West Germany
Ostpolitik
The Ostpolitik, which means "eastern policy", was a new way of looking at European politics. It was the idea of Willy Brandt (the chancellor of Germany in 1969) and it was to accept the idea that Germany was most likely going to be devided for a long time.
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