![]() ![]() meaning ‘something inherited from the forefathers’ ”). Thus, Himmler established a think tank that he called the Ahnenerbe (a “rather obscure German word. Moreover, he had a knack for shoring up fragments of Nazi ideology with fragments of half-learning that seemed self-evident to true believers. ![]() Yet, writes Canadian scholar Pringle ( The Mummy Congress, 2001), he was also fanatically devoted to Hitler. Weedy and weak, a schoolyard snitch with a fanatical devotion to record-keeping, Heinrich Himmler seemed an unlikely choice to command the elite praetorian guard called the SS. A tale of scholarly detection illuminating a little-explored corner of Third Reich history: the use of pseudoscience in the service of ideology. ![]()
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