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Summary:

"Himmler's Crusade tells the bizarre and chilling story of one of history's most perverse, eccentric, and frightening scientific expeditions. Drawing on private journals, new interviews, and original research in German archives as well as in Tibet, author Christopher Hale recreates the events of this sinister expedition, asks penetrating questions about the relationship between science and politics, and sheds new light on the occult theories that obsessed Himmler and his fellow Nazis."--Back cover

Table of Contents:

• Foothills. Call of the wild ; Edge of the world ; Grand inquisitor ; The people hunter ; Return to the fatherland
• Peaks. Confronting the Raj ; Trapped ; Breakout ; On the roof of the world ; Weird barbarity ; The white scarves ; Escape from the Raj
• Valleys. The devil's scientist ; The castle ; Race warrior ; The savage mind ; Retribution ; Aftermaths.

Author/Creator:

Hale, Chris (Christopher) , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Himmler's crusade: the Nazi expedition to find the origins of the Aryan race [by Hale, C.]

Subjects:

German Tibet Expedition (1938-1939)

Schäfer, Ernst, 1910-1992 — Travel — China — Tibet Autonomous Region

Beger, Bruno — Travel — China — Tibet Autonomous Region

National socialism and science

National socialism and occultism

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-405) and index.
Originally published in the United Kingdom by Bantam Press in 2003 under the title Himmler's crusade : the true story of the 1938 Nazi expedition into Tibet.

Physical Description:

x, 422 pages, 26 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Call Numbers:

DD256.5 .H2725 2006

ISBNs:

0785822542 (hbk.)
9780785822547 (hbk.)

OCLC Numbers:

111568570