SPD leader on Brandt’s footsteps
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Lars Klingbeil’s new Ostpolitik
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SPD leader Lars Klingbeil (right) and SPD faction leader Rolf Mützenich before the trip to Kiev, Klingbeil then visited Warsaw.
(Photo: Fionn Große; Fionn Große/Fionn Große)
First Kyiv, then Warsaw. The SPD leader is traveling to a kind of reconciliation tour in the East. In Poland, he admits mistakes in dealing with Russia and Eastern Europe – and draws lessons from them.
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Viktoria Großmann and Georg Ismar, Warsaw
For a few seconds, Lars Klingbeil is at eye level with Willy Brandt. The nearly two-meter man kneels down to lay a red and a white carnation at the memorial for the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. He also looks at Brandt’s face – in bronze.
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