German secret organizations. Ahnenerbe - the dark secret of the Third Reich

The ideological foundation of Nazism and fascism was laid by secret societies long before the advent of the Nazi state in Germany. One of these societies, with which the emergence of the “secret doctrine” at the top of the Third Reich, was the Ahnenerbe. His activities, which were of a mystical nature, still keep many unsolved mysteries to this day.

At the end of the 19th century, the abbot of the Benedictine monastery in Limbach (Austria) Theodor Hagen made a long journey to the Caucasus and the Middle East. The purpose of the trip of the Holy Father is. From the trip he brought a lot of some ancient manuscripts. What they contained remained a mystery even to the monastic brethren. It is only known that the abbot placed an order with local masters for the manufacture of new bas-reliefs. Such a turn for many seemed strange and incomprehensible. All because the mysterious sign-symbol became the basis of the composition of the new bas-reliefs. This symbol was the swastika - an ancient pagan sign of the circular rotation of the world. There are curious and mysterious coincidences in history: around the time when the swastika appeared on the walls of the monastery in Limbach, a thin boy sang in his church choir. His name was Adolf Schicklgruber...

The beginning of the 20th century - Vienna was the recognized center of occultism and mysticism in Europe. Just then, the novice artist Adolf Schicklgruber, whom the world will soon recognize under the name, began to diligently study various manuals and books on the occult. It was there that he saw the famous, which, as he eventually claimed, gave rise to confidence in him that he would someday rule the world.

Back in the 20s of the XX century, members of the Nazi party elite joined various secret societies-orders, created in the image and likeness of the Masonic hierarchies, but with completely different goals and objectives. It was in them that the training of the highest party-mystical caste of the Nazi regime took place. The main idea was that this elite of the Nazis belonged - assistants of supernatural forces, who were supposed to ensure Germany the conquest of world domination. As a result, the entire top of the Nazi party itself turned into a secret mystical order, its members were united not only by military and political interests and ideas, but also by boundless faith in ancient supernatural powers and rituals.

Hitler himself liked to say that he was "a tool higher powers”, “a messenger from above”, and is able to predict the future. His deputy Rudolf Hess was fascinated with witchcraft, magic, alchemy and astrology from his youth. Dr. Goebbels wrote mystical novels, Heinrich Himmler believed that he was a descendant of the Saxon king Henry I the Fowler, who lived a thousand years ago, made a pilgrimage to his tomb every year and descended into the crypt at midnight sharp. He assured that he had mastered the ability to communicate with the ghost of a famous ancestor and the spirits of long-dead people.

The most prestigious and influential secret organizations in Nazi Germany included: the Vril Society, the Thule Society, and the Ahnenerbe (Ancestral Heritage).

Early 1925 - Hitler was released from prison, where he had been imprisoned after the "beer putsch" of 1923. In prison, he whiled away the time with Hess, a former assistant to Professor Haushoffer. Being one of the most diligent students of the latter, Hess attracted his cellmate to the activities of occult circles at the Thule Society. Members of the Thule initiated Hitler into the secrets of influencing the masses, introduced him to works on the occult and astrology. This is how the future Fuhrer began to master all sorts of mystical theories and extract arguments from them for gaining power.

Karl Haushoffer and Hans Herbiger became his spiritual guides and teachers. The new militant religion they proposed was extremely pleasing to Hitler. He furiously repeated that it was Germany that would become the bearer of the "higher fire" and save the world from the "powers of ice" and death. This theory formed the basis of the Nazi mystical worldview.

Hitler proved to be a worthy student, he combined the ideas and theories of Haushoffer with the plans of the author of mystical racism, Rosenberg. This is how his famous book "Mein Kampf" appeared.

1925 - A secret structure was created, known by the abbreviation SS. Her organization was entrusted to Himmler. She was to become not so much a political as a real religious order, which was based on a strict hierarchy of a kind of secular brothers - monks. Behind the SS were the elite security units of the Nazi party, which made up the so-called Black Order. The Nazis were going to take over the world not only with the help of weapons, but also through control over the human psyche. The spiritual symbol of the goal was the Scandinavian runes - the most ancient and common for all Aryan tribes (as the Nazis believed) letters. It was a kind of proto-language of mankind, where each magical sign carries a certain sound and corresponds to a certain name. It is believed that, being inscribed, each rune has an impact on the world: it can protect, speed up or slow down some events. Only a select few could be given knowledge of the interaction of runes with each other and the ability to add spells and sacred formulas from them. For the Black Order, the Nazis chose the double rune Zig (victory) as a symbol.

According to Konrad Heiden, the Fuhrer's biographer, the swastika symbol appeared next to Hitler at his first public appearance in 1921. He recalled: “The new red banner ... with a black swastika in a white disc was deployed for the first time. The effect was so overwhelming that even Hitler himself was quite surprised. The swastika became one of the Fuhrer's most effective mystical weapons... An unknown force emanated from this mysterious sign. So the ancient sign - the ancient eastern symbol of the rotation of the sun and eternity was used by the Nazis. The swastika, which the Nazis depicted on their banners, was upside down, left-handed. Researchers believe that the positively charged right-handed swastika was intended to influence the consciousness of "their own", and the left-handed one was designed to threaten enemies. The Fuhrer once said in one of his speeches: “There are only two possibilities in our struggle: either the enemy will pass over our corpses, or we will pass over him. And I want the banner of the swastika to be my shroud, if I have to die in the struggle. Hitler prophesied his own fate.

But, perhaps, one of the most mysterious and secret official organizations of the Third Reich was the Ahnenerbe. At first, this organization was positioned as an educational and research society, designed to study the German spiritual prehistory. The headquarters of the Ahnenerbe was located in the Bavarian city of Weischenfeld. This society for the study of "the paths trodden by the ancestors" was founded by Friedrich Hilyier in 1933. He was a friend of the Swedish explorer Sven Hedin, who was closely associated with Haushoffer. At that time he was 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.

1933 - The historical exhibition "German Heritage" was held in Munich, organized by Professor Hermann Wirth, which was visited by the Reichs Fuhrer SS Himmler himself. He was very pleased and was amazed at the "visibility" of evidence of the superiority of the Nordic race. Among the exhibits of the exhibition, the most ancient runic and protorunic writings stood out in particular. Their age, according to the organizers of the exhibition, ranged from 7,000 to 10,000 years. Anenerbe specialists collected them in different regions, including the great caves of Labrador, the Alps, Palestine.
Therefore, Himmler in 1935, two years after the founding of the Ahnenerbe, made it an official organization attached to the Black Order, which had the following goals: “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. This task must be carried out with constant observance of scientific methods and scientific precision.

January 1939 - Ahnenerbe was included in the SS and its leaders entered Himmler's personal headquarters. At that time, the society had half a hundred research institutes headed by Professor Wurst, a specialist in ancient sacred texts who taught Sanskrit at the University of Munich.

The Nazi Party has already assumed the functions of protecting the Nordic race in spiritual, genetic and mystical terms.
Soon, Himmler transformed Wewelsburg Castle, wanting to turn it into the spiritual center of the SS. The castle should become a temple of the Nazi religion. And this religion was a strange mixture of Nordic gods, solar cults and theories about the uniqueness of the Aryan race, which seemed to be threatened by Eastern Judeo-Christianity. The plans of the Nazis were grandiose: after the conquest of Russia in the occupied territory, it was supposed to create a knightly state of the SS, headed by Grand Master Himmler. Wewelsburg was also known as a museum and an ideological education college for SS officers as part of the Main Service for Race and Population. It was here that the most mysterious rituals and initiations into the knights of the Black Order took place. Thus, the SS, already numbering 20,000, was the main fighting force of the Nazi Party, led and controlled by Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler.

The list of problems considered by the Ahnenerbe is amazing: the presence of the brotherhood of the Rose and the Cross, the occult significance of the Gothic turrets and cylinder hats at Eton, etc. The SS and Ahnenerbe took the legend very seriously - a stone with runic inscriptions, allegedly wisdom of the past, lost knowledge of non-human origin. Negotiations about the expedition to kidnap him were conducted with Otto Skorzeny. Traces ancient tradition pointed to Cathar castles in the Pyrenees. Himmler specifically created a secret section for this - an information service that dealt with the "field of the supernatural." The expedition to search for the Holy Grail was led by SS Sturmbannführer Otto Rahn. At one time, there was a rumor that the search for the relic was successful, but there was no confirmation of this, and Ran himself mysteriously disappeared in 1938.

