Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Murphy, David Thomas

Titel

Hitler's Geostrategist?: The Myth of Karl Haushofer and the "Institut für Geopolitik"

Ist Teil von

• The Historian (Kingston), 2014-03, Vol.76 (1), p.1-25

Ort / Verlag

Allentown: Taylor & Francis

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

Quelle

Taylor & Francis Journals Auto-Holdings Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Hitler's Thousand-year Reich existed for little more than a decade, but it has generated an abundant and enduring historical mythology. This typically assumes lurid, and sometimes gruesome, forms. Tales of SS "stud farms," Nazi submarine bases in Antarctica, Hitler's possession of the magical spear that pierced Christ's side, bath soap from rendered human remains, and many more patent falsehoods--often originating in wartime German gossip--remain staples of popular books and websites about the Nazi era. Much painstaking scholarly effort has been devoted to correcting the historical record concerning all these fantasies, but they, and many more, continue to distort conventional accounts of Hitler's Germany.