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Fifteen years after the end of the Holocaust, this public meeting between the leaders of the two nations symbolized the beginning of the reconciliation process
At the entrance to the German conservative Christian-Democratic Union CDU Party’s meeting room in the Bundestag hangs a photo documenting a historic moment of the relationship between Germany and Israel
The picture shows West Germany’s first chancellor Konrad Adenauer meeting Israeli prime minister David Ben-Gurion in New York’s Waldorf Astoria in March 1960
Fifteen years after the Holocaust ended, this public meeting symbolized the beginning of the reconciliation process between the land of the Nazi perpetrators and the Jewish state, representing many Holocaust survivors
It paved the way for diplomatic relations between West Germany and Israel five years later
