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Willie Brant's Kneefall
Willie Brant's apology broke the log jam on German apologies and contrition. But not everyone in Germany agreed with what became known as Willie Brant's Kneefall. It was a country still dealing with the trauma and guilt of what it had done just 25 years earlier. On one hand, you have people saying, how can we move forward if this is always on our backs?