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Sep 30, 1997 · HISTORY. The Strange Journey of Heinrich Harrer. The Austrian mountain climber escaped from a prison camp in 1944, slipped into forbidden Tibet, tutored the Dalai Lama and wrote a famous book....
Jan 9, 2006 · Controversial Mountaineering Legend Heinrich Harrer Dies. Austrian explorer Heinrich Harrer's long and rocky life, from Hitler's elite SS guard to his friendship with the Dalai Lama and...
While Heinrich Harrer held the rank of a Nazi sergeant in the SS, he was a world renowned mountaineer and on expedition in the Indian Himalayas when he and his group were arrested by British forces at the outbreak of World War II. With his escape to Tibet (where he stayed until 1951) he never saw active combat.
Category: History & Society. Byname of: National Socialist German Workers’ Party. German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP) Date: 1919 - 1945. Areas Of Involvement: anti-Semitism. nationalism. Related People: Adolf Hitler. Hermann Göring. Adolf Eichmann. Heinrich Himmler.
Jan 14, 2006 · Austrian mountaineering legend Heinrich Harrer is dead at 93. He was a pioneering climber, an Olympic skier, a tutor to the Dalai Lama... and a member of Hitler's SS. He was the subject of the...
Jan 8, 2006 · Jan. 8, 2006. Heinrich Harrer, an Austrian mountaineer and former Nazi who fled a British prisoner of war camp in India for the northern Himalayas, where he befriended and tutored the Dalai...
Jan 19, 2006 · Obituary. Heinrich Harrer, mountaineer and explorer, died on January 7th, aged 93. Jan 19th 2006 |. Keystone. WHEN Heinrich Harrer gazed for the first time on Lhasa, the capital of Tibet,...
