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GERMAN AUTHOR ARRESTED FOR THEFT. (Bj 7 Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright). (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) BERLIN, January 20. The historian Dr. Karl Hauck, author of the “History of Civilisation of the German Empire,” in 50 volumes, has been arrested on a charge of stealing thousands of documents and prints out of the Prussian archives between 1918 and 1922. When Hauck’s flat was searched it was found that he had filled it with the proceeds of similar thefts from the principal libraries in Europe. The depredations had been going on for 30 years. For many years Hauck had been living with a young Austrian, Karl Von Hohenlohe, who claimed to be an Austrian aristocrat, but who was really a tailor’s cutter. Hohenlohe assisted Hauck to sell the manuscripts. Hohenlohe was made a prisoner early in the war, but Hauck’s influence at the Vatican was so great that he was able to secure Hohenlobe’s release.
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Southland Times, Issue 19457, 22 January 1925, Page 5
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