One of the leading specialists of "Ahnenerbe" in the field of black magic was Carl Maria Wiligut, who a huge impact on the Nazi elite called Rasputin Himmler. Wiliguts from generation to generation passed on mysterious tablets with ancient writings. The information encrypted in them contained a description of some pagan rituals. All proposals to destroy the cursed writings were rejected by the Wiliguts. For this, back in the Middle Ages, a papal curse was imposed on their family. And finally, their hour struck: the Nazis awarded Karl Maria Wiligut the rank of SS general. He dreamed of religious practices in accordance with the laws of the ancient Germans. 1943 - after the fall of Mussolini, Himmler gathered six German occultists, including Wiligut, in a villa near Berlin, and set them the task of finding out where his Italian friend was being held captive.

The chief manager of the Ahnenerbe was SS Colonel Wolfram Sievers. Before the attack of Nazi Germany on the Soviet Union, he personally handed over to the special departments of the army units for the invasion of Russia an order for a collection of skulls of "Jewish commissars". During the war, it was he who organized terrible experiments on prisoners in concentration camps. According to the instructions of the Ahnenerbe, the Nazis considered the destruction of people in the gas furnaces of Auschwitz a special ritual, performing which they supposedly honored their gods. As the head of this organization, Sievers for committed crimes against humanity was sentenced Nuremberg Tribunal to the death penalty. Before the execution, he asked to be allowed to send his cult for the last time, consisting, according to eyewitnesses, of mysterious mumbling.

Under the "Ahnenerbe" they created the "Institute for Scientific Research of National Defense", the experimental site for which was the Dachau concentration camp. Professor Geert, who led them, compiled a collection of typical "Jewish skeletons".
After the war, in the castle of the small town of Glogau, a secret archive and library of the SS was found, amounting to 140,000 books and manuscripts, telling about the persecution of heretics by the secular authorities and the church since the 13th century. Researchers of the extraordinary collection found that the books have highlighted places where descriptions of various tortures are contained. For the Nazis, this was a kind of guide to action. The beginning of 1935 - specialists from the SS department and the Ahnenerbe engaged in a secret survey of book depositories and archives in search of data on medieval witch trials. Based on them, a card index of 33,846 sheets was prepared, which contained records of cases of persecution of witches and their burning not only in Germany, but also in India and Mexico. The result of such research, according to Himmler's plan, was to be used in propaganda about maintaining the purity of the Aryan race.

1939, May - on the orders of Hitler, a theological institute was founded in Eisenach on issues of "de-Jewrezation". His staff edited church texts, crossed out "non-Aryan" passages. Dozens of works of the Institute were published in huge editions. Essentially, it was about rewriting biblical texts, destroyed all references to the special role of the Jewish people. According to the Fuhrer, Christ was a preacher of Aryan ideas. Excerpts from the Nazi "bible" were published in the German publication "Bild" ("BIM"). This new German book of faith was called "The Germans with the Lord" and contained twelve commandments instead of ten. The Nazis made two additional instructions: "Keep your blood pure" and "Honor your leader and teacher."

If the “spiritual center” of fascist mysticism, its carefully secret hellish kitchen, was the already mentioned Thule society, then the Ahnenerbe, in fact, was a kind of state institution of mysticism. Thousands of "specialists" in various "disciplines" were gathered here. They had to study the experience of all the dictators in the history of the world, carefully collect and summarize the "wisdom" of all the advisers of the rulers of the past: Chinese, Mongolian, Egyptian, Babylonian, Persian. The main task is to apply ancient wisdom to the present.

At one time, the Nazi spiritual mentor Karl Haushoffer enlightened the Fuhrer about the secret ties between Tibet and Germany, and, of course, he spoke about the "Tibetan" roots of the Aryan race. The legend of Shambhala, the secret center of the ancient tradition, and the mahatmas, sages and superhumans who managed to preserve and convey the "tradition" to the present day, became the property of the European public thanks to the efforts of Helena Blavatsky, the founder of the Theosophical Society. Her ideas were very interested in the specialists of "Ahnenerbe", who began to organize. Very little is known about their results. But the main thing is clear: the Germans were looking for the possibility of establishing contacts with the most ancient civilizations.

It should be noted that back in 1926 a small colony of Indians and Tibetans settled in Berlin and Munich. In Berlin lived a mysterious Tibetan monk, nicknamed "the man in green gloves." He was known as a prophet and announced to the press three times with incredible accuracy the number of Nazi deputies who would be elected to the Reichstag. It is known that the "green monk" repeatedly hosted Hitler. Initiates said that he "possessed the keys that opened the door to the 'kingdom of Agharti'." By the way, when the Soviet troops entered Berlin, among the corpses in Hitler's Reichskanzelery they found a thousand suicide bombers in German uniforms, without documents and insignia. It is authentically established that all of them were natives of Tibet.

As soon as the Nazi movement began to have large financial resources, it organized expeditions to Tibet more than once, which set off one after another almost continuously until 1943. Among those who especially encouraged them was Alfred Rosenberg, who became the author of the book Myths of the 20th Century. This is the real bible of fascist ideology. No wonder it was under the leadership of Rosenberg that the Gestapo appeared.

So, around 1931, an expedition (probably the first) of 5 people was sent to the Himalayas. The Nazis hoped to find there not only genetic material, catching "Aryan" bees, ants and horses. They were looking for Shambhala and teachers of higher powers, they also wanted to find minerals, in particular uranium, plutonium, strontium and oil. Unfortunately, no reports or reliable information about their trip could be found. It is only known that at the end of 1934 - the beginning of 1935 only three returned from it (among them E. Schaeffer). They brought with them some pretty ancient manuscript, written in Sanskrit, the contents of which allegedly managed to be deciphered over time. It spoke about the history of the Earth 25-30,000 years before the birth of Christ. Surprisingly, the manuscript claimed that life on Earth arose as a result of a genetic experiment on a universal scale. It was carried out by aliens who arrived from other worlds. The manuscript disappeared, and the search for ideas continued ...

1935 - the second expedition took place. It was financed by the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences (America) and partly by Germany, and was headed by SS officer E. Schaeffer. He became the author of a number of brilliant discoveries in the field of the animal world of the Himalayas and even had the honor of speaking at the Asian Society of the Himalayas. True, frank racist sentiments were also voiced in his report: special emphasis was placed on the Aryan and Caucasian subspecies of people who allegedly mixed with the peoples of Tibetan origin many centuries ago. For participation in the first two Himalayan expeditions, Schaeffer received the title of SS Obersturmfuehrer by order of Himmler. And after that he led the third expedition to Tibet in 1938.

This time, the tasks of the Nazis included: classifying races and highlighting the final signs of Nordic features in relation to the peoples living there, establishing diplomatic contacts with them. After this expedition, a film was preserved, found in one of the Masonic lodges of Europe after the war. It was filmed by German cameraman Ernst Krause. In addition to the buildings of Lhasa and Yarling, many rituals and magical practices were filmed on it: with the help of the guru, evil spirits were summoned, mediums entered a trance. Interestingly, the Nazis were not so much interested in Buddhism as in the Bon religion, based on beliefs in evil spirits and ways to deal with them. Among its adherents there were many sorcerers and magicians who were considered the best in dealing with otherworldly forces. This is what interested the Nazis in the first place. They carefully studied numerous mantras and ancient texts. But the approach of the Second World War forced them to hastily return home. did not lead to anything, although who knows ...

The Tibetan regent Kvotukhtu sent a curious message to the Führer, in which he made it clear that he welcomed the idea of ​​"deeply respected Mr. King Hitler" to create a vast state on a racial basis. Later, radio communication between Lhasa and Berlin was established, through which the Dalai Lama was able to communicate with Hitler. There is still no answer to the question - why did the Germans become the chosen ones for the rulers of Tibet? Why was Schaeffer's Nazi expedition given such a warm welcome? Did the Germans in Tibet find what they were looking for?

If you look at this problem from the other side, then the Nazi research expeditions to Abyssinia, South America, India and Tibet were not fruitless. There is little-explained, but very real evidence for this. There is a version according to which the Nazis used the ancient occult “keys” found with the help of the Ahnenerbe (formulas, spells, etc.), which made it possible to establish contact with “strangers”. For "sessions with the gods" the most experienced mediums and contactees were involved. Experts believe that some occult "keys" worked and some information of a man-made nature was received through independent "channels". In particular, drawings and descriptions of "flying discs", which, in terms of their characteristics, significantly exceeded the aviation technology of those times. The Nazis found and handed over to Germany the ancient Indian manuscripts "Vimanika Shastra" and "Samarangana Sutradharn", which described absolutely unusual technologies and samples of equipment, which, according to scientists, have extraterrestrial origin. First of all, this is a description of the huge aerospace ship "Shakuna Vimans", which, according to experts, outwardly resembles modern reusable spacecraft such as "Buran" and "Shuttle".

