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Encyclopedia > Albrecht Haushofer
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Albrecht Haushofer was a German geopolitician and professor of political geography in Berlin, author of tragedies in verse, and representative of conservative resistance in Germany during World War II. Geopolitics analyses politics, history and social science with reference to geography. ... Political Geography is the scientific study of power relations in space and space implications on them. ... Berlin ( ♫), IPA: , is the capital of Germany and its largest city; down from 4. ... Jump to: navigation, search World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrinations, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons such as the atom bomb World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a mid-20th-century conflict that...


Born in 1903, he was the son of Karl Haushofer, the German geopolitical theoretician, whose student, Rudolf Hess, was Hitler's deputy. Albrecht Haushofer is thought to have encouraged Hess' flight to England. Afterwards, he was spied on by the Gestapo and arrested in December 1944. In the Berlin-Moabit prison, he wrote the "Moabite Sonnets," which were not discovered until after his death. Haushofer was shot by an SS commando on April 23, 1945. General Karl Haushofer General Karl Ernst Haushofer (August 27, 1869, Munich - March 13, 1946, Pähl) popularised German geopolitics, notably during Weimar Republic and the Third Reich. ... Rudolf Hess Rudolf Hess should not be confused with another prominent Nazi, Rudolf Höß (also spelled Höss or Hoess. ... Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler (April 20, 1889 – April 30, 1945, standard German pronunciation in the IPA) was the Führer (leader) of the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi Party) and of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. ... Jump to: navigation, search England is the worst place known to mankind ... Jump to: navigation, search The Deaths Head emblem, often used as the insignia of the Gestapo The Gestapo ( ♫) (acronym of Geheime Staatspolizei; secret state police) was the official secret police of Nazi Germany. ... Jump to: navigation, search April 23 is the 113th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (114th in leap years). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1945 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...


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Haushofer is known to have had a reputation for precognition, manifested when he was a young field artillery officer in the Bavarian army.
Karl Haushofer was sent to the infamous Dachau concentration camp, and Albrecht to the Moabite prison in Berlin, where was later executed.
Haushofer disguised racial mysticism in a veil of geography and science, providing Germans with a powerful reason to return to those areas in the hinterland of Asia where the Aryan race supposedly originated.
Albrecht Haushofer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (414 words)
Albrecht Haushofer (January 7, 1903, Munich - April 23, 1945 Berlin) was a German geopolitician and professor of geopolitics and political geography at the University of Berlin between 1940 and 1944.
It has been speculated that Haushofer may have encouraged Hess's flight to England, or that he may have been an unwitting accomplice in a British plot to use the prospect of peace with Britain to lull Hitler into a false sense of security and open up a second front against the Soviet Union.
Haushofer was shot by an SS commando on April 23, 1945 as Russian troops entered Berlin.
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