• Thumbnail for Kniefall von Warschau
    Kniefall von Warschau (lit. 'Warsaw kneeling' or 'Warsaw kneel'), also referred to as Warschauer Kniefall, refers to West German Chancellor Willy Brandt's...
    8 KB (880 words) - 14:16, 19 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Axel Springer
    December 2023. Sontheimer, Michael (6 December 2020). "Willy Brandt in Warschau, Kniefall vor der Geschichte". Der Spiegel. Archived from the original on 7...
    53 KB (5,622 words) - 17:15, 29 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Willy Brandt
    unexpectedly knelt and meditated in silence, a moment remembered as the Kniefall von Warschau. Brandt resigned as chancellor in 1974, after Günter Guillaume,...
    143 KB (15,824 words) - 14:16, 19 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mitterrand and Kohl holding hands in Verdun
    French anthem, immediately after the German anthem had been played. Kniefall von Warschau "MITTERRAND AND KOHL HONOR DEAD OF VERDUN". The New York Times....
    6 KB (381 words) - 15:47, 22 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Time Person of the Year
    Staff (December 19, 2007). "Complete List – Person of the Year 2007". Time. Von Drehle, David (December 17, 2008). "Person of the Year 2008". Time. Archived...
    158 KB (7,011 words) - 21:20, 15 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kneeling
    mark of humility and penance. The event is known in German as the Kniefall von Warschau (the Warsaw genuflection[dubious – discuss]). Kneeling is also used...
    34 KB (3,959 words) - 07:44, 9 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for West Germany
    unexpectedly knelt and meditated in silence, a moment remembered as the Kniefall von Warschau. Brandt resigned as chancellor in 1974, after Günter Guillaume,...
    88 KB (9,450 words) - 05:56, 26 September 2024
  • numerous customs involving placing one or both knees on the ground Kniefall von Warschau ("Warsaw genuflection"), a gesture of humility and penance by West...
    566 bytes (116 words) - 13:12, 24 July 2021
  • Thumbnail for Kresy
    areas were insecure about their future there until the 1970s (see Kniefall von Warschau). Eastern settlers did not feel at home in Lower Silesia, and as...
    92 KB (7,536 words) - 14:42, 18 October 2024
  • author and scenic designer. He also wrote the libretto for the opera Kniefall von Warschau named after Willy Brandt's genuflexion in Warsaw on 7 December 1970...
    9 KB (881 words) - 07:00, 8 August 2023
  • to ask on his knees for forgiveness for the crimes of the Nazis (Kniefall von Warschau). His gesture was understood in Poland as being addressed to all...
    262 KB (28,132 words) - 02:32, 17 September 2024
  • 2008. "Vom Bundesministerium der Finanzen erteilte Aufträge zur Prägung von Euro-Umlaufmünzen" (PDF). Deutsche Bundesbank Zentralbereich Bargeld. 27...
    27 KB (526 words) - 10:20, 3 September 2024
  • to the Germans "kneeling" in his "walk tall" speech was to the Kniefall von Warschau when in 1970 the West German chancellor Willy Brandt had knelt before...
    216 KB (32,406 words) - 13:22, 21 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Yugoslavia–European Communities relations
    relations with West Germany before Yugoslavia and in which famous 1970 Kniefall von Warschau in Warsaw was not followed by similar gesture to victims of the...
    23 KB (2,479 words) - 15:34, 6 March 2024
  • Verweigerung (after Gogol, first performance 1989 in Osnabrück) as well as Kniefall von Warschau about Willy Brandt (libretto by Philipp Kochheim, premiere 1997...
    4 KB (480 words) - 01:06, 12 March 2023
  • Thumbnail for 2 euro commemorative coins
    12 stars of the European flag. [342]  Germany 50 years since the Kniefall von Warschau 30 million coins 8 October 2020 Description: The design shows Brandt...
    542 KB (7,098 words) - 02:12, 20 October 2024
  • the victims of the Warsaw Ghetto, which will become known as the Kniefall von Warschau ("Warsaw Genuflection"). 13 December – The government announces...
    2 KB (233 words) - 20:17, 27 June 2023
  • Thumbnail for List of international trips made by Willy Brandt
    November  Poland Warsaw 6–8 December Visit became known for the Kniefall von Warschau and the signing of an agreement recognizing the Polish borders...
    8 KB (229 words) - 14:54, 29 July 2024
  • a ceremony commemorating the 40th anniversary of Willy Brandt's Kniefall von Warschau hosted by President Bronisław Komorowski and visited the Monument...
    12 KB (46 words) - 12:48, 16 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Warsaw Ghetto
    Ghetto (German: Warschauer Ghetto, officially Jüdischer Wohnbezirk in Warschau, "Jewish Residential District in Warsaw"; Polish: getto warszawskie) was...
    80 KB (7,814 words) - 18:25, 13 October 2024