Word: nach
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...economic problems can be negotiated among the Germans themselves, but among their neighbors, unification has aroused quite different concerns. Will a united Germany mean the rebirth of dreaded words like Lebensraum and Drang nach Osten? In short, will a united Germany turn nationalistic, threaten its neighbors and try to dominate Europe? "Today the Germans want to think of the future," says Fritz Stern, Seth Low professor of history at Columbia University, "but their neighbors are thinking of the past...