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 under Albert Brackmann. Alongside Göring’s Hungerpolitik, a “general plan” named for this word aimed to deport and recolonize areas that were earlier labeled “Ober” this word during their supreme command under Hindenburg. A Reichskommissariat 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 “Mark” instead of this sort of “Reich.” For 10 points, what word names a “Politik” by which Willy Brandt engaged with the GDR and the rest of its namesake “bloc?” ■END■
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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