Title: The master plan
First published: 2006
Description: THE MASTER PLAN is a groundbreaking history of a little known Nazi SS archeological research institute, the Ahnenerbe, and the key role it played in the Holocaust. The Ahnenerbe was the brainchild of Himmler, the Reichsfuhrer SS and architect of the Final Solution, who was intensely interested in Germany’s ancient past. His intent was not only to rewrite the history of what he and others termed the “Aryan Race,” but also to use that mythic past to shape a more glorious future for Germany. While attempting to prove that Aryans were responsible for all of civilization’s greatest achievements, he also hoped to use tall, blond-haired SS men as stock to breed future generations of Germans in a racially purer mold. In the tradition of Hitler’s Willing Executioners, THE MASTER PLAN is also an expose of the work of German scientists and scholars who allowed their research to be used to justify extermination, and who, in some cases, directly participated in the slaughter—many of whom resumed their academic positions at war’s end. Intensely compelling and exhaustively researched, THE MASTER PLAN is based on extensive personal interviews and previously ignored archival material.
Subjects: Ahnenerbe (Institute), Antropologie, Archeologische vindplaatsen, Ariërs, Biography, Eugenics, History, Holocaust, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Nationaal-socialisme, National socialism, National socialism and intellectuals, Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei, Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel. Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt, Nazis, Nonfiction, Philosophy, Physical anthropology, Racism, Rassentheorieën, Wetenschap, Histoire, Eugénisme, Holocauste, 1939-1945, Nazisme et intellectuels, Racisme, Biographies, Ahnenerbe (Institut), Himmler, heinrich, 1900-1945, Judenvernichtung, Rassismus, Vorgeschichte, Wissenschaftler, Das Ahnenerbe e.V.
Places: 4.415, Germany
People: Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945)
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: DD247.H46 P75 2006