Ostpolitikn.

1941 Jrnl. Mod. Hist. 13 170 A decisive post-war orientation resulted in the strong emergence of Ostpolitik over Weltpolitik as the only possible alternative.

1961 T. 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.’

1967 Economist 6 May 558/3 Herr Kiesinger..promised that the government would not pursue its Ostpolitik ‘behind the backs of the expellees’.

1968 Ann. Reg. 1967 253 Immediately the East German Government, supported by Moscow, took steps to hamper further progress by Bonn's Ostpolitik.

1971 Times 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.

1971 New 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.

1995 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 19 Oct. 44/3 Yet when we developed an Ostpolitik in the hope of making the Communist regimes less oppressive, we seemed to the dissidents to be legitimizing the tyrants.