Wulff pays tribute to Willy Brandt in Warsaw

German President Christian Wulff praised during a visit to Warsaw on Tuesday the conciliatory gesture made 40 years ago by then German chancellor Willy Brandt when he kneeled in front of the memorial to the Warsaw Ghetto. This was a worthy gesture on the part of Wulff, Adam Krzemiński, a Polish expert on Germany writes in the online edition of news magazine Polityka: "The Christian Democrat president of Germany has intentionally paid tribute to the social democratic chancellor, who had the moral courage and strong character to defy nationalist resentment and who was called a bastard and a traitor by Christian Democrats for years. He did what the Christian Democrat chancellors before him lacked the leeway and the courage to do: namely acknowledge the impact of the war begun and lost by Germany, as well as the immeasurable German crimes."

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