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  Ahnenerbe: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Heinrich himmler (october 7, 1900 - may 23, 1945) was the commander of the german schutzstaffel and one of the most powerful men in nazi...
Hunter and biologist Ernst Schäfer led the Ahnenerbe 1938 expedition to Tibet.
Michael wood (born michael david wood, july 23 1948 in manchester) is a popular british historian and broadcaster, presenter of numerous television...
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/ah/ahnenerbe.htm   (1518 words)

  
 Ahnenerbe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Not an official expedition, Ahnenerbe officials were reportedly sent to Brazil in 1943 with the task of 'procuring' the crystal skull that was reportedly found in a Maya ruin of Lubaantun by F.A. Mitchell-Hedges.
In early 1940, the Ahnenerbe was given control of excavating the Externsteine rock formation, which was previously the role of Wilhelm Teudt.
In August 1943, Himmler relocated the Ahnenerbe headquarters from Wewelsburg castle in Büren, to Waischenfeld to avoid the danger of Allied bombing campaigns.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ahnenerbe   (1927 words)

  
 AHNENERBE SS
The Ahnenerbe was not incorporated into the SS until April 1940, though even before this, all but one member of the academic and medical staff of the Ahnenerbe were at least honorary members of the SS and many held significant rank.
The Ahnenerbe was part of Himmler's greater plan for the systematic creation of a "Germanic" culture that would replace Christianity in the Greater Germany to exist after the war, a kind of SS-religion that would form the basis of the new world order.
The Ahnenerbe was funded by the Ahnenerbe-Stiftung, the German Forschungsgemeinschaft, member fees, and "from funds of the Reich and from contributions of industry" (including a group of financiers called the Circle of Friends led by Wilhelm Keppler).
www.russianbooks.org /montsegur/ahnenerbe.htm   (2745 words)

  
 Ahnenerbe - Page: 1 of 1
Ahnenerbe was preoccupied with the same issues as the Soviet Institute of Human Brain.
Ahnenerbe also dealt with the study of occultism, vivisection on people, espionage, invention of the arms of retaliation, and so forth.
Ahnenerbe agents were detained after an attempt to rob that museum in 1943.
webs.lanset.com /dolphin5/siriusly/ahnenerbe_001.htm   (809 words)

  
 The Roots of Nazism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Ahnenerbe was thought as an independent organization, where high-ranking white-collar workers within the SS could study the history and spirituality of the Germanic people.
Ahnenerbe was originally formed to support the Dutch pseudo-historian Herman Wirth's "Nordisch-Volkskundlichen" research, whose starting-point was the idea of the inherent superiority of the Germanic race.
Ahnenerbe had grown big by then, and was comprised of about 50 independent institutes, each with its own research area.
www.skepticreport.com /mystics/ahnenerbe.htm   (2405 words)

  
 The policy of blood and mysticism - Chemtrail Central Forum
Ahnenerbe’s doctors believed that medical tests and experiments were supposed to eventually result in a new breed of a human being.
After the establishment of Hitler’s regime in Germany, Ahnenerbe was entrusted with searching for anything dealing with spirit, traditions, and peculiar features of the Indo-German Nordic race.
Ahnenerbe also dealt with the study of occultism, vivisection on people, espionage, invention of the arms of retaliation, and so on and so forth.
www.chemtrailcentral.com /ubb/Forum6/HTML/000833.html   (912 words)

  
 Nazi mysticism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Ahnenerbe Society, the ancestral heritage branch of the SS (also called by some the Nazi Occult Bureau) was dedicated primarily to the research of proving the superiority of the Aryan race but was also involved in occult practices.
A fictional division of the Ahnenerbe, the Karotechia, has a prominet place in the mythology of the Delta Green setting for the role playing game Call of Cthulhu, and stories based upon the setting.
In it, the survivors of the Karotechia, a group founded to study occult tomes and conduct magical research, live on in South America, training sorcerers and cultists to found the Fourth Reich, all under the sway of Hitler's ghost (actually Nyarlathotep in disguise).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nazi_mysticism   (2903 words)

