Alan: Thanks to friend Roger Barcant for bringing this article to my attention.
Very Powerful Reflection By NPR's Guy Raz On Willy Brandt's Holocaust Commemoration Wreath-Laying
Very Powerful Reflection By NPR's Guy Raz On Willy Brandt's Holocaust Commemoration Wreath-Laying
Contextualization of Lead Photograph: Those who witnessed the scene were awe-struck: a politician actually displayed his emotions by confessing to guilt and begging for forgiveness. With his head bowed low, he froze in this position for twenty or thirty seconds. “I have been often asked what the gesture was all about. Was it planned? No, it wasn’t”. This is how Willy Brandt described the situation many years later in his memoirs: “As I stood on the edge of the Germany’s historical abyss, feeling the burden of millions of murders, I did what people do when words fail”.
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