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The Ahnenerbe (German: [ˈaːnənˌʔɛʁbə], "Ancestral Heritage") was a pseudoscientific organization founded by the Schutzstaffel in Nazi Germany in 1935

of the various institutes set up as subsidiary bodies of the German "Ahnenerbe" organization. Indogermanisch-arische Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft (Indogermanic-Aryan

carried out while he was managing director (Reichsgeschäftsführer) of the Ahnenerbe from 1935–1945. He was convicted of war crimes in the Doctors' Trial in

1945. He was an Oberführer in the SS and served as the President of the Ahnenerbe during the Nazi era. Walther Wüst was born in Kaiserslautern, Germany

religions, myths and symbols. He was involved in founding the SS-organization Ahnenerbe but was later pushed out by Heinrich Himmler. Born in Utrecht on 6 May

by Otto Huth, head of the section on Indo-European religion within the Ahnenerbe, the academic and research division of the SS. The institute had as one

Meteorologischen Instituts während der Jahre 1912 bis 1927" at the Berlin University in 1930. Scultetus was appointed head of the Ahnenerbe's Meteorology Section

Trathnigg was a member of the SS, and was since 1938 affiliated with the Ahnenerbe. During World War II, Trathnigg served in the Wehrmacht. After the war

Immediately after its founding, SS-Obergruppenführer Werner Best and Ahnenerbe became cooperative members. Best was at this time de facto Interior Minister

draw influence from Gnosticism and Tantrism, building on the work of the Ahnenerbe. Within this racist theory, Jews are held up as the antithesis of nobility