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About the Book
In 1938, on the eve of war, a Nazi expedition set out through British India on a mission sponsored by
SS Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler himself. 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 who would take his racial theories to their logical conclusion at Auschwitz – its
aim was to establish the origins of the Aryan race, high in the sacred mountains of Tibet.
Despite abundant documentation – diaries, letters, secret reports, photographs and a remarkable film
– the full story of Schäfer ’s ill-fated expedition has, until now, never been told. In a true adventure
reminiscent at times of Indiana Jones, Himmler ’s Crusade is an enthralling account of this
extraordinary quest and explores the ideological roots of the Nazis’ obsession with racial theory and
the occult. Drawing on this wealth of primary material as well as his own interviews with Bruno
Beger, Christopher Hale has written a fascinating, thought-provoking book that brilliantly evokes this
little-known prelude to the unimaginable horror that came out of the Second World War.
CONTENTS
Cover
About the Book
Title Page
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Epigraph
Maps
Prelude: Appointment in Berlin
Introduction: Secret Tibet
PART 1: FOOTHILLS
1. Call of the Wild
2. Edge of the World
3. Grand Inquisitor
4. The People Hunter
5. Return to the Fatherland
PART 2: PEAKS
6. Confronting the Raj
7. Trapped
8. Breakout
9. On the Roof of the World
10. Weird Barbarity
11. The White Scarves
12. Escape from the Raj
PART 3: VALLEYS
13. The Devil’s Scientist
14. The Castle
15. Race Warrior
16. The Savage Mind
17. Retribution
18. Aftermaths
Picture Section
Notes
Select Bibliography
Picture Acknowledgements
Index
About the Author
Copyright

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