Nazis Ahnenerbe. Nordic fairy tales “Ahnenerbe. The question of the existence of Atlantis and the expedition to Antarctica

History of the organization's creation.

"Ahnenerbe" - "Heritage of the Ancestors" - was perhaps one of the most mysterious organizations of the Third Reich. Officially, this organization was supposed to study the ancient history of the traditions and heritage of the German people. However, in fact, its goals were much more ambitious, and the roots of the origin and creation of this mystical organization-order go much deeper into history than was previously believed. The Ahnenerbe organization, before becoming what it was, went through a difficult and long path of formation.

As is known, the foundation of the ideology of fascism was laid by secret societies long before the emergence of the Nazi state itself, whose worldview became an active force after the defeat of Germany in the First World War. However, we will start from the end of the 19th century.

It was then that the abbot of the Benedictian monastery in the Austrian city of Lambach, Theodor Hagen, made a long journey to the Caucasus and the Middle East, the purpose of which was to search for esoteric knowledge that was once used in the creation of the order itself, but was lost over time.

Hagen did not return from his expedition empty-handed - he brought a huge number of ancient manuscripts, the contents of which were kept in such the strictest confidence that even for the brethren it remained a mystery. What is known is that after his return, the abbot ordered local craftsmen to make new bas-reliefs in the abbey. Their basis was the swastika, an ancient pagan sign of the circular rotation of the world.

An interesting coincidence: around the time the swastika appeared on the walls of the Lambach monastery, one puny boy, Adolf Schicklgruber, sang in its church choir...

After the death of Theodor Hagen in 1898, the Cistercian monk Jörg Lans von Liebenfels came to the abbey. For some reason, the mysterious manuscripts brought by Hagen from the East, and kept in complete secrecy, were provided to him by the brethren without the slightest objection. Eyewitnesses recalled that Liebenfels spent a couple of months in the monastery library, only occasionally leaving its walls to eat meager food. At the same time, the Cistercian, a follower of Saint Bernard, remained completely silent, not entering into conversations with anyone. He looked very excited, as if some startling discovery had taken hold of his thoughts. The materials received by Liebenfels allowed him to establish a secret spiritual society. It was called the "Order of the New Temple".

Later, after the war, in 1947, Liebenfels would write that it was he who brought Hitler to power. But that will come later. In the meantime, at the turn of the century, the “Order of the New Temple” became one of the centers of a little-known occult movement in our country called “Vienai”, which is translated from Old German as “initiation”. This concept in esoteric circles is interpreted as a mystical comprehension of what for laymen is an object of blind faith.

It should be noted that at this time, at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, many secret, mystical organizations appeared that closely interacted with each other. Around the 80s of the 19th century, in a number of European countries, in particular in England, Germany and France, societies of “initiates”, hermetic (secret) orders, were formed. They included some of the powerful individuals and brilliant minds of the time. In Austria and Germany in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a semi-occult pan-German movement arose. In 1887, the Hermetic Society "Golden Dawn" was founded in England, originating from the English Rosicrucian Society. The goal of the Golden Dawn was (through the mastery of magical rituals) to gain power and knowledge available to the “initiates.” This society maintained contacts with similar Germanic societies.

The order of Guido von List, which was founded in 1908 in Vienna, belonged to the Vienna movement. An inner circle was created in Liszt's society - "Armanenorden". Liszt considered him the successor of a whole chain of organizations that for centuries passed the baton of secrets from priest-kings to each other.

In his work “The Mysterious Language of the Indo-Germans,” List described the Germanic tradition as the exclusive bearer of the wisdom and spirituality of the ancient ancestors who inhabited the mystical continent of Arctogea. The book contained a map of this legendary land with its capital Tule. Young Hitler met with Liszt in Vienna.

In 1912, a conference of German occultists was organized, during which it was decided to found a “magical brotherhood” - the “German Order” (in 1932, Hitler would accept the offer to become Grand Master of the Order). The order was founded, but it was torn apart by internal strife, as a result of which one of the brothers of this order, in 1918, organized an independent “brotherhood” - the Thule society. The symbol of this mystical organization was a swastika with a sword and a wreath. Grouped around Thule were those who in the future were destined to play a decisive role in the formation of the Nazi Party.

The book “The Morning of the Magicians” by Louis Pauvel and Jacques Bergier, published in 1959 in France, says that the legend of Thule goes back to the origins of Germanism and tells of an ancient highly developed civilization that inhabited a lost island, like Atlantis, somewhere on Far North. German mystics claimed that the island of Thule was the magical center of this ancient civilization, which possessed powerful secret magical knowledge that disappeared without a trace under the water along with the island. It was this ancient sacred knowledge that the members of the Thule Order tried to resurrect.

According to J. Bergier and L. Pauvel, the Thule Order was a fairly serious magical brotherhood: “Its activities were not limited to an interest in mythology, the observance of meaningless rituals and empty dreams of world domination. The brothers were taught the art of magic and the development of potential capabilities. Including the ability to control such an invisible and all-pervading force, called “vril” by the English occultist Lytton, and “kundalini” by the Hindus. Vril is a huge energy, of which we use only an infinitesimal part in everyday life, it is the nerve of our possible divinity. The one who becomes the master of vril becomes the master over himself, over others and over the whole world... And perhaps the most important thing: they taught (the brothers. - Author) the technique of communication with the so-called “Secret Teachers”, or “Unknown Supermen”, invisibly guiding everything that happens on our planet.”

In addition, the activities of the Thule society were not limited to magical rituals; its members took an active part in the political life of the country, thus, the order influenced politics and, as will be seen later, this influence was very significant.

Already in October 1918, the brothers of the lodge, mechanic Anton Drexler and sports journalist Karl Harrer, on the instructions of Baron von Sebottendorff, founded the organization "Political Workers' Circle", which later turned into the DAP (Deutsche Arbeiterparrei - German Workers' Party). Subsequently, the newspaper of the Thule Order, Völkischer Beobachter, came under the direct subordination of the NSDAP, which “evolved” from the DAP.

Soon, front-line soldier and former corporal Adolf Hitler entered the NSDAP as number seven (as he believed, a lucky number, a sign of fate...). In the lists of members of the Thule society, next to his name there was a note “visitor”, and after some time, individual ideas of the Thule theorists are reflected in his book “My Struggle”.

As you know, after the failure of the Beer Hall Putsch, Hitler ended up in Landsberg prison, where he served his sentence together with Rudolf Hess and wrote the book “My Struggle.” Before the putsch, Hess worked at the University of Munich as an assistant to Professor Haushofer.

Based on research conducted by Louis Pauvel and Jacques Bergier, Karl Haushofer, being the German military attaché in Japan at the beginning of the century, was initiated in this country into the secret Order of the Green Dragon. In the tenth years of the 20th century, Haushofer visited Buddhist monasteries in Lhasa (yellow caps), where he studied magical practices and rituals. Having risen to the rank of general during the First World War, Haushofer more than once surprised his colleagues with his extraordinary clairvoyant abilities, which he used in analyzing military operations, and, apparently, developed them after communicating with initiates of the East.

After the war, Haushofer devoted himself to science and began teaching geography at the University of Munich, where Rudolf Hess met him, subsequently becoming his student and assistant.

After the failure of the Beer Hall Putsch, Karl Haushofer, the famous professor and general, visited Hitler and Hess in Landsberg prison almost every day. Moreover, Haushofer is interested not so much in the fate of his protégé Hess as in the personality of Hitler. Why such attention to the person of Hitler? The thing is that Haushofer was one of the founders of the Thule society, and the Nazi party became its political branch. After the putsch, the gray cardinals of the order drew attention to the suggestible and mystical young man, who had already proven himself as a speaker who knew how to capture the attention of the audience, and finally made their choice - Hitler would be the Fuhrer. Suggestible and prone to mysticism, possessing undoubted qualities of a medium and capable of capturing the attention of a crowd, Hitler fit perfectly into the triad known to all occultists. And then, as they say, it’s a matter of technique - the magician “pumps up” the medium, and he influences the collective consciousness of the crowd...

Very soon a new powerful secret order will appear, designed to unite the mystical organizations of Germany that are scattered and torn apart by internal conflicts, absorbing all their experience and knowledge - the crown of the “evolution” of German occultism - the Ahnenerbe Institute.

The ideological basis of the Ahnenerbe was laid by Hermann Wirth, a Dutch-German archaeologist and mystic who studied ancient symbols, languages ​​and religions. In 1928, he published his work entitled The Descent of Mankind. According to his theory, at the origins of humanity there were two proto-races - the Nordic, spiritual race of the North, and the Gondwanan race of the South, overcome by base instincts - representatives of these races were scattered among various modern peoples.

In 1933, a historical exhibition called “Ahnenerbe”, which translates as “ancestral heritage”, takes place in Munich. The organizer of the exhibition is Professor Hermann Wirth. The exhibition featured many exhibits collected in different parts of the world - in the Alps, in Palestine, in the caves of Labrador... The age of some runic and proto-runic manuscripts presented at the exhibition was estimated by Wirth at 12 thousand years.

The Wirth exhibition was visited by Himmler himself, an ardent supporter of “racial theory”; he was delighted with the exhibits presented there, which, in his opinion, perfectly conveyed the superiority of the Nordic race. By this time, Himmler was already Hitler’s right hand, the head of the SS, a structure that emerged from small security detachments of the party, eventually becoming a powerful state organization. Now the SS, in addition to other functions, tried to take on the role of observer of the “purity” of the Nordic race in spiritual, mystical and genetic terms. And this required specific knowledge. They were looked for in the past, as it is known that there were various secret mystical orders, but they lacked cohesion and government support, there was knowledge, but it was scattered, and a lot of money was required to search for new ones. There was a need for a new government organization that would deal with all these problems. Thus, on July 10, 1935, on the initiative of Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler, Gruppenführer SS racologist Richard Walter Dare and researcher of ancient German history Hermann Wirth, the Ahnenerbe was founded. The headquarters was located in the city of Weischenfeld, Bavaria. The initial tasks of the Ahnenerbe were reduced to research into ancient Germanic prehistory.

From 1937 to 1939, Ahnenerbe was integrated into the SS, and the leaders of the institute were included in Himmler’s personal headquarters. By 1939, the Ahnenerbe had 50 institutes under the leadership of a specialist in the field of ancient sacred texts, Professor Wurst.

Wewelsburg Castle, Ahnenerbe headquarters after entering the SS

According to some reports, the state spent staggering amounts of money on research conducted at Ahnenerbe, exceeding what the United States spent on creating the first atomic bomb.

Here is what J. Bergier and L. Pauvel write in their book about the activities of the Ahnenerbe: (these studies) “... covered a huge area, from scientific activity in the proper sense of the word to the study of the practice of the occult, from vivisection of prisoners to espionage on secret societies. There negotiations were held with Skorzeny about organizing an expedition, the purpose of which should be the abduction of St. Grail, and Himmler created a special section, an intelligence service, dealing with the “area of ​​the supernatural.” The list of problems solved by Ahnenerbe is amazing..."

For example, the volume of only that part of the Ahnenerbe archival materials that was exported to the territory of the USSR in 1945 amounted to 45 railway cars! Most of these archives are closed to this day. Some of them were hidden away from the eyes of civilization, in Chukotka, in a top-secret Soviet town (the village of Gudym), under which in 1958, on the orders of N.S. Khrushchev, the underground military secret facility Anadyr-1 was built. Along with other things, there Soviet scientists conducted research and experiments in the field of genetics, just like the Germans in their time, with the only difference that they started research almost from scratch, and one of the numerous Ahnenerbe institutes was responsible for this research.

The areas of activity of the Ahnenerbe were so wide, and the volume of archival documents was so large that just to systematize them, it would be necessary to create a separate research institute, so in the framework of this article we will focus only on some of the most intriguing aspects of the activities of this mystical organization.

In its research, Ahnenerbe intensively used psychics, clairvoyants, mediums... It should be noted that the methodology of such work was not something completely new. Germany has used psychics before, for example in the intelligence service during the First World War. In addition, during the First World War, dowsers assigned to units of the German army were very successfully used to detect mines and borders, minefields; they also searched for underground water to supply the army with drinking water. The dowsing method proved to be so successful that already in 1932, dowsers were trained by the military engineering school in Versailles.

One of the most important directions in the activities of Ahnenerbe was the search for ancient knowledge of “super-civilizations”, forgotten magical runes, biblical and other mythical artifacts, especially those that, according to Ahnenerbe historians, were the most powerful types of weapons of the ancient Gods. In search of this knowledge (and Ahnenerbe scientists regarded knowledge transformed through the prism of science as a weapon), Ahnenerbe organized numerous expeditions to the most inaccessible corners of our world: Antarctica, Tibet, South America, etc...

In addition, the possibility of obtaining knowledge from extraterrestrial civilizations was not excluded. For these purposes, Ahnenerbe had specially trained contactors.

Operation Grail.

One of the first Ahnenerbe expeditions was aimed at searching for the Holy Grail. The expedition was initiated personally by Hitler. Being an opponent of the Christian faith, he considered the Grail to be more ancient than Christianity, an Aryan artifact that was at least 10 thousand years old. On the other hand, the myth of the Grail, which gives power over the whole world, could not but interest Hitler. According to another version, the Grail is a stone with runic symbols that contains the true history of humanity and, as Ahnenerbe theorists believed, the Aryan race, as well as forgotten knowledge of non-human origin. Be that as it may, the institute was given the task of finding the Holy Grail. Here is a letter, dated October 24, 1934, from Hitler to Wirth, which was discovered in open archival documents:

“...Dear Mr. Wirth! The rapid growth of your institute and the successes it has been able to achieve recently give reasons for optimism. I believe that Ahnenerbe is now ready to cope with more serious tasks than those that have been set before it so far. We are talking about the search for the so-called Holy Grail, which, according to my opinion, is a real relic of our Aryan ancestors. To search for this artifact, you can use additional funds in the required amount...”

The leadership of the expedition was entrusted to the archaeologist and writer, author of the anti-Catholic book “The Crusade against the Grail” Otto Rahn. The search for the Grail was carried out in the Cathar castles in the Pyrenees, and although there were rumors that the excavations were crowned with success, there was no documentary evidence of this, and the leader of the expedition himself, SS Sturmbannführer Otto Rahn, mysteriously disappeared in 1938.

In search of Shambhala.

In 1938, under the auspices of the Ahnenerbe, an expedition headed by Ernst Schaeffer, who had been to Tibet before, was sent to Tibet. The expedition had several goals, but the main one was the search for the legendary country of Shambhala, where, according to legend, representatives of an ancient highly developed civilization lived, “rulers of the world,” people who knew everything and controlled the course of human history. Of course, the knowledge attributed to this people could not but interest Hitler, who was striving for world domination.

