Black magic of the Third Reich: "Ahnenerbe". SS ring “Totenkopfring der SS” (Totenkopfring der SS) Silver copy of the Ahnenerbe ring

Charter:
"The study of the area, spirit, actions and heritage of the Nordic Indo-Germans and the publication of these studies."

Appearance:
unknown exactly, known dates from 1932 to 1939

Area of study: Ahnenerbe studied the UFO phenomenon, was interested in history, closely studied human superpowers (people with extrasensory abilities were studied), explored ancient magic, searched for ancient artifacts such as the Spear of Power, the Holy Grail, etc.

Original title:
"Studiengesellschaft fuer Geistesurgeschichte Deutsches Ahnenerbe" - “Society for the study of ancient German history, ideology and heritage of German ancestors”

Research range:
from Tibet to Antarctica, there is evidence of excavations of the Ahnenerbe on the territory of the USSR

Some believe that the Ahnenerbe organization still exists today.

The Ahnenerbe was preceded by many organizations, it inherited Thule and Vril directly, and the Illuminati Order, Wandervogel, and the German "Order of the Eastern Temple" indirectly.

Ritual bowl of the Ahnenerbe cult

Wewelsburg Castle - Himmler's headquarters, the order's headquarters of the CC and the Ahnenerbe

Psychotronic research

“The Ahnenerbe archival documents emphasize that the influence of technomagical devices was aimed primarily at “will crystals,” special formations somewhere in the pituitary gland.

Hitler paid special attention to Antarctica. As intelligence reported, during the war, Hitler allocated huge funds to study this area. A huge number of ships were sent there. Most likely, Hitler’s secret base was organized there. What did Hitler find in Antarctica that he directed almost everything funds to that area? Is it possible that he found extraterrestrial technology?

One of the first Ahnenerbe expeditions was aimed at searching for the Holy Grail. The expedition was initiated personally by Hitler. Being an opponent of the Christian faith, he considered the Grail to be more ancient than Christianity, an Aryan artifact that was at least 10 thousand years old. On the other hand, the myth of the Grail, which gives power over the whole world, could not but interest Hitler. According to another version, the Grail is a stone with runic symbols that contains the true history of humanity and, as Ahnenerbe theorists believed, the Aryan race, as well as forgotten knowledge of non-human origin. Be that as it may, the institute was given the task of finding the Holy Grail. Here is a letter, dated October 24, 1934, from Hitler to Wirth, which was discovered in open archival documents:

“...Dear Mr. Wirth! The rapid growth of your institute and the successes it has been able to achieve recently give reasons for optimism. I believe that Ahnenerbe is now ready to cope with more serious tasks than those that have been set before it so far. We are talking about the search for the so-called Holy Grail, which, according to my opinion, is a real relic of our Aryan ancestors. To search for this artifact, you can use additional funds in the required amount...”

In search of Shambhala

Forbidden City Lhasa (Tibet)

In 1938, under the auspices of the Ahnenerbe, an expedition headed by Ernst Schaeffer, who had been to Tibet before, was sent to Tibet. The expedition had several goals, but the main one was the search for the legendary country of Shambhala, where, according to legend, representatives of an ancient highly developed civilization lived, “rulers of the world,” people who knew everything and controlled the course of human history. Of course, the knowledge attributed to this people could not but interest Hitler, who was striving for world domination.

The expedition stayed in Tibet for over two months and visited the sacred city of Lhasa and the sacred place of Tibet - Yarling. There, German cameramen shot film that was discovered after the war in one of the Masonic lodges in Europe. The films taken in Tibet, in addition to the buildings of Yarling and Lhasa, depicted numerous magical practices and rituals, with the help of which mediums entered into a trance, and gurus summoned evil spirits.

Most of all, the Germans were interested not so much in Buddhism as in the Bon religion preached by some Tibetan monks. The Bon religion existed in Tibet long before Buddhism and was based on beliefs in evil spirits, methods of summoning them, and fighting them.

Among the followers of this religion there were many shamans and magicians. The Bon religion, with its numerous ancient texts and mantras, in Tibet was considered the best way to communicate with otherworldly forces - according to the Tibetans, the effect of mantras achieved by acoustic resonance can evoke one or another spirit for communication, depending on the frequency of the sound produced when reading the mantras pronounced in a state of trance. Of course, Ahnenerbe scientists were very interested in all these aspects.

