Ahnenerbe
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Sep 17, 2026
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The research that influenced Stargate came from the Nazis during World War II.
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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.
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The Americans took the research that became MK Ultra, along with the doctor who created it, and the Soviets got the parapsychology program.
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46:13speaker_25NARRATOR
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.
37-Persistence, Patience, Practice, Passion: Elisabeth Storrs on the Writer's Life
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19:22Elisabeth StorrsGUEST
And so that was where Himmler's...
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19:25Elisabeth StorrsGUEST
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.
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19:42Elisabeth StorrsGUEST
and allow their work to continue in the Nazi regime.
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19:46Elisabeth StorrsGUEST
Some of them were, you know, threatened.
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19:47Elisabeth StorrsGUEST
My doctor, Unversagt, you know, he was very threatened, and also his museum was.
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19:53Elisabeth StorrsGUEST
And so he turned to the Ahnenerbe because Himmler loved prehistory, and he was running this prehistory museum.
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20:01Elisabeth StorrsGUEST
So he got patronage.
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20:03Elisabeth StorrsGUEST
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.
The mysteries of the Bayeux Tapestry and surviving 9/11
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5:26Helen LedwickCORRESPONDENT
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.
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5:35Helen LedwickCORRESPONDENT
They were part of a unit of the SS called the Ahnenerbe, or Ancestral Heritage Bureau.
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5:41Helen LedwickCORRESPONDENT
Their mission? To use history to support Nazi ideas about racial superiority.
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5:48Helen LedwickCORRESPONDENT
With the bio-tapestry, they saw an opportunity.
EP 379 | Brad Olsen | Did The Germans Find Hollow Earth? | Nazi History In Antarctica
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38:15Brad OlsenGUEST
And the Führer convoy at the end of the war were all these U-boats that left Hamburg, Germany.
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38:22Brad OlsenGUEST
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.
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38:51Brad OlsenGUEST
And so you have officers here with their own U-boat.
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38:56Brad OlsenGUEST
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.
11 MINS LATER
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49:58Brad OlsenGUEST
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.
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50:28Brad OlsenGUEST
You could also take a U-boat to get there.
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50:31Brad OlsenGUEST
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...
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50:53Brad OlsenGUEST
It means ancestral heritage in German.
Bayeux Tapestry: the lost Nazi archive
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3:20Helen LedwickHOST
[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.
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3:31Helen LedwickHOST
They were part of a unit of the SS called the Ahnenerbe, or Ancestral Heritage Bureau.
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3:37Helen LedwickHOST
Their mission: to use history to support Nazi ideas about racial superiority.
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3:44Helen LedwickHOST
With the Bayeux Tapestry, they saw an opportunity.
The Occult History of the CIA: Witchcraft as Statecraft
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10:20Taylor McMahonHOST
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.
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10:29Taylor McMahonHOST
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.
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10:40Taylor McMahonHOST
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.
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10:49Taylor McMahonHOST
But the Americans were not the only one who breached that villa in Berlin.
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10:53Taylor McMahonHOST
The Soviets also captured their own share of the Annenerbe's documents at the end of the war.
The Power of the Bayeux Tapestry
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11:54George ParkerHOST
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.
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12:05George ParkerHOST
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.
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12:16Shirley-Anne BrownGUEST
The idea was to go back through history using objects to prove the basis of European culture as being Germanic.
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12:29George ParkerHOST
Shirley-Anne Brown is a Professor of History at York University in Toronto, Canada.