The expedition stayed in Tibet for over two months and visited the sacred city of Lhasa and the sacred place of Tibet - Yarling. There, German cameramen shot film that was discovered after the war in one of the Masonic lodges in Europe. The films taken in Tibet, in addition to the buildings of Yarling and Lhasa, depicted numerous magical practices and rituals, with the help of which mediums entered into a trance, and gurus summoned evil spirits.

Forbidden City Lhasa (Tibet)

Most of all, the Germans were interested not so much in Buddhism as in the Bon religion preached by some Tibetan monks. The Bon religion existed in Tibet long before Buddhism and was based on beliefs in evil spirits, methods of summoning them, and fighting them.

Among the followers of this religion there were many shamans and magicians. The Bon religion, with its numerous ancient texts and mantras, in Tibet was considered the best way to communicate with otherworldly forces - according to the Tibetans, the effect of mantras achieved by acoustic resonance can evoke one or another spirit for communication, depending on the frequency of the sound produced when reading the mantras pronounced in a state of trance. Of course, Ahnenerbe scientists were very interested in all these aspects.

The expedition worked diligently to solve the mysteries discovered, but soon, due to the tense situation in the world, it was recalled to Berlin. Direct radio communication between Lhasa and Berlin was previously established, and Ahnenerbe’s work with Lhasa continued until 1943.

Many ancient artifacts were taken from Tibet, to which Hitler attached special mystical significance (he even kept some of them in his personal safe); Ahnenerbe occultists worked on these artifacts, trying to extract certain magical properties from them.

In 1945, after Soviet troops entered Berlin, many corpses of Tibetans in SS uniforms were discovered. There are many versions about who these people were and what they did in Nazi Germany. Some suggest that it was Hitler’s personal guard, the so-called “Hitler’s Black Tibetan Legion” - magicians and shamans who possessed the mystical secrets of Shambhala. Others claim that the Tibetans in uniform are simply volunteers sent by Tibet as a sign of support for Germany and they have nothing to do with magic. There is an opinion that no corpses of Tibetans in SS uniform were found in Berlin at all, because there is no official confirmation of this. Be that as it may, it is reliably known that the secret societies of Germany maintained contact with similar organizations in Tibet. So in the twenties, there lived a Tibetan lama in Berlin, famous for three times predicting the number of Nazis who would pass in the elections to the Reichstag, and belonging to the Order of the Green Brothers. Close contact was established between the Thule Society and the Green Brothers, and since 1926, Tibetan colonies began to appear in Munich and Berlin. Having settled in Germany, the “green brothers” - clairvoyants, astrologers and soothsayers, were involved in the work of such organizations as the Ahnenerbe, it is quite possible that the corpses of these eastern magicians were seen by Soviet soldiers after the storming of the fascist lair.

Living water of Lake Ritsa.

Abkhazia was of no less interest to the Third Reich, and soon, on the initiative of Nazi leaders, the Ahnenerbe expedition and elite SS troops were sent there. What were the Nazis looking for in the mountains of Abkhazia? The fact is that, according to the Ahnenerbe Institute, there was a source of living water there, so necessary for the gene pool of “true Aryans”. The high-altitude Lake Ritsa, from where this “living water” was drawn, was located in a rather inaccessible place, but this did not stop Hitler, and a road was built to the lake, carefully guarded by elite SS troops.

Ahnenerbe in Abkhazia

In 1942, an underground submarine base was created there, on which the “special forces” were transported to Germany in special silver-coated canisters.

According to some reports, this miraculous water was subsequently used to synthesize blood plasma necessary for children of “true Aryan origin” who were born as part of the Lebensborn (“Source of Life”) program, supervised personally by Himmler. For this purpose, throughout the Third Reich, young women with good health, but most importantly with an impeccable Aryan pedigree, were selected to give birth to children from SS officers.

Advanced technologies and torsion research of the Ahnenerbe Institute.

Some technical projects of Nazi Germany were far ahead of their time. We are talking, for example, about such projects as “flying discs” and the psychophysical weapon “Thor”. Where did the German scientists of that time, especially after the Nazi “purges” of the scientific community in Germany, when many outstanding minds were exterminated, thrown into prison or fled abroad, come up with such revolutionary ideas and projects that even in our high-tech times are alluring, but unattainable for modern science? The traces again lead to the Ahnenerbe - it was this organization that was behind the creation of the Third Reich's "disc launchers" and psychophysical weapons. The question of where such advanced knowledge was obtained remains open - perhaps numerous Ahnenerbe expeditions in search of ancient “superknowledge” were ultimately successful, or perhaps the knowledge was obtained in some other way...?

One of the "flying disc" schemes

It is known that the magicians of “Anenerebe” actively practiced obtaining knowledge under the influence of various hallucinogenic drugs, in a state of trance - an altered state of consciousness, when the contactee tried to establish communication with the so-called “Higher Unknowns” or, as they were also called, “External Minds”.

Karl-Maria Wiligut, a German pagan and mystic who greatly influenced the occult sentiments of the Third Reich, was considered one of the best Ahnenerbe specialists in the field of black magic. Being on good terms with the Reichsführer SS, Wiligut had such a serious influence on the Nazi elite that he was even nicknamed “Himmler’s Rasputin.” Thanks to his connections and influence, he quickly moved up the ranks of the Nazi state, starting his career in the SS as the head of the department for the study of early history, under the pseudonym Karl Maria Weisthor, in April 1934 he received the rank of SS Standarterführer, in November - Oberfuehrer, and in 1935 transferred to Berlin and promoted to Brigadefuehrer. In 1936, again appearing on the official lists under the pseudonym Weistor (one of the names of the ancient German god Odin), he headed one of the Ahnenerbe scientific groups and participated in excavations together with Günter Kirchoff in the Black Forest.on the Murg hill near Baden-Baden, where, in his opinion, the ruins of an ancient Irminist settlement should have been located. Among other things, in the SS Wiligut played the role of an Irminite priest, participating in marriage rituals in the SS castle of Wewelsburg.

Karl Maria Willigut

The roots of the ancient Wiligut family are lost in the mists of time. The coat of arms of this family, with two swastikas inside, bears a close resemblance to the coat of arms of the medieval rulers of Manchuria, and first appears in manuscripts of the 13th century. The Wiligut family had one very unusual relic - mysterious tablets with ancient runic writings, which they passed on from generation to generation. The information encrypted in the letters contained a description of some complex magical rituals. That is why, back in the Middle Ages, the curse of the Catholic Church was imposed on the family. However, the Wiliguts did not give in to persuasion to destroy the heretical writings and thereby lift the curse.

And these tablets reached Karl Wiligut. Possessing clairvoyant abilities, he always emphasized that he was the keeper of some ancient magical knowledge, and more than once amazed Himmler with visions of his ancestral memory. In a trance, he described in great detail the laws and rituals of the ancient Germanic people, their system of military and religious practice. To achieve the state of “birth trance,” Wiligut even composed special mantras. He made a significant contribution to the occult component of the Ahnenerbe and in 1939 retired, secluded himself on his estate, where he died in 1946. For some reason, the peasants who lived in the nearby villages from his estate considered Wiligut, like his ancestors, to be the secret king of Germany. He was the last of the damned family.

Decoding runes with Wiligut's autograph

"Ahnenerbe" used the found ancient occult "keys" (spells, formulas, runic signs, etc.) for the so-called "sessions with the gods." For these purposes, the institute spared no expense. Throughout the territory of the Third Reich, mediums, psychics, clairvoyants were involved in work in the Ahnenerbe... Particular attention was paid to experienced and famous mediums and contactees (such as Maria Otte and others).

For the purity of the experiment, “contacts with the gods” were also carried out independently in the Vril and Thule societies. Some sources claim that some of the occult “keys” worked and this led to the receipt of almost identical man-made information through independent “channels”. In particular, such information included descriptions and drawings of “flying discs”, which in their flight performance characteristics significantly exceeded not only all aircraft of that time, but also modern ones.

The Ahnenerbe Institute paid special attention to the study of methods of influencing and controlling human behavior. Sinister and criminal experiments in this area were carried out on prisoners of a concentration camp located near the mystical Nazi citadel, the SS center, Wevelburg Castle.

In the castle itself, secret magical rituals were held to prepare for the coming to earth of a certain “Man-God”. Thus, Hitler was only a failed experiment, a by-product, in the aspirations of the Ahnenerbe mystics and other similar occult organizations in Germany.

Project "Thor".

The pinnacle of Ahnenerbe's research in the field of influencing the subconscious and controlling human behavior were attempts to create psychophysical weapons of mass influence and control. Psychophysical weapons are capable of influencing large masses of people, controlling their behavior and consciousness, while the targets themselves are often unaware that their psyche is being influenced from the outside. The development of such weapons has always been of great interest to the Third Reich, and no money was spared on projects related to its development.

Ahnenerbe was given the task of developing such psychophysical weapons to control the masses. The project was named “Thor” in honor of the mythical German-Scandinavian god of thunder and war, Thor, who possessed a devastating magical weapon - a hammer in the shape of a swastika, which always hit the target and struck with lightning (Thor's hammer).

It all started with the fact that one day Karl Moir, one of the leading employees of Ahnenerbe, caught the eye of the Wiligut runic tablets. They described the most complex unknown processes, most of which went beyond the scope of modern science. Technomagnetic devices were developed based on these tablets. Later he will write the book “Thor’s Hammer”, which will talk about the Thor project.

The operating principle of these devices was based on torsion fields, with the help of which it was supposed to control the human will, acting directly on the nerve centers and pituitary gland. In fact, in the Ahnenerbe laboratories, a high-tech system of mass zombification was developed, however, based, according to Moir, on ancient runic knowledge.

An experimental device was created that is capable of not only suppressing a person’s will, literally paralyzing him, but even influencing a group of people, forcing them to perform certain simple actions. However, the project was not completed; Ahnenerbe simply did not have enough time. The specialists who took part in the project argued that it would take about 10 years to refine the experimental model and create a full-fledged telepathic weapon, but a year later the Allied troops entered Germany and captured part of the developments. According to some information, the experimental psychophysical device created as part of the Thor project, as well as some Ahnenerbe employees who took part in the project, were captured by the Americans, and the Soviet troops received part or even all of the documentation on these developments. The colossal potential of such weapons has never been in doubt, and who knows, perhaps the telepathic weapon that Nazi Germany did not have time to create was brought to fruition by the victorious countries.

Rune magic in the service of the Third Reich.

The runic tradition on the territory of modern Germany was formed in ancient times, under the influence of several schools - Scandinavian, Gothic and, possibly, West Slavic. As a result, by the Middle Ages, Germany had its own school of runic magic -Armanic, which had a very original character and noticeable differences from other traditions. In general, according to some scientists, the first runic signs on the territory of central Europe appeared 10-12 thousand years ago and were used for cult and magical purposes. In ancient times, it was believed that magical runes applied to a warrior’s weapons and armor made him invulnerable. Such weapons were considered “enchanted” and, as a rule, they were possessed by great warriors or leaders.

Armanic rune system

With the advent of the Catholic Church and the Holy Inquisition in Europe, runic writing was supplanted by the Latin alphabet, magical rituals were prohibited, and their followers were persecuted as pagans and exterminated. In 1100, one of the last Great Temples of the pagan faith of the Germans was destroyed and soon there was not a single functioning Great Temple left in Europe. However, peoples remained - bearers of tradition. Despite the ban of the church, some followers of the pagan faith managed to preserve the ancient runic knowledge of their ancestors (for example, the Wiligut runic tablets).

Again, significant interest in rune magic was shown only at the beginning of the 20th century, thanks to the book of Guido von List “The Secret of the Runes” published in 1908 and in the same year the opening of the “Guido von List Society” was officially proclaimed - as an association of people striving to the revival of the religious and magical practices of the ancient Germans. Soon other secret mystical societies picked up List’s ideas and, uniting in the “German Order,” exchanged knowledge in this area.

Runic magic, being the main direction of the work of the German Order, retained its importance in the Ahnenerbe. Active work was carried out here to collect and study ancient runic signs, as well as create new ones. All state and military Nazi symbols were based on runic symbols. In 1933, the infamous SS symbol was developed here - the double rune Sieg (Soul) - “double lightning strike” - the Victory rune. The author of the idea was Sturmhaupführer Walter Heck. Each rune had its own specific magical meaning. Following the mystical traditions of the ancient Germans, in the Third Reich runes of various meanings were used almost everywhere: on government buildings, standards of military units and formations, they were attributes of state power... Special security runes - amulets runes developed by the Ahnenerbe mystics based on ancient Germanic ones , were applied to all the military equipment of the Nazis (tanks, planes, etc.) and even to the helmets of soldiers - all this was supposed to make them “invulnerable”.

SS award rings with runic symbols

SS officers were required to study runic writing and ancient Germanic magical rituals. Almost all the highest ranks of the SS were members of mystical societies. In fact, mysticism and rune magic in the Third Reich were elevated to the rank of a cult and religion, and the Ahnenerbe was the main temple and embodiment of this “new religion.”

In 1945, the war ended, and at the subsequent Nuremberg trials, the incredible cruelty of the Nazi regime was revealed. The black magicians of the "Ahnenerbe" - scientists and killer doctors, who replaced their white coats with SS uniforms, appeared before the tribunal, and their developments ended up in the hands of the victorious countries and were never made public.

The history of the Ahnenerbe secret society begins in 1933. At that time, a traveling exhibition called “The Heritage of Ancestors”, translated from German “Ahnenerbe”, was held in Munich. Its organizer is a specialist in ancient religions, Herman Wirth. He was interested in the history of ancient Germanic tribes and studied their beliefs. The leadership of the Third Reich approved such activities.

Founding Fathers of the Ahnenerbe

Three people - Hermann Wirth, Richard Walter and Henry Himmler founded a public organization, which was called “German Heritage”, “Deutsche Ananerbe”. Over time, the charter of the society was changed, Hermann Wirth became a separately practicing researcher, and many SS officers appeared in the structure of the society. Soon the Ahnenerbe became a structure of the SS and received the status of “main directorate A”, and carried out its activities under the patronage of Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler and under the personal control of the Fuhrer.

Some researchers believe that Hitler spent more money on the Ahnenerbe and on research in the field of occultism than the Americans did on creating the atomic bomb.

At the end of the 1930s, all Ahnenerbe occult research was classified as “secret”. Their results are reported to the top leadership of the Third Reich. At the same time, the “ancestral heritage” has a new symbol - “Irminsu” or “Irmin pillar”. According to Andrei Vasilchenko, candidate of historical sciences, “this is a kind of shrine that was destroyed by Charlemagne in the 8th century. This is a tree, a Germanic deity, a symbol of the relationship between heaven and earth.”

