Word: brandts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...enormity of Germany's guilt and shame has imposed an anguished silence upon that country. Last week, 25 years after the Zusam-menbruch (collapse) of the Third Reich, West Germany's first Social Democrat Chancellor broke with tradition. In a 21-minute speech to the Bundestag, Brandt declared that "no one is free from the history he has inherited...
...anti-Nazi who fled Germany in 1933, Brandt said that, while West Germany has become a respected and envied member of the family of nations, "we must not forget that the wounds of war have not vanished everywhere, that mistrust has not vanished everywhere, but indeed can be evoked in some people at the slightest cause." Recalling that the war unleashed by Adolf Hitler cost the lives of "millions of children, women and men of many nations," Brandt said: "We remember them all with reverence. The suffering resulting from the war warns us not to forget the lessons...
...Freshman Council did not sponsor the elections, but two of its members-David Russell and Wendell Wilkie-were named to the strike committee along with Erich Brandt...
Chancellor Willy Brandt, whose wartime exile in Norway frees him of any Nazi taint, and other German leaders have no intention of letting people become sanguine about Hitler. "The names of Bergen-Belsen, Dachau, Auschwitz, Theresienstadt, Mauthausen and Schirmeck have lost none of their horror," President Gustav Heinemann reminds them. "Nothing can mitigate them, no rhetoric can dissipate them, they cannot and must not be relegated to oblivion...
...tastes run more toward Günter Grass, but fiction buff Mrs. Willy Brandt, wife of the West German Chancellor, conscientiously boned up on the American novel before visiting Washington with her husband. Rut Brandt's reading choice: Jacqueline Susann's lurid Valley of the Dolls...