Hear Willy Brandt, West Berlin mayor on the future of West Germany, 1959
Willy Brandt, as mayor of West Berlin in 1959, speaking about the goals of West Germany; excerpt from a Telenews newsreel.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.In September 1940 Imperial Japan signed the Tripartite Pact with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy. Why?
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Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz; Thumbnail Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1972-025-10 (CC BY-SA 3.0)Learn about the July Plot of 1944, in which Claus, Count Schenk von Stauffenberg, and others tried to assassinate Hitler and overthrow the Nazi regime.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Learn about Operation Barbarossa, the German-led invasion of the Soviet Union that began in June 1941. From The Second World War: Triumph of the Axis (1963), a documentary by Encyclopædia Britannica Educational Corporation.
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Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz; Thumbnail Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-1990-0927-501/Photographer: Krämer (CC BY-SA 3.0)Learn about the millions of refugees who migrated to Germany from the country's former eastern territories after World War II.
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Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, MainzOverview of Willy Brandt's reelection as chancellor of West Germany in 1972 amid calls for reform by leftist groups, notably the Red Faction Army.
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Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, MainzIn West Germany, students calling themselves the Extra-Parliamentary Opposition protested the coalition government of Kurt Georg Kiesinger (1966–69).
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Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz; Thumbnail Abbie Rowe. White House Photographs. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston; © Vasile Bobirnac/Dreamstime.com; © Carsten Reisinger/stock.adobe.comLearn how Konrad Adenauer worked to integrate West Germany into the Western community after World War II.
