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Startling Dearth. In startling contrast to the spate of military books was the dearth of competent political books that could provide U.S. readers of 1943 with some clue to the background of conflict from which they might appraise the turbulent changes of the year. The geopoliticians were busy. Andreas Dorpalen's The World of General Haushofer ($3.50) and Derwent Whittlesey's German Strategy of World Conquest ($2.50) examined the basic ideas which German Geopolitician Haushofer has contributed to Nazi grand strategy. Still a strong seller was Democratic Ideals and Reality ($2.50), by aging British Geopolitician Sir Halford Mackinder...
...WORLD OF GENERAL HAUSHOFER-Andreas Dorpalen-Farrar & Rinehart...
...this shackle, how he turned the useful subject of political geography (well discussed in Author Horrabin's little book) into militarism's pseudo science of the century-geopolitics: "the art of guiding practical politics." Author Mackinder's book contains theories from which Haushofer borrowed freely; Author Dorpalen has assembled a useful collection of the writings of Haushofer and his disciples; Author Whittlesey has a somewhat similar collection, plus excellent geopolitical maps...
What did General Haushofer tell Corporal Hitler in the privacy of Landsberg jail? Author Dorpalen thinks he spoke of more than Germany's need for living space -which Hitler incorporated into Mein Kampf. For General Haushofer had by then a whole philosophy of German expansion for which, perhaps, he hoped Hitler might be a useful propagandist. Instead, the corporal adopted the general and, when the Nazi regime was established, Geopolitician Haushofer was installed in Munich as director of a great brain trust known as the Geopolitical Institute...
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