Prasa polska i niemiecka o czterdziestej rocznicy wizyty kanclerza Willy’ego Brandta w Warszawie

The article analyzes the journalistic content of the Polish and German press on the 40th anniversary of Chancellor Willy Brandt’s gesture at the Monument to the Heroes of the Ghetto in Warsaw. The published texts are studied in the aspect of constructing collective memory with the Chancellor’s kneeling down perceived as a “locus of memory”. The focus of the article is on the fact that the periodicals, depending on their ideological orientation, draw attention to different aspects of the event from forty years ago.