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The Ahnenerbe was a scientific institute in the Third Reich dedicated to research the archaeological and cultural history of the Aryan Race.
Founded on July 1, 1935, by Heinrich Himmler, Herman Wirth, and Richard Walther Darré, the Ahnenerbe later conducted experiments and launched expeditions in an attempt to prove that Aryan Nordic populations had once ruled the world.
Its name came from an obscure German word, ‘Ahnenerbe‘, meaning “inherited from the forefathers.”
The official mission of the Ahnenerbe was to find new evidence of the racial superiority of the Germanic people through historical, anthropological, and archaeological research.
Formally, the group was called the Studiengesellschaft für Geistesurgeschichte‚ Deutsches Ahnenerbe – ‘Study Society for Primordial Intellectual history, German Ancestral Heritage’, but it was renamed in 1937 as the Forschungs- und Lehrgemeinschaft das Ahnenerbe – (Research and Teaching Community of the Ancestral Heritage).
Many of their interests extended beyond science into occultism.
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Hermann Wirth |
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Richard Walter Darré |
This led to German scientists travelling around the world in search of Atlantis and the Holy Grail, and it is reported that the Ahnenerbe sought “portals” to God.
Growing out of the Ahnenerbe-SS, the Thule Gesellschaft and the general Nazi interest in the occult, was ‘Karotechia’ (see below) – a secret organization dedicated to the research and use of occult forces for the Third Reich.
BLUT UND BODEN
Blut und Boden refers to an ideology that focuses on ethnicity based on two factors, descent (Blood of a Volk) and Heimat (Homeland – Soil).
It celebrates the relationship of a people to the land they occupy and cultivate, and it places a high value on the virtues of rural living.
The German expression was coined in the late 19th century, in tracts espousing racialism and national romanticism.
It produced a regionalist literature, with some social criticism.
This romantic attachment was widespread prior to the rise of National Socialism.
Ultranationalists, predating National Socialism, often supported ‘country living’ as more healthy, with the ‘Artaman League‘ sending urban children to the countryside to work in part in hopes of transforming them into ‘Wehrbaueren‘ (Soldier-farmers).
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Richard Walther Darré popularized the phrase at the time of the rise of National Socialism in Germany; he wrote a book called ‘Neuadel aus Blut und Boden’ (A New Aristocracy Based On Blood And Soil) in 1930, which proposed a systemic eugenics program, arguing for breeding as a cure-all for all the problems plaguing the state.
Darré was an influential member of the National Socialist party, and a noted race theorist who assisted the party greatly in gaining support among common Germans outside the cities.
Prior to their ascension to power, the National Socialists called for a return from the cities to the countryside.
This agrarian sentiment allowed opposition to both the middle class and the aristocracy, and presented the farmer as a superior figure beside the moral swamp of the city.
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Zurück in das Land |
The doctrine not only called for a “back to the land” approach and re-adoption of rural values; it held that German land was bound, perhaps mystically, to German blood.
Peasants were the Völkisch cultural heroes, who held charge of German racial stock and German history — as when a memorial of a medieval peasant uprising was the occasion for a speech by Darré praising them as force and purifier of German history.
This would also lead them to understand the natural order better, and in the end, only the man who worked the land really possessed it.
It contributed to the National Socialist ideal of a woman: a sturdy peasant, who worked the land and bore strong children, contributing to praise for athletic women tanned by outdoor work.
That country women gave birth to more children than city ones also was a factor in the support.
It was also argued that a people would develop laws appropriate to its “blood and soil” because authenticity required loyalty to the Volk over abstract universals.
The SS and the Ahnenerbe, under Heinrich Himmler, in general supported and encouraged the ‘Blut und Boden’ ideology.
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There is some evidence that the Ahnenerbe existed as early as 1928, when Wirth established the “Hermann Wirth Society” for teaching and spreading his theories.
Another candidate for precursor of the Ahnenerbe was a research institute for “spiritual prehistory” created by the German state of Mecklenburg in 1932, when the state was governed by the NSDAP.
The Old Norse form of Irmin is Jörmunr, which just like Yggr was one of the names of Odin.
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Sievers & Wüst
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Wolfram Sievers |
Wolfram Sievers (see right) was appointed Reichsgeschäftsführer, or General Secretary, of the Ahnenerbe, by Himmler.
Sievers was born in 1905 in Hildesheim in the Province of Hanover (now in Lower Saxony), the son of a Protestant church musician.
It is reported that he was musically gifted, that he played the harpsichord, organ, and piano, and loved German baroque music.
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Externsteine |
He was expelled from school for being active in the Deutschvölkischer Schutz und Trutzbund, and went on to study history, philosophy, and religious studies at Stuttgart’s Technical University.
A member of the Bündische Jugend, (Youth League) he became active in the Artamanen-Gesellschaft (“Artaman League”), a nationalist ‘back-to-the-land’ movement.
Sievers joined the NSDAP in 1929.
In 1933 he headed the Externsteine-Stiftung (“Externsteine Foundation”), which had been founded by Heinrich Himmler to study the Externsteine in the Teutoburger Wald.
In 1935, having joined the SS that year, Sievers was appointed Reichsgeschäftsführer, or General Secretary, of the Ahnenerbe, by Himmler.
He was the actual director of Ahnenerbe operations, and was to rise to the rank of SS-Standartenführer by the end of the war.
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Dr. Walther Wüst |
On February 1 of that year, Dr. Walther Wüst (see left) was appointed the president of the Ahnenerbe.
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Karl Maria Wiligut |
He also worked to limit the influence of “those he deemed scholarly upstarts,” which included cutting communication with the RuSHA office of Karl Maria Wiligut (see left).
musicology, whose aim was to determine “the essence” of German music.