In the declassified archives of the Third Reich, information was found about the principles of "twisting thin physical fields." They allowed the creation of flying machines. Their tests were carried out in Ausgburg near Munich, as a result of which the technical unit of the secret society "Vril" SS-1 created a whole series of flying diskettes "Haunebu" and "FAU-7". A decade and a half ahead of American and Soviet scientists and designers, German rocket scientists tested the FAU-3 intercontinental ballistic missile (“Weapon of Retribution”) at the end of the war.

This weapon was intended for shelling the territory of America. The Germans also managed to create the first jet fighter, developing speeds up to 1000 km / h. During the war years Nazi Germany managed to build more than 1,100 submarines at its shipyards, surpassing all foreign analogues in technical characteristics. If the Germans had launched their latest military developments into mass production at least in 1944, it would have been quite difficult to predict the outcome of World War II ...

It is known that Germany spent more money on Ahnenerbe research than America spent on the production of the first atomic bomb. They covered a huge area: from scientific activity to the study of the practice of the occult, from the vivisection of prisoners to spying on secret societies.

But the activity of "Ahnenerbe" remains a mystery behind seven seals. And someone is very interested in hiding it. Even on Nuremberg Trials for some reason, the interrogation of SS Standartenführer Wolfram Sievers was abruptly interrupted, Secretary General"Ahnenerbe", as soon as he began to name names and facts. Moreover, he was hastily shot among the most important war criminals. And for some reason, Dr. Cameron, who was present at the trial as part of the American delegation and studied the activities of Ahnenerbe, soon headed the CIA Blue Bird project, within which psychoprogramming and psychotronics were developed. Why did Ahnenerbe urgently seize documentation from scientific laboratories and any secret societies in every captured country? All these questions remain unanswered to this day.

At the end of the war, part of the Ahnenerbe archives ended up in America and the Soviet Union, where it was subjected to close scrutiny by intelligence officers. But materials related to mysticism remained outside the field of view of Soviet specialists. Only in the 1990s were they requested for analysis. But most likely we will not know about their content. Now this is a state secret not only for the Germans ...

"Ahnenerbe". The existence of this highly classified organization, created with the personal participation of Adolf Hitler, is the subject of the closest attention of top-ranking leaders of the USA, the USSR (Russia), as well as France and England. At the end of World War II, a real struggle unfolded among the intelligence agencies of the world for the possession of archives and artifacts of the organization. Many Nazi scientists were forced to continue their work and experiments in the USSR and the USA.

The history of the creation of the organization.

"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 reality, 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 way of becoming.

Ahnenerbe emblem

As you know, the basis of the ideology of fascism was laid by secret societies long before the emergence of the Nazi state itself, whose worldview became active force after Germany's defeat in World War I. However, we will start from the end of the 19th century.

It was then that the abbot of the Benedictine 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 to create the order itself, but lost over time.

Hagen returned from his expedition not empty-handed - he brought a huge amount of ancient manuscripts, the contents of which were kept in such a strict secret that even for the brethren it remained a mystery. It is only known 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 frail boy, Adolf Schicklgruber, sang in his church choir ...

After Theodor Hagen's death 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, the brethren provided him without the slightest objection. Eyewitnesses recalled that Liebenfels spent a couple of months in the library of the monastery, only occasionally leaving its walls to take meager food. At the same time, the Cisterian, a follower of St. Bernard, maintained complete silence, not entering into conversations with anyone. He looked very excited, as if some amazing 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 it will be later. In the meantime, at the turn of the century, the “Order of the New Temple” became one of the centers of an occult movement little known in our country called “wienai”, which is translated from Old German as “initiation”. This concept in the circles of esotericists is interpreted as a mystical comprehension of what for the profane is the 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. Approximately in 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 faces and brilliant minds of the time. In Austria and Germany, a semi-occult pan-German movement was born in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In 1887, the Golden Dawn Hermetic Society was founded in England, originating from the English Rosicrucian Society. The goal of the Golden Dawn was (through the mastery of magical rituals) to obtain the power and knowledge available to the "initiates". This society maintained contacts with similar German societies.

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

In his work “The Mysterious Language of the Indo-Germans”, List described the Germanic tradition as an exceptional bearer of the wisdom and spirituality of the ancient ancestors who inhabited the mystical pro-continent of Arctogay. The book contained a map of this legendary land with its capital Thule. In Vienna, young Hitler met with List.

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 the 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, organizes an independent "brotherhood" - the Thule Society. The symbol of this mystical organization was the swastika with a sword and a wreath. Those who were destined to play in the future were grouped around Thule. decisive role in the formation of the Nazi Party.

The book "Morning of the Magi" by Louis Povel and Jacques Bergier, published in 1959 in France, says that the legend of Tula goes back to the origin of Germanism and tells of an ancient highly developed civilization that inhabited the missing 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 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. Povel, the Thule order was a rather serious magical brotherhood: “His 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 development potential. Including the ability to control such an invisible and all-pervading force, called the English occultist Lytton "vril", and the Hindus "kundalini". Vril is a huge energy from which we use in Everyday life only an infinitesimal part, it is the nerve of our possible divinity. The one who becomes the master of vril becomes the master of himself, of others, and of the whole world... And yet, perhaps, the most important thing: they taught (brothers. - Auth.) the technique of communication with the so-called " by 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 only magical rituals, its members accepted Active participation in the political life of the country, therefore, the order had an impact on politics and, as will be seen later, this influence was very significant.

Already in October 1918, the lodge brothers, locksmith Anton Drexler and sports journalist Karl Harrer, on the instructions of Baron von Sebottendorf, founded the organization "Political Workers' Circle", which later turned into the DAP (Deutsche Arbeiterparrei - German Workers' Party). In the future, the newspaper of the Thule Order, the Völkischer Beobachter, passes directly under the direct subordination of the NSDAP, which "evolved" from the WDA.

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

As you know, after the failure of the "beer coup" Hitler ends up in the Landsberg prison, where he is serving time with Rudolf Hess and writing the book "My Struggle". Before the putsch, Hess worked at the University of Munich as an assistant to Professor Haushofer.

Based on the research conducted by Louis Povel and Jacques Bergier, Karl Haushofer, being at the beginning of the century the military attache of Germany in Japan, 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 hats), where he studied magical practices and rituals. Having risen to the rank of General during the First World War, Haushofer repeatedly surprised his colleagues with his extraordinary clairvoyant abilities, which he used in the analysis of military operations, and, apparently, developed them in himself after communicating with initiates of the East.

After the war, Haushofer devoted himself to science and began teaching geography at the University of Munich, it was there that Rudolf Hess met him, later becoming his student and assistant.

After the failure of the beer putsch, Karl Haushofer, the famous professor and general, visits 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 suggestible and mystic-minded young man, who had already shown himself as a speaker who knew how to capture the attention of the audience, drew attention gray cardinals orders and finally made their choice - Hitler will be the Fuhrer. Suggestible and prone to mysticism, possessing the undoubted qualities of a medium, capable of capturing the attention of the crowd, an orator, Hitler fit perfectly into the triad known to all occultists. And then, as they say, a matter of technology, the magician "pumps up" the medium, and he has an impact on the collective consciousness of the crowd ...

Very soon a new powerful secret order will appear, designed to unite the mystical organizations of Germany scattered and torn 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 Herman Wirth, a Dutch-German archaeologist and mystic who studied ancient symbols, languages ​​and religions. In 1928 he published his work entitled The Origin of Mankind. According to his theory, two prothoraces stood at the origins of mankind - the Nordic, spiritual race of the North, and the Gondvanic race of the South, seized by base instincts - representatives of these races were scattered among various modern peoples.

Herman Wirth

In 1933, a historical exhibition called "Ahnenerbe" is held in Munich, which translates as "legacy of the ancestors." The organizer of the exhibition is Professor Hermann Wirth. The exhibition presented many exhibits collected in various 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 the "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 right hand Hitler, the head of the SS, a structure that emerged from the small security units of the party, eventually becoming a powerful state organization. Now the SS, in addition to other functions, tried to take on the role of an observer of the "purity" of the Nordic race in spiritual, mystical and genetic terms. And for this it was necessary specific knowledge. They were searched for in the past, as you know, there were various secret mystical orders, but they lacked cohesion and state support, knowledge was but they were scattered, and a lot of money was required to search for new ones. There was a need for a new state organization that was supposed to deal with all these problems. Thus, on July 10, 1935, at the initiative of the Reichsfuehrer SS Heinrich Himmler, SS Gruppenfuehrer racologist Richard Walter Dare and researcher of ancient German history Hermann Wirth was founded by Ahnenerbe. The headquarters was located in Weischenfeld, Bavaria. The initial tasks of the "Ahnenerbe" were reduced to the study of ancient German prehistory.

