Germania LOT 5 X 2 Euros Commémo. Germany 2020 - Warsaw Genuflection (5 workshops)

LOT 5 X 2 Euros Commemorative GERMANY 2020

1 of each workshop

Theme: 50 years of the Genuflection of Willy Brandt in Warsaw

Quality: UNC (uncirculated).
Print run: 30,000,000 copies in UNC
Bi-metallic (nickel silver centre - cupronickel ring) - 8 5 g - 25 75 mm in diameter - 2 20 mm thick.

Non-contractual visual

Willy Brandt's kneeling in Warsaw (Kniefall von Warschau in German, the Warsaw genuflection) took place on 7 December 1970, the day the Warsaw Agreement between the Polish People's Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany was signed.

Willy Brandt knelt in front of the memorial to the dead of the Warsaw ghetto, where 450,000 Jews were crammed together and whose uprising in 1943 was savagely put down by the Nazis. In making this gesture, the German Chancellor asked for forgiveness for the German crimes of the Second World War. Willy Brandt's gesture came as a surprise: it was much debated in Germany, but helped to change the image of the Federal Republic abroad. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1971 (a first for a German since the war) for this symbolic action and, more generally, for his participation in Ostpolitik (a policy of rapprochement with the Communist bloc that was heavily criticised in Germany).

Edge: striated and inscribed with the inscription EINIGKEIT UND RECHT UND FREIHEIT" (unity and justice and freedom) followed by the German eagle.

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