Deceased
Willy Brandt
Risk 100German politician
78 years oldGerman0 picksBorn December 18, 1913
The man who famously dropped to his knees at the Warsaw Ghetto memorial showed the world that German leaders could acknowledge the past while building bridges to the East. As West Germany's Chancellor and a Nobel Peace Prize winner, Brandt spent decades trying to thaw the Cold War one handshake at a time. Now 78, this chain-smoking political titan has outlived the Berlin Wall he worked so hard to make irrelevant. (67 words)
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About Willy Brandt
The man who famously dropped to his knees at the Warsaw Ghetto memorial showed the world that German leaders could acknowledge the past while building bridges to the East. As West Germany's Chancellor and a Nobel Peace Prize winner, Brandt spent decades trying to thaw the Cold War one handshake at a time. Now 78, this chain-smoking political titan has outlived the Berlin Wall he worked so hard to make irrelevant.
(67 words)
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