Geopolitik im Deutschen Raum [Geopolitics in the German Space]

January 1936 issue of the German ‘Magazine for Geopolitics’

This compilation of essays was edited by Karl Haushofer, a prominent Nazi geographer, and published by Kurt Vowinckel in Leipzig as the January 1936 edition of Zeitschrift fur Geopolitik (Magazine for Geopolitics). The theme of the contents, about 70 pages in total, is “Geopolitics in the German Space”; featuring three related articles and several reports, literature reviews, and ‘fundamental questions’ by various German (mostly Nazi-affiliated) authors. An introduction alludes to the “multitude of tasks for the Reich leadership” as they relate to the ‘German area’ in Europe.

Kaul Haushofer developed the concept of Geopolitik, a particular school of German nationalist ideology that incorporated racial tenets with physical geography and state-building. He was also a popularizer of the term Lebensraum and extremely influential on Hitler, though the former’s wife, Martha, was half-Jewish. Their son, Albrecht Haushofer, participated in an attempt to assassinate Hitler and was executed in 1944. Martha and Karl Haushofer died in a 1946 suicide pact after learning of impending charges in the Nuremberg Trials.