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Originally conceived as the first of a trilogy of games covering the entire war between Germany and the USSR, the game ultimately inspired an attempt to model all of World War II on a grand scale, called the Europa series. (That endeavor is still in progress after three decades, but far from complete.) Drang Nach Osten! (often abbreviated as DNO) was superseded in 1984 by a greatly revised and expanded edition renamed to Fire in the East (FitE). As of this writing a third edition tentatively renamed yet again to Total War (TW) is in development by GRD Games under a license from Rich Banner, owner of the game's intellectual property after the demise of GDW.
DNO has been characterized as a second generation wargame.[1] (http://www.writingshop.ws/html/wargames.html)
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A definitive halt to the idea of the DrangnachOsten came during World War II, after Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941.
Nazi officials used it as grounds for the expulsion of 800,000 Poles from Warsaw to concentration camps after the defeat of the Warsaw Uprising in 1944, which caused 200,000 deaths.
Himmler stated that the Poles had been an obstacle to German Eastern expansion for the last 700 years, and that the aim was to remove that obstacle permanently.
German nationalists of the 19th and 20th centuries used the term DrangnachOsten ("Striving towards the East") to express the expansion of Germany, German states and German settlement, that led to the conquest of former Slavic and Baltic areas by Germany from the Middle Ages to 1943.
Nevertheless, the Nazi officials used it as ground for the expulsions of 800,000 Poles from Warsaw to concentration camps after defeat of Warsaw Uprising 1944, caused 200,000 deaths.
Decisions made at the Potsdam conference in 1945, especially as relating to the Oder-Neisse line, rolled back the DrangnachOsten and redesignated German territories within the approximate Germanic borders of the year 1000 AD.
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