德国与其东部诸邻国有着传统的密切关系:19世纪,当波兰还不是一个独立国家时,其大部均属于普鲁士或后来的德意志帝国。德国也曾直接毗邻俄国。在第一次世界大战后数年间形成的欧洲新格局中,德国曾与中东欧保持着非常紧密的政治、经济和文化关 Germany has a traditional close relationship with its neighbors in the east: in the 19th century most of Poland belonged to Prussia or later to the German Empire when it was not yet an independent state. Germany also had a direct neighbor to Russia. In the new European pattern that formed in the years after the First World War, Germany maintained a very close political, economic and cultural level with Central and Eastern Europe