  
 Shofar FTP Archives: imt/tgmwc/tgmwc-21/tgmwc-21-199.03
Firstly, I said that the "Ahnenerbe" became an office in the personal staff of the Reichsfuehrer SS in 1942 and that its status as a registered association was not affected thereby.
Secondly, I said that the funds of the "Ahnenerbe" came from the Ahnenerbe-Stiftung, from funds of the German Forschungsgemeinschaft, from fees of members, [Page 13] from funds of the Reich and from contributions of industry.
Yes, but with the difference that it does not show for what purpose it is drawn up, because it merely lists the SS leaders in the "Ahnenerbe" with reference to their marital status and their children.
www.vex.net /~nizkor/ftp.cgi/ftp.py?imt/tgmwc/tgmwc-21/tgmwc-21-199.03   (2355 words)

  
 Shofar FTP Archives: people/e/eichmann.adolf/eichmann.006
Newsgroups: alt.revisionism,soc.history Subject: Holocaust Almanac - Eichmann on medical experimentation Summary: Eichmann discusses Ahnenerbe and medical experimentation with Captain Avner Less, of the Eichmann interrogation team, along with the acquisition of skulls and skeletons for 'research' purposes.
Followup-To: alt.revisionism Organization: Nizkor Project, Vancouver Island, CANADA Keywords: Ahnenerbe, Eichmann, Sievers Archive/File: people/e/eichmann.adolf/eichmann.006 Last-Modified: 2000/02/15 Notes: The complete transcripts of the trial of Adolf Eichmann are available at http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/people/e/eichmann-adolf/transcripts/ Captain Avner W. Less was the Israeli police officer who interrogated Adolf Eichmann, prior to his trial and subsequent conviction in Jerusalem.
[Ahnenerbe was a typical brainchild of Himmler's, a faithful reflection of his character.
www.nizkor.org /ftp.cgi/people/ftp.py?people/e/eichmann.adolf/eichmann.006   (1403 words)

  
 The Swastika and the Nazis. Page 2.
The Society for the Study of Ancestral Heritages, the Ahnenerbe, was an organization founded in 1935 privately by Frederick Hielscher, a mystic and friend of the Swedish explorer Sven Hedin, and Wolfram Siever's spiritual teacher.
The Ahnenerbe was the SS branch in charge of the research on ancient symbols and other esoteric subjects.
The mission assigned to the Ahnenerbe was to locate the origins of the "Nordic" race which, according to Nazi lore, was of Aryan stock.
www.intelinet.org /swastika/swasti02.htm   (2772 words)

  
 Short Stories: Julia’s Journey
The expedition was backed by the Ahnenerbe Forschungs und Lehrgemeinschaft, (Ancestral Heritage Research and Training Foundation) one of, if not the, most influential of all the Academic Nazi groups outside the Military Academic groups.
The Ahnenerbe (as it was known) had been financed by some of the National Socialist Party’ richest industrial backers, and the Ahnenerbe’s work was closely followed and strongly supported by SS Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler himself.
The aim of the Ahnenerbe was to create a new Germanic myth that was to grow into a world religion of Germanic domination.
wwwhow2dieshortstories.blogspot.com /2005/12/julias-journey.html   (3191 words)

  
 Whitley Strieber's Unknown Country
Ahnenerbe, which means “Ancestors’ Inheritance,” was founded in 1933 by philosopher Friedrich Gilscher, along with a Dr. Hirt.
Ahnenerbe’s members were all tall, muscular, blond men, like most Nazis (except, interestingly enough, for Hitler himself).
By the end of the war, Nazis were testing “flying disks,” and Ahnenerbe may have had a large air base in Antarctica.
www.unknowncountry.com /news?id=1989   (481 words)

