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Item no. P4006 (cover)
Type: cover
Country: Germany
Date of use: 2024
Cover of a letter with 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.
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- Saturday, July 20, 2024
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