F.A. Mitchell-Hedges

The Nazi Ahnenerbe Forschungs und Lehrgemeinschaft organization was founded by Heinrich Himmler, Hermann Wirth, and Walter Darré on July 1st 1935 as a research foundation. It was incorporated into the larger SS in January 1939. The name of the society literally means "ancestral heritage", and it was originally devoted to research concerning the anthropological and cultural history of the German ra ...

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Perhaps the best-known crystal skull, the Mitchell-Hedges skull, is currently in the possession of Anna Mitchell-Hedges. Her father F.A. Mitchell-Hedges, was an adventurer who dabbled in amateur archaeology, as well as the ancient civilizations of Latin America and the study of Atlantis (a rumored sunken civilization thought mythical by most archaeologists). F.A. Mitchell-Hedges claimed to have found the skull in a cave on one of his expeditions to Lubaantun, but his detractors insist that he bought it at an auction at Sotheby's. The salesmen ...

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Archealogical expeditions were organized and sent to Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Poland and Greece, as well as the region of Kafiristan, and the Channel Islands. Not an official expedition, Ahnenerbe officials were reportedly sent to Brazil in 1943 with the task of 'procuring' the crystal skull that was reportedly found in a Maya ruin of Lubaantun by F.A. Mitchell-Hedges. The agents were arrested after trying to infiltrate and rob a Brazilian museum storing the artifact. This account has not been corroborated by independent sources however, a ...

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Ahnenerbe, Ahnenerbe - History, Ahnenerbe - Travels Operations and Expeditions, Ahnenerbe - Medical Experiments, Ahnenerbe - Involvement of German soldiers, Ahnenerbe - End of the War, Ahnenerbe - Fantasy vs. reality, Ahnenerbe - Resources, Ahnenerbe - Notes

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Archealogical expeditions were organized and sent to Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Poland and Greece, as well as the region of Kafiristan, and the Channel Islands. Not an official expedition, Ahnenerbe officials were reportedly sent to Brazil in 1943 with the task of 'procuring' the crystal skull that was reportedly found in a Maya ruin of Lubaantun by F.A. Mitchell-Hedges. The agents were arrested after trying to infiltrate and rob a Brazilian museum storing the artifact. This account has not been corroborated by independent sources however, ...

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Ahnenerbe, Ahnenerbe - History, Ahnenerbe - Travels, Operations and Expeditions, Ahnenerbe - Medical Experiments, Ahnenerbe - Involvement of German soldiers, Ahnenerbe - End of the War, Ahnenerbe - Fantasy vs. reality, Ahnenerbe - Resources, Ahnenerbe - Notes

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Misconstrued ideas of the Ahnenerbe are common in fantasy fiction, and the they have become part of the background of conspiracy theories - largely because of confusion between themselves and Vril, or more commonly the Thule Society. The Ahnenerbe organization appears to have been the basis for the Nazi archaeologist villains in Steven Spielberg's "Indiana Jones" films. In the Delta Green (a sourcebook for the Call of Cthulhu role-playing game), Ahnenerbe is said to have spawned another organization, known as "Karotechia," which actually practiced ritual magic. The video game Return to Castle Wolfenstein also portrays the ...

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Ahnenerbe, Ahnenerbe - History, Ahnenerbe - Travels Operations and Expeditions, Ahnenerbe - Medical Experiments, Ahnenerbe - Involvement of German soldiers, Ahnenerbe - End of the War, Ahnenerbe - Fantasy vs. reality, Ahnenerbe - Resources, Ahnenerbe - Notes

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Misconstrued ideas of the Ahnenerbe are common in fantasy fiction, and they have become part of the background of conspiracy theories - largely because of confusion between themselves and Vril, or more commonly the Thule Society. The Ahnenerbe organization appears to have been the basis for the Nazi archaeologist villains in Steven Spielberg's "Indiana Jones" films. In the Delta Green (a sourcebook for the Call of Cthulhu role-playing game), Ahnenerbe is said to have spawned another organization, known as "Karotechia," which actually practiced ritual magic. The video game Return to Castle Wolfenstein also portrays the ...

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Ahnenerbe, Ahnenerbe - History, Ahnenerbe - Travels Operations and Expeditions, Ahnenerbe - Medical Experiments, Ahnenerbe - Involvement of German soldiers, Ahnenerbe - End of the War, Ahnenerbe - Fantasy vs. reality, Ahnenerbe - Resources, Ahnenerbe - Notes

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Later on an Institute for Functional Research in Military Science (Institut für Wehrwissenschaftliche Zweckforschung) was set up within the Ahnenerbe Society. During the Nuremberg Trials, Dr. Friedrich Hielscher testified that Sievers had initially been repulsed at Himmler's idea of expanding the Ahnenerbe to human experimentation in 1942, and that he had "no desire whatsoever to participate in these." (v:II pg:37) Wolfram Sievers, the manager of the Ahnenerbe Society, became the director of the Institute. Under his leadership ...

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Much of their research was later believed to extend beyond pseudoscience into occultism. In total, the Ahnenerbe was divided into 50 sections, including sections covering Celtic studies, the Externsteine rock formation, Scandinavian mythology, runic symbolism, and the World Ice Theory of Hans Horbiger. In 1936, Himmler convinced Otto Rahn to join the group by promising near-unlimited funding for his Grail search, which would become one of the best-known aspects of the Ahnenerbe in post-war times. Unfortunately Rahn committed suicide the following year amidst rumours of homosexuality, after ...

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In 2002, Ukraine announced the discovery of a mass-grave containing dozens of Nazi soldiers in the southern region of the country. Some had been trepanned, others had their spinal cords sawn lengthwise, or were missing their skulls. Pravda reported it to be the aftermath of an Ahnenerbe experiment, although no further information was given.[6] (And it should be pointed out that Pravda has run several incorrect stories abou ...

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Ahnenerbe, Ahnenerbe - History, Ahnenerbe - Travels Operations and Expeditions, Ahnenerbe - Medical Experiments, Ahnenerbe - Involvement of German soldiers, Ahnenerbe - End of the War, Ahnenerbe - Fantasy vs. reality, Ahnenerbe - Resources, Ahnenerbe - Notes

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In August 1943, Himmler relocated the Ahnenerbe headquarters from Wewelsburg castle in Büren, to Waischenfeld to avoid the danger of Allied bombing campaigns. Waischenfeld finally fell in April 1945, at the close of the war. On 27 June 1944, Rascher was replaced by Ploetner as head of the Ahnenerbe Institute for Military Scientific Research at Dachau. ...

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