  
 Scotsman.com Living - Books - Behind the myth of the master race
The Ahnenerbe's opportunistic racial scientists, dodgy ethnographers and wishful genealogists populate countless works on Himmler's occultism, the Thule Society and the esoteric dungeons of Nazism.
For an organisation devoted to ultra-nationalism the Ahnenerbe was signally cosmopolitan.
The Ahnenerbe's renegade scientists measured skulls in Tibet, vandalised tumuli across Europe, attended pagan ceremonies on the far Baltic shore and sought Nordic remains in the Andes, although, as everyone knows, the master race originated at the North Pole.
living.scotsman.com /books.cfm?id=463082006   (692 words)

  
 disinformation | disinfo glossary: specialist terms
The Ahnenerbe sought to revive German folkdom and culture, and was opposed to liberal-humanist beliefs.
Archaelogical, anthropological, magical, philosophical and psychological research by the Ahnenerbe is detailed in Michael H. Kater's Das 'Ahnenerbe' der SS 1935-1945: ein Beitrag zur Kulturpolitik des Dritten Reiches (Stuttgart, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1974) and Walter Bruno Gratzer's The Undergrowth of Science: Delusion, Self-deception and Human Frailty (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000).
The Ahnenerbe's specter resurfaced as shadowy Blowback during the Nazi Esoteric-Occult speculative literature of the 1970s, alongside material on Karl Maria Von Wiligut, Otto Rahn, Herman Wirth and Savitri Devi; Tibetan Bon and Vril mysticism; purported UFO prototypes and Antarctic bases; and the hunt for the Holy Grail, Martin Bormann and ODESSA.
www.disinfo.com /archive/pages/article/id1498/pg1   (1465 words)

  
 AURAL PRESSURE - REVIEWS - AHNENERBE: NACHT UND NEBEL
So it is with a heavy heart and dripping limp dick that I’ve turned off the DVD to concentrate my remaining energy to this release.
Apparently Wolfram Sievers, who was Reichsgeschäftsführer des Ahnenerbes, disappeared after performing a death ritual.
Ahnenerbe manage to stay firmly in the latter.
www.auralpressure.com /review/a/ahnenerbe_nacht_nebel.html   (442 words)

  
 The Master Plan: Himmler's Scholars and the Holocaust by Heather Pringle
The Ahnenerbe was created in 1935 under the auspices of Heinrich Himmler - probably the most powerful Nazi after Hitler himself.
Using the flimsiest scraps of evidence, the Ahnenerbe's members - some of them, admittedly, genuine scholars in their previous occupations - spun elaborate stories about an ancient race of Nordic people that spread worldwide and reached incredibly high levels of sophistication.
To underwrite its work, the Ahnenerbe found funding from various sources, including, of all things, a royalty paid on each use of a clever invention, the bicycle-pedal reflector.
www.fredbortz.com /review/MasterPlan.htm   (714 words)

  
 Ahnenerbe
This is one of the group that came from the Stuttgart negotiations (see our description of the various Victory Rings), Item SS 3-3.
Organization and finance of the Ahnenerbe were in his hands as secretary-general of the society since its foundation.
The marking on the reverse appear 800 for silver content and another mark that may be the maker or designers logo.
www.germaniainternational.com /ahnenerbe.html   (1251 words)

  
 Ahnenerbe "Nacht und Nebel" CD - Schwerindustrie Forum
The album’s atmosphere, as well as legendary Ahnenerbe institute, raises a lot of questions and presents no answers.
For a few chosen it is the openness of mystical science, and for all the rest it is horror, anticipation and obscurity while trying to perceive with strained senses what is actually happening in the catacombs of the institute full of wandering shadows and oppressing hallucinations.
Wolfram Sievers (Reichsgeschäftsführer des Ahnenerbes), perhaps was the only one able to reveal the mystery, but he disappeared after performing an uncanny death ritual, and drew an indefeasible line between himself and those who want to know, between those who ask and those who know the answers.
www.industry.ee /forum/index.php?act=ST&f=2&t=814   (351 words)

