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WILLY BRANDT IN INTERVIEW WITH 
HORST SCHÄTTLE (ZDF), DECEMBER 1988

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You will turn 75 in a few days.

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As we heard, you do not see this
as a reason to not continue your work.

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Nonetheless, this is certainly a day

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on which one can look back.

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What would you say
was your greatest personal success,

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and what was your biggest mistake?

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I'll let other people answer
the latter part of the question.

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My success ...

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my real success was,

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I think,

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to have contributed to the fact
that in the world we live in

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the name of our country 
- Germany that is -

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and the concept of peace

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can be mentioned again
in the same breath.

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That was not self-evident

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to the young man I was at the time

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when I experienced the war

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and returned to a destroyed Germany

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in the year 1945.