Evening star., 1942-07-07
Hitler Seen Doomed
Because Of Break
With Haushofer
Army Hos Confidence
In 'GeopoIitik' Leader,
Institute Is Told
BY THOMAS r. HENRY.


is that Of a major general in the
Kaiser's army who quit after the
last war to become a "herr-pro-
fessor doctor" at the University OF
Munich and developed what in the
past year has come to be considered
q OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES"
When these two concepts parted
ways a year ago, Hitler sealed his
doom and probably threw away
hope of an ultimate German victory
And Karl Haushofer sits back with
an "I-told-you-so" attitude as the
Reich tanks smash into stone walls
in Russia.
One of Haushofers closest dis
ciples was Rudolph Hess, whose
flight to Scotland probably marked
the beginning of the break and was
caused by 1t.
Prof. Wiegert Speaks.
This was revealed by Prof. H. w.
Wiegert, formerly of the Prussian
Ministry of Justice, but now college
professor at Hartford, Conn.
The so-called "Geopolitical Insti-
tute" with its thousand eminent sci
entists established under Hausho-
fers direction, Prof. Wiegert said, is
by no means so important as the
outside world has been led to be-
lieve. The former general simply
began thinking in terms of "global
wsr" before other nations. His great
power rests, 1t was stressed, on the
factor that as former general ON
Ger, rather than as college pro-
fesSor, he has the confidence OF the
army. The professional soldiers will
follow him when Hitler fails.
Haushofer started, DR.. Wiegert
revealed, in 1918, almost as soon as
the division he had led in France
and Poland was demobilized. He
worked with subtle propaganda
among the elite of the disbanded
army on plans not only to retrieve
the German defeat, but to make
Germany the dominant power of
the world within the next genera
ton. And it is these elite which
viii win out in the end, he said.
At the start Haushofer heard
rumblings Of what he thought would
be q world revolution. His idea was
that Germany should ride the crest
Of this revolution.
Two Basic Principles.
The philosophy he expounded had
two basic principles. First, the law
of growing spaces" 1t states briefly
that nation must keep adding to
Its space or it will perish. All ma
tions, he held, have started to decay
as soon as they let slip some of their
territory. Second, was the principle
that certain world-conquering
power would be an amalgamated
Eurasia directed from Germany.
Haushofer's plan called for con-
slant friendly alliances against the
rest of the world between Germany,
Russia, China and Japan. He tried
to bring this about through German
diplomacy, but Japan's attack on
China was body blow. He seemed
to have put over q big point, how
ever, in the German-Soviet treaty
of August, 1899, which launched the
present war. His whole plan was
wrecked, Dr. Wiegert said, by the
later attack on Russia.
From the start, he pointed out,
Haushofer considered Russia and
China as the nations Of the coming
world revolution. Germany and
Japan could choose whether to ride
along with them, constituting a
solid and unconquerable block from
the Rhine to the Pacific. or joining
with England and the United States
in opposing them. He saw no choice
but the former-not that he had
any use for revolution, but because
he thought Germany could use it for
conQuering the world.
The former general urged Japan
to strike without warning against
the possessions of the British and
Dutch empires in the Pacific and
not become drowned in China.
His advice was not needed by the
Japanese war lords and he saw his
dream beginning to flicker.
Possible Opening for Revolt.
But, DR.. Wiegert said, study OF
Houshofer's geopolitiecs makes us SCI
that there was and is in Germany
an important group, strongly repre-
sented in the army, which did not
want war with Russia. If this
statement Is true another conclu-
sion Is inevitable-that decisive
setback of the Axis in Russia woulC
open the way for a revolt of the
army against Hitler and his party al
the moment of defeat which woulo
lead to a complete morale and phys
ical breakdown
Meanwhile. declared 1t. William
McGovern of the Navy Intelligence
Service, the United States is de
veloping q "geo-politik" of her own
especially as relates to Japan. I
may not generally be recognized, h.
stressed, that if Japan is allowed t.
consolidate and develop all her con
quests of the past six months sh
will be close to the most powerful
nation on earth, with practically
every necessary raw material. Sh
has done what she has with sucl
a paucity of materials that sh
would have collapsed in short orde
had outside supplies been shut of
If it be assumed, he said, tha
Hitler is allowed to make a peace
which, of course, could never b
the case-keeping all the vast ter
ritories his armies have conquered
he could set up state which coul
live within itself only with grea
difficulty. Japan's conquests, on tn
other hand, provide everythin
needed for an absolutely self-con
tanned state.
Thus it can be seen, he said, tina
one of the major jobs of the Unite
States, at almost any cost, is t
prevent the consolidation and de
velopment of those conquered land'
Otherwise there can be no reckon
ing with the power which may hav
to be faced alone in the future.
Congress in Brief
TODAY.
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