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- proper noun
Nazi German organization whose goal was to research the anthropological and cultural history of theAryan race, and later to experiment and launch voyages with the intent of proving that prehistoric and mythologicalNordic populations had once ruled the world.
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Nadya's ability is indispensable for the classified 6th Division of the Russian Military Intelligence, which is waging a secret war against the "Ahnenerbe" - an occult order within the SS.
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Nadya's ability is indispensable for the classified 6th Division of the Russian Military Intelligence, which is waging a secret war against the "Ahnenerbe" - an occult order within the SS.
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The clearest evidence of his influence on the Ahnenerbe is the fact that, in 1943, its Tibet Institut (Tibet Institute) was renamed the Sven Hedin Institut für Innerasien und Expeditionen (Sven Hedin Institute for Inner Asia and Expeditions).
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Troche became involved in Ahnenerbe activities while he was with the Berlin Museum.
HITLER’S HOLY RELICS Sidney D. Kirkpatrick 2010
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Himmler, according to Troche, went about laying the groundwork for the return of the Crown Jewels at the same time as his Ahnenerbe scholars were feverishly revising world history to accommodate the new theology of Aryan superiority.
HITLER’S HOLY RELICS Sidney D. Kirkpatrick 2010
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But Troche wanted Horn to understand why Himmler and the Ahnenerbe had selected this particular site to store the treasures, when many equally suitable underground chambers existed in Nürnberg.
HITLER’S HOLY RELICS Sidney D. Kirkpatrick 2010
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Professors unwilling to take direction from the Ahnenerbe were gradually replaced.
HITLER’S HOLY RELICS Sidney D. Kirkpatrick 2010
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Museum curators and scholars joined the ranks of the Deutsches Ahnenerbe, an elite Nazi research institute that Himmler and some of his associates had founded.
HITLER’S HOLY RELICS Sidney D. Kirkpatrick 2010
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Himmler and the Ahnenerbe, Hammond said, had scoured museums and monasteries all over Europe to complete the collection.
HITLER’S HOLY RELICS Sidney D. Kirkpatrick 2010
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Bottom: An outdoors Ahnenerbe education program for young Nazi officers.
HITLER’S HOLY RELICS Sidney D. Kirkpatrick 2010
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