stoph in Erfurt 1970, the first encounter of a Federal Chancellor with his East German counterpart. Brant inspecting a Dutch Armed Forces guard of honour at Ypenburg Airport in ...
The Brandt Report is the first report of the Independent Commission on International Developmental Issues, chaired by Willy Brandt, published in 1980. [1] The Independent Commission on International Developmental Issues was established in 1977 with the aim to review international development issues, [ 2 ] with the former German Chancellor being ...
Brandt and Guillaume, 1974. The Guillaume affair (German: Guillaume-Affäre) was an espionage scandal in Germany during the Cold War.The scandal revolved around the exposure of an East German spy within the West German government and had far-reaching political repercussions in Germany, the most prominent being the resignation of West German Chancellor Willy Brandt in 1974.
The 1971 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the Chancellor of Germany Willy Brandt (1913–1992) "for paving the way for a meaningful dialogue between East and West." [1] [2] [3] Because of his efforts to strengthen cooperation in western Europe through the European Economic Community (EEC) and to achieve reconciliation between West Germany and the countries of Eastern Europe, he became the ...
In addition, enough West German voters were at last willing to give the Social Democratic leader, Foreign Minister Willy Brandt, a chance to govern West Germany. Brandt, who ran for the third time after 1961 and 1965 , had shown sympathy towards those groups, like left-wing intellectuals and activists of the German student movement , who had ...
In the 1970s, West German Chancellor Willy Brandt's Ostpolitik was a policy that "abandoned, at least for the time being, its claims with respect to German self-determination and reunification, recognising de facto the existence of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and the Oder–Neisse line".