HIST223 Lecture 14: Legacy of the Holocaust in West Germany
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Willy brandt (spd) 1969 1974: change of government for the first time in 1969, willy had been the major of berlin beforehand, his slogan we have to dare to have more democracy , took the message from the student movement and said that they are right and we have to be open about the past, falling to his knees in front of the warsaw ghetto uprising was the most public act of remorse, did a lot to repair the relationship between germany and poland. Helmut schmidt (1974 1981) spd: the first west german chancellor to speak at auschwitz, continued mostly in willy"s tradition, spoke openly about the past, urged germans to speak up, during night of the broken glass not enough germans spoke up, we need to confront racism whenever we see it in daily life, to this day, germans always speak up about racism.
