My Life in Politics

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Born in 1913 to working-class parents, Willy Brandt got an early start in politics. By 1933 he was an active anti-Nazi and was forced to flee Germany for Denmark and Norway. He remained outside Germany for thirteen years, actively involved in the Resistance and as a radical journalist. For these actions he was stripped of his German nationality by the Nazis in 1938; it was returned to him only in 1948. A year later he was elected a deputy for Berlin in the first German