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Articles | Volume 73, issue 3
Articles | Volume 73, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-73-215-2018
© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-73-215-2018
© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 73, issue 3
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19 Jul 2018
Standard article |  | 19 Jul 2018

Geopolitik als Literatur – ein germanistischer Beitrag zur Genealogie der deutschen Politischen Geographie und Geopolitik

Niels Werber

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The infamous idea that the area east of the borders of the German Reich be a “space without a people” imposing itself for occupation by “a people without space” accounts for the ominously looming convictions of German Geopolitics during the years of the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich. This contribution attributes the conception of the so called “German East” as uncultivated “slavic sahara” or “desert” to 19th Century novels and reads geopolitical classics as continuation of this literature.
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