Willy Brandt

needs to be able to communicate efficiently the words JFK is saying. The audience is West Berlin, which includes the citizens of West Berlin (approximately 450,000 people), German dignitaries consisting Konrad Adenauer (the German chancellor), Willy Brandt, and Otto Bach (President of the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin), Dean Rusk ( JFK’s Secretary of State), and Lucius D. Clay (the US administrator of Germany). The material of the speech is to boost morale support for West Berliners, as they are…

apology is authentic, and given sincerely, politicians will still only apologise when it is to their political advantage to do so (Thaler 2012). One exception might be that of Kniefall, the unexpected apology made by the West German Chancellor, Willy Brandt, towards Jewish victims of WWII, where he fell to his knees (Borneman 2005). But such impromptu sincerity by an agent of the state, rather than more prepared apologies like the Apology to Australia's Indigenous peoples, is a rarity. More…