The expedition worked diligently to solve the mysteries discovered, but soon, due to the tense situation in the world, it was recalled to Berlin. Direct radio communication between Lhasa and Berlin was previously established, and Ahnenerbe’s work with Lhasa continued until 1943.

Many ancient artifacts were taken from Tibet, to which Hitler attached special mystical significance (he even kept some of them in his personal safe); Ahnenerbe occultists worked on these artifacts, trying to extract certain magical properties from them.

In 1945, after Soviet troops entered Berlin, many corpses of Tibetans in SS uniforms were discovered. There are many versions about who these people were and what they did in Nazi Germany. Some suggest that it was Hitler’s personal guard, the so-called “Hitler’s Black Tibetan Legion” - magicians and shamans who possessed the mystical secrets of Shambhala. Others claim that the Tibetans in uniform are simply volunteers sent by Tibet as a sign of support for Germany and they have nothing to do with magic. There is an opinion that no corpses of Tibetans in SS uniform were found in Berlin at all, because there is no official confirmation of this. Be that as it may, it is reliably known that the secret societies of Germany maintained contact with similar organizations in Tibet. So in the twenties, there lived a Tibetan lama in Berlin, famous for three times predicting the number of Nazis who would pass in the elections to the Reichstag, and belonging to the Order of the Green Brothers. Close contact was established between the Thule Society and the Green Brothers, and since 1926, Tibetan colonies began to appear in Munich and Berlin. Having settled in Germany, the “green brothers” - clairvoyants, astrologers and soothsayers, were involved in the work of such organizations as the Ahnenerbe, it is quite possible that the corpses of these eastern magicians were seen by Soviet soldiers after the storming of the fascist lair.

Living water of Lake Ritsa.
Ahnenerbe in Abkhazia

Lake Ritsa
In 1942, an underground base of submarines was created there, on which “special forces” were transported to Germany in special silver-coated canisters

According to some reports, this miraculous water was subsequently used to synthesize blood plasma necessary for children of “true Aryan origin” who were born as part of the Lebensborn (“Source of Life”) program, supervised personally by Himmler. For this purpose, throughout the Third Reich, young women with good health, but most importantly with an impeccable Aryan pedigree, were selected to give birth to children from SS officers.

Advanced technologies and torsion research of the Ahnenerbe Institute

Some technical projects of Nazi Germany were far ahead of their time. We are talking, for example, about such projects as “flying discs” and the psychophysical weapon “Thor”. Where did the German scientists of that time, especially after the Nazi “purges” of the scientific community in Germany, when many outstanding minds were exterminated, thrown into prison or fled abroad, come up with such revolutionary ideas and projects that even in our high-tech times are alluring, but unattainable for modern science? The traces again lead to the Ahnenerbe - it was this organization that was behind the creation of the Third Reich's "disc launchers" and psychophysical weapons. The question of where such advanced knowledge was obtained remains open - perhaps numerous Ahnenerbe expeditions in search of ancient “superknowledge” were ultimately successful, or perhaps the knowledge was obtained in some other way...?

Decoding runes with Wiligut's autograph

"Ahnenerbe" used the found ancient occult "keys" (spells, formulas, runic signs, etc.) for the so-called "sessions with the gods." For these purposes, the institute spared no expense. Throughout the territory of the Third Reich, mediums, psychics, clairvoyants were involved in work in the Ahnenerbe... Particular attention was paid to experienced and famous mediums and contactees (such as Maria Otte and others).

For the purity of the experiment, “contacts with the gods” were also carried out independently in the Vril and Thule societies. Some sources claim that some of the occult “keys” worked and this led to the receipt of almost identical man-made information through independent “channels”. In particular, such information included descriptions and drawings of “flying discs”, which in their flight performance characteristics significantly exceeded not only all aircraft of that time, but also modern ones.

The Ahnenerbe Institute paid special attention to the study of methods of influencing and controlling human behavior. Sinister and criminal experiments in this area were carried out on prisoners of a concentration camp located near the mystical Nazi citadel, the SS center, Wevelburg Castle.

In the castle itself, secret magical rituals were held to prepare for the coming to earth of a certain “Man-God”. Thus, Hitler was only a failed experiment, a by-product, in the aspirations of the Ahnenerbe mystics and other similar occult organizations in Germany.
Project "Thor".
The pinnacle of Ahnenerbe's research in the field of influencing the subconscious and controlling human behavior were attempts to create psychophysical weapons of mass influence and control. Psychophysical weapons are capable of influencing large masses of people, controlling their behavior and consciousness, while the targets themselves are often unaware that their psyche is being influenced from the outside. The development of such weapons has always been of great interest to the Third Reich, and no money was spared on projects related to its development.