It recorded folk music in expeditions to Finland and the Faroe Islands, from ethnic Germans of the occupied territories, and in South Tyrol.
The section made sound recordings, transcribed manuscripts and songbooks, and photographed and filmed instrument use and folk dances.
The lur, a Bronze Age musical instrument, became central to this research, which concluded that Germanic consonance was in direct conflict to Jewish atonalism.
The Ahnenerbe was part of Himmler’s greater plan for the systematic creation of a “Germanic” culture that would replace Christianity in the Greater Germany to exist after the war, a kind of SS-religion that would form the basis of the new world order.
This new culture would be based on the völkisch beliefs of the NSDAP, and it was the role of the Ahnenerbe to marshal scientific research in an interdisciplinary program to support the “development of the Germanic heritage“.
This institute was under the command of Hermann Wirth (see left) until he left the Ahnenerbe in 1937.

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Hans Hörbiger |
The Ahnenerbe also had a department to research the ‘Welteislehre’ (World Ice Theory) of Hans Hörbiger (see right), under the command of Dr. Hans Robert Scultetus.
According to the theory, the world itself was created when a giant chunk of ice collided with the sun.
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‘Welteislehre’ |
Hörbiger died in 1931, but his theory was adopted by some Theosophists, who used it to prove the existence of Andean civilization with parallels to Atlantis and Thule (this may have been part of the reason behind Ahnenerbe expeditions to South America), and by Himmler and the Ahnenerbe, as “our Nordic ancestors grew strong amidst the ice and snow, and this is why a belief in a world of ice is the natural heritage of Nordic men”.
Archaeology
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Vril Emblem |
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OTO Lamen |
The Occult Corps incorporated into one organization the Thule Society, the Vril Society and the German branch of Crowley’s OTO.
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Henri Bergson |
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Wilhelm Reich |
Orgone energy is a hypothetical universal life force originally proposed in the 1930s by Wilhelm Reich. In its final conception, Orgone was conceived as the anti-entropic principle of the universe, a creative substratum in all of nature comparable to the Odic force of Carl Reichenbach and Henri Bergson’s élan vital. Orgone was seen as a massless, omnipresent substance, similar to luminiferous aether, but more closely associated withliving energy than inert matter. It could coalesce to create organization on all scales, from the smallest microscopic units – called bions – to macroscopic structures like organisms, clouds, or even galaxies.


The original base of operations for the Occult Corps was the Wewelsburgin Westphalia, which Himmler bought as a ruin and rebuilt over the next 11 years at a cost of 13 million marks.
The central banqueting hall contained a vast round table with throne-like seats to accommodate Himmler and 12 of his favorite officers, making his modern-day “Order of the Black Knights” – a covenant of 13.
Beneath the Wewelsburg was the Halle der Toten (Hall of the Dead), where plinths stood around a stone table and the covenant could practice their occult magic in secret.
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‘Necronomicon’ (‘Al Azif’) |
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Burg Hohnstein |
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Arthur Schopenhauer |
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Nietzsche |
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Richard Wagner |
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Friedrich von Schlegel |
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Thule – The Polar Paradise |
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Annual Disappearance of the Sun |
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Legend of Adonis |
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Ice Age |
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The Legend of Hyperborea |
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‘Stanzas of Dzyan’ |
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Hyperborea |
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Iceland |
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Iceland |
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Wilhelm Filchner |
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The ‘Deutschland’ |
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Wolfsangel © Copyright Peter Crawford 2014 |
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Aircraft Carrier ‘Schwabenland’ |
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Ahnenerbe Expedition to Neu Schwabenland |
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Large, Cargo Carrying Submarines – Type XXI – Elektroboot |
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Großadmiral Karl Dönitz |
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Great article! Been following all this for years since I was young. Puts a lot of sense into ‘Operation Paperclip’ & ‘Highjump’. The intrigue is still there because of all the higher ups visiting Antartica. Most people live in their own little worlds of get gas, get coffee, go to work and be in debt, when there’s a much larger world and story still going on….
very interesting these folks who seek to rule the world with there stool and anal sex?
Jew Propaganda and Lies, Hitler was AGAINST Secret Societies and the Occult,Hitler was Christian, New World Order Promised to Jews in 1940, Amerika is under Talmudic and Noahide Laws! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVekwQ2i04g Exposing the roots of the “Nazi Occultism” myths, their purpose and perpetuation https://justice4germans.wordpress.com/tag/occult/ http://www.tomatobubble.com/nwo_jews.html https://www.facebook.com/aintitthetruth1/posts/1789212111315271 https://www.facebook.com/aintitthetruth1/posts/1775708569332292
“Aryan” is the Biblical Hebrew word for lion, i.e. “noble” The Israelites who hadn’t already long ago migrated away, were expelled to Media (Midgaard) by the start of the 7th century BC
According to Scripture they were deported for “worshipping” in sacred groves, or, as this writer is opines, in “occultic” practices.
http://www.israelite.ca/research/specialstudiesfiles/mythnors_files/norse_mythology.html
By the way, Wilhelm Reich was a Jew of the Frankfurt School. He was a pervert who advocated incest and pedophilia. Along with his brethren Theodore Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, Sigmund Freud
et al, they worked tirelessly to corrupt German and Western spiritual and cultural traditions. Which the NSDAP tried to strengthen. This is a mindless hit piece.
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Is this Thule? I found in the Canadian Arctic https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEm08dfxGAjhj-gfVfF0T1C18mA6vvSNv
Fascinating. Thank You!!
Ohhh please, stop with the crying about the nazis, pleeeeaseee?
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