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Ostpolitik|ˈɒstpɒlɪˌtiːk|
[G., f. Ost east + Politik policy.]
German policy towards Eastern Europe, associated mainly with the Federal Republic of Germany's cultivation of good relations with the Communist block during the 1960s, but applied also, by extension, to the policies of other western countries regarding the East as a whole.
1961T. Prittie Germany Divided vi. 155 They will scarcely overlook Hitler's statement,..‘The goal of Ostpolitik is to open up an area of settlement for one hundred million Germans.’ 1967Economist 6 May 558/3 Herr Kiesinger..promised that the government would not pursue its Ostpolitik ‘behind the backs of the expellees’. 1968Ann. Reg. 1967 253 Immediately the East German Government, supported by Moscow, took steps to hamper further progress by Bonn's Ostpolitik. 1970Atlantic Monthly July 26 In the west, the big change was Willy Brandt's narrow victory in the West German elections last October, and the formation of a new Bonn coalition government dominated by the Social Democrats, prepared to abandon the rigidities of the Adenauer foreign policy of the last twenty years and embark on an entirely new and dynamic course of Ostpolitik. 1971Times Lit. Suppl. 15 Oct. 1246/2 The politicians of Bonn are rather unhappy at the widespread use of the term ‘Ostpolitik’ by their Western allies. In the history of twentieth-century Germany, this term has signified a whole range of activities, from Hindenburg's humiliation of Russia at Brest-Litovsk to the East-West balancing act of Rapallo, and back to the domination of the East by Schacht's financial diplomacy and Hitler's armies. 1971New Yorker 23 Oct. 156 Nixon as a risk-taker is something of a surprise... But his Ostpolitik is daring. It is a repudiation of his entire past. 1972R. W. Last tr. Freund's From Cold War to Ostpolitik 75 Brandt knows better than anyone else that Berlin is the real test of the new Ostpolitik. |