From 1937 to 1939, the Ahnenerbe was integrated into the SS, and the leaders of the institute were part of Himmler's personal headquarters. By the year 39, Ahnenerbe has 50 institutes under the guidance of a specialist in the field of ancient sacred texts, Professor Wurst.

Wewelsburg Castle, headquarters of the Ahnenerbe after entering the SS

According to some reports, the state spent mind-blowing funds on research conducted at Ahnenerbe, exceeding those that the United States spent on creating the first atomic bomb.

Here is what J. Bergier and L. Povel write in their book about the activities of 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 for secret societies. There were negotiations with Skorzeny about organizing an expedition, the purpose of which should be the abduction of St. Grail, and Himmler created a special section, an information service, dealing with the "field 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, which 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 (settlement Gudym), under which in 1958, on the orders of N. S. Khrushchev, an underground military secret object Anadyr-1 was built. Among other things, there, Soviet scientists conducted research and experiments in the field of genetics, like the Germans at one time, with the only difference being that they started research almost from scratch, and one of the many institutes of the Ahnenerbe was responsible for this research.

The areas of activity of Ahnenerbe were so wide, and the volume archival documents so great that only for their systematization, it would be necessary to create a separate research institute, therefore, within 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, to detect mines and borders, minefields, dowsers assigned to parts of the german army, they were also engaged in the search for groundwater to supply the army with drinking water. The dowsing method proved to be so successful that since 1932, dowsers were trained by the military engineering school in Versailles.

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

In addition, the possibility of obtaining knowledge from extraterrestrial civilizations was not ruled out. For these purposes, specially trained contactees existed in Ahnenerbe.

Operation Grail.

One of the first expeditions of the Ahnenerbe was sent in search of 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, which is 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 mankind and, as the 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, found in open archival documents:

“... Dear Mr. Wirth! The rapid growth of your institute and the success it has been able to achieve in recent years give grounds for optimism. I believe that now Anenerbe is 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-life relic of our Aryan ancestors. To search for this artifact, you can use additional funds in the required amount ... ".

Grail

The expedition was led by the archaeologist and writer, author of the anti-Catholic book Crusade Against the Grail, Otto Rahn. The search for the Grail was carried out in Cathar castles in the Pyrenees, and although there were rumors that the excavations were successful, there was no documentary evidence of this, and the leader of the expedition, SS Sturmbannfuehrer Otto Rahn, mysteriously disappeared in 1938.

In search of Shambhala.

In 1938, under the auspices of the Ahnenerbe, an expedition was sent to Tibet, led by Ernst Schaeffer, who had been to Tibet before. 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 human history. Of course, the knowledge attributed to this people could not help but interest Hitler, who was striving for world domination.

The expedition stayed in Tibet for more than two months and visited the sacred city of Lhasa and the sacred place of Tibet, Yarling. There, German cameramen filmed a film that was discovered after the war in one of the Masonic lodges in Europe. On the films filmed in Tibet, in addition to the buildings of Yarling and Lhasa, numerous magical practices and rituals are depicted, with the help of which mediums entered 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, how to summon them, and how to fight them.

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

The expedition worked diligently on the discovered mysteries, but soon, due to the tense situation in the world, it was recalled to Berlin. A direct radio link between Lhasa and Berlin was preliminarily established, and the work of the Ahnenerbe with Lhasa continued until 1943.

Many ancient artifacts were taken out of 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 some magical properties from them.

In 1945, after the Soviet troops enter Berlin, many corpses of Tibetans in SS uniform will be found. There are many versions about who they 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 argue that the Tibetans in uniform are just volunteers sent by Tibet to support Germany and have nothing to do with magic. It is believed 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 secret societies in Germany maintained contact with similar organizations in Tibet. So in the twenties he lived in Berlin tibetan lama known for predicting the number of Nazis elected to the Reichstag three times, and belonging to the Order of the Green Brothers. Close contact was established between the Thule Society and the Green Brothers, and from 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, at the initiative of the 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, so necessary for the gene pool " true Aryans". The alpine 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 laid to the lake, carefully guarded by elite SS units.

Ahnenerbe in Abkhazia

In 1942 (according to rumors), an underground submarine base was allegedly created there, on which “special water” was taken to Germany in special silver-coated canisters.

Lake Ritsa

According to some reports, this miraculous water was later used for the synthesis of blood plasma, which was necessary for children of “true Aryan origin”, who were born under the Lebensborn (“Source of Life”) program, supervised personally by Himmler. To do this, 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 of the technical projects of Nazi Germany were far ahead of their time. We are talking, for example, about such projects as "flying discs" and the psycho-physical weapon "Thor". Where did the German scientists of that time, especially after the Nazi "purges" of the German scientific community, when many outstanding minds were exterminated, thrown into prison or fled abroad, have such revolutionary ideas and projects that even in our high-tech time are alluring, but unattainable for modern science? Traces again lead to the "Ahnenerbe" - it was this organization that was behind the creation of the "discoplanes" of the Third Reich and psychophysical weapons. The question of where such advanced knowledge was obtained is still open - perhaps the numerous expeditions of the Ahnenerbe in search of ancient "super knowledge" were eventually crowned with success, and perhaps the knowledge was obtained in some other way ...?

One of the "flying disk" 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, "Outer Minds".

One of the best specialists"Ahnenerbe" in the field of black magic was considered Karl-Maria Willigut, a German pagan and mystic who greatly influenced the occult moods of the Third Reich. Being on good terms with the Reichsführer SS, Willigut 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 and the hierarchical ladder of the Nazi state, starting his career in the SS from the head of the department for the study of early history, under the pseudonym Karl Maria Weistor, already in April 1934 he received the rank of SS Standarterführer, in November, - Oberführer, and in 1935 he was transferred to Berlin and promoted to Brigadeführer. In 1936, again going on the official lists under the pseudonym Weistor (one of the names of the ancient German god Odin), he heads one of the Ahnenerbe scientific groups, participates in excavations together with Günther 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 Wewelsburg castle.

Carl Maria Willigut

Roots ancient family Viligutov are lost in the mists of time. The coat of arms of this family with two swastikas inside is very similar to the coat of arms of the medieval rulers of Manchuria, and first appears in manuscripts of the 13th century. There was one very unusual relic in the Wiligut family - mysterious tablets with ancient runic inscriptions that they passed down from generation to generation. The information encrypted in the letters contained a description of some complex magical rituals. That is why even in the Middle Ages the family was cursed by the Catholic Church. However, the Wiliguts did not succumb to persuasion to destroy the heretical writings and thereby remove the curse.

And these tablets came to Karl Wiligut. Possessing clairvoyant abilities, he always emphasized that he was the keeper of some ancient magical knowledge, and more than once struck Himmler with visions of his ancestral memory. In a trance, he described in detail the laws and rituals of the ancient German 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 retired in 1939, retired to his estate, where he died in 1946. The peasants who lived in the nearby villages from his estate, for some reason considered Willigut, like his ancestors, the secret king of Germany. He was the last in the cursed family.

Rune decoding autographed by Wiligut

"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 means. Throughout the territory of the Third Reich, mediums, psychics, clairvoyants were involved in the work in the Ahnenerbe ... Particular attention was paid to experienced and well-known 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 technogenic information through independent "channels". In particular, such information was descriptions and drawings of "flying disks", which, in terms of their flight performance, significantly exceeded not only all aviation equipment of that time, but also modern ones too.

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 the prisoners of the concentration camp, located near the mystical citadel of the Nazis, the center of the SS, Wevelburg Castle.

In the castle itself, secret magical rituals were held to prepare the arrival of a certain "Man-God" on earth. So Hitler was just a failed experiment, by-product, in the aspirations of the mystics of the "Ahnenerbe" and other similar occult organizations in Germany.

Thor project.

The pinnacle of Ahnenerbe 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 outside. The development of such weapons has always been of great interest to the Third Reich, and they did not spare money for projects related to its development.

The Ahnenerbe was given the task of developing such a psychophysical weapon 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 swastika-shaped hammer that always hit the target and smashed with lightning (Thor's hammer).

It all started with the fact that one day Karl Muar, one of the leading employees of the Ahnenerbe, came across the runic tablets of the Wiliguts. They described the most complex unknown processes, most of which were beyond the scope of modern science. Based on these plates, technomagnetic devices were developed. He would later write a book, The Hammer of Thor, which would deal with Project Thor.

