The story of the Nazis’ search for their roots in Tibet

 

The story of the Nazis’ search for their roots in Tibet

 

The inn owner Sinval, who claimed to be of Aryan descent, talked with them about the "swastika" symbol when chatting with them. What confused Latso was that the "swastika" symbol actually became the Nazi party emblem and flag. What puzzled him even more was that when the Nazis designed this logo, they also involved Aryans.

This was an unforgettable night. The wise man Agudengba and the caravan leader Latso stayed at a small inn in Tibet. When they went to bed, Latso and Agudengba chatted about why the Nazi Party used the "swastika" character as the party flag and emblem. Regarding the symbol, Agudemba told Lacuo about the "nationalist" trend that emerged in the 20th century. It was an era of rampant "white supremacy" and "racial discrimination." The national purity and eugenics doctrine advocated by the Nazi Party provided this foundation. The stock trend of thought has played a role in fueling the flames.

Agudemba said:

I have lived in Tibet for a long time. I have done some research on Nazi scientists’ inspection of Tibet. It was a ridiculous story about the German Nazis who went to Tibet to find their Aryan ancestors.

In 1938, Heinrich Himmler, a leading member of the German Nazi Party and the main planner of the European Jewish genocide, sent a five-man team to Tibet to search for the origins of the imagined Aryan race. This is an interesting story that happened during an adventure trip through India.

More than a year before the start of World War II, a group of Germans secretly landed on India's eastern border. Their mission was to discover "the origins of the Aryan race."

Adolf Hitler believed that the Nordic "Aryans" entered India from the north about 1,500 years ago. The Aryans committed the "crime" of interbreeding with local "non-Aryans" and lost what made them racially superior. Properties of other people on Earth.

Hitler frequently expressed his deep antipathy toward the Indian people and their struggle for freedom, expounding his views on numerous occasions in speeches, writings, and debates.

But according to Himmler, Hitler's police chief and SS chief, the Indian subcontinent still deserves close attention. From this time onwards, Tibet received the attention of the Nazis.

Adolf Hitler and Nazi Police Chief Heinrich Himmler were both believers in the Aryan myth.

Those who firmly believed that the white Nordic race was superior also believed in fictional legends of the lost city of Atlantis, where "people of the purest blood" once lived. The mysterious island, believed to be located somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean between England and Portugal, is said to have been struck by divine lightning before sinking into the sea.

But all surviving Aryans moved to safer places. The Himalayan region is considered such a sanctuary, especially Tibet as it is famous as the "roof of the world".

Agudemba tells the story:

In 1935, Himmler established a new department within the SS called the Ahnenerbe, or Bureau of Ancestral Heritage, in order to find out where the Atlanteans went after the Thunderbolt and the Great Flood. Where, and where still traces of this great race exist. In 1938, he sent a team of five Germans to Tibet for a "search operation."

Two members of the team stand out. One is the 28-year-old genius zoologist Ernst Schaefer, who has been to the India-China-Tibet border twice before. Schaefer joined the SS shortly after the Nazi victory in 1933, long before Himmler became the sponsor of the Tibetan expedition.

Schaeffer was an avid hunter and enjoyed collecting trophies at his home in Berlin. While on a hunting expedition, he and his wife were on a boat trying to shoot a duck. He slipped while taking aim and accidentally shot his wife in the head, killing her.

The second key figure was Bruno Berg, a young anthropologist who joined the SS in 1935. Berg would measure Tibetan skulls and facial details and create masks. He was particularly interested in collecting material on the proportions, origins, significance and development of the Nordic race in this region.

In early May 1938, the ship docked in Colombo with five Germans on board.

In early May 1938, this ship carrying 5 Germans docked in Colombo, Sri Lanka. From there they took another ship to Madras, now Chennai, and a third ship to Calcutta.

The British authorities in India were wary of these Germans, believing them to be spies. They were initially reluctant to let the men pass through India, and the British-run Times of India even ran an accusatory headline: "Gestapo Agents in India."

In Gangtok, located in the northeastern Indian state of Sikkim, British political officials were also unwilling to allow these people to enter Tibet through Sikkim.

