Heinz Brücher was a botanist and plant breeder who served as a member of the special science unit in the SS Ahnenerbe in Nazi Germany. He was part of a SS Sammelkommando that raided the plant genome m
Portrait from the 1930s
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
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?