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

An experimental device was created that can not only suppress the will of a person, literally paralyzing him, but even influence 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 claimed that it would take about 10 years to finalize the experimental model and create a full-fledged telepathic weapon, but a year later the Allied troops entered Germany and seized part of the developments. According to some reports, the experimental psychophysical device created as part of the Tor project, as well as some Ahnenerbe employees who participated in the project, managed to be captured by the Americans, the Soviet troops got some 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 mind by the victorious countries.

Runic 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 in Germany, its own school of runic magic was formed - Armanic, which had a very distinctive character and noticeable differences from other traditions. In general, according to some scientists, the first runic signs in Central Europe appeared 10-12 thousand years ago and were used for cult and magical purposes. In ancient times, it was believed that the magical runes applied to the weapons and armor of a warrior made him invulnerable. Such weapons were considered "enchanted" and, as a rule, great warriors or leaders possessed them.

Armanic rune system

With the advent in Europe catholic church and the Holy Inquisition, runic writing was supplanted by the Latin alphabet, magic rituals were prohibited - 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, the peoples remained - the bearers of the tradition. Despite the prohibition 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 by Guido von List "The Secret of the Runes" published in 1908 and in the same year it was officially proclaimed the opening of the "Guido von List Society" - 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, having united in the "German Order", exchanged knowledge in this area.

Guido von List

Runic magic, being the main direction of the work of the "German Order", retained its significance in the "Ahnenerbe". Here was active work for the collection and study of ancient runic signs, as well as the creation of 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 Zig (Soul) - “double lightning strike”, - the rune of Victory. The author of the idea was Sturmgaupführer 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 military units and compounds, were attributes of state power ... Special security runes, - runes-amulets, developed by the mystics of "Ahnenerbe" on the basis of ancient Germanic ones, were applied to the entire military equipment fascists (tanks, planes, etc.) and even on the helmets of soldiers - all this was supposed to make them "invulnerable".

SS award rings with rune symbols

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

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

"Ahnenerbe". The existence of this highly classified organization, created with the personal participation of Adolf Hitler almost a hundred years ago, is the subject of the closest attention of the top-ranking leaders of the USA, the USSR (Russia), France, England, China ... What was it: a myth, a legend that keeps the dark , terrible secret knowledge of prehistoric civilizations, alien knowledge, magical secrets of otherworldly forces?

Ahnenerbe takes its origin from the mystical organizations Germanenorden, Thule and Vril. It was they who became the "three pillars" of the National Socialist ideology, supporting the doctrine of the existence in prehistoric times of a certain island - Arctida. A powerful civilization, which had access to almost all the secrets of the universe and the universe, died after a grandiose catastrophe. Some people miraculously escaped. Subsequently, they mixed with the Aryans, giving impetus to the emergence of a race of superhumans - the ancestors of the Germans. That's it, no more, no less! Yes, and how can you not believe it: after all, hints of this are clearly visible in the "Avesta" - the oldest Zoroastrian source! The Nazis were looking for confirmation of their racial theory all over the world - from Tibet to Africa and Europe. They looked for ancient manuscripts and manuscripts containing information on history, magic, yoga, theology. Everything that contained at least the slightest, albeit legendary, mention of the Vedas, Aryans, Tibetans. The highest interest in such knowledge was shown by the ruling elite of Germany - politicians, industrialists, and the scientific elite. All of them tried to master unprecedented, higher knowledge, encrypted and scattered throughout all religions and mystical beliefs of the world, and not only ours.

The residence of the educational, historical and educational society for the study of German history was located in the small provincial town of Weischenfeld, Bavaria. The initiators of the creation of the Ahnenerbe, in addition to Hitler, were the Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler, the SS Gruppenführer Hermann Wirth ("Godfather") and the racologist Richard Walter Dare. By and large, "Ahnenerbe" was looking for sources of "special knowledge", those that could contribute to the creation of a superman with superpower, superknowledge. During the Second World War, "Ahnenerbe" receives a full carte blanche to conduct "medical" experiments to create it. The Institute conducted thousands of sadistic experiments: captured soldiers of the anti-Hitler coalition, women, children sacrificed their lives on the altar of genetic and physiological experiments of the Nazis! Moreover, the masters of shoulder cases from science also tormented the elite of the SS - members of the "knightly" orders: "Lords of the Black Stone", "Black Knights" Thule "and such a Masonic order within the SS itself -" Black Sun ". The effect of various poisons, exposure to high and low temperatures, pain thresholds - these are the main "scientific" programs. And besides, the possibility of mass psychological and psychotropic influence, work on the creation of a superweapon was investigated. To conduct scientific research, Ahnenerbe attracted the best personnel - world-famous scientists. However, one should not think that everything was lumped together. No, Ahnenerbe, with German pedantry, divided the work into the following areas: the creation of a superman, medicine, the development of new non-standard types of weapons (including mass destruction, including atomic weapons), the possibility of using religious and mystical practices and ... the possibility of intercourse with alien highly developed civilizations. Not weak?! Have the Ahnenerbe scientists achieved any significant results? It is quite possible, especially when you consider that after the defeat of the "thousand-year Reich", the United States and the USSR made titanic efforts to search for the Ahnenerbe archives, all kinds of materials, employees, material values. What was discovered in complete secrecy was taken out. Scientists have mastered new, again secret laboratories victorious countries, where they continued to work in the same vein. The huge breakthrough of the USSR and the USA in the field of atomic, electronic, aerospace and machine-building technologies in the post-war period can serve as confirmation of the achievement of certain successes by the scientists of "Ahnenerbe".

A well-known and indisputable fact is the adherence of the leaders of the Third Reich to various mystical practices of the East, and especially Tibetan ones. Moreover, the Nazis began relations with Tibetan monks back in the mid-1920s. It remains unclear why the Buddhist monks felt such a disposition towards fascism. Maybe they were attracted by the idea of ​​creating a superstate? But be that as it may, several historical research expeditions undertaken by the Germans to Tibet in the late 30s were crowned with complete success. The expedition members, led by Ernst Schaeffer, managed to visit the city of Lhasa, which was closed to outsiders, moreover, they visited the sacred place - Yarling, and the regent Kvotukhtu gave Hitler a personal letter in which he called him "king". After spending three months in the East, the expedition brought to Germany hundreds of meters of film devoted to mystical and religious rites, many manuscripts subjected to the most careful study. As a result, a report fell on the table to Hitler, after reading which he was extremely excited, and the idea of ​​a superweapon, as well as the idea of ​​interstellar flights, no longer left the leader of the Third Reich. And after the establishment of radio communications between Berlin and Lhasa, she came to Germany large group representatives from Tibet. Their corpses, dressed in SS uniforms, were subsequently discovered in the premises of the Reich Chancellery and in Hitler's bunker. What mission was assigned to these representatives of the far East remained a mystery, which they voluntarily took with them to the grave. It is perhaps worth adding to the above that, in search of mystical documents, German scientists and special Sonder teams searched not only Tibet. They exported to Germany tens and hundreds of parchments in Sanskrit, ancient Chinese. Wernher von Braun, the creator of the first rocket aircraft, once said: "We learned a lot for ourselves in these papers."

A bit of history

In 1938, under the auspices of the Ahnenerbe, an expedition led by E. Scheffer was sent to Tibet. Schaeffer's expedition without any problems, collecting the necessary ethnographic material along the way, reached Lhasa. An interesting letter that Kvotukhtu, the Tibetan regent, wrote to Hitler:

“Dear Mr. King Hitler, Ruler of Germany. May health, the joy of Peace and Virtue be with you! Now you are working to create a vast state on a racial basis. Therefore, the leader of the German expedition, Sahib Schaeffer, who has now arrived, had no difficulty on his way through Tibet. (…..) Accept, Your Grace, King Hitler, our assurances of further friendship! Written on the 18th day of the first Tibetan month, the year of the Earth Hare (1939)."

Later, radio communication between Lhasa and Berlin was established. The regent of Tibet, Kvotukhtu, officially invited the Germans to Lhasa. The expedition stayed in Tibet for more than two months and visited the sacred place of Tibet - Yarling.

It should be noted that a film was preserved after the expedition (the fate of this film is interesting - it was discovered in one of the Masonic lodges in Europe after the war), filmed by German cameramen. In addition to the buildings of Lhasa and Yarling, numerous rituals and magical practices were captured on it. With the help of the guru, evil spirits were evoked, mediums entered a trance, the hysterical dances of the Bonz monks - all this was captured by an impassive German cameraman. Interestingly, the Germans were not so much interested in Buddhism as in the Bon religion. The Bon religion was practiced in Tibet even before the advent of Buddhism. This religion is based on beliefs in evil spirits (animic, i.e. natural) and ways to deal with them.

