WEBVTT 00:00:02.360 --> 00:00:04.240 A December's day in Oslo. 00:00:04.400 --> 00:00:06.680 German Chancellor Willy Brandt 00:00:06.780 --> 00:00:10.780 has been invited to receive
the Nobel Peace Prize of 1971. 00:00:14.560 --> 00:00:17.820 Five years ago,
when the Social Democratic Party 00:00:17.920 --> 00:00:19.840
entered the West German government, 00:00:20.000 --> 00:00:23.660 Willy Brandt began, first as
Foreign Minister, then as Chancellor, 00:00:23.760 --> 00:00:27.200 to implement his concept
of a new policy of détente. 00:00:27.360 --> 00:00:30.080 The Nobel Committee
emphasizes the signing of 00:00:30.240 --> 00:00:32.280 the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation
of Nuclear Weapons 00:00:32.440 --> 00:00:35.360 and the signing of treaties
with Poland and the Soviet Union 00:00:35.520 --> 00:00:37.300 on the renunciation of force. 00:00:37.400 --> 00:00:40.540 The Committee also values
Brandt as a politician, who 00:00:40.640 --> 00:00:42.600 "in the name of the German people" 00:00:42.700 --> 00:00:44.516 "reached out for a policy of reconciliation" 00:00:44.616 --> 00:00:46.616 "between former enemy countries." 00:00:46.916 --> 00:00:50.340 Brandt was accompanied by
Foreign Minister Walter Scheel, 00:00:50.360 --> 00:00:52.440 his policy advisor Egon Bahr, 00:00:52.840 --> 00:00:54.760 his 20-year-old son Lars, 00:00:55.080 --> 00:00:57.260 and his wife Rut. 00:00:57.360 --> 00:01:00.420 Three Germans received
the Nobel Peace Prize before Brandt. 00:01:00.520 --> 00:01:04.920 Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann for
his efforts to reconcile with France, 00:01:05.240 --> 00:01:08.920 Ludwig Quidde, historian and pacifist, 00:01:10.680 --> 00:01:14.640 and Carl von Ossietzky,
who passionately opposed militarism. 00:01:14.740 --> 00:01:18.660 He died as a result of his
imprisonment in a concentration camp. 00:01:19.360 --> 00:01:23.060 The work of the fourth German
has not yet come to an end. 00:01:24.240 --> 00:01:27.560 Mr Federal Chancellor, 00:01:27.720 --> 00:01:29.240 Willy Brandt, 00:01:29.720 --> 00:01:32.640 would you please come forward 00:01:33.120 --> 00:01:36.440 to accept the diploma and gold medal 00:01:36.600 --> 00:01:41.840 of the Nobel Peace Prize for 1971. 00:01:56.880 --> 00:01:59.740 I sincerely thank you, 00:02:00.240 --> 00:02:02.520 and wish to do all I can 00:02:02.880 --> 00:02:05.040 in my further work 00:02:05.200 --> 00:02:08.880 to come close to that 00:02:08.980 --> 00:02:11.440 what many people 00:02:11.880 --> 00:02:13.400 expect from me. 00:02:13.560 --> 00:02:16.580 We are in Fridjof Nansen's country. 00:02:17.800 --> 00:02:20.520 Also figuratively speaking, 00:02:21.600 --> 00:02:24.040 his warning still applies. 00:02:30.280 --> 00:02:33.280 "Make haste and act," 00:02:33.440 --> 00:02:35.760 "before it is too late" 00:02:35.920 --> 00:02:37.400 "to regret." 00:02:37.720 --> 00:02:40.880 Copyright © 2012 TITELBILD, Berlin Subtitles: L. Corper et al.