The resignation was bitter and cast in a questionable light.
GUILLAUME CASE GDR SPY IN CHANCELLERY
The SPD's reaction to Willy Brandt's decision
was related by a man
with an intransparent role in Brandt's resignation: Herbert Wehner.
I've...
told the faction
that it would probably understand
and... I won't speak for others,
that my feelings were divided...
as pain and respect grapple with each other.
Pain about the event and respect for Willy Brandt's decision.
Willy Brandt creates solidarity!
A group that was partly responsible
for the SPD's loss of popularity joined in a chorus of pity and regret:
the Young Socialists.
Only with Willy Brandt as leader of the SPD will the party be able
to cohesively oppose the CDU-CSU scaremongers.
So Willy Brandt must remain party leader.
Farewell to the junior partner.
Willy Brandt and Walter Scheel were also on good personal terms.
He shook the hands of his cabinet colleagues
with varying grades of strength.
Some of the ministers, to whom FRG President Heinemann
handed their discharge papers,
realized they would not survive the change of chancellor politically.
Willy Brandt will remain party leader.
He suggested his successor as chancellor: Helmut Schmidt.
A crisis manager and chancellor-in-waiting,
who had been waiting for his chance for years.
Copyright © 2012 TITELBILD, Berlin Subtitles: L. Corper et al.