Some of Ahnenerbe's secret projects are puzzling. The patrons of this organization, Heinrich Himmler, were interested in everything related to the occult.

One of the dubious “responsible tasks” was assigned to Ernst Schaeffer, who returned from the Tibet expedition. He had to search for a miraculous drink, the secret of which was allegedly kept by the gypsies. Himmler believed and hoped to receive a recipe for a healing drink.

Another of Himmler’s occult passions, the practice of the sidereal pendulum, led to the emergence of an entire unit in the SS, which was called the “closed structure SP.” Using a sidereal pendulum, they tried to trace the routes of American convoys to the Soviet Union.

How were you taught dowsing?

Anyone who had a knack for paranormal abilities was immediately taken note of by the SS. Under Ahnenerbe, “dowsing courses” operated. These were search engines armed only with a rotating frame, or, in other words, a vine.

Konstantin Zalessky, a historian, notes: “dowsers were brought in to explore minerals, in particular gold, in Bavaria.” Before the fall of the Ahnenerbe, they managed to prepare 3 issues of “dowsers”. They could find sources of drinking water, mineral deposits, and also served as scouts during hostilities.

But how can you teach a person paranormal abilities? The Ahnenerbe believed that they could be developed by awakening a person’s internal energy, the power of ods. Scientists of the Third Reich were looking for a way to achieve this. Wolfram Sievers will talk about these experiments later at the Nuremberg trials. According to him, in Ahnenerbe he held the position of manager of the affairs of this organization. It was Sievers who authorized the experiments that were carried out on people, so he was sentenced to death. Experiments were conducted on finding people in a rarefied atmosphere and on hypothermia. Officially, this was done by order of the Luftwaffe, supposedly in order to bring back to life German pilots who found themselves in the waters of the northern seas. But methods for combating hypothermia already existed at that time, which means that the occult scientists of the Third Reich conducted their experiments for a different purpose.

The Nazis showed interest in the northern territories for a long time. Back in 1937, Otto Rahn organized an expedition to the north - he went first to Iceland, then to Greenland. Vadim Telitsyn, a candidate of historical sciences, claims that in Greenland he is trying to find evidence of the existence of a castle, material about which he finds in Russian chronicles. These chronicles are still stored in the Kiev Pechersk Lavra. He didn’t find the castle, but he found some inscriptions on the rocks and drawings.”

What were the Nazis looking for in Greenland?

Maybe, ancestral home of the ancient Nordic race. In the hands of Otto Rahn was a map that he had compiled Gerard Mercator. In the 16th century, a cartographer had surprisingly accurate information about the position of the continents and their outlines. But Greenland on Mercator's maps was located in the area of ​​the North Pole. In ancient times, Greenland was inhabited by the “white race” - tall, fairly strong people, blue-eyed. But the results of the expedition to Greenland disappointed the leadership of the Third Reich. In 1939, Otto Rahn wrote a letter of resignation from the SS. In the same 1939, Otto Rahn goes to Austria - and tragically dies in the Alps.

On the Kola Peninsula, the SS sheep found dungeons that were formed 26 thousand years ago. Scientists suggest that this heritage of the ancient Hyperboreans– their cities once existed in the North. Traces of the Hyperboreans found and SS, but they did not want to share their discoveries with the world scientific community. The order was given to blow up the entrances to the dungeon cities. What did the Ahnenerbe scientists want to hide? According to one version, scientists managed not only to find ancient cities, but also to “establish contact” with those who lived there. The ancient Hyperboreans had paranormal abilities, communicated through telepathy, and could even live outside the physical body.

German expeditions to Antarctica

In the notes of Wehrmacht Colonel Wilhelm Wolf, an order was found to form detachments to be sent to Antarctica. Notes were found by participants SMERSH Oh, and Stalin became interested in this expedition. After the war, on the orders of Stalin, a Soviet expedition was sent, led by Navy General Nikolai Kuznetsov. The results of the expedition were classified, but Nazi bases were found.

According to available archival documents, the entrance to the base is located at a depth of 450 meters, and the base is located under Lake Vostok. It is known that back in 1938, German ships began to regularly sail to Antarctica; in 1940, at the direction of the Fuhrer, they began building military bases. The site chosen was Queen Maud's land. On the land of Queen Maud there are thermal springs, huge grottoes where German submarines were based.

Why did Hitler choose Antarctica? Hitler set up real temples there for the worship of heavenly powers, since he believed that the main sources of energy were concentrated around the poles. Therefore, he created temples there to perform occult actions in order to seize dominion over the world.

Occult capital of the Third Reich

The leadership of the Third Reich planned that Wewelsburg Castle would be the capital of the new empire. Only the chosen ones, SS-sheep, members will live in it Order of the Death's Head. It was planned to move the main SS department and the Ahnenerbe organization here.

Many historians suggest that the outline of the castle resembles the Holy Grail, into which a spear is lowered. The castle is located in northern Westphalia and is a sacred place for the SS. Here is the megalithic structure of Exterstein, which, according to legend, was built in one night.

A few days before the collapse of the Third Reich, Himmler ordered the bombing of Wewelsbrug. According to some reports, the rings of killed SS sheep were kept in Wewelsburg safes. But when the castle passed into the hands of the Americans, nothing was found in the Wewelsburg safes.

Half a century has passed since the end of the Second World War, but the two letters SS (more precisely, of course, SS) are still synonymous for most with horror and terror. Thanks to the mass production of Hollywood and the Soviet film factories that tried to keep up with it, almost all of us are familiar with the uniforms of the SS men and their emblem with a death's head. But the actual history of the SS is much more complex and multifaceted. In it one can find heroism and cruelty, nobility and meanness, selflessness and intrigue, deep scientific interests and a passionate craving for the ancient knowledge of distant ancestors.

The head of the SS, Himmler, who sincerely believed that the Saxon king Henry I “Birdcatcher”, the founder of the First Reich, elected in 919 as king of all Germans, was spiritually reincarnated in him. In one of his speeches in 1943 he said:

“Our order will enter the future as a union of the elite, uniting the German people and the whole of Europe around itself. It will give the world leaders of industry, agriculture, as well as political and spiritual leaders. We will always obey the law of elitism, choosing the highest and discarding the lowest. If we If we stop following this fundamental rule, we will thereby condemn ourselves to and disappear from the face of the earth like any other human organization."

His dreams, as we know, were not destined to come true for completely different reasons. From a young age, Himmler showed an increased interest in “the ancient heritage of our ancestors.” Associated with the Thule Society, he was fascinated by the pagan culture of the Germans and dreamed of its revival - of the time when it would replace the “foul-smelling Christianity.” In the intellectual depths of the SS, a new “moral” was being developed, based on pagan ideas.

Himmler considered himself the founder of a new pagan order that was “destined to change the course of history,” to carry out a “cleansing of the rubbish accumulated over millennia” and return humanity to “the path prepared by Providence.” In connection with such grandiose plans for a “return,” it is not surprising that the ancient . On the uniforms of the SS men they were distinguished, testifying to the elitism and sense of camaraderie that reigns in the organization. Since 1939, they went to war singing a hymn that included the following line: "We are all ready for battle, we are inspired by the runes and the death's head."

According to the Reichsführer SS, runes were to play a special role in the symbolism of the SS: on his personal initiative, within the framework of the Ahnenerbe program - the Society for the Study and Dissemination of the Cultural Heritage of Ancestors - the Institute of Runic Writing was established. Until 1940, all recruits of the SS Order underwent mandatory instruction regarding runic symbolism. By 1945 there were 14 main runic symbols in use in the SS. The word "rune" means "secret script". Runes are the basis of alphabets carved into stone, metal and bone, and became widespread primarily in pre-Christian Northern Europe among the ancient Germanic tribes.

"...The great gods - Odin, Ve and Willi carved a man from an ash tree and a woman from a willow. The eldest of Bor's children, Odin, breathed soul into people and gave life. To give them new knowledge, Odin went to Utgard, the Land of Evil , to the World Tree. There he tore out his eye and brought it to , but this seemed not enough to the Guardians of the Tree. Then he gave his life - he decided to die in order to be resurrected. For nine days he hung on a branch, pierced by a spear. Each of the eight nights of Initiation revealed new ones to him. the secrets of existence. On the ninth morning, Odin saw rune-letters inscribed on the stone under him. His mother’s father, the giant Belthorn, taught him to carve and paint runes, and from then on the World Tree began to be called Yggdrasil..."

This is how the Snorrian Edda (1222-1225) tells about the acquisition of runes by the ancient Germans, perhaps the only complete overview of the heroic epic of the ancient Germans, based on the legends, prophecies, spells, sayings, cults and rituals of the Germanic tribes. In the Edda, Odin was revered as the god of war and the patron of the dead heroes of Valhalla. He was also considered a necromancer.

The famous Roman historian Tacitus, in his book “Germania” (98 BC), described in detail how the Germans were engaged in predicting the future using runes.

Each rune had a name and a magical meaning that went beyond purely linguistic boundaries. The design and composition changed over time and acquired magical significance in Teutonic astrology. At the end of the 19th - beginning of the 20th centuries. The runes were remembered by various "folkish" (folk) groups that spread in Northern Europe. Among them was the Thule Society, which played a significant role in the early days of the Nazi movement.

Hakenkreutz

SWASTIKA is the Sanskrit name for the sign depicting a hook cross (among the ancient Greeks this sign, which became known to them from the peoples of Asia Minor, was called “tetraskele” - “four-legged”, “spider”). This sign was associated with the cult of the Sun among many peoples and was found already in the Upper Paleolithic era and even more often in the Neolithic era, primarily in Asia (according to other sources, the oldest image of the swastika was discovered in Transylvania, it dates back to the late Stone Age; swastika found in the ruins of the legendary Troy, this is the Bronze Age). Already from the 7th-6th centuries BC. e. it enters into symbolism, where it signifies the secret doctrine of the Buddha. The swastika is reproduced on the oldest coins of India and Iran (BC penetrates from there to); in Central America it is also known among the peoples as a sign indicating the circulation of the Sun. In Europe, the spread of this sign dates back to a relatively late time - the Bronze and Iron Ages. During the era of migration of peoples, he penetrates through the Finno-Ugric tribes to the north of Europe, Scandinavia and the Baltic, and becomes one of the supreme Scandinavian god Odin (Wotan in German mythology), who suppressed and absorbed the previous solar (solar) cults. Thus, the swastika, as one of the varieties of the image of the solar circle, was practically found in all parts of the world, as a solar sign served as an indication of the direction of rotation of the Sun (from left to right) and was also used as a sign of well-being, “turning away from the left side.”

It was precisely because of this that the ancient Greeks, who learned about this sign from the peoples of Asia Minor, changed the turn of their “spider” to the left and at the same time changed its meaning, turning it into a sign of evil, decline, death, since for them it was “alien” . Since the Middle Ages, the swastika was completely forgotten and was only occasionally found as a purely ornamental motif without any meaning or meaning.

Only at the very end of the 19th century, probably on the basis of the erroneous and hasty conclusion of some German archaeologists and ethnographers that the swastika sign could be an indicator for identifying the Aryan peoples, since it is allegedly found only among them, in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century they began to use the swastika as anti-Semitic sign (for the first time in 1910), although later, at the end of the 20s, the works of English and Danish archaeologists were published who discovered the swastika not only in territories inhabited by Semitic peoples (in Mesopotamia and Palestine), but also directly on Hebrew sarcophagi.

For the first time, the swastika was used as a political sign-symbol on March 10-13, 1920 on the helmets of militants of the so-called “Erhard Brigade”, which formed the core of the “Volunteer Corps” - a monarchical paramilitary organization under the leadership of generals Ludendorff, Seeckt and Lützow, who carried out the Kapp putsch - counter-revolutionary a coup that installed the landowner W. Kapp as “premier” in Berlin. Although the Social Democratic government of Bauer fled ignominiously, the Kapp putsch was liquidated in five days by the 100,000-strong German Army created under the leadership of the German Communist Party. The authority of militaristic circles was then greatly undermined, and from that time on the swastika symbol began to mean a sign of right-wing extremism. Since 1923, on the eve of Hitler’s “Beer Hall Putsch” in Munich, the swastika has become the official emblem of Hitler’s fascist party, and since September 1935 - the main state emblem of Hitler’s Germany, included in its coat of arms and flag, as well as in the emblem of the Wehrmacht - an eagle holding in its claws wreath with swastika.

Only a swastika standing on an edge at 45°, with the ends directed to the right, can fit the definition of “Nazi” symbols. This very sign was on the state banner of National Socialist Germany from 1933 to 1945, as well as on the emblems of the civil and military services of this country. It is also advisable to call it not “swastika”, but Hakenkreuz, as the Nazis themselves did. The most accurate reference books consistently distinguish between the Hakenkreuz ("Nazi swastika") and the traditional swastikas in Asia and America, which stand at a 90° angle on the surface.

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Half a century has passed since the end of the Second World War, but the two letters SS (more precisely, of course, SS) are still synonymous for most with horror and terror. Thanks to the mass production of Hollywood and the Soviet film factories that tried to keep up with it, almost all of us are familiar with the black uniforms of the SS men and their emblem with a death's head. But the actual history of the SS is significantly...

"Ahnenerbe", translated from German - "Heritage of the Ancestors", is one of the most mysterious organizations of Nazi Germany. The true essence of this SS “scientific society” has long been eclipsed by myths. Most of our contemporaries imagine his activities in the films “The Last Crusade” and “Ark of the Covenant” from the Hollywood saga about Indiana Jones. Or - according to newspaper gossip. “Pravda,” for example, wrote at one time that a burial place of SS soldiers and officers was found in Ukraine, on which doctors from the Ahnenerbe conducted lethal experiments, trying to find their “third eye” and understand the psychophysical capabilities of true Aryans. There was nothing like that. But, unfortunately, the true story is even worse.

Three men met at SS headquarters on Prinz Albrechtstrasse in Berlin on July 1, 1935. Two were dressed in the smart black uniform invented for the “security squads” by Hugo Boss, and one was dressed in something between a priest’s cassock and an academician’s robe. The head of the Prussian Gestapo, Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler and Reichsbauernführer (“Imperial leader of the peasants”), German Minister of Food Richard Darre, came in ominous uniforms. The name of a man in a robe, similar to an elf from fairy tales, was then no less famous: philologist and ethnographer Dr. Hermann Wirth became famous as an expert in the secrets of the ancient Germans. In 1933, he claimed to have read the runic writings of the so-called Ura-Linda Chronicle, which supposedly tells the story of one Frisian family - through all generations, from the Stone Age. This German “Book of Veles” was always considered by serious scientists to be a fake of the 19th century, but our mystical-minded hero risked his reputation and recognized it as the original.

