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Ahnenerbe


00:03:01 1 Background
00:06:54 1.1 The Nazi Party takes power
00:10:44 2 History
00:10:53 2.1 Formation
00:21:09 2.2 The Holocaust
00:22:10 2.3 The Second World War
00:22:49 2.4 Institutes
00:23:51 3 Expeditions
00:24:00 3.1 Karelia
00:25:22 3.2 Bohuslän
00:26:54 3.3 Italy
00:27:30 3.4 Western Eurasia
00:29:18 3.5 New Swabia
00:29:38 3.6 Germany
00:29:47 3.6.1 Hedeby
00:30:04 3.6.2 Baden-Württemberg
00:30:55 3.6.3 Mauern
00:31:59 3.7 France
00:32:36 3.7.1 Bayeux Tapestry
00:33:20 3.8 Tibet
00:34:04 3.9 Poland
00:36:05 3.10 Crimea
00:37:29 3.11 Ukraine
00:38:11 4 Cancelled expeditions
00:38:21 4.1 Bolivia
00:39:32 4.2 Iran
00:40:18 4.3 Canary Islands
00:41:03 4.4 Iceland
00:42:39 5 Other Ahnenerbe activities
00:42:49 5.1 Master Plan East
00:45:07 5.2 Failed seizure of Tacitus manuscript
00:45:39 5.3 Headquarters relocation
00:46:18 6 Financing
00:47:48 7 Medical experiments
00:48:25 7.1 Dachau
00:50:12 7.2 Skulls
00:51:10 8 Post–World War II
00:51:20 8.1 Trials
00:54:09 9 Legacy
00:54:17 9.1 Academic study
00:55:31 9.2 Influence in pseudo-archaeology
00:56:04 10 In popular culture
00:57:41 11 See also



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- Socrates



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The Ahnenerbe (German: [ˈʔaːnənˌʔɛʁbə], ancestral heritage) was a think tank that operated in Nazi Germany between 1935 and 1945. It was an appendage of the Schutzstaffel (SS) and had been established by Heinrich Himmler, the Reichsführer of the SS. It was devoted to the task of promoting the racial doctrines espoused by Adolf Hitler and his governing Nazi Party, specifically by supporting the idea that the modern Germans descended from an ancient Aryan race which was biologically superior to other racial groups. The group comprised scholars and scientists from a broad range of academic disciplines.
Hitler came to power in 1933 and over the following years he converted Germany into a one-party state under the control of his Nazi Party and governed by his personal dictatorship. He espoused the idea that modern Germans descended from the ancient Aryans, who he claimed—in contrast to established academic understandings of prehistory—had been responsible for most major developments in human history such as agriculture, art, and writing. His racial theories and claims about prehistory were not accepted by the majority of the world's scholarly community, and a decision was taken to give them greater scholarly backing. The Ahnenerbe was established with the purpose of providing evidence for Nazi racial doctrine and to promote these ideas to the German public through books, articles, exhibits, and conferences. Ahnenerbe scholars interpreted evidence to fit Hitler's beliefs, and some consciously fabricated evidence to do so; many of their ideas are regarded as pseudoscience. The organisation sent out various expeditions to other parts of the world, intent on finding evidence of ancient Aryan expansion.
The Nazi government used the Ahnenerbe's research to justify many of their policies. For instance, the think tank's claim that archaeological evidence indicated that the ancient Aryans lived across eastern Europe was cited in justification of German military expansion into that region. Ahnenerbe research was also cited in justification of the Holocaust, the mass killing of Jews and other groups—including Roma and homosexuals—through extermination camps and other methods. In 1937 the project was renamed the Research and Teaching Community of the Ancestral Heritage (Forschungs- und Lehrgemeinschaft des Ahnenerbe). Some of the group's investigations were placed on hold at the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939. Towards the end of the war, Ahnenerbe members destroyed much of the organisation's paperwork to avoid it incriminating them in forthcoming war crimes tribunals.
Many Ahnenerbe members escaped the de-Nazification policies in West Germany and remained active in the country's archaeological establishment throughout the post-war decades. This stifle ...