Friedrich Naumann Foundation

[Jan Klimkowski]

Just noticed the curious misspelling of Naumann's surname in wiki's Mitteleuropa article. However, our Friedrich is the geopolitical philosopher in question.

Perhaps Naumann's current fanclub don't want his intellectual history exploring.

Here's some of what Mitteleuropa envisaged:

The whole region was to serve as economical backyard of Germany whose economical exploitation would enable it to compete with the British Empire and any other competitors for the position of the world's dominant power[6]. Economical organization was to be based on German domination, with unfair economical treaties imposed on countries like Poland and Ukraine. It was believed that the German working classes could be appeased by German politicians through economical benefits of territorial annexations, settlement of Germans in Central and Eastern Europe and economical exploitation of conquered countries for the material benefit of Germany[7].

The local population was to be subject to expulsions to make room for German settlers, in other places it would be reduced to second class citizens as Germans would become the ruling elite of German run-puppet states[7].

Additionally, the German Mitteleuropa plan had foreseen expulsion of over 2 million Poles and Jews from 30,000 square kilometers annexed from Congress Poland replaced by German colonists[6]. The puppet state of the Kingdom of Poland was to have its population gradually reduced by the use of artificially created famine[8][9].

Partial realization of these plans was reflected in the Brest-Litovsk treaty, where guarantees of economical and military domination over Ukraine by Germany were laid out[10]

The Mitteleuropa plan served as blueprint for the much more expanded, racially-motivated and harsher plans of Nazi Germany during the Second World War such as Generalplan Ost[6].