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Haushofer

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[haus-hoh-fer] / ˈhaʊs hoʊ fər /

noun

  1. Karl, 1860–1946, German geographer and general: political adviser to Hitler.


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One of the leading German geographers of the era, Karl Haushofer, was a father figure to Rudolf Hess and Adolf Hitler.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

It was a friend of Hess's called Albrecht Haushofer who brought up the name of the unsuspecting Duke of Hamilton, whom he had met in Berlin before the war.

From BBC ● May 9, 2021

Both Haushofer and his son Albrecht, who would train Nazi diplomats in the geopolitics of European conquest, were later rewarded with influential positions in the Third Reich.

From Salon ● Dec. 8, 2018

Last year, Johannes Haushofer, assistant professor of psychology at Princeton University, got a flood of media attention for having his own C.V. of failures.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 25, 2017

“This is a landmark study,” says Johannes Haushofer, a psychologist at Princeton University.

From Science Magazine ● Nov. 17, 2014

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