Short answers, pulled from the story.
Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm, known as Willy Brandt, was born on the 18th of December 1913 in the Free City of Lübeck. He grew up there with his mother Martha Luise Wilhelmine Frahm while never meeting his father John Heinrich Möller.
Willy Brandt adopted the pseudonym to avoid detection by Nazi agents operating across Europe after leaving Germany for Norway in 1933. He returned to Germany disguised as a Norwegian student named Gunnar Gaasland between September and December 1936 to escape persecution.
Chancellor Willy Brandt unexpectedly knelt before the monument to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in Poland on the 2nd of May 1974. This spontaneous act became known globally as the Kniefall von Warschau and received strong positive reactions worldwide despite controversy among many Germans at the time.
Social expenditure rose from one quarter to a third of gross domestic product during Willy Brandts tenure as leader of Social Democratic Party. Sickness benefits increased nine point three percent while war widow pensions jumped twenty five percent in the first budget under his government.
The Nobel Peace Prize committee awarded Willy Brandt the prize in 1971 for work improving relations with East Germany, Poland, and the Soviet Union. He achieved reconciliation between West Germany and countries of Eastern Europe through persistent diplomatic engagement including the Treaty of Moscow signed in August 1970.