Ahnenerbe was given the task of developing such psychophysical weapons to control the masses. The project was named “Thor” in honor of the mythical German-Scandinavian god of thunder and war, Thor, who possessed a devastating magical weapon - a hammer in the shape of a swastika, which always hit the target and struck with lightning (Thor's hammer).

It all started with the fact that one day Karl Moir, one of the leading employees of Ahnenerbe, caught the eye of the Wiligut runic tablets. They described the most complex unknown processes, most of which went beyond the scope of modern science. Technomagnetic devices were developed based on these tablets. Later he will write the book “Thor’s Hammer”, which will talk about the Thor project.

The operating principle of these devices was based on torsion fields, with the help of which it was supposed to control the human will, acting directly on the nerve centers and pituitary gland. In fact, in the Ahnenerbe laboratories, a high-tech system of mass zombification was developed, however, based, according to Moir, on ancient runic knowledge.

An experimental device was created that is capable of not only suppressing a person’s will, literally paralyzing him, but even influencing a group of people, forcing them to perform certain simple actions. However, the project was not completed; Ahnenerbe simply did not have enough time. The specialists who took part in the project argued that it would take about 10 years to refine the experimental model and create a full-fledged telepathic weapon, but a year later the Allied troops entered Germany and captured part of the developments. According to some information, the experimental psychophysical device created as part of the Thor project, as well as some Ahnenerbe employees who took part in the project, were captured by the Americans, and the Soviet troops received part or even all of the documentation on these developments. The colossal potential of such weapons has never been in doubt, and who knows, perhaps the telepathic weapon that Nazi Germany did not have time to create was brought to fruition by the victorious countries.

Rune magic in the service of the Third Reich.
The runic tradition on the territory of modern Germany was formed in ancient times, under the influence of several schools - Scandinavian, Gothic and, possibly, West Slavic. As a result, by the Middle Ages, Germany had formed its own school of runic magic - Armanic, which had a very original character and noticeable differences from other traditions. In general, according to some scientists, the first runic signs on the territory of central Europe appeared 10-12 thousand years ago and were used for cult and magical purposes. In ancient times, it was believed that magical runes applied to a warrior’s weapons and armor made him invulnerable. Such weapons were considered “enchanted” and, as a rule, they were possessed by great warriors or leaders.

SS award rings with runic symbols

SS officers were required to study runic writing and ancient Germanic magical rituals. Almost all the highest ranks of the SS were members of mystical societies. In fact, mysticism and rune magic in the Third Reich were elevated to the rank of a cult and religion, and the Ahnenerbe was the main temple and embodiment of this “new religion.”
In 1945, the war ended, and at the subsequent Nuremberg trials, the incredible cruelty of the Nazi regime was revealed. The black magicians of the "Ahnenerbe" - scientists and killer doctors, who replaced their white coats with SS uniforms, appeared before the tribunal, and their developments ended up in the hands of the victorious countries and were never made public.

Where could the Ahnenarbe archives go?

As a tip for lovers of alternative history!

After the bombing of Berlin began in 1943, a decision was made to evacuate the SS-Ahnenerbe to Bayreuth, Bavaria.

In January 1945, the mothballing of Ahnenerbe's activities began. Most departments destroyed the collected documents. Those that were of particular value were placed in caches.

But people remained. And so the hunt began for them.

Thus, the Americans managed to capture and recruit most of the employees of the Concordia project, including its leader K. G. Kiesinger, to work for the United States.

The future Federal Chancellor of Germany. And it was this propaganda department of the SS-Ahnenerbe that was transformed into the American propaganda headquarters during the Cold War. The Americans also mastered the secrets of the Thor project by creating psychotic weapons.

The USSR also received part of the Ahnenerbe archives. So soldiers of the 58th Infantry Division of the 5th Guards Army near the Torgau fortress captured a train with Ahnenerbe documents.

Another part of the Ahnenerbe archives was found in Altan Castle in Silesia.

When they were all loaded for shipment to the USSR, they took 25 trains. carriages.

Another part of the archives was discovered in Poland in the castle of the Counts of Haugwitz.

Gradually, the USSR began to study the archives and it turned out!

