Talk:Peter Aufschnaiter

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What about the wife? well... Any biography of a great man must have the name of the woman who accompanied him in his life. (sorry for my english) - Erik. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.95.18.130 (talk) 01:53, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
 * 1) I don't know; is there some reason to refer to her here? Please explain. 3tibet 18:12, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
 * In reality Peter Aufschnaiter was never married in Tibet nor had - up to our knowledge - a girl friend in Tibet. It's only film fiction!

Some things worth adding?
In the part "discussion" there is the question for the name of his tibetan wife whom he should have had according to the film sequences of "Seven years in Tibet": In reality Peter Aufschnaiter was never married or had - up to our knowledge - any permanent girl friend in Tibet. For improving your page on P. A. I would like to propose that someone who knows German language may translate the text of the site of German language Wikipedia: This one is done by an expert who used archives material and worked about Aufschnaiter's life; he also knows the familiy of his friend Paul Bauer and Heinrich Harrer: both gave him a lot of hints and help. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.207.183.206 (talk) 22:07, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

Just some possible suggestions for additional content (from memory - would need checking):

3tibet 18:10, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) Wasn't he in Tibet for 8 years, leaving a year (or so) later than H. H.?
 * 2) Is internment the right term, or were they prisoners/prisoners of war?  Does this depend on whether they where civilians or in military service at the time?
 * 3) There is no explanation of how he ending up in an internment camp.  (They where intending to climb the Himalayas coming via India, then part of the British Empire, and were detained there.)
 * 4) There where three escape attempts before they succeeded in reached Tibet.
 * 5) They intended to return to Austria via Tibet/China, by reaching the Japanese front-line.


 * As to #2 above, they would be considered internees, not POWs...Engr105th (talk) 15:44, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

As to #2, actually they would be considered POWs, as they were imprisoned because of and in a time of war. The British government saw fit to arrest any German aliens within their territory when the war started, and Aufschnaiter and H. H. were two of the victims. 58.172.130.139 (talk) 03:33, 25 April 2008 (UTC)


 * I think no sane person would call the Buddhist monks of German origin from Ceylon, who were brought to Dehradun and released only in 1946, POWs. Or the Americans of Japanese origin put into camps after Pearl Harbour.
 * The aim of the 1939 expedition was not to climb the Nanga Parbat but to explore a new route for an ascent to be done the following year. End of August, Harrer writes in "7 years", they were waiting in Karachi for the freighter to take them home. The ship being long overdue Harrer, Chicken and Lobenhoffer tried to go home with their shaky car via Persia but in Las Bela, several hundred kilometers northwest of Karachi, were put under the "protection" of British soldiers and escorted back to Karachi, where Aufschnaiter had stayed on. Two days later war was declared and all were put into a camp behind barbed wire to be transferred to Ahmednagar near Bombay two weeks later. There they considered escaping to Portugese Goa but when transferred to Dehradun they found Tibet more promising, the final goal being the Japanese front in Burma or China. --Vsop.de (talk) 22:28, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

His Book
Not sure if linking to Amazon (in the article) is allowed, so:

http://amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_ss_b/026-2118109-0958833?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=eight+years+in+tibet&Go.x=0&Go.y=0&Go=Go

From Dehradun into Tibet
Isn't it ridiculous that the article has a whole paragraph for the three weeks Aufschnaiter needed to get to the border of Tibet but not one sentence for the 20 months it took him to cross Tibet and reach Lhasa?

And it's all wrong anyway. As told in "7 Years", it was 29 April 1944 after lunch when a group of seven, two disguised as British officers and the others as native Indians, walked out of the camp. Rolf Magener and Heins von Have thought that being fluent in English they had a chance to cross India and reach the "Burma front". The others were Harrer, Aufschnaiter, the Salzburger Bruno Treipel and the Berliners Hans Kopp and Sattler. None of these considered Goa at that time; they all headed for the closest border to Tibet. Via Tibet they too hoped to reach the Japanese in Burma.

In "7 Years" there is no mention of Mussoorie and Landour and of fording the Aglar at Thatyur, only that in the first night Harrer had to wade through the Aglar no less than fourty times. Nor is Deolsari mentioned, nor Harsil, nor Bhaironghati. In Nelang on 10 May Sattler is sick and decides to report to the authorities. Having entered Tibet on 17 May the remaining four split into two groups: Harrer and Kopp, Aufschnaiter and Treipel. On 17 June Treipel is so exhausted that he buys himself a horse and rides back to the lowlands. Several months later, when the remaining three are still without visa for Tibet, Kopp gives up too and leaves to Nepal (where he is within few days handed over to the British). --Vsop.de (talk) 21:36, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

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Reference to UFO’S AND Aliens
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