Item no. S760 (stamp)

Type: stamp

Country: Germany

Date of issue: 2020

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Stamp, in form of a souvenir sheet, issued to commemorate 50th anniversary of a visit of German Chancellor WILLI BRANDT to Poland in 1970. The photograph shows a moment when, after laying a wreath, he knelt in front of the monument of Ghetto Heroes in Warsaw, to paid tribute to the victims murdered by the Nazis there.
The photograph was taken by a photojournalist working for Deutsche Presse Agentur at the time, using the pseudonym Sven Simon. He was the son of Axel Springer, the German book and press publisher.