Heuneburg
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The Heuneburg is a prehistoric Celtic hillfort by the river Danube in Hundersingen near Herbertingen, between Ulm and Sigmaringen, Baden-Württemberg, in the south of Germany, close to the modern borde
Reconstructed Celtic Heuneburg in 600 B.C.
Model of the Heuneburg, Hallstatt period. Heuneburg Museum
Diorama showing the construction of the Heuneburg
The Hohmichele burial mound.
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
Heuneburg
…forests. The first excavation of the main Hohmichele mound took place from 1936 to 1938, directed by Gustav Riek as part of the research programme of the SS-Ahnenerbe. Only about a third of the mound was removed during that project; the central burial chamber was located. After the war, from 1954 to 1956, Siegwalt…
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?