Mitteleuropa
The concept of Mitteleuropa was used by Friedrich Naumann (1860–1919, evangelical theologian-politician) in one of the first detailed explanations of this term. According to Naumann, a cooperative economic and cultural unity between Germany-Austria-Hungary and Poland would be established, along with close commercial ties with the Turks and Balkans.[1]
For a brief moment between the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk the signing of the Armistice on November 11, 1918 ending World War I, the Second German Empire held territories extending from the English Channel to Black Sea. This led to the "stab and the back" theory which among German nationalists, particularly war veterans who fought in the territories, and was exploited by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party.
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- ↑ See fn 8, p. 57 in chapter: "German expansionism and anti-Russian émigré intellectuals: the case of Paul Rohrbach". Demirtas, Melih. (2021). Two sides of the coin: "Asiatic other" Russians vs. "supreme European" Germans. Cappadocia Journal of Area Studies (CJAS), Cappadocia University. 3. 43-62. 10.38154/cjas.0. [1]