HITLER'S "BRAIN."

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 305, 27 December 1939, Page 7

HITLER'S "BRAIN."

MUNICH PROFESSOR.

Thinks Oat Schemes For

Dictator.

GERMANY AKD SOVIET. TVreratac 22. A mysterious fignze behind Hitler is Professor Major-General Karl Haushofer. This TO-yeaivoi&eqiiare-faeed president of tbe German Academy at Munich is the Hazi ideamerchant No. 1.

Haushofer worked oat *be ucbeme to sidetrack Russia with a non-aggrcseion pact, to dear the raite for the Nazi ran into Poland.

Hour he is working out aotmtiotm to meet future complications. His specialty is the political pbXtoeophy of Nihilism. Apparently he sees life as a emde Darwinian struggle for jq which the weaker must be driv«n to the walL

Hitler's policy of lebeneraiun (living room) is said to be Haushofer's imentiou. Berchtesgaden. intimates sav that whenever Hitler speaks he echoes Haushofer.

The Fuehrer always rememfcees tbese guiding principles laid down by ihe professor:—Never stake all your plane on a single card; all policies and aims must be subject to change witltottt notice.

Ousting the former favourite Imperial planner, Dr. Alfred Rosenberg, Jfcweliofer has mapped out a programme of territorial aims.

He has set out a time schedule for each move, and has advised that j&nsia be allowed to share some of the Irot —^temporarily