Among the adherents of this religion are many sorcerers and magicians. In Tibet, where prejudice dominates the mind of the adherents of the Bon religion, they are considered the best in dealing with otherworldly forces. It was aspects of this religion that most interested the Germans. Numerous mantras, ancient texts did not escape their attention. It is believed that the effect of mantras uttered in a trance is achieved by acoustic resonance. It is the sounds of these frequencies, according to the Tibetans, that are able to tune in to the mood necessary for communicating with a particular spirit.

The expedition worked tirelessly on these mysteries, but the approaching storm of the Second World War forced the SS magicians to hastily return home. Relations with Lhasa continued until 1943.

In 1945, during the storming of Berlin, Soviet troops would be agitated at the sight of dead Tibetans in SS uniform. There were many versions - Hitler's bodyguards, magicians, but once again I will touch on the topic of Tibet and explain where such "gifts" come from.

In the 1920s, a Tibetan lama lived in Berlin, famous for wearing green gloves as a sign of belonging to the “green brothers”. "Green" three times guessed the number of Nazis who will go to the Reichstag in the elections. Since 1926, Tibetan colonies began to appear in Berlin and Munich. In those same years, the Green Brothers Society, akin to the Thule Society, appeared in Tibet. Contact was established between the two "brothers". Many Tibetans under fascism became "court" astrologers, clairvoyants and soothsayers. One of their appearance should speak of the wisdom of the East and its miraculous power. But the state of affairs changed and the power of the magicians came to an inevitable end. During this time, many Tibetans committed suicide, disillusioned with what they had served so diligently for so many years. Maybe the corpses of precisely these “desperate” caught the eye of the Soviet soldiers, who drove the last nail into the abode of evil ... A quite reasonable question arises, why did the Germans become the chosen ones for the rulers of Tibet? Why was Schaeffer's German expedition given such a warm welcome?

Unlike most of the expeditions that visited Tibet, it was the German one that carried the idea of ​​a new world order based on racial characteristics, the idea of ​​a superman ... Expeditions from the USSR, England had only government tasks to introduce agents and expand spheres of influence. The British wanted to keep out the Soviets, with the ideas of communism, and the Soviets, in turn, wanted to expand the boundaries of their influence in China and Tibet, considering the latter as a springboard for penetrating into India. Therefore, the Tibetans turned their attention to the Germans with their ideas for rebuilding the world. And that is why the expeditions of Blumkin, Roerich, organized by the NKVD failed! Earthly goals did not attract the Tibetans ..

And quite recently, absolutely fantastic materials have appeared that Ahnenerbe received the lion's share of knowledge on the development of atomic weapons and space technology from representatives of a higher civilization from Aldebaran. Communication with the "aldebarans" was carried out from a top-secret base located in Antarctica. When you start reading about the Nazi space project Aldebaran, it's hard to get rid of the thought that it's all just fiction. But as soon as you come across information about the same project in the name of Wernher von Braun, it becomes a little uncomfortable. For many years after the Second World War, SS-Standartenführer Wernher von Braun was not just anyone, but one of the key figures in the American project of flying to the moon. The Moon, of course, is much closer than the planet Aldebaran. But on the other hand, the flight to the moon, as you know, took place. In 1946, the Americans undertook a search expedition. One aircraft carrier, fourteen ships, one submarine - quite an impressive force! Richard Evelyn Baird, who chaired this event under code name“High jump”, after many years, literally stunned the magazine fraternity: “We examined the Ahnenerbe base. There I saw unprecedented aircraft capable of covering vast distances in a fraction of a second. The devices were disc-shaped. Equipment and devices were delivered to Antarctica by special submarines. This begs the question: why Antarctica? AT classified materials about the activities of "Ahnenerbe" you can find a very interesting answer. The fact is that it is there that the so-called transdimensional window is located. And the already mentioned Wernher von Braun spoke about the existence of disc-shaped aircraft capable of climbing to a height of 4000 kilometers. Fantasy? May be. However, the creator of the V-1 and V-2 can probably be trusted. By the way, in 1945, at a secret factory in Austria, Soviet soldiers discovered similar devices. Everything found under conditions of the strictest secrecy moved to the "bins" of the USSR. And the stamp "Top Secret" for many years reliably provided the citizens of the Land of Soviets with a calm sleep of ignorance. So, the Nazis communicated with representatives of other worlds? Not excluded.

Yes, the special archives of the USA, the USSR (Russia) and England keep many secrets! In them, perhaps, you can find information about the work of the "priests" "Thule" and "Vril" to create a time machine, and when - in 1924! The machine was based on the principle of "electrograviton", but something went wrong there and the engine was installed on a flying disk. However, research in this area was too slow and Hitler insisted on accelerating other more urgent projects - atomic weapons and V-1, V-2 and V-7. Interestingly, the principles of the FAA-7 movement were based on the knowledge of the possibility of arbitrary influence on the categories of space and time!

Being engaged in research in mysticism, astronautics and much more, Ahnenerbe was actively working on much more prosaic things, for example, atomic weapons. Quite often, in various historical materials, one can find a statement about the false direction of the Germans' research, they say, they would never have received positive results. This is absolutely not true! The Germans already had the atomic bomb in 1944! According to various sources, they even conducted several tests: the first on the island of Rügen in the Baltic Sea, the other two in Thuringia. One of the explosions was carried out with the participation of prisoners of war. Destruction of a total nature was observed within a radius of 500 meters, with regards to people, some burned down without a trace, the remaining bodies bore traces of high-temperature and radiation exposure. Stalin found out about the tests a few days later, just like Truman. The Germans were actively preparing for the use of "weapons of retaliation". It was for him that the V-2 rockets were designed. A small warhead with a powerful charge, sweeping entire cities off the face of the earth, is what you need! Here's just one problem: the Americans and Russians are also developing nuclear programs. Will they strike back? Leading atomic experts Kurt Dinber, Wernher von Braun, Walter Gerlach and Werner Heisenberg did not rule out such a possibility. It should be noted that the German superbomb was not atomic in the full sense of the word, but rather thermonuclear. It is interesting that one German nuclear scientist - Heilbronner - stated: "Alchemists knew about atomic explosives that can be extracted from just a few grams of metal," and the German Minister of Arms in January 1945 supplemented him: "There is an explosive the size of a matchbox, the quantities of which enough to destroy the whole of New York." Hitler lacked, according to analysts, one year. "Ahnenerbe" and "Thule" did not have time ...

However, Ahnenerbe obtained scientific knowledge not only in the traditional way. "Thule" and "Vril" practiced methods of astral obtaining information from the noosphere, by feeding the test subjects with potent drugs, poisons, hallucinogens. Communication with spirits, with "higher unknowns" and "higher minds" was also widely practiced. One of the initiators of obtaining knowledge through black magic was Karl-Maria Wiligut. Wiligut is the last representative of an ancient family, cursed by the church in the Middle Ages. The name Wiligut can be translated as "god of will", which is equivalent to "fallen angel". The very origin of the clan, as well as its coat of arms, is shrouded in mystery, and given the presence of two swastikas in the middle of the coat of arms and its almost complete identity to the coat of arms Manchu dynasties, then one can imagine what a great influence this person had on the top of the Third Reich. Sometimes he was called "Rasputin Himmler." In the most difficult times, Himmler sought the support of Wiligut.

He read the fate of the Reich Minister from certain tablets, completely covered with mysterious letters. Yes, the demand for black magic in Nazi Germany was always the highest. In 1939, the black magician Wiligut retired. He spent the rest of his days in his family home, terrifying local residents who considered him the secret king of Germany. The magician died in 1946.

At the Nuremberg Trials, when the case of the leaders of the Ahnenerbe was heard, it turned out that by the end of the war, huge sums of money had gone through the channels of this organization in an unknown direction - something like 50 billion gold Reichsmarks. When the investigators asked Wurst's assistant, Reinhard Zuhel, what exactly these fantastic money was spent on, he, pretending to be a "guy not in himself", repeated only something about SHAMBALA and AGARTA ... . What these same SHAMBALA and AGARTA are, in principle, was clear to some of the most enlightened investigators, but it still remained incomprehensible what exactly the gold Reichsmarks could have to do with these rather vague things ... Zukhel was never "talked" to the very end of his life, which came under very strange circumstances a year later.

Aggressive materialists try to simply ignore obvious riddles. You can believe in mysticism, you can not believe. And if we were talking about the fruitless seances of exalted aunts, it is unlikely that Soviet and American intelligence would spend huge forces and risk their agents to find out what is happening at these seances. But according to the memoirs of veterans of the Soviet military intelligence, its leadership was very interested in any approaches to the Ahnenerbe.

