Catalogue question 181 · Question catalogue in force since 2024-07-01 · Image question
What did Willy Brandt want to express with his kneeling gesture at the former Jewish ghetto in Warsaw in 1970?
- He submitted to the former Allies.
- He asked Poland and Polish Jews for forgiveness. Correct
- He showed his humility before the Warsaw Pact.
- He said a prayer at the grave of the Unknown Soldier.
Why — for every option
- A — The kneeling gesture was not a political-military gesture of submission to the Allies but a moral-historical one.
- B — Correct: on 7 December 1970, Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt spontaneously knelt at the memorial to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising — an internationally noted gesture asking forgiveness for the Nazi crimes against Polish Jews.
- C — The "Warsaw Pact" was the Eastern military alliance, not the addressee of a gesture of humility in this context.
- D — The kneeling took place at the ghetto memorial, not at a grave of the Unknown Soldier.
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