Abstract

In this research we try to discover the insight of “Ahnenerbe” in a holistic perspective. The key heart of the study is on “Ahnenerbe” and its relation with “Nazis”. The research also examines various characteristics of “Ahnenerbe” and tries to measure its effect. Lastly the research illustrates a variety of factors which are responsible for “Ahnenerbe” and tries to describe the overall effect of it.

Table of Contents

Introduction1

Rosenberg and Himmler: Two Different Sensitivities2

Alfred Rosenberg3

Walter Wust3

Objectives of the Anhenerbe4

Wewelsburg Castle4

Heads of the Mysterious Anhenerbe5

Friedrich Hielscher6

Factions of the Nazi Culture6

Gustav Kossin7

Eminence grise8

Franz Altheim8

The Worldwide Anhenerbe8

Herbert Jankunh9

Conclusion9

Anhenerbe

Introduction

After two years of the rise of the Nazis, January 1, 1935 was officially established the "Deutsches Anhenerbe," subtitled, "Society for the Study of ancient history of the spirit," and soon to be known as "Heritage of the Ancients ". Himmler gave the order to the constitution of society, inspired by Hermann Wirth, Dutch professor, specializes in the study of Germanism. Your membership in the NSDAP in 1925. The first department of the organization was created directly by Wirth was the Institute for the Study of Scripture and the creeds, which paid particular attention to the study of ancient runic alphabet that was so important in the symbolism of Nazism. The same symbol was a rune Ahneberbe. Rune of life. But not everything was to be "life" in the Ahnenerbe.

Discussion and Analysis

Hermann Wirth Another "mad doctor", Wilhelm Hirt, passing experiments on prisoners with the same result, then asked to Sievers' skulls of Jewish commissars "to analyze and anthropometric measurements. Some of these "scientists" committed egregious excesses being arrested by the Gestapo, as in the case of one Dr. Rascher, who was accused of child abduction. Be executed by the Nazis themselves in March 1945. But it was clear that an organization as large as the Ahnenerbe, in which their departments enjoyed considerable autonomy and that he should act in a time of great upheaval, could not prevent such excesses committed. The truth is that most of the Ahnenerbe was not formed by this type of "mad scientists" ... but these practices on these subjects fragmented and isolated built on charges of "crimes against humanity" against the leaders of the institution (ratzerWalter, 235).

Rosenberg and Himmler: Two Different Sensitivities

Wirth's writings were not appreciated at all by Rosenberg, who vetoed diffusion in alienating the party for a few years of the Dutch professor to the NSDAP. The reason for the confrontation is certainly the character of the university and professorial theses colliding with Wirth intuitionism Rosemberg, especially regarding the limits of Germanism. But in 1934 Wirth won the siege imposed by Rosenberg and able to meet personally with the Reichsfuehrer. A few weeks begin to relate to Walter Darre. Both Himmler and Darre, one from the SS and the other from the Ministry of Agriculture agreed to promote a society to study the origin of the Germanic sound science and give the party's official doctrine. It was clear that Rosenberg could not believe that they were "cutting the grass ...