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...HISTORY OF EUROPE IN THE 20th century has been in large measure the story of Germany: its aggressive wars, its humiliating defeats, its miracle of postwar recovery. Willy Brandt witnessed much of the worst of the century -- and was responsible for much of the best. By the time he died last week of cancer at 78, he had achieved the great goals of his life: the end of the cold war and the restoration of a unified Germany to the family of nations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Willy Brandt: 1913-1992: A Bold Peacemaker | 10/19/1992 | See Source »

...achievement symbolized by the somber drama of a man on his knees: Brandt, on a freezing December day in Warsaw in 1970, before Poland's memorial to victims of World War II. Here was a German Chancellor making an act of atonement for his country's wrongs, a gesture that electrified the world. Brandt was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1971; he had been named TIME's Man of the Year a year earlier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Willy Brandt: 1913-1992: A Bold Peacemaker | 10/19/1992 | See Source »

Behind the Warsaw gesture was Ostpolitik, the bold policy initiated by Brandt to seek reconciliation with the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, a stance that would be adopted by his successors in the Chancellor's office in Bonn. When Brandt became Chancellor in 1969, West Germany still refused to recognize the postwar boundaries in Eastern Europe or admit that Germany would remain divided for the foreseeable future. Brandt swiftly changed much of that, signing nonaggression pacts with the U.S.S.R. and Poland in 1970 and ^ renouncing claims to 40,000 sq. mi. of former German territory incorporated into Poland. He also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Willy Brandt: 1913-1992: A Bold Peacemaker | 10/19/1992 | See Source »

...order to lure Brandt back, Harvard agreed togive him more power to build a stronger program inthe history of medicine. He finally accepted lastfall after the University demonstrated itscommitment to the field by agreeing to fund ajunior faculty position...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RECRUITMENT: THE ART OF THE DEAL | 6/4/1992 | See Source »

...ALLAN M. BRANDT, a history of science professor, was offered a lifetime post by Harvard early in 1991 while he was teaching at the University of North Carolina. In order to lure Brandt to Cambridge, Harvard had to agree to give him more power to build a stronger program in the history of medicine and demonstrate its commitment to the field by agreeing to fund a junior faculty position...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE COSTS OF THE LURE | 6/4/1992 | See Source »

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