In the atmosphere of nationalistic frenzy that gripped the country after Hitler came to power, “reading the oldest German text” brought Wirth great fame. Soon he wrote the book “The Sacred Proto-Language of Humanity” and organized the traveling exhibition “Bearer of the Good,” of which he himself became the main exhibit. Dressed in “ritual clothes,” the philologist, showing remarkable acting talent, demonstrated to the public the rituals of “Siegfried’s” paganism that had “revealed to him.” The audience again liked the “Show in the Temple”.

It is not surprising that when Heinrich Himmler came up with the idea of ​​​​putting “Aryan science” at the service of his security detachment - the “Black Order”, he remembered the charismatic scientist - a member of the NSDAP (National Socialist German Workers' Party) since 1925. Here is the ideal candidate for the role of head of a “truly German” research institute!

The Reichsführer shared his idea with a colleague who, in the Third Reich, in addition to the Ministry of Food, also headed the SS Main Directorate for Race and Resettlement - RuSHA Rasse und Siedlungs Hauptamt (not to be confused with the RSHA - RSHA Reichssicherheitshauptamt - Main Directorate for Imperial Security!). In addition, he was considered one of the leading ideologists of Nazism, the creator of the well-known doctrine of “Blood and Soil.” SS Gruppenführer Darre understood Himmler at a glance. Wirth and his “science” will help them raise a new breed of people: Aryan superhuman SS men!

There was no need to ask the “client”. He immediately appreciated the opportunities opening up to him. The meeting on Albrechtstrasse culminated in the signing of a protocol on the creation of the Society for the Study of Ancient German History, Ideology and the Heritage of German Ancestors", since 1937 simply "The Heritage of the Ancestors", Ahnenerbe. Wirth became its president, Darre became its main sponsor, and Himmler became its curator.

SS breeders

The Third Reich was by its very nature a racist state, and the “problem of kinship” was very acute in it. But still, why did the SS leaders need to delve so deeply into the past, and even the spiritual one?

Here we come across an unexpected conclusion. Contrary to popular misconception, the ideology of Hitler and his henchmen had more “international” than narrowly nationalistic features. These people believed that there once existed an Aryan proto-race, to which humanity owes all its victories and discoveries. Due to natural and social disasters, the Aryans were scattered throughout the world, and their “noble blood” mixed with the “plebeian blood of inferior peoples.” So, in order to build an ideal state, it is necessary not only to destroy all the main “blood poisoners” - Jews and Gypsies. It is necessary to gather under his banner all those with “pure” blood - no matter in whose veins it flows: a German or, say, a Tibetan.

The “nationalism” of the Nazis, in particular, consisted in the fact that they considered Germany to be the place of residence of the largest number of “true Aryans.” But the rest of the Indo-European peoples also shared a certain percentage of “supermans” - not only the “racially close” Scandinavians and the British, but also everyone else, right down to the Slavs (these last ones are tiny, of course).

However, Himmler, whom the Fuhrer appointed leader of the SS in 1929, planned to turn his order into the prototype of an even more perfect racist power than Germany itself, as such. Into the experimental retort, where the reconstruction of the “master race” will begin. Through the efforts of the Reichsführer, over the course of six years, the security company of Hitler and other Nazi leaders grew to a 200,000-strong army of blond and blue-eyed “beasts.” From an insignificant unit within the “assault troops” of the SA (Sturm Abteilung), it turned into an independent paramilitary organization within the Nazi party. The entire Reich was divided into special areas - “abschnitte”, each of which supplied several “standards”, that is, SS regiments.

In everyday life, the SS men continued to remain mechanics, peasants or, say, journalists, but in their second and henceforth main life they became “Führers” of various ranks - members of the “black order” personally subordinate to Himmler and Hitler. Its main task was the selection of the “purebred elite”.

The search for the “chosen ones” could be carried out in two directions: sifting everyone through a sieve of “racial characteristics” or, having studied the history of the Aryans, detecting them selectively, thereby speeding up the process.

There was, however, another reason for delving into the past, which brought the Ahnenerbe to life. Certified agronomists Himmler and Darre considered themselves professional “breeders” and initially focused exclusively on “racial technology.” They were going to raise superhumans like elite wheat or breeding bulls. The RuSHA has long been working on mechanical methods for selecting “true Aryans”: measuring skulls, compiling tables of eye and hair color, and the like. But it was still clear that something was missing here. Not enough geist - spirit...

None of the leaders of the Reich fit truly Aryan parameters. Strong, tall, blue-eyed blondes with golden skin, a “long skull” and thin lips were absent from them. Just look at the photograph of Himmler himself, whom his former boss Gregor Strasser ingeniously dubbed the “half-dead shrew.” So, one day, during a social event, the Berlin beauty Frau Best directly asked the Reichsführer how he and other party “comrades” explain such a paradox of the discrepancy between the standards of the “breed” and reality. The SS chief replied: “Appearance is not the main thing. I, like the Fuhrer, have a truly Aryan brain and spirit.” The secrets of the “spirit and brain”, capable of “producing” Himmler’s “shrew” and Goebbels’ “monkey” into the heirs of Odin and Siegfried, were to be dealt with by Hermann Wirth and like-minded people.

Noble race

Since the late 18th century, scientists established the relationship of dozens of languages ​​from Ireland to India with the same Sanskrit, they have been looking for a historical explanation for this phenomenon. Back in 1808, Friedrich Schlegel wrote that, obviously, many thousands of years ago, a certain proto-people, whose homeland was the Himalayas, conquered India, Persia, all of Europe and created great ancient civilizations everywhere. The famous philologist gave him the name “Aryans”, or “Aryans”, which means “noble” in Sanskrit. In addition, he argued that it was the Germans who most of all had the right to be called the heirs of these “nobles.” However, in essence, a harmless romantic who adored his Jewish wife, could not even in a nightmare imagine where the logic of his studies would lead.

By the beginning of the twentieth century, the “Aryan theory”, having absorbed the teachings of the Frenchman Gobineau and the Englishman Chamberlain, turned into the “Nordic theory”. German philology now argued that Schlegel had made one mistake: the Indo-European languages ​​did not come from India to Europe, but, on the contrary, from Europe to India. The homeland of the Aryans is not the Himalayas, but Scandinavia and Northern Germany, which is why they should be called the “Nordic race”.

Wirth, of course, also declared himself an ardent “Nordicist”. A Dutchman who was inflamed with love for Germany and fought on its side in the First World War, he firmly believed that “light came to the world from the North.” Himmler, who since childhood was fond of the ancient Germanic and Scandinavian epics and considered the “Song of the Nibelungs” and the “Edda” “repositories of ancient wisdom,” listened with delight to the eloquent scientist. As a contemporary wrote, “Wirth is a real magician who hears the beating of ancient hearts across millennia and makes stones speak.” And this was a most valuable skill. After all, only stones, or rather, rock writings, could tell about the mythical ancient race. If the Egyptian or Sumerian civilizations left behind majestic ruins and a huge number of texts, then nothing remained of the “Empire of the North” that the Nazis talked so much about.

The head of Ahnenerbe said that the answer to this mystery lies at the bottom of the sea. The ancestral home of the Aryans is the mythical Atlantis, which Plato wrote about, and it was located in the North Atlantic. Only Iceland, Greenland, the Canary Islands and the Azores survived from the continent that went under water. The remnants of the “Nordic race” scattered throughout the world. However, in Sweden, fortunately, rock runic inscriptions have been preserved. By deciphering this “world’s oldest writing,” you can learn the secrets of the Atlantean Aryans. Naturally, therefore, the first research unit of Ahnenerbe was the Department for the Study of Letters and Symbols, and the priority project was an expedition to the Boguslän region in Sweden. Herman Wirth decided to take casts of the writings carved into the rocks on the shores of the picturesque fjords.

The entire organizational side of the matter fell on the shoulders of Wolfram Sievers, the long-time secretary of the Dutch philologist, whom the patron appointed executive director of the Ancestors' Heritage. The instructions for maintaining the strictest secrecy of the work were written personally by the Reichsführer SS: no swastikas, no talk about politics. Himmler did not want to draw attention to the first event of his “scientists”. However, you can’t hide an awl in a bag: rumors have already spread across Europe that the Nazis were busy “searching for roots”...

Wirth himself turned out to be a poor organizer, but a tireless field researcher. Working day and night, he created the world's finest collection of casts of Scandinavian cave paintings. However... instead of a triumphant meeting in the fall of 1936 in Berlin, disgrace awaited him. It turned out that while he was climbing the rocks, Hitler made a speech at the September party congress in Nuremberg: “We have nothing in common with those elements who perceive National Socialism only in terms of medieval heresies and ancient sagas, with those who hide behind vague “ Nordic phraseology and bases his research on the theory of the mythical culture of Atlantis. National Socialism resolutely dissociates itself from this “science” of Bruderstrasse!” Well, and so on.

The Ahnenerbe headquarters was located on Bruderstrasse in the capital of the Reich, and Wirth was easily discernible as a proponent of the Atlantis theory. Himmler, who was on a political rise and became head of the entire German police force in June of that year, did not want to risk his career. He not only removed the romantic Dutchman from the presidential post and removed his supporters from the “Ancestral Heritage”, but also changed even the “compromised” address of the society. The SS “quartermasters” confiscated a suitable estate from a Jewish family, and the Ahnenerbe moved to the fashionable Berlin district of Dahlem, on Pücklerstrasse, closer to the mansion of the curator himself. After the “Atlantic” pogrom (that very accusatory speech of the Fuhrer), only Sievers survived, who betrayed his patron in time and urgently found a new candidate for such. In February 1937, the organization was headed by Walter Wüst, a professor at the University of Munich.

Battles of the “heirs”

It is difficult to imagine a person more unlike Wirth than this Wüst. If the Dutchman was a “free scientist”, never held university chairs and did not tolerate any control over himself, then the Bavarian immediately showed himself to be an obedient academic careerist. The author of monographs on the problems of Iran and India, he “went to the top” by making a report on the topic “Mein Kampf” of the Fuhrer as a mirror of the Aryan worldview.” The respectable and pedantic Nazi orientalist was ideally suited to the role of the “serious scientist” who replaced the “charlatan.” The romantic period in the history of the “Heritage of Ancestors” has ended, and the bureaucratic period has begun.

It was not for nothing that Himmler was considered an unsurpassed master of intrigue. Thus, Hitler’s Nuremberg speech, which the enemies of the Reichsführer (for example, the famous author of “The Myth of the 20th Century” Alfred Rosenberg) perceived as his defeat, he turned to his advantage. Not only did he get rid of the unpredictable “bohemian” philologist, whom at the beginning of 1936 he literally had to buy out of debt by paying 84,000 Reichsmarks to creditors from the SS treasury, but he also blamed all the “mistakes” on Darre, who by that time had disagreed with him in his views on the role of the "black order". The Reichsbauernfuhrer was going to use the “purebred elite” to organize settlements of “armed peasants” inside Germany, living according to the customs of the ancient Germans. Himmler was both for customs and for “peasants,” but believed that they had nothing to do in Germany. They will form a “golden Aryan fund” for the colonization of Slavic lands in the East. Unlike the peaceful Darre, “meek Henry” was eager to fight. In general, he saw in himself a new incarnation of the “conqueror of the Slavs,” the Saxon Duke Heinrich the Fowler and the true leader of the “Drang nach Osten,” the “throw to the East,” which Hitler promised in “Mein Kampf.” Darre and his people were removed from the “Heritage of Ancestors” and lost all influence in RuSKhA...

In 1935, the Ahnenerbe was created as a non-governmental scientific society (“verein”) and initially did not form part of the Nazi state machine. It was, rather, a “club of interests” of a variety of people engaged in pseudo-scientific research in the field of German history and philology, and existed on private donations and “grants” from the Ministry of Food. Until 1937, in the “Heritage of the Ancestors” documents, the same Himmler, for example, was mentioned exclusively as a “certified agronomist” and not as Reichsführer SS. Now this “agronomist” began, step by step, to build “verein” into his “state within a state.” In October 1937, he instructed the chief of his personal staff, Gruppenführer Karl Wolf (a popular character in Seventeen Moments of Spring), to ensure “uniformity in the understanding of scientific issues between the SS and the Ahnenerbe.” Many employees of the company combined work there with service in the Russian Agricultural Academy, receiving officer ranks.

Having conquered the “Heritage” for himself, the Reichsführer began through it to spread the influence of the “black order” on German science in the same way as through the SS troops (Waffen) he tried to take control of the Wehrmacht, and through the SD (Sicherheitsdienst) - intelligence. In November 1938, Himmler signed a secret directive “on the penetration of the Ahnenerbe into German higher educational institutions,” and in May 1939, Wüst organized a multi-day scientific conference in Kiel under the auspices of the “Heritage of the Ancestors”, in which he convinced many of the best German scientists to take part. , primarily humanists. Wüst, a respectable dean from the University of Munich, truly managed to break the ice of mistrust in the academic community towards the “dilettantes and charlatans” of the “Ancestors' Heritage.” Himmler even promised venerable archaeologists, ethnographers, philologists and doctors protection from “soulless bureaucrats” from the Ministry of Education and “party dogmatists” from the ideological department of the NSDAP, which was headed by Rosenberg.

The new headquarters of the society on Pücklerstrasse in Berlin-Dahlem turned into something like the presidium of the SS Academy of Sciences, and “research departments” of various profiles were feverishly created throughout Germany. These were the prototypes of fifty institutes that were eventually to occupy a leading position in German science. In March 1937, a new Ahnenerbe charter was adopted. The same executive director Sievers was responsible for the administrative side of the matter, scientific leadership was provided by President Wüst, and the ideology of society and the main directions of research were determined by Himmler himself - now not just a curator, but “chairman of the board of curators.” He determined by drawing the basic ideas of his “new science” from the rich reservoir of the so-called “Völkischideology,” folk ideology. This was the name in Reich jargon for an explosive mixture of the philosophy of German romantics, racial theory and occultism, where, in turn, the most important role was played by the mystical insights of the Russian Helena Blavatsky and the above-mentioned doctrine of the struggle of races by the Englishman Huston Chamberlain.

