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As the result of increasing German isolationism and an overall imperialist turn in European politics, the contemporary vision of Mitteleuropa shifted on the eve of the First World War. As the Great War approached, Mitteleuropa concepts took on a menacing imperialist tone. Whereas, previously, Mitteleuropa concepts had been oriented more towards economic cooperation, by 1914 they became predominantly hegemonic. Mitteleuropa aspirations merged with Germany’s war aims and ‘all-German’ demands. German domination of the Central European region became an undisputed national goal.
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Brechtefeld, J. (1996). The Imperial ‘Mitteleuropa’, 1914–45. In: Mitteleuropa and German Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230374768_4
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