And here's attention for historians of alternative history!

It turned out that the Russians had at their disposal materials from German Arctic expeditions.

The silver ring is made of 835 sterling silver and is placed in an original case made by the manufacturer S. Backhausen. A ring with the symbols of one of the most mysterious organizations of the Third Reich, Ahnenerbe (German: Ahnenerbe - “Heritage of the Ancestors”). Apparently the ring was worn on the little finger, since it is size 17.
Historical information "Ahnenerbe"
The roots of the Ahnenerbe should be sought both in the activities of the esoteric society "Thule", and in the hypotheses and ideas of a number of people, such as the scientist Hermann Wirth and the occultist Friedrich Hielscher (mentor of the future general secretary of the Ahnenerbe, Sievers). Hielscher communicated with the Swedish researcher Sven Hedin, a former specialist in the East, who spent a long time in Tibet, as well as with Professor K. Haushofer (a teacher at the University of Munich, who had the young Rudolf Hess as an assistant). Hess introduced Haushofer to Hitler, who was fascinated by the idea of conquering living space, various occult-mystical constructions and hypotheses.
Night ceremonies to celebrate the death of King Henry I, Quedlinburg, July 1, 1938. Pictured is Reichsführer SS Himmler laying a wreath, followed from left to right by SS Gruppenführer Wolf, Gauleiter and Reichsleiter Jordan, SS Obergruppenführer Heydrich and SS Obergruppenführer Heissmeyer
In 1935, a historical exhibition called “The Heritage of the German Ancestors” was held in Munich, which was organized by Wirth, who was a professor who defended a dissertation on Dutch songs called “The Degradation of Dutch Folk Songs”, where he comes up with his own proto-mythology, as the author of the so-called “Hyperborean » concepts.
This concept of the existence of anti-people with anti-language and anti-thoughts interested the anti-Semitic Heinrich Himmler, who visited this exhibition. In 1935, Himmler became president and commissioner of the Ancestors' Heritage organization. Interest in the exhibition was shown by the racist, who was educated as a colonialist-agronomist (for the colonization of Africa) Richard Darre and the pagan occultist Friedrich Hielscher, who enjoyed great authority in the NSDAP, without being a member of this party.
Thus, from the very beginning, the Ahnenerbe society was associated with future Nazi leaders.
Wolfram Sievers
In 1937, Himmler dismissed Wirth and integrated the Ahnenerbe into the SS, turning it into a department for the administration of concentration camps. This was due to criticism of Wirth as a scientist, on the one hand, and the inconsistency of his idea of the origin of the Aryans from the Atlanteans in the eyes of the Fuhrer, on the other. Reichsführer SS Himmler used this favorable moment to subordinate the Ancestral Heritage organization to the SS structure and increase his influence. Sievers, as a person with a university education, was supposed to play the role of a link between scientists and the Reichsführer SS. The head of medical programs is August Hirt.
The headquarters of Ahnenerbe was located in one of the mansions in the Berlin district of Dahlem (at Pücklerstrasse 16).
The original purpose of the Ancestral Heritage Society was to prove the theory of racial superiority of the Germanic people through historical, anthropological and archaeological research. The 1935 program also said: “Research in the field of localization of the spirit, deeds, heritage of the Indo-Germanic race. Popularization of research results in a form that is accessible and interesting to the general public. The work is carried out in full compliance with scientific methods and scientific precision.”
In 1941, the company was included in the personal headquarters of the Reichsführer SS, and all its activities were finally reoriented to military needs. Many projects were curtailed, but the Institute of Military Research, headed by Sievers, emerged. Subsequently, the activities of the institute were examined in detail at the Nuremberg trials: an international tribunal recognized the “Ancestral Heritage” as a criminal organization, and its leader Sievers was sentenced to death and hanged.

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Arctic region, coast of the Barents Sea, 170 kilometers north of Murmansk. For more than 60 years, these places were considered secret. A strict border zone regime still operates here today.

These mysterious objects were built by the Germans during the Second World War; they are located near the village of Liinakhamari, Pechenga district, in close proximity to the Barents Sea. There are different versions of their purpose, according to one - these are platforms for artillery guns, although their direction is back from the bay, according to the second - these are launching pads for Wehrmacht flying saucers.

