Ahnenerbe

English Etymology Borrowed from en de Ahnenerbe, from de Ahnen, plural of de Ahn forefather, + de Erbe heritage. Proper noun en historical A National Socialist German organization whose goal was to research the anthropological and cultural history of the Aryan race, and later to experiment and launch voyages with the intent of proving that prehistoric and mythological Nordic populations had once ruled the world. en 1995 Peter Levenda Unholy Alliance: A History of Nazi Involvement with the Occult https://books.google.com.au/books?id=X5q6SsVTK3EC&pg=PA174&dq=%22Ahnenerbe%22&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22Ahnenerbe%22&f=false 174 2002 There is evidence to suggest that the Ahnenerbe itself was formed as a private institution by several friends and admirers of Sven Hedin, including Wolfram Sievers (who would later find justice at the Nuremberg Trials) and Dr. Friedrich Hielscher who, according to the records of the Nuremberg Trial of November 1946, had been responsible for recruiting Sievers into the Ahnenerbe. en 1999 Christopher Hutton Linguistics and the Third Reich: Mother-tongue Fascism, Race and the Science of Language https://books.google.com.au/books?id=tYcrBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA65&dq=%22Ahnenerbe%22&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22Ahnenerbe%22&f=false 65 2001 Himmler's aspirations to influence in intellectual and cultural matters were realized in the Ahnenerbe (Research and Teaching Foundation, Ancestral Heritage). en 2015 Hans Tridle The Esoteric Codex: Nazism and the Occult 24 https://books.google.com.au/books?id=KcSmCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA24&dq=%22Ahnenerbe%22&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22Ahnenerbe%22&f=false When the RuSHA was restructured, the department was dissolved with its responsibilities passing to the Ahnenerbe. Translations Georgian: ka ანანერბე German: de Ahnenerbe n Hindi: hi आनेनेर्बे Japanese: ja アーネンエルベ ānenerube Russian: ru анене́рбе n en Organizations Nazism