Heather Pringle

Now available in paperback -- The Mummy Congress is "clear, direct and intense . . . all the stories sparkle. Pringle is a crack-shot storyteller." --New York Times Book Review Perhaps the most eccentric of all scientific meetings, the World Congress on Mummy Studies brings together mummy experts from all over the globe and airs their latest findings. Who are these scientists, and what draws them to this morbid yet captivating field The Mummy Congress, written by acclaimed science journalist Heather Pringle, examines not just the world of mummies, but also the people obsessed with them.

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HIMMLER'S SCHOLARS AND THE HOLOCAUST

MASTER PLAN, THE

A groundbreaking history of the Nazi research institute whose work helped lead to the extermination of millions In 1935, Heinrich Himmler established a Nazi research institute called The Ahnenerbe, whose mission was to send teams of scholars around the world to search for proof of Ancient Aryan conquests. But history was not their most important focus. Rather, the Ahnenerbe was an essential part of Himmler's master plan for the Final Solution. The findings of the institute were used to convince armies of SS men that they were entitled to slaughter Jews and other groups. And Himmler also hoped to use the research as a blueprint for the breeding of a new Europe in a racially purer mold. The Master Plan is a groundbreaking expose of the work of German scientists and scholars who allowed their research to be warped to justify extermination, and who directly participated in the slaughter -- many of whom resumed their academic positions at war's end. It is based on Heather Pringle's extensive original research, including previously ignored archival material and unpublished photographs, and interviews with living members of the institute and their survivors. A sweeping history told with the drama of fiction, The Master Plan is at once horrifying, transfixing, and monumentally important to our comprehension of how something as unimaginable as the Holocaust could have progressed from fantasy to reality.

Himmler's Scholars and the Holocaust

The Master Plan

»Härskarplanen är ett pionjärverk.« Upsala Nya Tidning »Vi har inte råd att glömma den här läxan.« Sundsvalls Tidning Härskarplanen berättar om hur ledande forskare och vetenskapsmän lät sig värvas till den nazistiska organisationen SS. Under ledning av Heinrich Himmler organiserade dessa män och kvinnor expeditioner i Europa och Asien för att söka efter arkeologiska lämningar som kunde »bevisa» idén om ett ariskt herrefolk. Så skulle den nazistiska rasideologin rättfärdigas. En av dessa SS-expeditioner gick till svenska Bohuslän 1936. Himmler hyste även en annan förhoppning. Han trodde att det rena ariska blodet likt ett magiskt elixir hade skänkt de forntida arierna en enastående intelligens och kreativitet. Med hjälp av historisk och arkeologisk forskning skulle en arisk guldålder återskapas. Med oerhörd detaljskärpa beskriver författaren Heather Pringle hur man använde forskningsresultat för att motivera krigsårens brutala folkmordspolitik och på ett tydligt sätt får vi följa verksamheten i SS-avdelningen Ahnenerbe. Härskarplanen är en viktig och angelägen bok, skriven på ett medryckande sätt. Heather Pringle (född 1952) är en prisbelönt kanadensisk vetenskapsjournalist med inriktning på arkeologi och historia. Av hennes böcker har på svenska tidigare utgivits Mumiekongressen (2002).

Himmlers jakt på det ariska ursprunget

Härskarplanen

This edition does not include illustrations. Acclaimed science writer Heather Pringle uncovers the true story of the scientists and archaeologists Heinrich Himmler deployed to find proof for his theories of a prehistoric Aryan master race.

Heather Pringle

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