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...indifferent administrator who much prefers to grapple with big foreign policy issues, Brandt began to feel swamped by his seemingly uncontrollable domestic problems. In January, reports TIME'S Bonn Bureau Chief Bruce Nelan, "Brandt began to talk to intimates about resigning. He had sunk into a deep depression, viewing the world and its future in near-apocalyptical terms. Diplomats in Bonn began reporting the Chancellor's lethargy and lack of drive. The opposition Christian Democratic Union increased its charges that Germany was leaderless...
...Chancellor has sunk into fits of melancholy before, but this time the image of a listless Brandt took its toll at the polls. In a series of state and city elections, the S.P.D. suffered setbacks ranging from 6% to 10%, compared with 1970. Experts were predicting that the Socialists would lose a June 9 election in the state of Lower Saxony, even though Brandt has promised to campaign there personally. The most Europe-minded of the Continent's leaders, he was also saddened by the insistence of Britain's new Labor government that it would "renegotiate" the terms...
Helmut Schmidt must attempt to pull the Social Democrats out of their tailspin after he takes the oath of Chancellor next week. He has his task well cut out for him. The urgent problems that depressed Brandt have not gone away. Moreover, a public opinion poll released last week showed that voter preference for the S.P.D. is at an all-time low of 21%; only 7% favor the Free Democrats, while 62% support the Christian Democrats. Schmidt and the Social Democrats are lucky that they do not have to face another national election until the fall...
...thousands of people in the West, Willy Brandt has been one of the truly heroic figures of the postwar world. He is still remembered by many as the fighting mayor of West Berlin. More important, though, he was a statesman-realist who was determined to confront and conquer Germany's shameful past, a Europe-minded visionary who preached unity for the Continent, and the Nobel Peace-prizewinning architect of Ostpolitik. Konrad Adenauer cemented West Germany's ties with the West, and Ludwig Erhard fashioned the economic miracle that has made the Deutsche Mark the world's most...
Nowhere was this reality more dramatically symbolized than during Brandt's visit to Warsaw in December 1970. There he paid his respects to the memory of the 500,000 Jews from the Warsaw ghetto who were killed by German soldiers during the war. At the simple granite memorial, Brandt fell to his knees in a heartfelt act of atonement and prayer. He often said: "No people can escape from their history...