Himmler´s Crusade

In 1938, on the eve of the war, a Nazi expedition set out through British India on a mission sponsored by SS chief Henrich Himmler himself. Its aim was to find the origins of the Aryan race, high in the sacred mountains of Tibet. The expedition was led by two complex individuals -Ernst Schäfer, a swashbuckling naturalist for whom Nazism promised a short cut to personal glory, and Bruno Beger, an anthropologist whose racial theories were taken to their logical conclusion in Auschwitz.