Joe Brody
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Look what just shot to the top of my reading list:
From Publishers Weekly summary/review of The Master Plan by Heather Pringle, Hyperion $24.95 (cut and pasted from Amazon):
I daresay this fan-fiction writer is gonna get some insight into Toht and Co.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/07...f=pd_bbs_1/103-7016588-6614264?_encoding=UTF8
[As an aside, this background on the Ahnenerbe is a little different than the backstory being served up on the official site.]
From Publishers Weekly summary/review of The Master Plan by Heather Pringle, Hyperion $24.95 (cut and pasted from Amazon):
Considering the thousands of volumes covering every aspect of the Nazis, it's becoming increasingly difficult to say anything new about their dreadful era. Nevertheless, Pringle (The Mummy Congress), a contributing editor to Discover magazine, gamely steps up to the plate—and has produced a fascinating volume detailing the Nazis' crackpot theories about prehistory and the Indiana Jones–style lengths they went to prove them. Employing a team of researchers, Pringle investigates Heinrich Himmler's private think tank, the Ahnenerbe, which dispatched scholars to the most inhospitable and distant parts of the world to discover evidence of ancient Aryan conquests and the Germans' racial superiority. Some believed their own bizarre garbage; others perverted the facts for personal advancement or prostituted their reputations for the greater glory of Hitler. While it would be otherwise easy to laugh off the Ahnenerbe's ludicrous theories, Pringle argues that the institute provided the "academic" justification for the Holocaust and assembles a powerful body of evidence to that effect. Though one may wonder just how central the Ahnenerbe actually was to Hitler's thinking, when Pringle meets one of the most sinister of Himmler's scholars, his pride about the institute's "research" is distinctly disquieting. This is first-rate popular history—supported by an immense amount of scholarly apparatus in a range of languages. (Feb. 15)
I daresay this fan-fiction writer is gonna get some insight into Toht and Co.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/07...f=pd_bbs_1/103-7016588-6614264?_encoding=UTF8
[As an aside, this background on the Ahnenerbe is a little different than the backstory being served up on the official site.]