Willy Brandt and Willi Stoph begin to thaw the Cold War
Feb 20, 2020
2 minutes
BY BENEDIKT SCHOENBORN
, on 19 March 1970 at 7.31am, West Germany’s chancellor, Willy Brandt, crossed the ‘death-zone’ at the German-German border on a special train, en route to Erfurt for a one-day conference with the East German prime minister, Willi Stoph. It was the first-ever meeting
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