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After winning the Iron Cross during WWI as an infantry commander, Naumann founded the League of National German Jews. The League's proposal to deal with the Jewish question was the complete assimilation of Jews into Jewish culture.

He once had an argument with Herman Goering about whether NSDAP were anti-semetic in practice. Goering tried to enlist Naumann to address international protests against Nazi antisemitism by saying that no such thing took place. Naumann, who argued that antisemitism was a necessary component of jewish assimilation, declined.

In 1935 Naumann was arrested by the Gastapo and imprisoned in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp on charges of "extreme patriotism." He was released a few weeks later.