Himmler's Crusade: The Nazi Expedition to Find the Origins of the Aryan Race
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.
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Book details
- Author
- Christopher Hale
- Imprint
- Trade Paper Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 464
- Formats
- Hardcover
- Subjects
- History › Modern › 20th Century
- Topics
- Nazi Germany · Heinrich Himmler · Tibet expedition · Aryan race theory · occultism · British India · racial pseudoscience · World War II history
- ISBN-13
- 9780471262923
About the author
CHRISTOPHER HALE is a British author, documentary producer, and director, and the author of three books: Massacre in Malaya, Hitler’s Foreign Executioners and Himmler’s Crusade.
Hale’s debut book, Himmler’s Crusade: The Nazi Expedition to Find the Origins of the Aryan Race, won the Italian Premio Gambrinus 'Giuseppe Mazzotti' prize in 2006. Hitler’s Foreign Executioners was long-listed as History Book of the Year by Longmans/History Today.
When not writing, Hale works as a documentary producer and director, making films for the BBC, Channel 4, WGBH, and the Discovery Channel, covering topics in both science and the arts.
Christopher lives in London and Berlin.