Later Life
Filchner never returned to Antarctica, but went on many journeys through Nepal and Tibet, including a geographic survey of Nepal in 1939.
Adolf Hitler awarded him the German National Prize for Art and Science as an acknowledgement of his achievements in exploration.
In the World War II he was interned in India: 1940 in Patna in the Cottage-Hospital, from 1940 until September 13, 1941 in the Parole Camp in Purandhar and from September 1941 until November 1946 in the Parole Camp in Satara. Later on he lived in Poona in the Maharashtra state of India.
Filchner died at the age of 79 in Zurich, Switzerland.
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