But in the end, the determination of the Nazi team won out. Late that year, the five Germans entered Tibet with Nazi flags tied to their mules and luggage.

Agudemba continued:

The swastika used by the Nazi Party can be seen everywhere in Tibet, and the locals call it "yungdrung". Schaeffer and his team would see a lot of this when they were in India, where it has long been a symbol of good luck among Hindus. Even today this symbol can be seen outside houses, inside temples, on street corners, on pace cars and trucks.

Meanwhile, in Tibet, things are changing.

The 13th Dalai Lama died in 1933 and the new Dalai Lama was only 3 years old, so the Buddhist Kingdom of Tibet was controlled by a regent. The Germans were treated particularly well by the regent and ordinary Tibetans, and Berg, who made masks, even served as a temporary local doctor for a time.

What Tibetan Buddhists don't know is that in the Nazis' erroneous imagination, Buddhism, like Hinduism, weakened the power of the Aryans who came to Tibet and led to the loss of their spirit and strength.

Just when it seemed that Schaefer and others could spend more time conducting real "research" under the guise of scientific investigation in the fields of zoology, anthropology, etc., in August 1939, the inevitable war occurred, and Germany Human adventures had to be cut short.

By then, Berg had measured the skulls and facial features of 376 Tibetans, taken 2,000 photographs, "cast the heads, faces, hands and ears of 17 people" and collected "fingerprints and handprints from another 350 people" ".

He also collected 2,000 "ethnographic artifacts," and another member of the task force captured 18,000 meters of black-and-white film and 40,000 photographs.

With their trip cut short, Himmler arranged for them to fly out of Calcutta at the last minute and personally greeted them when the plane landed in Munich.

Schaefer took most of his Tibetan "treasures" with him to a castle in Salzburg, where he had moved during the war. But once the Allied forces arrived in 1945, the place was attacked and most of the Tibetan photos and other materials were destroyed.

The expedition's other so-called "scientific results" met the same fate during the war: either lost or destroyed. The shame of the Nazi past meant that no one attempted to trace the material after the war.

Lacuo was very surprised when he heard Agudengba's narration.

Agudengba sang a self-composed impromptu song called "Searching for Roots and Asking Ancestors":

 

Searching for one’s roots and asking questions about one’s ancestors is a folk tradition.

It is also a kind of nature of the Chinese people.

It is a complex and a true feeling.

In reality, some people have been away from home for many years.

There are also some people who have been growing up in other places,

I don't know my real hometown.

 

At some point many years after I left home, I

Sometimes I think of the old house in my hometown,

There is also a courtyard full of childhood memories.

Every lost image of the long past,

can bring about countless memories and melancholy,

It makes people really understand what nostalgia is.

 

Searching for one’s roots and ancestors is the beginning of a journey of dream-seeking.

It's not just about finding family trees;

Just to find ancestors and relatives.

Some people put the pursuit of roots and ancestors in a high position.

And regarded as searching for the national dream,

It is the patriotic spirit that revitalizes the nation.

 

But have you heard this story?

Five German Nazis formed a team,

Go to Tibet for an ancestor search operation.

They don’t have any sense of family,

Not the concept of filial piety and traditional virtues,

Just to find the Aryan ancestors.

 

The ancestors of the Germanic people are an excellent race.

That is the brave Aryan ancestor,

The Nazis went to Tibet to find evidence.

Although there are no facts to prove it,

But the swastika respected by the Aryans,

Altered into a swastika.

 

In the era of surging national movements,

The Nazis raised the banner of eugenic nation,

Promote white supremacy and racial discrimination.

Behind nationalism is blood,

Spreading from the west to all of Asia, Africa and Latin America,

The slogan "blood is thicker than water" shocked the world.

 

The pursuit of roots and ancestors has evolved into a national struggle.

National liberation is the clarion call for independence,

Defending our country is the spirit of patriotism.

Expelling the Tartars is the oath of revolutionaries.

The Chinese nation are all descendants of Yan and Huang.

The battle of the world is the battle of races.

 

Root-seeking culture is endowed with the power of history.

As small as family ancestors and as large as country,

Clan and blood bond the sense of identity.

The powerful families are proud of their splendor and wealth;

As long as national parochialism is not eradicated,

World community is a lie.