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- Then World War II broke out, and Harrer and all other German and Austrian nationals in India were rounded up and imprisoned by the British. In 1944, Harrer and a fellow POW escaped and headed up into the mountains of Tibet.
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Their son Peter Harrer was born in December 1939, three months after Harrer had been interned by British forces in India. Their marriage was dissolved in 1943 while he was still in India. In 1953, he married Margaretha Truxa (divorce in 1958), and in 1962 he married Katharina (Carina) Haarhaus (1922–2014), who remained his wife until his death.
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 Lama, has died.
Jan 14, 2006 · Harrer and his colleague Peter Aufschnaiter had escaped from a British camp in India where they were interned (because of their Austrian nationality), after an abortive assault on Nanga Parbat....
Jan 10, 2006 · Heinrich Harrer, a swashbuckling explorer who told of his magical life of conquering the world's highest peaks and tutoring the young Dalai Lama when Tibet seemed as exotic as Mars, only to have...
Jan 10, 2006 · Heinrich Harrer, an Austrian mountaineer and former Nazi who befriended the young Dalai Lama and was portrayed by actor Brad Pitt in the film “Seven Years in Tibet,” has died. He was 93. Harrer...
Oct 10, 1997 · Harrer, who is 85 now, kept quiet about his Nazi past until the Stern article was published. This summer, one day after meeting Simon Wiesenthal in Vienna, he issued a statement. It read, in...
