German politician (SPD), chancellor of West Germany (1969–1974) and Nobel Peace Prize laureate
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He fled the Nazis under a false name, then returned to lead West Germany and knelt in silence at the Warsaw Ghetto memorial — a gesture that carried more weight than any treaty. The chancellor who reached east while the Cold War still ran hot.
Born Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm in 1913, he escaped Nazi Germany for Norway and Sweden, working as a left-wing journalist under the pseudonym Willy Brandt, which he adopted formally in 1948. He rose to governing mayor of West Berlin, then became West Germany's first Social Democratic chancellor since 1930 when he took office in 1969. As chancellor he launched Ostpolitik to thaw relations with Eastern Europe — drawing fire from the right — while holding the American line on Vietnam until 1973 and issuing the hard Anti-Radical Decree against domestic communists in 1972. In 1970, visiting Warsaw, h…
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In our modern world, mass hunger, economic stagnation, environmental catastrophe, political instability, and terrorism cannot be quarantined within national borders.
At the beginning of the 1980s the world community faces much greater dangers than at any time since the Second World War.
What belongs together, is growing together again.
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