Ahnenerbe
The Ahnenerbe or Ahnenerbe Forschungs und Lehrgemeinschaft was an organization Nazi. It was about an research institute creates by Heinrich Himmler, Hermann Wirth and Walther Darré on July 1st 1935. It was integrated into the organization of the S in January 1939.
The name of this organization means “ancestral heritage”. Its seat was located in the castle of Wewelsburg in Westphalia. Ahnenerbe is assigned with anthropological research , archaeological and on the cultural history of the “German race”. Its goal was to prove the validity of the theories Nazis on the racial superiority, through this research.
Ahnenerbe organized several forwardings archaeological, in Germany, but also in various countries: France, Italy, Romania, Bulgaria, Poland, Ukraine, Iceland, Afghanistan and Tibet. This last forwarding, directed by Ernst Schäfer in 1938 was initially intended to prove that the plate Tibetan was the cradle of the Aryan race .
At the request of Himmler in 1942, Ahnenerbe proceeded to medical experiments in concentration camps on prisoners, in particular with Dachau and Natzweiler-Struthof. Condemned for crimes against humanity, Wolfram Sievers, the last director of Ahnenerbe, was hung in 1948, after the Lawsuit of the doctors with Nuremberg.
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