... relations with any states that did so. The first departure from this policy occurred in 1967 when Willie Brandt, the then Foreign Minister for West Germany, established diplomatic relations with Romania and Yugoslavia, who both recognised the government in East Germany. Willie Brandt was later to become Chancellor at the head of a new government in 1969, and soon after his accession ... ...

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