djchammi
01-05-2010, 06:01 AM
National Geographic - The Nazi Expedition
When five officers of the Nazi SS made the arduous journey to Tibet’s forbidden city of Lhasa in the winter of 1938, they were under orders from Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler, these scientists were to find proof of a bizarre historical fantasy,to lay the groundwork for a global political and military strategy, and pinpoint the origins and remnants of the Aryan "master race."
Based on a wide range of previously unused sources, including journals, new interviews, and original research in German archives as well as in Tibet, this real-life drama combines the highest standards of narrative history with the high adventure and exotic locales of Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Central to this chilling tale is the complex and problematic character of Ernst Schäfer, the expedition’s leader. A serious and extremely competent young zoologist, Schäfer was so consumed by ambition that he was eager to become Himmler’s protégé and to do anything his patron commanded in return for opportunity, fame, and influence at the very highest levels of Nazi power.
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When five officers of the Nazi SS made the arduous journey to Tibet’s forbidden city of Lhasa in the winter of 1938, they were under orders from Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler, these scientists were to find proof of a bizarre historical fantasy,to lay the groundwork for a global political and military strategy, and pinpoint the origins and remnants of the Aryan "master race."
Based on a wide range of previously unused sources, including journals, new interviews, and original research in German archives as well as in Tibet, this real-life drama combines the highest standards of narrative history with the high adventure and exotic locales of Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Central to this chilling tale is the complex and problematic character of Ernst Schäfer, the expedition’s leader. A serious and extremely competent young zoologist, Schäfer was so consumed by ambition that he was eager to become Himmler’s protégé and to do anything his patron commanded in return for opportunity, fame, and influence at the very highest levels of Nazi power.
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