When Brandt knelt down in Warsaw,
the whole world saw a contrast.
The kneeling German Chancellor is taller than the standing Japanese Prime Minister.
The Kneeling in Warsaw took place on December 7, 1970, and referred to West German Prime Minister Willy Brandt kneeling in front of the monument to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. That day West Germany and Poland signed the Warsaw Treaty. After laying a wreath at the monument, Brandt suddenly knelt down and observed a moment of silence for those killed during Nazi Germany's invasion.
This is the epoch-making "Kneeling in Warsaw". Here, Chancellor Brandt wrote an extremely important chapter in Germany's post-war history. The "Kneeling in Warsaw" also became an important milestone on the road to reconciliation between the federal government and Eastern Europe, and paved the way for the Federal Republic of Germany to join the United Nations in September 1973.