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...Most Germans did not know, for example, that Willy Brandt suffered debilitating bouts of depression and that Helmut Schmidt was prone to fainting fits....
...In 1969, Kiesinger lost the elections to Social Democrat Willy Brandt, who had been an anti-Nazi exile in Scandinavia. “Now Hitler has definitely lost the war,” Brandt declared that night....
...“AKK doesn’t come from the Berlin bubble,” says Tobias Hans, Saarland’s current prime minister....
...Yeah, I mean I think that Hans is right....
...For one thing, it’s not a new idea; the FT’s overview of the idea traces its pedigree back to Willy Brandt in 1974. For another, it reflects the current reality....
...Photographs: Florian Jaenicke; David Brandt; Getty...
...Brandt resigned in 1974 after the discovery that one of his aides had been an East German spy....
...When he succeeded Willy Brandt in 1974 as the country’s second Social Democrat chancellor, Schmidt — a former defence and finance minister — brought a wealth of experience to his office and quickly developed...
...As part of this culture, artists such as Axel Hütte, Tina Barney, Rineke Dijkstra, Hans van der Meer, Jim Dow and Hans Eijkelboom developed distinctive patterns of picture-making that could be consistently...
...“The fear is that the turn in the US monetary policy cycle will cause a period of turbulence,” said Hans Lorenzen, strategist at Citigroup....
...’s Ostpolitik, and Hans Dietrich Genscher, foreign minister and Helmut Kohl’s right-hand man in German reunification....
...ISS also advised Lufthansa shareholders to vote against the appointment of Werner Brandt, chief financial officer at software group SAP, to the Lufthansa board since he would then hold three supervisory...
...In October 1969, the Willy Brandt government in Germany decoupled the D-Mark from its link to the dollar in a matter of days, floating the exchange rate for a short period and later resetting it at a rate...
...When, in 1970, the West German chancellor Willy Brandt fell to his knees before a monument to the Warsaw ghetto uprising, many Germans thought he was exaggerating....
...I knew about the mid-century modernist giants Hans Wegner and Finn Juhl, who made exquisite furniture, and Arne Jacobsen, known for his Egg and Swan chairs....
...Hans Bellmer and Jindrich Styrsky’s erotic montages are playfully subversive, commenting on a society that condemns sex while celebrating war....
...“The Germans may not have the biggest single investments but they are all over the place,” says Hans Jochum Horn, managing director of Renaissance Capital, the Russian investment bank....
...A sure winner, however, will be Elmar Brandt, Schröder's most famous impersonator....
...Similarly, will there be interest from beyond the west for Jorge Welsh’s European Scenes in Chinese Art show, and Brandt Oriental Arts’ Westerners in Chinese Art?...
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