Bruno Beger
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Bruno Beger was a German racial anthropologist, ethnologist, and explorer who worked for the Ahnenerbe. In that role he participated in Ernst Schäfer's 1938–1939 expedition to Tibet, helped the SS Rac
Beger conducting anthropometric studies in Sikkim
Beger (far right) with the Tibet expedition and their Sikkimese interpreters, Kaiser Bahadur Thapa and Rabden Khazi, in 1938.
Menachem Taffel's body, part of the Jewish skull collection
Ahnenerbe
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The Ahnenerbe was a pseudoscientific organization founded by the Schutzstaffel in Nazi Germany in 1935. Established by Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler on July 1, 1935 as an SS appendage devoted to pr
Bruno Beger
…Bruno Beger (27 April 1911 – 12 October 2009) was a German racial anthropologist, ethnologist, and explorer who worked for the Ahnenerbe. In that role he participated in Ernst Schäfer's 1938–1939 expedition to Tibet, helped the SS Race and Settlement Main Office (Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt…
Adolf Hitler, whose racial beliefs inspired research carried out by the Ahnenerbe
Wewelsburg, which Himmler adopted as an SS base on the advice of the occultist Karl Maria Wiligut
Heinrich Himmler, Reichsführer-SS and founder of the Ahnenerbe
Scan from Ahnenerbe co-founder Herman Wirth's 1931 book Was heißt deutsch?