Year jerk views 1962 the year of reconciliation friendship between France and Germany of Adenauer and de Gaulle balance of a European century (content see narration)
1962 year in review the year of reconciliation friendship between France and Germany de Gaulle and Adenauer
The reconciliation of 1962 was the year of Franco German reconciliation. There is nothing Bewegenderes as this event for us this year. And someday, if you will reflect this year in the light of a timeless approach, it is considered perhaps most important event in European history. Our review of the year 62 is therefore a retrospective on July 2. On this day, German Chancellor Dr. Adenauer came on an official State visit to Paris.
France brought to attention, recognition and sympathy the tireless champion of a United Europe. A politician with so many words was received for the first time in the history of the two peoples. (Original sound)
"Mr. Chancellor, you are Very much welcome in France". These words were possible, although the Franco German past with war and hostility was very heavily loaded. The memory is No more alive in this generation at 70/71, but she stood in the history books as a constant call for revenge. We have not tried to find out how many victims have taken the war on both sides. But the question for the meaning of these victims find their answer in the memorable event from July 3rd in Paris on the Champs Elyseé, - only at the tomb of the "unknown soldier" the words of the Chancellor, which he had addressed to the German people years ago, got her full weight: "We must not forget, so who can forget others." - the first world war, in which the power and the passion of the two peoples raged against each other, enlarged the gap which now perceived by the grandsons of these soldiers only as a tragic misunderstanding. The reminder of the Tomb series, who lagged behind at the time, was enough - it seems clear today – Not yet. -The signing of the peace treaty in the Palace of Versailles brought a peace settlement, which hid the explosive for new strife in itself. The militant compliance policy of the French in Alsace and Lorraine created national resentments. The togetherness, which then failed Stresemann France Foreign Minister Briand and his German colleague remained, this triumph was reserved Konrad Adenauer and Charles de Gaulle. The "moment of truth" has called the moment de Gaulle when he designed a new face image in the Elyseé Palace with brave words. "The centuries in the minds of the people of our continent bypasses. include"Also the wars", he said to the dream of the unity of Europe," - one of the steadfast companions Konrad Adenauer was André Francois Poncet as one of the first on a fusion of the two cultures thought. from the outset, - in a land that is filled with history and bitterness, a parade takes Instead of 17 years after the war. On the former battlefield of Mourmelon, where blood and tears have burned to the ground, German and French troops parading together before German Chancellor Adenauer and President de Gaulle.
No one who was there, could elude the size of this moment: German soldiers in addition to French soldiers. Many were among them, the 22 years previously marched on the orders of Hitler in a country that was not prepared for the German invasion. The German offensive resulted in the bloodless occupation of Paris in June 1940. As if by a miracle, the old European metropolis was now spared. Against the orders of Hitler saved the German city Commander of Choltiz Paris from destruction. In June, 44 announced the cannon thunder of the Allied invasion of the coast of Normandy by The end of the second world war. The German troops in Reims surrendered on 7 May 1945. Under the eternal smile of the Angel of Reims in the coronation church of the French kings, the German Federal Chancellor has the coronation of his political life's work 17 years later. The jubilation of the choir gives a poignant final chord the visit. For the Chancellor, it is a deeply moving moment. A French diplomat said: "To understand the size of Adenauer, one must be as large as he".
Sympathies, as they have been given no foreign statesman, mark the return visit of de Gaulle's in Germany. On July 4. September 62 a French President as an official guest appeared on German soil for the first time in history. Already the greeting at the airport made it clear: de Gaulle was able as a friend. (Original sound) "Hurrah for the Federal Republic of Germany! Long live the Franco German friendship."- the beyond expectation stormy applause, which from now on should accompany de Gaulle on his via triumphalis by Germany, had all the earmarks of a referendum. Germany's population, which was 17 years suspicious against any form of national enthusiasm, free rein their feelings. It is one of the amazing facts of recent political developments, that it took a Frenchman to the Germans of in 1962, moving still between dream and defiance to reflect the dignity of national self-consciousness. -(Original sound) "seeing all around me so gathered you, when I hear your rallies, I feel even more strongly than before the assessment and the great trust the I for your great, Yes, that I for the great German people have!"-the man who dared to appeal to Germany as a nation with a history of indivisible, served in two world wars, in which he unparalleled has campaigned with a patriotism against Germany! Brigadier General Charles de Gaulle formed the National Committee of the free French in London in 1940 and called for the liberation of France: (original sound) "We hope that one day with the help of a higher power in the position we are, to win the victory."-The hardness and the will to the Unbezähmbarkeit, emanating from him, were de Gaulle to become the symbol of the resistance of the French nation. After the liberation of Paris on 25 August 1944, he was hailed as saviors of the nation. With the serenity of a man for the victory was a matter of course, he embraced the ovations. His historical mission seemed so fulfilled. But the story's strange ways. The Commander became the statesman. -18 years passed before the statesman Charles de Gaulle on Odeonsplatz in Munich drew a line under the past. He handed the Legion who had fought in two world wars against France, the hand and laid a wreath on the tomb of the "unknown soldier". "The EHR offering that bring forward the brave belongs to the moral foundations of the human race." - a word of de Gaulle. -Everywhere in Germany hands stretched forward to the French President. The enthusiasm and the cheers have made it suddenly tangible and clearly more evolutionary than revolutionary change in the relationship of our two peoples. For his German listeners it may have been the greatest experience, as de Gaulle gave his pathos, which comes from the depths of utter conviction in their own mother tongue: (original sound) when ever in the future of major historical events the speech will be, you will call the name of Adenauer and de Gaulle and the year 62.