Lur and lyre

After the reorganization of the "Ancestral Heritage", Himmler, in full accordance with his aspirations, made sure that most of the projects served the coming great migration of "true Aryans" to the East. For example, the “department of German architecture” studied the structure of the villages of the ancient Germans, and the results were transferred to the Russian Agricultural Academy, where, on their basis, model settlements were designed for “peasant soldiers” in new lands. Around the “Führer’s house,” built like a Scandinavian “thing” - a hall of public assembly, there was a shooting range, a gym and a cemetery with a sanctuary for the worship of ancestors. The “Department of Topography and Landscape” explained how to choose the best places for “Aryan villages” - the patron demanded that all “Nordic experience” in this matter be summarized. The “Department of Legal History” carefully studied ancient German laws and customs, even to the point of court battles, so that the SS colonists could take advantage of the “wisdom of the ancients.” The “Department of Biology of Heredity” found out all the details of the sexual practice of the Germans, recommending, for example, actively conceiving children at the time of the winter and summer solstice - a lot of people would be needed to develop new territories. The “Department of Traditional Medicine” studied the properties of medicinal herbs that traditional medicine did not recognize - and compiled a map of the growth of such “tops” and “roots” throughout Eurasia. The meteorology department tried to combine modern scientific methods and “folk signs” for long-term weather forecasting over the widest possible geographical areas.

Humanitarian units did not directly connect their activities with the upcoming expansion, but they also performed exciting tasks. The “Department of Folk Legends, Fairy Tales and Sagas” decided what and when “true Aryan” mothers should read to their babies at night. From morning to evening, the “Department of Music” proved to the German people that the “Nordic race” gave the world a “harmony of sounds” that opposed the “Jewish cacophony.” His collaborators reconstructed the ancient Germanic string instrument "luhr", claiming that it was older than the Greek lyre. The sentimental Reichsführer SS himself played these “Nordic harps” in the evenings, dreaming of the times when they would sound in SS villages somewhere in the Crimea...

"Our people!"

However, despite the abundance of “applied research”, the main business of the Ahnenerbe still remained building the “Aryan picture of the world”, and the most large-scale undertaking of the society before the war itself was field work in Tibet. Their inspiration was, following his main profession, Walter Wüst himself, who managed to literally infect Himmler with the East. Naturally, with the right ideological sauce. Let's say he introduced the Reichsführer to the Rig Veda, claiming that in the 10th century BC. e. this great book was written not by the ancient Indians, but by the “Nordic bards” who came to the banks of the Ganges from the forests of Westphalia. The SS chief learned many verses from it by heart, and also carried the Bhagavad Gita with him everywhere, trying to comprehend the secrets of Indian (that is, excuse me, Aryan) philosophy, and became seriously interested in yoga.

Then Wüst introduced the boss to the young zoologist Ernst Schaefer, already famous for his travels to the Pamirs, China and Siberia. After listening to his stories about the blue-eyed blond man from whom Genghis Khan descended, about the Aryan appearance of some tribes of Afghanistan and the ancient burial grounds of the “master race” in Tibet, Himmler exclaimed: “So these are our people!”

And in the summer of 1938, the newly-minted Obersturmführer (senior lieutenant) Schäfer set out with a group of Ahnenerbe employees, whose pith helmets were decorated with double lightning (SS emblem), from Berlin to Lhasa. Six months later, they were the first Germans to see this holy city.

A fanatical scientist who later served as the prototype for Ian Fleming for James Bond's main enemy, Ernst Blofeld, the leader of the expedition was, as they say, a real "macho" who did not recognize any barriers. In the personal files of people like him, the personnel officers of the “Black Order” wrote: “A true Aryan. The character is Nordic." Schaefer, without much difficulty, managed to bypass the ban on visiting Tibet by the authorities of British India, who controlled the approaches to the Himalayas - he simply appeased the monks from the entourage of the young Dalailama with gifts and made his way across the border surrounded by them.

Throughout Lhasa itself, the Germans solemnly carried a banner with a swastika during a procession in honor of the Buddhist New Year. Then they were received by the regent of the exotic theocratic Tibetan state, Reting Rimpoche, who gave them a letter for Hitler and even gave them 108 volumes of “Ganjur” - the ancient code of Lamaism. Outside the native mountains there were only three copies of this sacred book.

Finally, the time came to get down to business, and the members of the expedition worked 20 hours a day: they filmed rituals in monasteries and simply the life of the holy capital, collected herbariums, purchased all kinds of living creatures (and the monks made it a condition that the animals should survive, so they had to carry take a whole zoo to the Reich). To make the “armed peasants” Himmler dreamed of happy, Schäfer obtained samples of highland Tibetan wheat that ripened in 60 days. “Racial hygiene” specialist Bruno Beger not only measured hundreds of Tibetan skulls with his compasses, but also persuaded several dozen of their owners to provide him with faces for casts. The Ahnenerbe was looking for evidence of an anatomical connection between the local aristocracy and the “Nordic race.” Finally, the persistent Obersturmführer even obtained permission to explore the Yarlung Valley, where, as legend says, the first Tibetan rulers descended from heaven by rope and where he expected to find traces of the notorious Shambhala. Whether he found it or not - history and the seeker himself are silent...

In the footsteps of the snowy Aryan

The only thing Schaefer failed to do was catch Bigfoot. Why did the SS need him? The fact is that the Tibetan journey was supposed to be only the first “geopolitical megaproject” of Wüst. After the failure of the “Atlantic theory,” Himmler really wanted to somehow please Hitler, who was skeptical about the “Nordic” leaps of his “faithful Heinrich.” The Fuhrer, a man, oddly enough, very sober-minded in practical matters, believed that there was no point in messing with the legacy of the ancient Germans, who did not create anything significant. To convince him of all this SS “science fiction”, evidence was required. In particular, Hitler was fascinated by the idea of ​​collisions of our planet with icy meteorites that took place in ancient times and destroyed the Aryan civilization - it was this existence that Schaefer tried to support with his research in Tibet.

And this so-called “theory of world ice” was formulated by a certain Austrian refrigerator engineer Hans Herbiger (so Vladimir Sorokin with his novel “Ice” had a predecessor). Now the Nazis “officially” assigned him the role of the first physicist of the twentieth century (in the eyes of the rest of the world, this was the Jew Einstein). According to him, when icy meteorites entered the earth's atmosphere, the gravitational field created giant waves that washed away all life from the land. The last time such a catastrophe allegedly occurred was only 10 thousand years ago. The ancient flora and fauna, as well as the remnants of the Aryans, who had psychic abilities, could only survive in the highest mountainous regions, such as Tibet or the Bolivian Andes. It was these that the figures from Ahnenerbe were looking for in the Himalayas. It’s just not clear who Schaefer and Himmler considered Bigfoot - a “true Aryan” or a prehistoric animal?..

In any case, the expedition returned in triumph to Berlin in August 1939 - the Reichsführer personally met it at the airfield, and the SS Obersturmführer became a national hero of Germany, something between Sheatherhand from the novels about Winneta and the same Indiana Jones.

However, the second big scientific trip - to Lake Titicaca, where Edmund Kiss, an employee of the Department of the Theory of World Ice, was supposed to conduct large-scale studies of the ruins of the ancient city of Tiahuanaco, using aviation and bathyscaphes, did not take place. The Second World War took place.

Ahnenerbe employees no longer traveled to distant exotic countries, but only to territories occupied by the Wehrmacht. Special teams of the “Heritage of Ancestors” slowly robbed museums and libraries in Poland, France, Yugoslavia, and the USSR. True, by agreement with Hitler and Goering, they left them works of fine art, but they had complete control over ethnographic and especially archaeological materials.

Artifacts of the “Department of Archeology”

This science remained one of the priority areas for the Society from its founding until its dissolution. After all, there was a hunt for the secrets of the “Nordic race”, and any clay shard that the Aryan ancestors could touch was paganly considered as a “key” to their secrets and a shrine. Himmler was delirious with the idea of ​​using the parapsychological abilities “dormant” in the “heirs” to serve Nazism. Just as the Italian Renaissance, starting from antiquity, gave birth to the entire culture of the New Age, the Nazi “Renaissance” had to start from the ancient Aryan era. As always, Ahnenerbe is at the forefront of searches and experiments.

Much of the excavation of ancient settlements in the Reich territory was the responsibility of its "Department of Archaeology", which was headed by one of the world's best specialists in Gothic and Viking cultures, Dr. Herbert Jankuhn. And at the beginning of 1937, the “Heritage of the Ancestors” took control of the main archaeological treasure of the country - Externsteine, a ridge of bizarre rocks on the shore of one of the lakes in the Teutoburg Forest. Several generations of German nationalists believed that it was there that the sanctuary of the Cherusci tribe, led by their leader Arminius, defeated the best legions of Octavian Augustus nearby. This victory was a turning point in European antiquity: in the fight against the Germans, Rome moved from attack to defense. In Externstein, supposedly until the 8th century, the Saxons and other descendants of the Cherusci worshiped the sacred Irminsul tree, which was cut down only by the Franks under Charlemagne.

In 1939, the entire area, which had previously served as a favorite party place for Westphalian residents, was declared “forbidden.” It was taken under the protection of SS troops, and archaeologists from Ahnenerbe began large-scale excavations.

Himmler was “secret” for good reason. Although Julius Andre, a professor at the University of Münster, claimed to have found “traces of sacrificial fires,” he was unable to find convincing evidence of the existence of any pagan sanctuary at Externstein. Naturally, this did not prevent the Reichsfuehrer from continuing to consider the picturesque rocks a “sacred place”, the secrets of which are still inaccessible to understanding. Moreover, it received the status of a “Sanctuary of the SS”, and the “Black Order” held its ritual ceremonies here on the day of the summer solstice, as well as fantastic theatrical mysteries like the “Triumph of the Germans over the Egyptians.”

The main “curator” believed that the archaeological pits were an ideal place for the “unity” of the SS men with their Aryan ancestors. Hitler, although he ridiculed the “search for old pots,” also greatly appreciated the “paganism” of the SS, invented on the basis of the ancient German rites studied in the Ahnenerbe. As is known, the Fuhrer considered Christianity, which was the worst enemy of Nazism after communism, which he called “pre-Bolshevism” (he clarified, however, that Jesus, the son of a Roman legionnaire and a “true Aryan,” said and did everything correctly, but the evil Jew Apostle Paul perverted his teaching). The “faith of savages who worship the forces of nature”, revived by “faithful Henry,” is better than the “shameful, softening religiosity of the Germans.” “Not one of the SS men goes to church, and yet they go to their death with a calm soul,” the Reich leader stated with satisfaction.

In Wewelsburg Castle (Westphalia), with the blessing of Hitler, the construction of the “Vatican” of a new faith even began. And the role of the “Heritage of the Ancestors” in this belief of the “true Aryans”, deprived not only of faith in God, but also of the “chimera of morality”, was enormous...

From the first days of the Society’s existence, philologists, archaeologists, ethnographers and historians who served in it wrote educational programs for the SS, prepared slide shows and made “scientific propaganda” films. Every SS man was required to be taught the Edda and rune reading. The Ahnenerbe hastily developed rituals for weddings, “blessing” of newborns (instead of baptism), presenting weapons to recruits, and funerals. By the way, at the front, the dead members of the “order” were buried in special cemeteries and instead of a cross, a death rune was depicted on the graves. Sonderkommando fighters and concentration camp guards were given lectures that “scientifically” substantiated the total destruction of the enemies of the Reich. Referring to the results of excavations, the same doctor Yankun, for example, argued that the ancient Germans mercilessly drowned traitors in the swamps with all their households, as well as homosexuals and apostates. And by 1942, having previously searched for traces of the mythical Gothic Empire in the Crimea (unsuccessfully), he became so “inflamed” that he asked to enlist himself as an intelligence officer in the SS Viking division, where he had previously conducted “cultural and political education.”

In fact, when allowing his gallant archaeologist to remain at the front, Himmler made an exception. The smart heads from the “Heritage of Ancestors” had to forge victory in the rear. In 1941, the company was included in the personal headquarters of the Reichsführer SS, and all its activities finally switched to a military footing. Many projects, such as the “Role of the Forest in the Life of the Ancient Germans,” were discontinued, and in their place the “Institute of Military Research” appeared. It was headed by the same unsinkable executive director Wolfram Sievers.

Nazi "Vatican"
Back in 1934, 30 kilometers from Externsteine, in the Teutoburg Forest, Heinrich Himmler rented the ancient Wewelsburg castle for a nominal fee. There he was going to set up the center of the Nazi “new religion”, which was created in the depths of the SS as a synthesis of the paganism of the ancient Germans, true Christianity, not yet “poisoned by the Jews”, and the occultism of the 19th century. The location for the SS “Vatican” was chosen by Brigadeführer (Major General) Karl Maria Wiligut, who called himself by the ancient German name Weistor. This elderly retired colonel of the Austro-Hungarian army claimed to come from a family of magicians and trace his ancestry back to the leader Arminius himself, the conqueror of the Romans. The castle has exactly the same triangular shape as the legendary Montsegur fortress in France, where the last Cathars took refuge, taking the secret of the “Holy Grail” with them to the grave. It was restored by prisoners of a concentration camp created nearby specifically for this purpose. The castle houses an archaeological museum and the SS Nordic Academy. In July 1940, Hitler approved the state plan for the reconstruction of Wewelsburg. It was supposed to last twenty years and cost 250 million Reichsmarks - 1 billion 250 million dollars at today's exchange rate. According to the plan of the architect Hermann Bartels, the triangle of the castle fit into a gigantic ring of buildings surrounded by a triple fortress wall 15 meters high. Weistor pointed out that all this symbolizes the “Spear of Destiny” inscribed in the “Grail” cup, and exactly corresponds to the shape of the silver Death’s Head ring, which was given to each member of the SS. The complex of buildings next to the “Star Temple” of “new paganism” housed the Library of Occultism and the Institute of Ancient History. The castle itself had apartments for all twelve (!) Obergruppenführers (top generals) of the SS. In Himmler’s rune-painted office there was kept a copy of the “Spear of Destiny” itself, which was used to pierce the “true Aryan” Christ. The original of this relic was in the Habsburg treasury in Vienna, but had to be transferred to Wewelsburg after its reconstruction. The semantic center of the SS “Vatican” was supposed to be the northern tower of the triangle castle, aimed at the mystical island of Thule in the Arctic. They managed to build the lower hall “Valhalla” (in honor of the place where the Scandinavian gods and heroes feasted) with an eternal fire in the middle and a crypt-tomb designed according to the type of ancient Mycenaean tombs. She represented Niflheim - the world of the dead from the ancient sagas. Here the deceased Obergruppenführers and the rings of all members of the “black order” were supposed to rest after their owners left for another world. And on the floor above they built the twelve-column Midgard - the world of the living. Sitting at the round table, twelve Obergruppenführers, knights of the “black order”, would decide the destinies of humanity here. The northern tower was to be crowned by the “Hall of the Grail”, which at the same time symbolized the ancient Germanic world of the gods - Asgard. The search for the legendary bowl for this “sanctuary” was carried out by Weistor’s student and Ahnenerbe employee Otto Rahn. Covered by a huge dome cut through by 48 windows, the “Grail Hall” was intended for religious meditation of the SS Reichsführer and his immediate circle. The unfinished Wewelsburg Castle was set on fire by a special SS team in April 1945. But “Valhalla” and “The Hall of the Knights of the Round Table” have survived to this day. On the floor there you can still see the “Black Sun”, woven from 12 runes of victory - a symbol of the “new order”, which, fortunately, was not established on Earth by the “supermen” from the SS.

