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Translations or word forms acceptable. A region denoted by this word named an ethnocentric society also called HaKaTa. This word euphemistically designated enslaved laborers from Galicia. Hermann Aubin founded a postwar journal for a discredited research discipline named for this word that rationalized the “drive toward” this word (10[1])under Albert Brackmann. Alongside Göring’s Hungerpolitik, a “general plan” named for this (10[1])word (10[3])aimed to deport (10[1])and recolonize (10[1])areas that were earlier (10[1])labeled “Ober” (10[1])this (-5[1])word (10[1])during their supreme command under Hindenburg. A Reichskommissariat (10[1])named for this word controlled “White Ruthenia” and was the site of the Kaunas pogrom. After the Anschluss, Nazis described Austria as this sort of (-5[1])“Mark” (10[2])instead of this sort of “Reich.” (10[4])For 10 points, what word (10[1])names a “Politik” by which (-5[1])Willy (10[1])Brandt engaged (10[1])with the GDR and the rest of its namesake “bloc?” (10[1])■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: Ost [or eastern or Osten or ostern; accept Eastern Bloc, Ostblock, East Germany, Ostdeutschland, Ostpolitik, Österreich, Ostmark, Reichskommissariat Ostland, Generalplan Ost, Ober Ost, Drang nach Osten, Ostarbeiter, Ostraum, Ostforschung, Ostkunde, Deutscher Ostmarkenverein, or German Eastern Marches Society]
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