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Title: German Geopolitics II.


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German Geopolitics II.
  • Nazi Geopolitics

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Rural Landscape Highway as Signs of National
Identity
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Karl HaushoferThe Man Behind the Curtain
  • Father of English Geopolitics
  • Mackinder 1861-1947
  • Father or Nazi Geopolitik
  • Haushofer 1869-1946
  • Same age, same dilemmas,
  • different approaches

5
His Life
  • Studied Political sciences in Sweden at Rudolf
    Kjellén in 1891
  • Then military-diplomatic career
  • German Military Attache to Tokyo 1908-1910
  • Close relation with Japanese Emperors family
  • Close study of Japanese traditions and problems,
    future alliance system
  • Annexation of Korea
  • Japanese Leader Tradition

6
Military Career
  • WWI
  • General of Artillery
  • He had a soldier named Rudolf Hess
  • Experience of war, experience of other European
    nations
  • Comparism of War and Peace (Realism)

7
Scientific Career and Munich
  • Munich in the twenties HQs of the NSDAP
    established as a Bavarian regional party
  • Haushofer back to the University in Munich
    Japanese studies dissertation
  • 1921 establishing Geopolitical Institut
  • He had a student called Rudolf Hess
  • Beer Hall Revolt 1923
  • Hiding Hess and Hitler sharing his ideas with
    them, visiting them in the jail
  • 1924 establishing Geopolitical Journal
    (definitions of a science)

8
Good Relations with NSDAP
  • Hess, Hitler, Goebbels, Ribbentrop, Himler
  • Similarities against neighbours, revenge for
    WWI, conservative, militarist traditions
  • Haushofer as ex Imperial General introduced Nazi
    leaders to German and Swiss high society
  • Haushofer real author of Hitlers books
  • Mein Kampf and Second Book with exatly his
    early ideas

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Geopolitik Became a Pillar of Nazi Ideology
International Relations
  • (more details and data from History of Diplomacy)
  • Lebensraum
  • Autarchy
  • Pan Regions
  • Naval and Land (Continental) Powers
  • Borders

10
The Role of (Mass)Communication
  • Zeitcshrift für Geopolitics 750 000 copies per
    year
  • Literature Nation without Space
  • Radio Haushofer had weekly speeches (def. of
    soap opera)
  • Head of German Publishing Company
  • Science and Communication 2 levels
  • The entire German nation accepted the ideas
    (propaganda)

11
His Ideas Forming International Relations
  • Shopping List expansion in Eu and Worldwide
  • Organiser of Munich Conference in 1938
    (Czechoslovakia), his son draw the new borders of
    Europe
  • Supporter of Ribentrop-Molotov pact 1939
  • Organiser of Italian-Japanese-German-Hungarian
    alliance system (similar problems, need for
    space, WWI experience)

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Career and Success in Various Levels
  • Science
  • Military
  • Political
  • Political Adviser in International relations
  • Communication
  • Thomas Mann General Dr. von Staat
  • 1946 Nürnberg trial
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