Rusher Conveyor

The Reichsführer's demand to reveal the secret of the striking fire hammer of the Scandinavian god Thor gave rise to the project of the “electric gun”. Ahnenerbe, together with the Elemag company, began preparing drawings of a giant lightning rod that collects lightning energy. With its help, it was necessary to “cut down” all the enemy’s electrical appliances in the front-line zone. This project, however, was considered technically unfeasible by physicists from the Imperial Research Committee.

Attempts to use telepathy as a new means of communication, as well as to extract gold from the waters of the Rhine using the methods of “Aryan chemistry,” also ended in nothing.

The exact sciences did not want to succumb to the “scientific” magicians from “The Heritage of Ancestors”. The only area in which the Sievers Institute managed to “please” Himmler with success was medicine, or more precisely, experiments on people. The experiments of Ahnenerbe employees in Dachau began even before the war. In April 1939, Munich doctor Sigmund Rascher began testing his cancer cure on prisoners. However, this fanatic really took off in February 1942, when a high-pressure chamber was built in his “favorite” concentration camp. Rascher conducted experiments there in order to develop means of protection and treatment for pilots and submariners. The prisoners were “tested for strength” by calmly observing their suffering through a special window. Many times the Reichsführer himself “admired” the experiments in company with Sievers.

Even later, the terrible doctor took up the problem of hypothermia. Now the unfortunate people were placed in baths with ice water, brought to a half-dead state, and then they tried to “bring them back to life” in various ways (for example, they even used prostitutes from a brothel to warm them up). And when it occurred to Rusher to look for the best antiseptic, they began to shoot at people at point-blank range, and then treat the wounds with various means, including apple syrup. The conveyor belt of torture, of which thousands of prisoners became victims, was stopped in 1944 only by the unexpected arrest of the SS experimenter himself.

Himmler was infuriated by the news that in his free time, an SS Hauptsturmführer (captain) was abducting children on the streets of Munich. The doctor passed off the eight babies he stole as children from his 52-year-old wife. Allegedly, the miracle pills he developed inspired the old woman Caroline Rusher to give birth to twins and triplets of “true Aryan” boys! By order of Himmler, the heroine mother was hanged in Ravensbrück, and the pioneering father received a bullet in the back of the head in the very Dachau where he tortured prisoners.

Another “hero of the medical front” was the Strasbourg surgeon August Hirt, who was looking for an antidote to poisonous gases, condemning hundreds of people to painful death. But the Reichsführer’s special favor was brought to him by the fact that, together with the “racial specialist” Bruno Beger, who became famous in Tibet, he created a collection of Jewish skeletons. Beger selected, measured and subjected Auschwitz prisoners to various studies, and Hirt then killed them in a gas chamber and dissected the corpses using his own methods. Such a terrible “catalogue” was supposed to become an ideal indicator of “signs of Jewishness” - even in the third and fourth generations...

When the Americans captured Strasbourg at the end of 1944, they found the corpses of 86 men, women and children floating in formaldehyde, not yet fully “processed”, in the Hirt clinic. Together with the Ahnenerbe documents found after the war in one of the caves in the Bavarian Alps, this terrible find became the main evidence for the prosecution in the cases of the murderous doctors from the “Legacy of the Ancestors”.

The executive director of the society, Wolfram Sievers, was sentenced to hanging by the Nuremberg Military Tribunal. Hirt (like Himmler, in fact) managed to commit suicide before the trial.

However, hundreds of philologists and historians from the Ahnenerbe escaped with only a temporary ban on professional activities. Foaming at the mouth, they argued that they were romantics deceived by the Nazi regime and were simply carried away by the ancient German past. However, the myths they created about this past, unfortunately, turned into a threat to humanity, arming the “black order” with a “new religion.” Therefore, the Nuremberg Tribunal declared Ancestral Heritage a criminal organization. History has pronounced its verdict on Ahnenerbe.

Ahnenerbe. The terrible secret of the Third Reich Prokopyev Anton

Ahnenerbe structure

Ahnenerbe structure

For the Nazis, it was of great importance to form a certain super-structure that would be deeply rooted in occult theory, but would also work properly as a bureaucratic machine...

The Ahnenerbe society and the SS Order closely associated with it became such a structure.

According to Bergier, “the organization of the SS was entrusted to Himmler. But not as a security and police department, but as a real monastic order with a hierarchy of degrees, starting from the bottom, from the “secular brothers”. The highest level was formed by the leaders of the Black Order, initiated into all the secrets of the SS, whose existence, however, was never officially recognized by the Nazi government. Even in the party leadership they pointedly and in a low voice referred to “those involved in the inner circle”, and that’s all.

The secret doctrine of the Black Order, never set forth in documents, was based - we believe it to be proven - on the belief in the existence of Overlords infinitely more powerful than can be imagined.

Religions distinguish between theology, considered as a science accessible to understanding by reason, and mysticism, comprehended intuitively, that is, through faith. The works of the Ahnenerbe, which will be discussed further, can be considered as the theological, and the Black Order - the mystical aspect of the religion of the Thule Lords.

Since 1934, when all the activities of the Nazi Party in the matter of national unity and the sphere of propaganda change direction, or, more precisely, are more strictly oriented by the leaders in relation to the secret doctrine, we are no longer faced with a national political movement. Let the propaganda theses remain generally the same - this is only an appearance, only noise that captivates and captivates the masses, describing the immediate goals, behind which, however, something completely different is hidden.

“It goes without saying,” wrote Petel, “only a very narrow circle of the highest ranks and major dignitaries of the SS knew with sufficient completeness both the theory and the meaning of the requirements that each member of the order was obliged to apply to himself and his environment. Members of the various lower and "preparatory" units learned about the peculiarity of their situation only after they were prohibited from marrying without the permission of the leadership and after they were placed under the jurisdiction of the SS. The SS tribunals acted with extreme severity, but their main goal was not to maintain discipline, but to remove SS members from the jurisdiction of state and party authorities. From now on, the members of the Order had no other duty left than to obey its laws, forgetting about all personal life.”

According to the hierarchy, the true SS were the bearers of the “death’s head”.

The Waffen SS Corps and some other formations created as imitations of the SS cannot be mixed with them.

Those who served in such units were, in terms of dedication, similar to monastery servants.

Warrior monks - SS men with a "death's head" - were initiated in Burg schools. The most deserving ones ended up in Burgi after completing a course at the Napola preparatory schools.

The ceremony at which the SS runes were received must have been quite reminiscent of the description given by Reinhold Schneider, talking about the vows of the knights of the Teutonic Order. This ceremony took place in Marienburg in the Remter hall.

“They came from different countries, different faces, different languages, having gone through a life full of excitement. They entered the secluded severity of this castle, leaving behind their shields that had belonged to their ancestors of at least the fourth generation. They entered the reserved part of the castle. Now their coat of arms was made of a cross, commanding the conduct of the most important of wars, which leads to eternal life.”

The world is matter that needs to be transformed in order to release energy from it. Concentrated by magicians, it is capable of attracting External Forces, the Higher Unknowns, and the Lords of the Cosmos. The authors emphasize that the activities of the SS were not caused by any political or military necessity. Initiatory classes of Nazi magic take place in concentration camps.

These are altars where mass sacrifices are made to gain the favor of the Powers for the cause of the Black Order.

Concentration camps are also a symbolic act, a model of a future world in which all peoples will be torn from their roots, deprived of everything, turned into a nomadic rabble, into absolute raw material to feed the color of man - the highest man communing with the gods.

This model, this model is the reverse model (as Barbier de Aurevilly said: “hell is heaven in reverse”) of the planet that became the field of the magical plows of the Black Order.

In the teaching of the Burgs, part of this doctrine was conveyed by the following formula:

“There is only the Cosmos or the Universe, a living being. All things, all beings, including humans, are only different forms of universal living things multiplying in time.”

We do not yet truly live until we have realized the Being that surrounds us, unites us and uses us to prepare other forms.

The act of creation is not completed. The cosmic spirit is not resting yet, let us be attentive to its calls, transmitted by the gods to us, cruel magicians, bakers, kneading bleeding and blind human dough! The ovens of Auschwitz are a ritual.

At the Nuremberg trials, SS Colonel Sievers limited himself to a formal and purely rational defense.

Before entering the execution chamber, he asked permission to perform his cult for the last time, to offer secret prayers.

Having repaid his debt to an unknown god, he dispassionately put his neck in the noose.

He was the general director of Ahnenerbe and it was for this that he received a death sentence. The Ahnenerbe, a scientific institute, was founded as a private organization by Friedrich Guilscher.

Here the authors point out connections between some people: Guilscher, Sievers' spiritual father and teacher, was a friend of the Swedish explorer Sven Hedin. The latter, in turn, maintained close relations with Karl Gaushofer.

The famous Swedish traveler Sven Hedin, a specialist in the Far East, lived for a long time in Tibet and played the role of an important intermediary in the creation of Nazi esoteric doctrines.

Professor Guilscher himself was never a party member and maintained relations with the Jewish philosopher Martin Buber.

But his profound theses are adjacent to the “magical” provisions of the masters of National Socialism. Guilscher founded the Ahnenerbe in 1933.

Two years later, Himmler, after founding the Black Order, turned the Ahnenerbe into a state institution officially attached to the order. The following goals were announced:

“Research in the field of localization of the spirit, deeds, heritage of the Indo-Germanic race.

Popularization of research results in an accessible and interesting form for the general public. The work is carried out in full compliance with scientific methods and scientific precision.”

Ahnenerbe was so successful that in January 1939, Heinrich Himmler included the institute into the SS, and its leader became part of the Reichsführer’s personal headquarters. By this time, Ahnenerbe had 50 scientific institutes, the activities of which were coordinated by Professor Wurst, a specialist in ancient cult texts, who headed the department of Sanskrit at the University of Munich.

Calculations seem quite probable, according to which Germany spent much more on the work of the entire Ahnenerbe system than the United States spent on the production of the atomic bomb. The research was carried out on a colossal, mind-boggling scale, covering the spectrum from purely scientific work in the original sense of the word, to the study of the practice of the occult, to the vivisection of prisoners, to espionage on secret societies. For example, negotiations were held with Skorzeny about organizing an expedition, the purpose of which was to steal... the Holy Grail. Himmler created a special department of the intelligence service, which was entrusted with research into the “area of ​​the supernatural.”

The list of problems, the study of which required huge expenses from the Ahnenerbe, is amazing: the presence of the Brotherhood of the Rose and Cross, the symbolic significance of the rejection of the harp in the music of Ulster, the occult significance of the Gothic towers of Oxford, the occult significance of top hats at Eton... When the German army was preparing Before the evacuation from Naples, Himmler sent order after order so that they would not forget to remove the massive tombstone of the last of the Hohenzollerns. In 1943, shortly after the fall of Mussolini, the Reichsführer gathered six of Germany's leading occultists in a villa outside Berlin to use their secret methods to discover the place where the Duce was being held. Meetings of the General Staff began with sessions of yogic concentration.

Ahnenerbe established connections with Tibet and sent expeditions there. Acting on orders from Sievers, Dr. Schaeffer established numerous contacts with monasteries. He brought to Munich for “scientific research” “Aryan” horses and “Aryan” bees, collecting supposedly special honey.

During the war, Sievers organized horrific experiments on people in concentration camps.

Detailed descriptions of the “work” of the Ahnenerbe became the subject of many “black books” published by investigative commissions of various governments.

The military actions enriched the Ahnenerbe system with the “Institute for Scientific Research of National Defense”. The Institute was given the right to "take advantage of all the opportunities that can be derived from the Dachau concentration camp."

Professor Girt, who headed the work of this institute, assembled a “collection of typical Israeli skeletons.” Sievers ordered the armies invading Russia to collect a collection of skulls of “Jewish commissars.”

Professor Guilscher, as already mentioned, played an important role in the development of the secret doctrine, outside of which the position of Sievers, like the position of many other Nazi leaders, and not only them, remains incomprehensible.

But until Nurnierg struck, the society was actively functioning.

Its structure was so varied that we could not resist the temptation to reproduce here a list of sections of this “occult company” of national importance.

Dry lines of an encyclopedia can sometimes say more than the deep research of a meticulous and attentive historian.

A simple listing of departments and subdepartments, followed by tens of millions of ruined lives in the name of a vague and dark idea of ​​Aryan triumph.

Society structure

President: Heinrich Himmler

Director, scientific curator: Walter Wüst

Administration: Wolfram Sievers

Financial management: Fitzner.

Ancestors Heritage Foundation: Bruno Halcke

Publishing house of the Heritage of Ancestors Foundation.

Head - Friedhelm Kaiser. It was located in the Dahlem district of Berlin.

According to various sources, the number of departments of the “Heritage of Ancestors” ranges from 13 to 50, which is associated with the gradual growth of the organization.

Thirty-five scientific departments were under the direction of Professor Fuest from Munich.

List of departments:

Astronomy Research Department.

Head - Philip Fauth

Biology Research Department.

Head - Walter Greite

Research Department of Botany.

Head - Baron Philipp von Lutzelburg

Research Department of Geology and Mineralogy.

Director - Rolf Hoehne

Excavation Research Department.

Head - Rolf Hoehne, then Hans Schleif, after him - Herbert Jankuhn

Research Department of German Art.

Head - Emerich Saffran. The department began its work on May 15, 1938, and was closed at the end of the year.

Research Department of Heraldry and Family Emblems.

Head - Karl Konrad Ruppel

Research Department of German Architecture.

Head - Martin Rudolf

Research Department of Germanic Philology and Local Folklore.

Head - Bruno Schweitzer

Research Department of Natural History of Prehistory.

Head - Rudolf Schütrumpf

Research Department of Indo-Germanic and Finnish Cultural Relations.

Head - Yurie von Grenhagen. The department functioned in 1937–1939.

Research department of karsts and caves (for military purposes).

Head - Hans Brand

Research Department of Meteorology and Geophysical Research.

Head - Hans Robert Skultetus

Head - Eduard May.

Educational and Research Department of Plant Genetics.

Head - Heinz Brucher

Educational and research department of Indo-Germanic Aryan culture and languages.

Study of Sanskrit and Vedic language.

Head - Walter Wüst.

Educational and Research Department of Indo-Germanic Germanic Culture and Languages.

Head - Richard von Kienle

Educational and research department of the history of Indo-European religion. Head - Otto Huth

Educational and Research Department of Folk Legends, Fairy Tales and Sagas (was disbanded shortly after its creation).

