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German political leader. He served as chancellor of West Germany (1969-1974) and won the 1971 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to reduce tension between the East and the West. Brandt Bill Hermann Wilhelm Brandt Brandt Willy
German states who as chancellor of West Germany worked to reduce tensions with eastern Europe (1913-1992)

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Bill Brandt
orig. Hermann Wilhelm Brandt born May 1904, Hamburg, Ger. died Dec. 20, 1983, London, Eng. German-born British photographer. In 1929 he worked in the studio of Man Ray in Paris. He returned to England in 1931 and took up photojournalism, documenting English industrial workers in the 1930s and covering the home front during World War II. His work reveals the influence of Eugène Atget, Brassaï, and Henri Cartier-Bresson. He is best known for his photographs of British life and especially for his unconventional nudes; he placed his wide-angle camera at close range to the human body, causing a distorted effect that transformed the human body into a series of abstract designs
Willy Brandt
orig. Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm born Dec. 18, 1913, Lübeck, Ger. died Oct. 8/9, 1992, Unkel, near Bonn German statesman. As a young Social Democrat, he fled to Norway to avoid arrest after the rise of the Nazis in the 1930s. There he assumed the name Willy Brandt and worked as a journalist. Returning to Germany after World War II, he was elected to parliament in 1949 and became mayor of West Berlin (1957-66), a post in which he achieved world fame. He led a coalition government as chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (1969-74). As chancellor, he improved relations with East Germany, other communist nations in eastern Europe, and the Soviet Union and helped strengthen the European Economic Community. For these efforts he received the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1971. He remained the leader of the Social Democratic Party until 1987
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