Ostgebiete

German Pronunciation de De-Ostgebiete.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>) Etymology 1 From de Ost Gebiet n. Short for de deutsche Ostgebiete German territories in the East. Noun np de historic the pre-1938 territories of the German Reich east of the Oder-Neisse line, from where the German population was expelled after World War II, and which are now parts of Poland and Russia de sometimes also the even vaster pre-1918 territories of the Reich as well as, possibly, the Sudetenland, which was German between 1938 and 1945 (areas conquered during WWII are never included) Usage notes In 1990, the Federal Republic of Germany officially dropped its claim to the territories (having generally not referred to the claims since the normalization of relations in 1970). Since then, and even sometimes before, they have often been referred to as de ehemalige (deutsche) Ostgebiete former German territories in the East. Declension np Related terms de Ostgebiet n de Ostsiedlung de Vertriebener Etymology 2 Inflected forms. Noun de noun form n de Ostgebiet nom//acc//gen p de archaic de Ostgebiet dat s