Head - Josef Plassmann

Educational and research department of German culture and local folklore.

The director is Josef Plassmann.

Educational and research department of traditional medicine (study of medicinal herbs, existed until 1939).

Head - Alexander Berg

Research department of bulk inhabited hills.

Head - Werner Haarnagel

Plant Preparation Research Department.

Head - Ernst Pfohl

Research Department of Applied Geology.

Head - Josef Wimmer

Research Department of Applied Sociology of Language. Head - Georg Schmidt-Rohr

Research Department of Middle Ages and Contemporary History.

Head - Herman Leffler

Middle East Education and Research Department.

Head - Victor Christian

Department of Indo-Germanic German Music Research.

Head - Alfred Quelmaltz

Educational and Research Department of German Studies.

Head - Wilhelm Teudt. Later the department was headed by Bruno Schweitzer, then by Josef Plassmann

Educational and research department of German folklore.

Head - Richard Wolfram

Educational and Research Department of German Tradition and Ethnography.

Head - Heinrich Harmyants

Educational and research department of topography and landscape symbolism. Head - Werner Müller

Educational and research department of ancient history.

Head - Franz Altheim

Educational and research department of fine and applied natural sciences.

Head - Eduard Tratz

Celtic Nations Educational and Research Department.

Educational and research department of medieval Latin.

Head - Paul Lehmann

Educational and research department of the history of Indo-German German law.

Head - Wilhelm Ebel

Educational and research department of the history of primitive society.

Head - Gustav Behrens.

Educational and research department of the history of primitive history.

Head - Azzien Bommers.

Educational and research department of horse breeding.

Head - Ernst Schaefer

Research Department of Classical Philology and the Ancient World.

The head is Rudolf Till, who at the same time headed the Latin department.

Greek branch.

Head Franz Dirlmeier

Educational and Research Department of North African Culture.

Head - Otto Ressler

Educational and research department on letters and symbols.

In 1935–1938 the leader was Hermann Wirth.

Included a symbol exploration sector

Head - Karl Theodor Weigel

Weigel subsequently became head of the department. The department was later merged with the department of runology.

Educational and research department of runology.

Head - Wolfgang Krause

Educational and research department of philosophy.

Director - Curt Schilling

Department "German scientific potential in action".

Head - Hans Schneider

Department of Occult Sciences Research.

Research on parapsychology, spiritualism, occultism and other sciences officially prohibited in Germany.

Educational and Research Department of Central Asia and Expeditions.

Head - Ernst Schaefer

Sonderkommando "N" (Ash).

Creating a file of witches and collecting data on witch trials.

Head - Rudolf Levin

Departments about which there is no information:

Research Department of Zoogeography and Zoohistory.

Research Department of General Natural Sciences.

Osteology Research Department.

Ahnenerbe expeditions:

1st expedition of Hermann Wirth to Scandinavia (1935)

2nd expedition of Hermann Wirth to Scandinavia (1936)

Jurje von Grenhagen's expedition to Karelia (1937)

Expedition of Franz Altheim and Erika Trautmann-Nähring to the Middle East (1938)

Ernst Schaefer's expedition to Tibet (1938–1939)

Bruno Schweitzer expedition to Iceland (1938–1939)

Expedition to the Baltics as part of the German Archives Commission (1939–1940)

Edmund Kiss expedition to Bolivia (1939, failed)

Otto Huth's expedition to the Canary Islands (1939, did not take place)

Philipp von Lützelburg's expedition to Paraguay (1942, did not take place)

Institute for scientific research of military purpose.

Section "P" (pectin). Research on the use of pectin and glutamic acid as a clinical blood clotting agent.

Director - Kurt Pletner

Department "H". Cancer Research Experiments.

The leader is Professor August Hirt from the University of Tübingen. Sievers claimed during interrogation on June 29, 1945 that it was Hirt who first managed to identify a cancer cell in a mouse using fluorescence microscopy and destroy this cell thanks to his new treatment method. This is the first known cure for cancer in history.

Department "M" (mathematics).

The head of the department, Karl-Heinz Bozek, was assisted by 25 assistants from prisoners of the Oranienburg concentration camp.

The tasks came from the Wehrmacht, Navy, Air Force, as well as from the Scientific Research Council.

Department "R".

Head - Sigmund Rascher

National subdivisions of Ahnenerbe:

Head - Karl Kersten

"Netherlands".

Head - Friedrich May

"Norway".

Head - Hans Schwalm

"Flanders".

Head - Alaric Augustine.

"Switzerland".

Head - Wilhelm Heinrich Ruoff

"France".

Head - Ludwig Mühlhausen

"Sweden".

Head - Count Erik Oxenstierna

The Ancestral Heritage Library was located in Obereichlberg Castle near Ulm. The librarian was Annegret Schmidt.

The society also carried out archaeological research in Kafiristan, Tibet, as well as on the English Channel islands, Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Poland, Greece and other European countries.

Financing

Initially, funding was provided through the agricultural ministry of Richard Darré. With the transition to the SS, the funding scheme changed:

The society was financed through the following channels: the German Society for Scientific Research, membership fees, and the provision of funds from the Reich.

Funds from the SS troops and the armed forces were made available to the institute only for military research issues. Some of the largest contributions to the society's fund, approximately 50,000 Reichsmarks, came from the Deutsche Bank, as well as from BMW and Daimler-Benz. As we see, the structure of society embraced almost all spheres of human activity. All areas of knowledge were subordinated to one idea, which was rooted in mystical and occult theories of the darkest kind. As S. Zubkov writes, “the history of this organization began in 1933. This was the year when the Nazi Party won the Reichstag elections and Hitler was elected as the new Reich Chancellor. By this time, the SS was not yet a large organization, but had already fully emerged as an independent force.

At its origins stood Professor Hermann Wirth, who published the book “The Origin of Humankind” in 1928, which clearly contained references to the works of the occultists of the New Templar Order and Guido von List. In his opinion, at the dawn of civilization there were only two races. The northern, or Nordic, was distinguished by increased spirituality, while the southern, Gondwanan, was entirely dominated by base instincts. Modern humanity is a mixture of these two original genera and their corresponding qualities. The nationalistic background of the theory was immediately visible: the inhabitants of the north were Aryans, and the southern peoples were Jews, Slavs, Africans and others inferior from the point of view of the fascists. From the very beginning of time, they were separated, since they lived on two continents not connected by land: Arctogea and Gondwana.

Interestingly, Wirth argued that the blood types that are now mixed were not previously mixed, since the Aryans had the first, and the representatives of the “low race” had the third. Although, purely statistically, there are more people with the first blood group among the population of the African continent.

As a result of the fall of the meteorite, a wave of earthquakes swept across Arktogea, splitting it in two. One fragment became covered with ice and sank into the ocean, while the other “moored” to the wider Gondwana and became the European plain.

The first wave of Aryans from the freezing continent passed through all of Asia and settled in India, China and Japan. Due to the fact that they mixed with the local population, as well as under the influence of solar radiation, their external signs have undergone changes. As a result of mutations, two new blood groups were formed - the second and fourth, which, according to Wirth's research, are most characteristic of gypsies, Ukrainians and Hungarians.

In 1933, the scientist organized an exhibition of exhibits that he collected during his travels through Palestine, the Alps, the Pyrenees and Tibet. These were examples of runic writing, as well as magical signs and objects. The exhibition was called “The Heritage of the Ancestors”, or “Ahnenerbe”.

Walter Darre, having visited it, advised the SS chief to visit it. The clarity of the findings was so impressive that Himmler, when he came to inspect it, was simply amazed. He offered Wirth cooperation. Thus, at first a small organization was born, which it was decided to call “Ahnenerbe”.

Wirth continued his work on deciphering runic symbols. He soon came to the conclusion that the Bible was a later retelling of the knowledge of Nordic humanity. It was from them that the inhabitants of Israel learned everything they knew, and then destroyed the original sources.

He summarized this and similar points of his in the book “Palestine Bukh”, which was never published. Its only copy, found in the archives of the Institute of Ancestral Heritage, mysteriously disappeared in the 1950s. It is believed that this is the work of the Israeli intelligence service Mossad.

The tasks of the newly-minted organization were to study the traditions of the past of the Aryan race. But, besides this, a wide range of issues was developed there: from reading and analyzing ancient manuscripts to creating the most advanced types of weapons that combine the principles of science and magic.

Soon Himmler included the Ahnenerbe into the SS structures. This gave members of this society greater powers, including conducting experiments on concentration camp prisoners.

After the Ahnenerbe finally integrated with the Black Order in 1942 and firmly took its place as its occult department, the “ancestral heritage” underwent major changes. Wirth was dismissed, and was replaced by Wolfram Sievers, the permanent leader of this organization until its cessation of existence in 1945.

Fundamental reform was necessary, but it did not shake the basic principles on which the Ahnenerbe was created.

The result was a rather strange monster, combining the meticulousness of scientific work with the flight of imagination of occult mysticism.

The first stage of Ahnenerbe's activities can be fairly conventionally called accumulative. It is marked by numerous expeditions to Tibet and other remote places where Aryan cultures were once believed to exist. Their result was a collection of a huge number of facts, the processing and comparison of which yielded practical results.

Thus, a magical theory of mass control was developed. The effect was achieved by many invisible factors added together.

Here are just a few of them: gatherings of a large number of people in one place, the voice of the leader, the repetition of mantric phrases and the performance of periodic gestures, which are magical passes.

With the transition of the Third Reich to active military operations against Russia, the need for research aimed at improving the quality of attack and defense increased.

And here it could not have happened without Ahnenerbe. Moreover, work was carried out both in the field of military technology and in the field of medicine.

From the scientific side, Ahnenerbe's interests included, first of all, the development of “Weapons of Retaliation.” It was assumed that this should be the first atomic bomb, but no traces of such experiments were ever found.

It was possible to establish that the Ahnenerbe society was associated with the Vau project, the initial stage of which was the creation of powerful rockets. According to certain information, joint research with the “ancestral heritage” resulted in the creation of flying saucers. But this will be discussed in a separate chapter.

The leading Ahnenerbe specialist in medicine was SS Sturmbannführer Dr. Hirt. The peculiarity of this man was that for his experiments he did not spare either himself or his employees. Even before joining the SS, he was searching for an antidote to mustard gas, a deadly gas first used by the Germans during the First World War.

So, he conducted experiments not only on animals specially designed for this purpose, but also on employees of his own laboratory? As a result of the experiment, in which Hirt himself participated, he received severe poisoning and was hospitalized for several months.

After he became a member of the Ahnenerbe, he was allowed to conduct his experiments on concentration camp prisoners.

As a result of his inhumane acts, many prisoners became blind and died. Hirt maintained friendly relations with the commandant of the concentration camp in Belsen, who supplied him with human material.

Other medical research undertaken by Sigmund Rascher at Dachau is also notorious.

In particular, he conducted experiments with frostbite and found that if a person is kept in the cold for a long time, then he can only be warmed up with the warmth of another body.

Rascher also found out the limits of the body’s performance in high altitude conditions, for which he placed prisoners in decompression (pressure-reducing) chambers.

The death camps were dominated by necromancer magicians. They proceeded from the position that the divine act of creation was not completed and they must “correct” all mistakes. This is why massacres were carried out.

Many authors who study the occult nature of fascism agree that the existence of the practice of the Holocaust cannot be explained on the basis of ideology or practical necessity alone. From their point of view, these were ritual sacrifices performed in order to attract higher mystical powers.

They were firmly convinced that if they took some steps towards the future, then the “higher unknowns” would quickly show their attention to them. People held in Auschwitz and similar institutions were torn from the conditions of normal existence, forcibly herded into one place and exterminated. After this, as the leaders of the Third Reich claimed, the land would again become “pure” and it could be inhabited by representatives of the Aryan race.

In this whole story, one question remains unresolved: did the Ahnenerbe organization exist under the control of the SS, or, on the contrary, did initiates from the Institute of Ancestral Heritage use the resources of the Black Order? It is known that the SS men controlled the concentration camp apparatus, but did they work according to the instructions of the mystical leaders?

In the first case, their actions are nothing more than a manifestation of unimaginable cruelty. In the second - an occult experiment, which also has nothing to do with humanity. Perhaps ideas born under the influence of Eastern theories were thus tested on people.

Most likely, they were insolvent and failed. However, there was no shortage of material, and experiments continued again and again. And, as often happens during an experiment, completely unexpected side effects appeared.

According to many signs, such results could still be used in practice. In the report on the Ahnenerbe case in Nuremberg, the fact unexpectedly emerged that quite successful experiments were conducted there in the fight against cancer.

This, in a nutshell, is the magical background of their actions. Wolfram Sievers, who headed the Ahnenerbe since 1942, was more suitable than others to lead such a gloomy organization.

According to contemporaries, he was distinguished by a piercing Mephistophelian gaze and wore a huge black beard. Everyone knew his reputation as an experienced mystic, which he did not hide. For his activities, Sievers received a death sentence, although he was not in a very high rank. Sievers was the organizer of many terrible experiments on people. Under him, a branch of the Ahnenerbe, called the Institute for Scientific Research of National Defense, received the right to freely use all the opportunities that the Dachau concentration camp provided to the imagination of its members. If you simply condemn the actions of the SS men, their reason will remain unclear. And she, without a doubt, was. Probably, the personality of the teacher of the leader of the Institute of Ancestral Heritage, Professor Hielscher, will help to understand it.

We know almost nothing about him. But his relationship with Sievers suggests that he played an important role in his occult upbringing. This mystic was not a member of the NSDAP, therefore, probably, the sentence applied to him was not strict. However, in light of its influence on Darre and Sievers, it might be worth reconsidering...

Hielscher had many acquaintances in the esoteric community. He even corresponded with Martin Buber, a German humanist of Jewish origin, which suggests that he was not an ardent anti-Semite. In addition, he maintained a relationship with Karl Haushofer. Their mutual acquaintance, the Swedish traveler Sven Anders Hedin, made his first contacts with Tibet. Soon after, Himmler would send expedition after expedition there over a period of six years, led by SS Sturmbannführer Ernst Schaeffer.

Another of his acquaintances, the anarchist philosopher Ernst Jünger, wrote in his memoirs that Hielscher founded his own secret religion. Apparently, this happened after information literally flowed to him like a river, describing completely different Eastern cults.

In his spells, he turned either to natural energies or to the mysterious messengers of Shambhala. Both he and his student Sievers knew and used the magical formula “ar-eh-is-os-ur”, which corresponds to the meaning of eternity.

There were other areas in which the SS occult bureau managed to prove itself. They were aimed at solving practical military problems in a non-traditional way - magic and fortune telling.

