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Ahnenerbe

Ahnenerbe

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Sep 17, 2026

speaker_25NARRATOR
45:53
The research that influenced Stargate came from the Nazis during World War II.
speaker_25NARRATOR
45:57
After the end of the war, the Americans and the Soviets split up the Nazi research that came out of Heinrich Himmler's Annenerbe, which was the Nazi department that studied the occult.
speaker_25NARRATOR
46:05
The Americans took the research that became MK Ultra, along with the doctor who created it, and the Soviets got the parapsychology program.
speaker_25NARRATOR
46:13
So when the CIA started watching the Soviets pour money into psychics and other strange things in the 1970s, they weren't really surprised, but what did surprise them was that they seemed to be having success with it.
Elisabeth StorrsGUEST
19:22
And so that was where Himmler's...
Elisabeth StorrsGUEST
19:25
Himmler's had a research institute called the Ahnenerbe, and it actually had quite a few reputable prehistorians and scientists in it, because a lot of the academics at that time made a Faustian bargain to survive.
Elisabeth StorrsGUEST
19:42
and allow their work to continue in the Nazi regime.
Elisabeth StorrsGUEST
19:46
Some of them were, you know, threatened.
Elisabeth StorrsGUEST
19:47
My doctor, Unversagt, you know, he was very threatened, and also his museum was.
Elisabeth StorrsGUEST
19:53
And so he turned to the Ahnenerbe because Himmler loved prehistory, and he was running this prehistory museum.
Elisabeth StorrsGUEST
20:01
So he got patronage.
Elisabeth StorrsGUEST
20:03
But there were very, very evil scientists also within the Ann and Ebba, and they propagated racial theory based on studies bizarre ideas, including Atlantis.
Helen LedwickCORRESPONDENT
5:26
The book outlines how, during the German occupation of France in World War II, a small group of Nazi researchers came to study the biotapestry.
Helen LedwickCORRESPONDENT
5:35
They were part of a unit of the SS called the Ahnenerbe, or Ancestral Heritage Bureau.
Helen LedwickCORRESPONDENT
5:41
Their mission? To use history to support Nazi ideas about racial superiority.
Helen LedwickCORRESPONDENT
5:48
With the bio-tapestry, they saw an opportunity.
Brad OlsenGUEST
38:15
And the Führer convoy at the end of the war were all these U-boats that left Hamburg, Germany.
Brad OlsenGUEST
38:22
And the last war of World War II, which we never hear about in our history books, was a resounding victory for the Third Reich, which never surrendered after World War II, nor did the SS, the Special Services Corps that were basically running the show with the Ahnenerbe Society and all the occultic research that they were doing in Tibet and Antarctica.
Brad OlsenGUEST
38:51
And so you have officers here with their own U-boat.
Brad OlsenGUEST
38:56
Here's U-530, which basically after the war was over, several months later in May of 1945, just shows up right outside of Buenos Aires, Argentina with a full crew, but with no supplies.

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Brad OlsenGUEST
49:58
He took that map and put it on a Google Map and approximately where the tunnel begins, uh, up there on the upper left, and then going all the way to Agartha or the New Berlin Base, which is remarkably close to where the South Pole hole in the ice is and where Admiral Byrd went to a very high-tech civilization down there.
Brad OlsenGUEST
50:28
You could also take a U-boat to get there.
Brad OlsenGUEST
50:31
And, uh, again, the Germans are very exact in their, uh, charting of this map, which you can see an insert on the right from those maps that were acquired by the Soviets at the end of World War II, who got into the Kriegsmarine, uh, the Wehrmacht, and the Ahnenerbe society, which is...
Brad OlsenGUEST
50:53
It means ancestral heritage in German.
Helen LedwickHOST
3:20
[tense music] The book outlines how during the German occupation of France in World War II, a small group of Nazi researchers came to study the Bayeux Tapestry.
Helen LedwickHOST
3:31
They were part of a unit of the SS called the Ahnenerbe, or Ancestral Heritage Bureau.
Helen LedwickHOST
3:37
Their mission: to use history to support Nazi ideas about racial superiority.
Helen LedwickHOST
3:44
With the Bayeux Tapestry, they saw an opportunity.
Taylor McMahonHOST
10:20
This is the point where allied governments go from pretending to care about the occult to fool their enemies, to actually investing in the occult as a real practice.
Taylor McMahonHOST
10:29
An American scientific intelligence unit called Operation Alsos, which was part of the Manhattan Project, walked into a bombed-off villa in Berlin and they found the headquarters of Himmler's Ahnenerbe.
Taylor McMahonHOST
10:40
A nuclear physicist named Samuel Goudsmit had his unit pack up all of the Ahnenerbe's materials and ship them to a US Army headquarters in Frankfurt.
Taylor McMahonHOST
10:49
But the Americans were not the only one who breached that villa in Berlin.
Taylor McMahonHOST
10:53
The Soviets also captured their own share of the Annenerbe's documents at the end of the war.
George ParkerHOST
11:54
Hitler's ideology was founded on an idea of racial supremacy, a quest to unite people of Germanic Aryan ancestry and create a homeland for them by conquering Europe.
George ParkerHOST
12:05
The head of Hitler's SS, Heinrich Himmler, had set up the Ahnenerbe, a research body dedicated to finding supposedly scientific evidence proving German racial supremacy.
Shirley-Anne BrownGUEST
12:16
The idea was to go back through history using objects to prove the basis of European culture as being Germanic.
George ParkerHOST
12:29
Shirley-Anne Brown is a Professor of History at York University in Toronto, Canada.

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