50 years ago - End of the Vietnam War

However, the USA did not suffer its greatest moral defeat at the hands of Presidents Trump, Reagan or Clinton with their ‘America first!’ campaigns.

It was the Texan and Kennedy successor Lyndon B. Johnson, who in August 1966 used intelligence information about an alleged ‘incident’ in the Gulf of Tonkin to open the US bombing campaign on North Vietnam.

A war lie and a date that the USA would prefer to forget. Outrage around the world and mass protests in the USA forced Washington to end the already hopeless war through a negotiated peace. US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and the Vietnamese negotiator Le Duc Tho were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts. Le Duc Tho refused to accept the award. 50 years ago - on 28 April 1975 - the Vietnam War came to an end.

To discuss Vietnam then and now - supplemented by audio and visual recordings - Alexander Kulpok has invited knowledgeable and prominent guests:

• His Excellency Quang Ming, Vietnam's ambassador to Berlin
  
• Normen Odenthal, ZDF correspondent in Southeast Asia for many years - now head of the ZDF NRW studio in Düsseldorf
  
• Michael Müller, SPD foreign policy expert for Southeast Asia and former governing mayor
  
• Viet Nguyen Duc, head of REWE Markt Ernstraße - Reinickendorf
  

On 28 April 2025 at 7.30 pm,
in Flohr-Saal, Tek Dream, Flohrstr. 19, 13509 Berlin

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