The presence of a large number of Tibetans among the Ahnenerbe staff also remains a mystery. They wore SS uniforms without insignia, and there were no documents in their pockets. Not a single one of them survived - everyone preferred death to fame. The first colonies of immigrants from the East appeared in Berlin and Munich in the mid-20s of the 20th century. They created their own fairly independent communities and continued to live according to their own laws. From these taciturn people, Hitler recruited the external guard of the Reichstag, and some went to serve at the Institute of Family Heritage. What functions they performed there is unknown, but the position of some was so high that no one of low rank could sit in their presence.”

The Tibetan theme has arisen more than once during this narrative. Mysterious Shambhala, the object of desire of Blavatsky and the Roerichs, flickered invitingly before the Nazis.

S. Zubkov continues: “An important part of the Ahnenerbe project were expeditions undertaken to collect information and establish contacts. Mostly they took place from the very founding of the institute until 1941.

The priority direction of the search was occult knowledge. However, in the occupied countries, “ancestral heritage” specialists gutted the archives of not only esoteric societies, but also some scientific organizations. They were interested in almost everything: from drug recipes to the development of the latest types of weapons. Most expeditions were sent to Tibet and the Himalayas. And this is not surprising: these areas have long been considered treasure troves of knowledge. The Greek geographer and traveler Apollonius of Tyana was the first European to describe the mysterious lands. He was so amazed by what he saw that he even said: “For the first time I met people who know everything.”

Karl Haushofer made a proposal to send a research group to this area. His high position in Thule society and the knowledge gained in the East gave confidence that the search would not be in vain. Haushofer suggested looking for the mysterious kingdoms of Agartha and Shambhala.

Europeans first heard these names after reading Ossendowski’s work “People, Beasts, Gods,” which was published in the same year as Hitler’s book “Mein Kampf.” According to legends, these countries were the heirs of an ancient civilization - the disappeared Atlantis. Therefore, the Aryan mystics had very good reasons for seeking out the initiates living there.

There are many legends about Shambhala-Agarti. The Portuguese missionary Etienne Casella, who lived in those places for 20 years, assured that it really exists. According to the monks, he even managed to write down the route, but the path was so difficult that he did not dare to undertake it. The Catholic monks who founded their mission there in the 17th century drew up a map of the surrounding lands. Shambhala is also present.

According to Tibetan legends, it is surrounded by high impassable mountains and is an island surrounded by the waters of a huge lake.

Modern occultists believe that once on the site of the Gobi Desert there really was an area similar in descriptions to the mysterious land of initiates.

But it should be noted that until the middle of the 20th century this area was practically unexplored. The leader of the Ahnenerbe expedition, Schaeffer, was, for example, the first European to bring home a stuffed panda, which no one had known about in the West before.

Haushofer's assumptions were apparently based on the version outlined by Rene Guenon. He writes that more than three thousand years ago, a highly developed culture existed on the site of the Gobi. An unknown element (perhaps we are talking about a nuclear disaster) destroyed the country that was there, some of its inhabitants managed to leave and move to Europe.

Possessors of perfect knowledge founded two groups, surrounding themselves with an aura of mystery.

The first, Agharti, preferred not to interfere in the affairs of the world.

Its members only indulged in reflection and led a contemplative lifestyle.

The second, Shambhala, on the contrary, actively participated in earthly processes. With the help of technologies developed over many years, she accelerated processes, controlled the elements and peoples, leading humanity to one goal known to her.

It was argued that the leaders of the peoples could come into contact with them. Having concluded an agreement with the power of Shambhala, they acquired unlimited power over people. However, their actions from that moment on were entirely controlled from a mysterious center.

The leader of the expeditions searching for Shambhala was Ernst Schaeffer. He was a brave man, ready to take risks and use weapons if necessary. While still a student, he took part in a zoological search group that went to Eastern Tibet. Since then, he was simply fascinated by this country, and he sought to explore it as fully as possible.

Such an opportunity soon presented itself. With the rank of SS Sturmbannführer, Schaeffer joined the expedition of the Institute of Family Heritage. He wrote his reports personally to Himmler and probably had special instructions received from him. The first expedition with his participation took place back in 1931. But the destination was Nepal, a Buddhist kingdom, which at that time was going through hard times: its territory was occupied by the Chinese, who established their own rules there, destroyed monasteries and introduced communist ideology to the masses.

When, during one of the difficult crossings through mountain rivers, the leader of the expedition, Hugo Weigold, broke his leg, Schaeffer took over leadership. They completed the route, despite all the difficulties, however, they never found the way to Shambhala. But they brought to Europe many Tibetan manuscripts, exhibits and then unknown plants. They were studied at one of the Ahnenerbe institutes, which was busy deciphering ancient texts. Its work was supervised by Wurst, a professor at the Sanskrit Department of the University of Munich and a specialist in religious texts.

Thus, in particular, Europeans became acquainted with the 17th century book “The Road of Shambhala”. It includes a list of sacred places of Buddhist culture that must be passed on the way to this sacred country. But most of the names had already changed by that time, and only a very good knowledge of the area could help understand the manuscript. The need arose for the next expedition.

It was already headed by Sheffer with full rights. One of the secret missions was to establish constant radio communication between the German leadership and the Dalai Lama. The messages used a secret code based on a text known to Helena Blavatsky, the "Stanzas of Dzyan".

She never published it, which means that in previous expeditions the poems were copied by her participants from the walls of the cave described by the founder of the Theosophical Society.

This expedition was followed by others. But gradually distrust began to arise in Schaeffer’s activities. He had great connections with scientists outside Germany, and also pursued mainly his own goals.

However, before the start of the 1938 expedition, Himmler summoned its participants for a personal conversation. Among them was Bruno Berger, a specialist in racial anthropology, whose task was to establish the proportion of Aryan characteristics among the peoples of Tibet. Thus, it was intended to test the nationalist theories of Wirth and Haushofer.

In addition, the team included several radio operators (two of whom were assigned to Gestapo representatives) and even a cameraman. He filmed unique footage: Buddhist rituals, prayers of the Dugpas - the enlightened ones. All newsreels were then carefully analyzed in the “family heritage”.

The propaganda film “Mysterious Tibet” was even made based on it.

It popularly argued that the population of this unknown country was also of Aryan origin. The film became part of a whole campaign aimed at improving opinions of the Eastern Allies.

The official purpose of the expedition was to collect specimens of plants and animals. Schaeffer even sent Himmler “Aryan” horses to breed a special breed and local bees that made special, “correct” honey. This detachment, however, moved deeper into Tibet and visited all the monasteries that, according to legend, had contacts with Shambhala. According to legend, envoys from this kingdom visit the world from time to time, stop at sanctuaries, convey mysterious messages from the “king of the world” and mysteriously disappear. The expedition also visited the peak of Kanchenjunga, which translated from Tibetan means “Five Treasures of the Great Snows.” According to Professor Grünwedel, it is there that a mountain valley is hidden, completely cut off from the outside world. For the one who enters it, the wheel of reincarnation - samsara - stops, and the person gains immortality.

When the travelers reached Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, a “meeting of Western and Eastern swastikas” was arranged.

The regent who led the country warmly greeted Schaeffer. He sent Hitler a message and traditional gifts. It is also known about the secret part of their negotiations concerning the arming of several thousand Tibetan soldiers with German weapons.

However, this expedition was the last. Sensing evil, the British, whose presence in the region was very strong, blocked the roads to Tibet for German expeditions. But individual SS envoys traveled along mountain paths to this distant country, communicating between Berlin and Lhasa.

It seems that the Ahnenerbe members have found nothing in Tibet. At least they did not find the way to Shambhala and did not establish contact with the rulers of the world. But Miguel Serrano, who was already discussed above, provides different information. According to him, the data obtained during his travels helped speed up the production of the atomic bomb. True, it was created as a synthesis of magical and scientific knowledge, and the allies discovered its prototypes, but were unable to fully understand them. He himself at one time represented his country at the International Atomic Energy Agency (at the UN).

There is another opinion: the Third Reich actually created three similar devices, and neither the USSR nor the USA were able to reproduce them. One of them was dropped on Hiroshima, and one more remained with these two countries. The hypothesis is interesting, but very doubtful.

In addition to Tibet, expeditions were sent to other places. "Ahnenerbe" undertook a search for the semi-legendary city of Arkaim. Its ruins were actually discovered, and when they were photographed from an airplane, it turned out that it and neighboring buildings form an ensemble in the shape of a swastika.

The city itself was a regular circle, the streets of which converged on the central square. This suggests sun worship. But the real mystery for archaeologists was something else: one fine day, all its inhabitants packed up their things and, leaving their homes, set off on a long journey.

According to legend, they were blue-eyed and fair-haired, in a word - true Aryans. Perhaps the reason for the migration was worsening weather conditions, which led to the great migration of peoples. It was the descendants of the inhabitants of Arkaim who became the ancestors of the Germans.

Expeditions were also sent to the poles. After all, according to a very widespread opinion in the Third Reich, the mystical centers of the Nordic race were located there. One of these landings on the island of Rügen has already been described above.

Specialists from the Institute of Ancestral Heritage landed on Antarctica, which was still little studied at that time. Were they really looking for Aryan roots scattered all over the world there too? It seems their goals were more practical this time: to prepare a site for a submarine superbase in the snow of the South Pole. But the theory of the hollow Earth still had to be tested...

Another remarkable event occurred towards the end of the war. It was connected with the Grail and the search for Otto Rahn. When he himself was no longer alive, the Montsegur castle with its mysterious cellars was visited by none other than Alfred Rosenberg. The situation on the Western Front was difficult. The Reich troops suffered huge losses. On the day of the Battle of Monte Cassino, a flag with a swastika was raised over the towers of the fortress. The brothers of the Black Order performed a magical ritual, calling on the forces that had helped hold this place for forty years to help them defend their position. But their call did not help: the next day the Wehrmacht troops retreated.

The fate of the “family heritage” was changing in the last years of the Reich’s existence. From the moment an organization enters the SS, its composition is carefully adjusted. Those mystics who stood at the very foundation of Ahnenerbe are being removed from the leadership.

Wirth was arrested in 1935 and kept under house arrest until the end of the war.

Apparently, they did not intend to kill him, but only wanted to deprive him of the right to communicate, but with whom?

Having given away his secrets, he now represented only a danger to the absolute monopoly of the Black Order on occult research.

In addition, the scientist conducted racial experiments not only with Germans, but also with representatives of “lower races”: Indians of North and Latin America and blacks. And this introduced interference into a clearly planned program of action.

Expeditions to various parts of the world led to the fact that the Institute of Ancestral Heritage, which had about 50 different branches, accumulated a huge archive. It included both texts on mysticism, mythological studies, and purely technical materials.

Himmler's secret orders ordered the Ahnenerbe to search in the occupied countries for documents of the intelligence services, Masonic and other secret organizations, as well as scientific laboratories and institutes. Following the Wehrmacht units, specialists from this organization were sent to each captured state and took away everything that was of any interest to them.

In special cases, they did not even wait for the arrival of troops. Then the scientists of the occult bureau were accompanied by SS special forces and paved the way for them to where they pointed.

The result of this activity was a collection of a wide variety of papers and exhibits. And those sources from which they were forcibly torn out were far from harmless. Therefore, the statements of those who say that this archive is simply useless ravings of esotericists turn out to be deliberate steps aimed at misleading.

The most significant part of the archives of the Third Reich was seized after the war by the USSR and the USA. And immediately a few years after the end of hostilities, these powers made almost simultaneous discoveries in the field of atomic weapons.

Another significant breakthrough - manned space flights and landings on the Moon - also occurred during this time.

Another type of weapon - the creation of biological, chemical and psychological weapons - was developed in an atmosphere of increased secrecy. It is possible that discoveries in this area were also inspired by captured documents from the Institute of Ancestral Heritage.

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7.2. Science "Ahnenerbe" The scientific research of "Ahnenerbe" was based on the legend of the utopian island of Thule. It dates back to the journey of the famous Pytheas from Massilia (present-day Marseille), who in ancient times was considered a “notorious liar” and who was completely

From the book The Secret Mission of the Third Reich author Pervushin Anton Ivanovich

7.3. Temples of the Ahnenerbe In general, the work of the Ahnenerbe as an organization within the SS could only be carried out in two directions: ideology and training. Practical results could be used in the formation of the ideological vanguard of the National Socialist regime.

From the book 50 famous mysteries of the history of the 20th century author Rudycheva Irina Anatolyevna

Secrets of the Ahnenerbe The foundation of the ideology of fascism and Nazism was laid by secret societies long before the emergence of the Nazi state in Germany. One of these societies, with which the emergence of a “secret doctrine” among the elite of the Third Reich was associated, was the Ahnenerbe.

From the book of Ahnenerbe. The terrible secret of the Third Reich author Prokopyev Anton

Mysticism and bureaucracy “Ahnenerbe” The drama of human destinies is always concrete. The organization is always faceless. This is a bureaucratic machine that, like a meat grinder, mercilessly grinds people's destinies. For her, a person is also impersonal. This applies to an even greater extent

From the book of the Cheka in Lenin's Russia. 1917–1922: At the dawn of the revolution author Simbirtsev Igor

Structure of the Cheka Dzerzhinsky himself developed the main provisions for the activities of the new political security body of first Soviet Russia and then the USSR, and he was also the main developer of the internal structure of the Cheka. Already at the beginning of 1918, struggle departments appeared within the Cheka

From the book Encyclopedia of the Third Reich author Voropaev Sergey

"Ahnenerbe" (Ahnenerbe - "Heritage of the Ancestors", full name - "German Society for the Study of Ancient German History and the Heritage of Ancestors"), created in 1933 with the support and financial assistance of the Darre cabinet, the society, which from 1935 was entrusted with studying everything related spirit,

From the book Ancient Assyria author Mochalov Mikhail Yurievich

Structure The structure of the Assyrian army, like any other, can be viewed from different positions. From an administrative point of view, the military machine of Ancient Assyria consisted of two main components: the “royal army” tsab sharri (s?b ?arri) and the “royal regiment” kitsir sharruti

author Zhukov Dmitry Anatolievich

“Ahnenerbe” and the fight against occultists The time has come to debunk a layer of myths about the “explicitly occult” nature of the “German Society for the Study of Ancient German History and the Heritage of Ancestors” (“Ahnenerbe”). Starting with the book of Povel and Bergier “The Morning of the Magicians”, in the relevant literature

From the book "Occult Reich". The main myth of the 20th century author Zhukov Dmitry Anatolievich

Ahnenerbe structure INVESTIGATIVE REPORT No. 12 Prepared by the Investigation Department on June 29, 1945 Introduction. The variety of pseudoscientific problems raised in GERMANY after the Nazis came to power led HIMMLER to found an institute for the study of cultural contributions