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19 June 1970

Preparatory meeting of the Slovak World Congress, 19 – 21 June 1970

After the fourth wave of Slovak emigrants in three decades, a meeting of Slovak exile officials decided to establish a worldwide organisation of Slovaks abroad – the Slovak World Congress. It was to coordinate the activities of organisations working abroad in the interests of Slovaks. It was practically impossible to create an absolutely uniform basis, but the congress succeeded in integrating the larger and most important parts of the associations.

28 October 1969

28 October: Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt leads the first social-liberal coalition

07 December 1970

Willy Brandt kneels before a Holocaust monument in Warsaw (Brandt’s ‘Kniefall von Warschau’)