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Ostpolitik

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  1. 1
    The policies of West Germany under Chancellor Willy Brandt, seeking rapprochement with East Germany and the Soviet Union.

    "One of the paradoxes of Ostpolitik, as practiced by Brandt and his successors, was that by transferring large sums of hard currency into East Germany and showering the GDR with recognition, attention, and support, West German officials unintentionally foreclosed any chance of internal change, including reform of Eastern Germany’s polluted, antiquated industrial economy."

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From German Ostpolitik.

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