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Drang nach Osten
Motto of the 19th-century German nationalist movement
Drang nach Osten
Drang nach Osten (German: [ˈdʁaŋ naːx ˈʔɔstn̩]; lit. 'Drive to the East', or 'push eastward', 'desire to push east') was the name for a 19th-century German nationalist intent to expand Germany into Slavic territories of Central and Eastern Europe. In some historical discourse, Drang nach Osten combines historical German settlement in Central and Eastern Europe, medieval (12th to 13th century) military expeditions such as those of the Teutonic Knights (the Northern Crusades), and Germanisation policies and warfare of modern German states such as those that implemented Nazism's concept of Lebensraum. In Polish works the term Drang nach Osten could refer to programs for the Germanization of Poland, while in 19th-century Germany the slogan was used variously of a wider nationalist approbation of medieval German settlement in the east and the idea of the "superiority of German culture". In the years after World War I the idea of a Drang nach Westen ('drive to the west'), an alleged Polish drive...
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