Meanwhile, getting close to the Ahnenerbe was an extremely difficult operational task: after all, all the people of this organization and their contacts with the outside world were under the constant control of the security service - SD, which in itself testifies to many things. So it is not possible today to get an answer to the question whether we or the Americans had their own Stirlitz inside the Ahnenerbe. But if you ask why, you will run into another strange riddle. Despite the fact that the vast majority of intelligence operations during the Second World War are declassified today (with the exception of those that subsequently led to the work of active agents already in post-war years), everything related to the development of Ahnenerbe is still shrouded in mystery.

But there is, for example, the testimony of Miguel Serrano, one of the theorists of national mysticism, a member of the secret society "Thule", at whose meetings Hitler visited. He claims in one of his books that the information obtained by the Ahnenerbe in Tibet significantly advanced the development of atomic weapons in the Reich. According to his version, Nazi scientists even created some prototypes of a combat atomic charge, and the Allies discovered them at the end of the war. The source of information - Miguel Serrano - is interesting if only because for several years he represented his homeland Chile in one of the UN commissions on atomic energy.

And secondly, immediately in the post-war years, the USSR and the USA, having seized a significant part of the secret archives of the "Third Reich", make almost parallel breakthroughs in the field of rocket science, the creation of atomic and nuclear weapons, in space research. And they begin to actively develop qualitatively new types of weapons. Also, immediately after the war, the two superpowers were especially active in research in the field of psychotronic weapons.

So the comments, which claim that the Ahnenerbe archives, by definition, could not contain anything serious, do not stand up to scrutiny. And in order to understand this, you do not even need to study them. It is enough to get acquainted with what was charged to the Ahnenerbe organization by its president Heinrich Himmler. And this, by the way, is a total search for all archives and documents of national special services, scientific laboratories, Masonic secret societies and occult sects, preferably around the world. A special expedition "Ahnenerbe" was immediately sent to each country newly occupied by the Wehrmacht. Sometimes they did not even expect occupation. In special cases, the tasks assigned to this organization were carried out by the SS special forces. And it turns out that the Ahnenerbe archive is not at all theoretical research by German mystics, but a multilingual collection of a wide variety of documents captured in many states and related to very specific organizations.

The secrets of the Ahnenerbe are still alive and waiting to be unraveled...

The short history of the existence of the Third Reich still occupies the minds of modern researchers and historians in connection with a number of unparalleled studies in the field of physics, chemistry, biology, and even the occult. And here we can not do without mentioning one of the most mysterious organizations in modern history.- Ahnenerbe.

Perhaps, it is very difficult even to select the characteristics of this structure in view of the fact that it had no analogues in other countries. Created in 1935 year by personal order of the Reichsfuehrer SS Heinrich Himmler, Ahnenerbe oversaw almost everything Scientific research carried out on the territory of Nazi Germany.

Officially, the Ahnenerbe, which had the status of a German society for the study of ancient Gemran history and the heritage of their ancestors (in fact, the name itself is translated as “ The legacy of ancestors ”) was called upon to study the historical roots of the German people. Of course, since the beginning of the Second World War, most of the units, of which there were more than fifty, pursued exclusively military goals in their research.

German track. SS Division Ahnenerbe

Creation of Ahnenerbe

At the origins of the creation of the Ahnenerbe was the German scientist Hermann Wirth, who developed the theory of racial superiority based on the ancient teachings of the two protoras. In his research, Wirth was largely based on the teachings of the Thule secret society, which had a significant impact on many leaders of the Third Reich, including the Reichsfuehrer SS. As a matter of fact, it was the latter who became the ideologist of the emergence of the organization and its immediate leader. Wirth formally headed the new offspring. However, already in 1937 year Hermann Wirth was dismissed, and his place was taken by Wolfram Zivvers, which continued the administration of the Ahnenerbe until 1945 of the year.

Initially, the Ahnenerbe was part of the Main Directorate of Race and Settlements, but after the resignation of Wirth, it became part of the Inspectorate of Concentration Camps. Thanks to this, the department received unlimited opportunities to conduct experiments on prisoners. However, in 1942 In the year the Ahnenerbe became part of the Personal Headquarters of the Reichsführer SS, which meant an almost complete departure from civilian research topics.

In search of Shambhala. Hitler, Kailash and New Swabia

Activities during the war years

• It is with this period in the activities of the Ahnenerbe that many legends and the most incredible conjectures are associated. Some of them are based on real facts, the other does not stand up to scrutiny. However, one thing is clear - by the time the Second World War began, the Ahnenerbe was an organization that had no analogues in world history. She almost completely took control of all advanced research, which was smoothly redirected into a military direction.

• Ahnenerbe oversaw a number of expeditions, in which the search was carried out sacred knowledge ancient civilizations. The essence of such research was to find ancient weapons that had tremendous destructive power. In particular, the organization showed great interest in Indian legends about vimanas. According to some reports, German researchers managed to find information about some of the technical details of these devices, which resulted in the creation of experimental diskettes, work on which continued until the very end of the war. However, the Ahnenerbe itself, represented by its immediate leader Wolfram Zivvers, had an indirect relation to these studies. Most likely, the development of discs was completely transferred to the SS in the person of Obergruppenführer Hans Kammler, and the Sonderstaff under his personal leadership was responsible for the implementation of the project. According to a number of testimonies, the current sample of a disk-shaped aircraft was tested in 1945 year near Prague, after which all information about this project disappeared, including its immediate leader. Nothing is known about the fate of Kammler until now.

• Ahnenerbe showed great interest in research in the field of magic. One of the founders of such studies and their secret inspiration was Carl Maria Willigut, who called himself a black magician and had a great influence on Himmler. In addition, Ahnenerbe oversaw the study of Antarctica, since it was believed that it was she who was mythical. According to one version, the Germans even founded military base, which existed there in the post-war period.
• Much more data is available about the medical research that the Ahnenerbe carried out in the Auschwitz and Dachau concentration camps. The medical projects of the Ahnenerbe were in charge of Dr. August Hirt. In particular, the issues of curing cancer, the impact of chemical warfare agents were studied, and research was carried out in the field of anthropology. How many prisoners of the concentration camps died in this case is still not known for certain.

Medical and other experiments

Deserve being held by a doctor Sigmund Rascher at the Dachau concentration camp. Most of them were carried out on the instructions of the Luftwaffe and were designed to determine the effect of hypothermia on the body, as well as the impact on a person of ultra-low pressure at high altitudes. To do this, the subjects were placed in special pressure chambers, in which a decrease in pressure was simulated up to the creation of an almost complete vacuum.

If, regarding the cooling and subsequent warming of a person, the essence of the research is clear (many Luftwaffe planes crashed over northern seas), then far from everything is clear with the study of the influence of low pressure. At that time, officially, none of the aircraft was able to reach heights in which such a strong rarefaction of the atmosphere took place. The experiments carried out by Rascher are indirect evidence that by the end of the war, the Ahnenerbe came close to mastering flights in the stratosphere. How they were to be carried out remains a mystery.

It is quite possible that we are talking about the notorious disk planes of the Third Reich, which were even planned to be launched into space. It is also possible that these studies were carried out as part of the A9 America project, in accordance with which a powerful ballistic missile, which was capable of going into space and by the end of the war was almost ready for use. According to a number of reports, pilots were in the missiles as part of the test launches. So it is likely that the first space flight took place much earlier than official history suggests.

Nikolay Subbotin. German expedition to Antarctica in search of the city of the gods

As a conclusion

The studies of the Ahnenerbe are of great interest up to the present time. The creation of such an organization with powerful funding and scientific potential is unique. Not one country in the world dared to repeat such a scientific center, which would unite such a number of universities, scientific laboratories and research sites. Alas, most of the documents of the Ahnenerbe disappeared or were destroyed, and we have yet to realize the real scope of the research carried out by the department.

On July 23, 1933, the exhibition "Deutsche Ahnenerbe" - "The Heritage of German Ancestors" was solemnly opened in Munich. Professor Hermann Wirth is listed as the organizer of the exhibition. The visitors of this exhibition were invited to get acquainted with the exhibits collected all over the planet - from the sands of Palestine to the caves of Labrador.

The exhibition presented various amazing artifacts, proving that the Germans were the first in the world to switch to complex agriculture, learned how to handle metals, mastered crafts, they were the first to have fine arts. It is not surprising that in addition to ordinary visitors, the exhibition showed great interest Nazi leaders.

The first to arrive at the Deutsche Ahnenerbe was Richard Darre, one of the leading ideologists of the NSDAP, who was responsible in the party for ancient history and soil theory. A good economist, a connoisseur of agriculture, fond of anthropology, Darre arrived at Wirth's event, accompanied by Friedrich Hielscher, a pagan and occultist who had never been a member of the NSDAP, but enjoyed great respect in its ranks. It was they who, having familiarized themselves with the exposition in detail, recommended it to the all-powerful SS Reichsfuehrer Heinrich Himmler.

