A West German Leader Apologizes for the Holocaust In 1970 West German chancellor Willy Brandt knelt before the Jewish Heroes’ Monument in Warsaw, Poland, to ask forgiveness for the German mass murder of European Jews and other groups during the Second World War. Brandt’s action, captured in photo and film by the onlooking press, symbolized the chancellor’s policy of Ostpolitik, the normalization of relations between the East and West Blocs.
(bpk, Berlin/photographer: Hanns Hubmann, Inv. HU 17089-