Brandt - Dear friends, we must be at one with our neighbours. With all our neighbours - in the East just as much as in the West, within the German lands just as much as without. We must at last be reconciled.

Kretschmann And then when you remember him in his Berlin days. When you think of all his efforts to stop West Berlin being reunited with the East. When he trots out his ancient East German jokes . . . Has he really changed? Or has he simply noticed that the young people in West Germany are all suddenly turning against capitalism and militarism? That the world is going our way? What does he say in private? In the office. Talking to his own people.

Brandt (with Ehmke, Wilke and Guillaume) Can we trust them, though, Horst? When you look at their record. When you think of their total cynicism. What would people here say if they knew how East Germany tries to balance its trade deficit with us?

Wilke I believe we may be about to venture onto rather sensitive ground here. Herr Guillaume . . .

Guillaume Going, going!

Ehmke No, let's try it on him. Ordinary voter. Our man in the street. Günter, this is something our new friends over there in the East don't want you to know about, for some strange reason. They have to find something to export to us. What's their one successful industry? The manufacture of political prisoners. So that's what they sell us. They arrest as many as they need, and we buy them out. A thousand or so a year at 40,000 Deutschmarks a head. Oh, and they also charge us for letting people out to be reunited with their families. So what do you think, Günter? Can we trust these new friends of ours?

Guillaume - Yes? No? What do I say? Which one of me's going to answer?

Kretschmann - I leave it to you, Günter.

Guillaume - Leave it to which of me?

Brandt A difficult decision, evidently.

Guillaume Half of me wants to say one thing. Half of me wants to say another.

Brandt The position of the electorate as a whole on almost everything.

Ehmke I told you, Willy! Our man in the street!

Guillaume (with Kretschmann) Do we sell them political prisoners, though? Do we charge for family reunions?

Kretschmann Never mind about traitors and dissidents. What's worrying us now is the effect Willy's having on the rest of our people.

Wilke (with Ehmke) His visit to East Germany.

Brandt — The most moving day of my life.

Wilke It starts as soon as his special train crosses the border.

Kretschmann Suddenly there he is amongst us. The first West German leader ever to set foot on East German soil.

Wilke Suddenly there it is all around us. The other Germany. The Germany we've never recognised. The Germany that doesn't exist.

Kretschmann Our people have never seen anything like it before. A living, breathing West German leader!