On July 30, Himmler visited the exhibition. Without any exaggeration, this day can be called one of the most fateful in the German history of those decades.

Reichsfuehrer, who fed unhealthy interest to romantic ancient legends, was literally shocked by what he saw. And the cunning Wirth, who knew how to impress, slipped more and more unique artifacts to his eminent guest.

Here is the "Chronicles of Ura-Lind" - a book found in the 18th century and considered a fake for many years. It tells about the life of the ancient Germanic tribes, as it was several millennia ago. The chronicle is written in Old Dutch, which fell into disuse in the 13th century, it is almost impossible to fake this language! In addition, judging by the style, the book was not the original, but a translation from some older, perhaps forever lost original!

But the hilt of the sword, covered with runes. The sword was found in layers of soil, the age of which is more than 6 thousand years! This means that the Germans already knew how to make weapons from iron and knew the runic script!

"Heritage of Ancestors" - Research Institute

Himmler was not used to thinking long. In mid-August, he made an offer to Virtu that he could not refuse, especially since he seemed to have been looking forward to it for a long time. Wirth was asked to create the Heritage of Ancestors Institute on the basis of the funds of the exhibition and its organizing committee ( Organization of anenerbe).

The task of the institute is to study everything that was connected with the history, culture, language, traditions of the ancient Germans.

Head " Anenerbe organizations Wirth himself became his deputy, the already mentioned Khilyper. Funding for the institute at first came from the budget of the Ministry of Agriculture, headed by none other than Darre. Himmler exercised the tacit leadership of the entire undertaking.

First thing " Organization of anenerbe"engaged in the monopolization of ancient Germanic studies. Within a few months, he integrated into his membership all the scientific groups dealing with similar issues. Where it was impossible (for example, at the departments of large universities), branches of the Heritage of Ancestors actually arose. In a word, Wirth acted according to the principle: "If the mountain does not go to Mohammed, then Mohammed goes to the mountain."

By 1937, the “Ahnenerbe Organization” consisted of almost fifty institutions. It was at this moment that Himmler took him under his sole leadership, including him in the structure of the SS. All employees of the Heritage of Ancestors, starting with Wirth himself and ending with simple laboratory assistants, automatically received SS ranks. At the same time, the titles were, it should be noted, quite high.

By this point, the "Ahnenerbe Organization" began to divert more and more away from strictly scientific research. The bias towards the realm of the spirit, into the realm of mysticism and magic increased more and more. Despite the fact that in its program documents the "Heritage of the Ancestors" declared the complete scientific nature of all research, occult practices as a new branch of knowledge were quite firmly rooted in its structure.

Project "Ahnenerbe"

Enormous money was spent on the work of the "Ahnenerbe Organization" - more than the United States spent on its "Manhattan Project" (which - I will lift the veil of secrecy - ended in a shameful failure). Research was carried out on a colossal scale, millions of marks were spent, from the point of view of a rational person, on complete nonsense.

So what - the “Ahnenerbe Organization” really turned out to be a big and useless toy, a luxury item for the leaders of the Nazi empire? The labor of thousands of people, huge funds were directed to chimerical purposes and did not give any effect? If you believe some scientific books that came out after the war, it was so. But something is not very believable.

There is another mysterious figure holding a high position in the “Ahnenerbe Organization”. After the transition of the institute to the structure of the SS, its manager was appointed - SS Standartenführer Wolfram Sievers, a man with a university education, who was supposed to play the role of "liaison" between scientists and Himmler. He performed this role very successfully, not remaining a superficial observer, but penetrating deeply into the affairs of the institute.

He was accepted as one of his own, because Sievers was a student of Friedrich Hielscher! A huge black-bearded man with a piercing gaze, he became a symbol of the “Ahnenerbe Organization” for many years. However, even this is not the most interesting. The most interesting thing is how Sievers ended his days. And he finished them on the gallows by the verdict of the Nuremberg Tribunal.

Let's think for a moment. If the "Ahnenerbe Organization" was such a harmless - as well as useless - institution, then why hang its leader who did not commit any atrocities? Much larger SS ranks were not even imprisoned, and the relatively "small fry" Sivers was hastened to hang.

Moreover, if you believe the rumors, hang him in a terrible hurry, after a carelessly conducted process, and during the preliminary detention he was cut off all channels of communication with the outside world. Sievers was judged by the Americans and the British, in fact, not letting the Russians and the French into the process. Suspicious details, isn't it? What could Sievers say that the winners might not like?

Let's start with information about Organization of anenerbe”, which is available in the published literature. Just silence the existence so powerful scientific center it was impossible, so they tried in every possible way to belittle him and weigh him down with tons of lies. But we can still learn something useful.

Research Ahnenerbe

Thus, it is known that the SS teachings dealt with many serious historical and cultural issues. For example, the history of the Holy Grail, the debate about which has not ceased to this day, and was further fueled by the publication of the famous book by Dan Brown. Further, they carefully examined all heretical movements and occult schools, including the alchemist societies and the Rosicrucian order. In addition, they organized Tibetan expeditions with uncertain goals and studied the prophecies of Nostradamus.

Since the beginning of the war, the specialists of the “Ahnenerbe Organization” followed the victorious Wehrmacht, taking under their “guardianship” the treasures of European museums and libraries. They carefully selected any artifacts connected with ancient German history in particular and with curious pages of German history in general. In 1940, Sievers created a special "Einsatzstab", which had branches in almost all major European cities:

• Berlin
• Belgrade
• Thessaloniki
• Budapest
• paris
• Nice
• Brussels
• Amsterdam
• Copenhagen
• Oslo…

350 specialists worked here, experts with excellent education, excellent scientific careers and academic degrees. They dug up burial mounds in Ukraine, conducted archaeological research in the center of Paris and Amsterdam, searched for and found ancient treasures and sites. However, the museum collections of European countries were subjected to thorough "revisions"; the most valuable, from their point of view, exhibits were transported to Germany. By the way, most of them were never found after the war.

So, here is the picture of the activities of the “Ahnenerbe Organization”, which an inquisitive reader can get from a variety of books. And again, a strange contradiction: a huge scope of activity, excellent specialists - and not the slightest practical effect. As if someone, having built a nuclear reactor, began to prove to you that this is nothing more than a designer for children of primary school age. Are you hard to believe? Me too. Let's figure it out together...

The Brilliant Achievements of Hermann Wirth

And here we must again return to the personality of Hermann Wirth: a fairly well-known scientist, but diligently forgotten. The first leader of the "Organization of the Ahnenerbe" project, who, after several years of brilliant success, had to leave the stage quickly and for unclear reasons.

Already in the 1920s, he began to create a team of like-minded people, on the basis of which the institute “Ahnenerbe Organization” would subsequently be formed. At the same time, the foundation was laid for the museum collections of the Heritage of Ancestors - Wirth traveled to German museums and looked after what could take a worthy place in the exposition he planned.

In 1928, Wirth met Ludwig Roselius, the wealthiest Bremen businessman and philanthropist, who was literally fascinated by the ideas of the scientist. He agreed to provide very serious financial assistance to the brainchild of Wirth. We started, as it should be, with the building: by 1931, the repository of the permanent exhibition of German archaeological antiquities, proudly named "House Atlantis", was completed. It was a bizarre sight: a combination of ultra-modern architectural forms with ancient Germanic symbols.

So, from the facade it was decorated with a giant totem - a carved wood image of the Tree of Life, a solar wheel and a cross superimposed on it with the crucified god Odin. The totem itself was covered with runic signs. It was the expositions of "House Atlantis" that formed the basis of the exhibition "Heritage of German Ancestors". And the building "House Atlantis" soon became the headquarters of the institute "Organization Ahnenerbe".

But the cloudless relationship between Himmler and Wirth did not last long. The point was that Wirth focused mainly on historical and theoretical research, and Himmler wanted something more. He dreamed that the “Ahnenerbe Organization” would begin to bring practical benefits.

In 1937, simultaneously with the incorporation of Ancestral Heritage into the SS system, Wirth was stripped of his post. At first, mindful of his past merits, he was left under house arrest, but then, when World War II came close to a sad finale for Germany, he was destroyed in one of the concentration camps.

Academic scientist could not understand one simple thing: Himmler's fascination with ancient history and occult sciences was by no means platonic. The Reichsführer craved power and expected that this power would be given to him by the “Heritage of the Ancestors”. When Wirth did not understand what they wanted from him, he was instantly replaced with a more suitable person.