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...Israelis walked with a confident swagger along beach front at Tel Aviv. They talked confidently-indeed, stridently-of a state of ten million, not necessarily confined to the present boundaries of Israel. It was a bad joke, and also a sober observation, that the idea of Drang nach Osten lived in the new nation of Hitler's victims. As they looked around them at a disorganized and unproductive Arab world, Israelis showed some of the reactions of the prewar Germans looking around a disorganized and unproductive Europe...
Drang nach Osten. Among the documents which Shirer quotes is Hitler's pronouncement on the Russians to his supreme command, November 1939: "Russia is at present not dangerous. It is weakened by many factors today. Moreover, we have a pact with Russia. Pacts, however, are only held as long as they serve the purpose. . . . Let one think of the pact to assure our back. Now Russia has far-reaching goals; above all, the strengthening of her position in the Baltic. We can oppose Russia only when we are free in the West. [France had not then been overrun...
German Drang nach Osten, and an immoral but not insane reaction to a pact entered into cynically by both sides...
Bulgaria used to be the crossroads of Germany's Drang nach Osten and Russia's drive toward the Dardanelles...
...from Russia. Last December, in New York, Jan Masaryk said: "We intend to live our own life in our own way and we know that Russia will respect our way of living." And added: "Russia is fighting with us . . . to destroy once for all time the German Drang nach Osten and we know that without Russia in Europe there is no stopping...