Himmler's Crusade: The Nazi Expedition to Find the Origins of the Aryan Race

Himmler's Crusade: The Nazi Expedition to Find the Origins of the Aryan RaceThe compelling story of a trek across an exotic land and the sinister consequencesIt was an SS mission led by two complex individuals one who was using the Nazis to pursue his own ends, and one so committed to Nazism that afterward he conducted racial experiments using the skulls of prisoners at Auschwitz. Himmler's Crusade relates the 1938 Nazi expedition through British India to the sacred mountains of Tibet in search of the remnants of the Aryan

It was an SS mission led by two complex individuals-one who was using the Nazis to pursue his own ends, and one so committed to Nazism that afterward he conducted racial experiments using the skulls of prisoners at Auschwitz. Himmler's Crusade relates the 1938 Nazi expedition through British India to the sacred mountains of Tibet in search of the remnants of the Aryan people, the lost master race. Based on a wide range of previously unused sources, this intriguing book reveals the mission-a pet project of Reichsfuhrer Heinrich Himmler--to be the result of both a bizarre historical fantasy and a strategy to provoke insurgency in British India. Providing rare glimpses into Himmler's SS stronghold, this riveting tale sheds new light on the occult component of the racial theories that obsessed Himmler and his fellow Nazis.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Wiley (TP)
Published: 10/01/2003
ISBN: 9780471262923
Pages: 422
Weight: 1.78lbs
Size: 9.18h x 6.36w x 1.42d

Review Citations: Choice 06/01/2004 pg. 1952