5 Dollars - Elizabeth II Kniefall von Warschau

The "Kniefall von Warschau" commemorates Willy Brandt's spontaneous genuflection on December 7, 1970, at the memorial to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising — a gesture he made unrehearsed, without instruction from his staff. Brandt himself said he did it because words were insufficient. At the time, West German public opinion was divided; polls showed a majority of West Germans considered it excessive. Abroad, the image ran on front pages across the world and became one of the defining photographs of postwar European reconciliation. Brandt received the Nobel Peace Prize the following year, in part due to his Ostpolitik of which that visit was the symbolic apex.