"Drang nach Osten" . . "East" . . . "territorial expansion" . "German expansionism" . "expansion to the East" . . "German colonists" . . . . . . "German colonization" . . . . "eastern Germany" . . "Germany's goals of capturing vast areas of Eastern Europe" . "colonize the areas" . "influx of German colonists" . . . . "conquest of new lands in the East" . "Drang nach Osten" . "turn to the East" . . "19th century" . "German expansion" . "colonists" . . . . . . "brought families" . "colonization" . . "German colonisation" . "German settlement in the East" .