  
 Channel 4 - History - The Nazi Expedition
The Ahnenerbe's overriding task was to provide scientific, anthropological and archaeological evidence to support the theories of the Thule Society and, in so doing, determine the origins of the 'Aryan' race.
In that year, the Ahnenerbe mounted an expedition to Tibet led by Ernst Schäfer, a German hunter and biologist who had made two previous expeditions to that part of the world.
The agents of the Ahnenerbe arrived in the wake of the Wehrmacht to ransack these regions for proof of their German origins.
www.channel4.com /history/microsites/H/history/n-s/nazimyths.html   (2652 words)

  
 Nazism and the myth of the "master-race" Britain's Channel Four Secret History documentary on "Hitler's ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
The Ahnenerbe organised expeditions into many parts of the world—to Iceland in search of the Grail, to Iran to find evidence of ancient kings of pure Aryan blood, to the Canary Islands to seek proof of Atlantis.
Scholars involved in the Ahnenerbe research claimed that their sole interest was the development of their specific field of study.
They were SS officers in uniform and participated in close discussions within the council of Ahnenerbe, while scientists who would not go along with the Nazis were ostracised and victimised.
www.wsws.org /articles/1999/sep1999/nazi-s23.shtml   (1818 words)

  
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Ahnenerbe even believed themselves to be in spiritual contact with Tibetan lamas.
Ahnenerbe, is spreading to other countries at an alarming rate.
Ahnenerbe’ was the ‘think tank’ of the SS, an ideas factory not only for esoterics like Wiligut but also for world class academics, most of them ideologues.
www.trimondi.de /H-B-K/inhalt.hi.en.htm   (2883 words)

  
 THE MASTER PLAN
In time, the institute would employ more than 130 historians, linguists, geographers, agronomists, folklorists and classicists with an eye to producing evidence that the so-called Aryan peoples were the font of civilization.
Ominously, the Ahnenerbe also provided scholarly justification, of a kind, for the elimination of the peoples who already happened to occupy that land.
As Raiders of the Lost Ark had it, Ahnenerbe scholars mounted or planned to mount archaeological and scientific expeditions to the Arctic, Tibet, Africa and South America before the war confined them to German territories.
www.kirkusreviews.com /kirkusreviews/headlines/nonfiction_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001737469   (354 words)

  
 August Hirt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
June 2, 1945), an SS-Hauptsturmführer (captain), served as a chairman at the Reich University in Strasbourg during World War II.
Working with the Ahnenerbe division, Wolfram Sievers, Bruno Beger and Hirt together collected human skeletons from among the Dachau inmates, and ultimately had 79 Jewish men, 30 Jewish women, 2 Poles, and 4 "Asians" sent to Natzweiler-Struthof, gassed, and their bodies returned to them.
Some speculate that the Asian victims were in fact Soviets, and there is mention that Hirt used this opportunity to test the effects of mescaline as a poison.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/August_Hirt   (128 words)

  
 NOW Magazine, APRIL 13 - 19, 2006   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
As part of this mandate, he set up the SS Ahnenerbe institute to scientifically prove Nordic racial superiority and justify the crimes of the future.
In its early stages, the institute sent archaeologists and anthropologists to search the globe for documentation of the origins of Nazism in a mythical ancient Aryan civilization.
Nazi science moved on to proving the inferiority of Jews, a task for which the death and concentration camps run by Himmler's SS provided unlimited guinea pigs.
www.nowtoronto.com /issues/2006-04-13/books_reviews2_p.html   (306 words)

  
 Nuremberg Trials Project -- Medical Trial Transcript
The Ahnenerbe was charged with certain tasks of scientific (geisteswissenschaftlichen) research by order of the Reichsfuehrer SS.
The Ahnenerbe Society, of which Sievers was the Reich Business Manager, will be frequently mentioned during the course of this trial.
It is shown on the lower righthand side of both of the charts now before the Tribunal and his responsibility extended directly to Heinrich Himmler, who, incidentally was President of the Ahnenerbe Society.
nuremberg.law.harvard.edu /NurTranscript/TranscriptPages/174_135.html   (323 words)

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