Along the way we admired the beautiful nature of the Kola Peninsula

After passing through 2 checkpoints, we drove up to Liinakhamari, where I saw such an interesting production of the Soviet era :) The village itself is half empty, and absolutely not interesting, so we’ll skip its description

We arrived late in the evening, to a house by the sea, to my friends. We decided to go to the site in the morning, and devote the evening to rest and a walk in the nearby area.

the house is located on the shore of the Devkina Zavod Bay, right at the exit to the Barents Sea

In the morning we set out for the rings, and on the way we decided to take a look at the no less mysterious Seydy. These are huge, free-standing boulders on hills, of various shapes, most often round, ranging in size from half a meter to ten and weighing up to 30, and sometimes more, tons, standing in an unstable position. Often they stand on several small stones, and despite the apparent instability, they do not fall. Who put them this way is still a mystery, there are several hypotheses on this topic that you can easily find on the Internet, so I won’t dwell on them

Finally we arrived at the first ring. It is flooded with groundwater, and therefore not so interesting. It is strange that it is flooded, since it is higher than the others above sea level.

view of the bay from the first ring

and here is the second ring

Just a beautiful photo with my shadow)

The third, in my opinion, is the most interesting ring. The quality of the concrete is amazing, all corners have been in perfect condition since 1943, nothing has crumbled or broken off. Our builders never dreamed of this. Diameter is approximately 15-20 meters.

And finally, the last, smallest ring.

a little about this project that I found on the net, just for variety.

Ahnenerbe. The existence of this strictly secret organization, created with the personal participation of Adolf Hitler, is the subject of the closest attention of senior leaders of the USA, USSR (Russia), as well as France and England. At the end of the Second World War, a real struggle unfolded among the world's intelligence services for the possession of the organization's archives and artifacts. Many Nazi scientists were forced to continue their work and experiments in the USSR and the USA.

History of the organization's creation.

"Ahnenerbe" - "Heritage of the Ancestors" - was perhaps one of the most mysterious organizations of the Third Reich. Officially, this organization was supposed to study the ancient history of the traditions and heritage of the German people. However, in fact, its goals were much more ambitious, and the roots of the origin and creation of this mystical organization-order go much deeper into history than was previously believed. The Ahnenerbe organization, before becoming what it was, went through a difficult and long path of formation.

Ahnenerbe emblem

As is known, the foundation of the ideology of fascism was laid by secret societies long before the emergence of the Nazi state itself, whose worldview became an active force after the defeat of Germany in the First World War. However, we will start from the end of the 19th century.

It was then that the abbot of the Benedictian monastery in the Austrian city of Lambach, Theodor Hagen, made a long journey to the Caucasus and the Middle East, the purpose of which was to search for esoteric knowledge that was once used in the creation of the order itself, but was lost over time.

Hagen did not return from his expedition empty-handed - he brought a huge number of ancient manuscripts, the contents of which were kept in such the strictest confidence that even for the brethren it remained a mystery. What is known is that after his return, the abbot ordered local craftsmen to make new bas-reliefs in the abbey. Their basis was the swastika, an ancient pagan sign of the circular rotation of the world.

A curious coincidence: around the time the swastika appeared on the walls of the Lambach monastery, one puny boy, Adolf Schicklgruber, sang in its church choir...

After the death of Theodor Hagen in 1898, the Cistercian monk Jörg Lans von Liebenfels came to the abbey. For some reason, the mysterious manuscripts brought by Hagen from the East, and kept in complete secrecy, were provided to him by the brethren without the slightest objection. Eyewitnesses recalled that Liebenfels spent a couple of months in the monastery library, only occasionally leaving its walls to eat meager food. At the same time, the Cistercian, a follower of Saint Bernard, remained completely silent, not entering into conversations with anyone. He looked very excited, as if some startling discovery had taken hold of his thoughts. The materials received by Liebenfels allowed him to establish a secret spiritual society. It was called the "Order of the New Temple".

Later, after the war, in 1947, Liebenfels would write that it was he who brought Hitler to power. But that will come later. In the meantime, at the turn of the century, the “Order of the New Temple” became one of the centers of a little-known occult movement in our country called “Vienai”, which is translated from Old German as “initiation”. This concept in esoteric circles is interpreted as a mystical comprehension of what for laymen is an object of blind faith.

It should be noted that at this time, at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, many secret, mystical organizations appeared that closely interacted with each other. Around the 80s of the 19th century, in a number of European countries, in particular in England, Germany and France, societies of “initiates”, hermetic (secret) orders, were formed. They included some of the powerful individuals and brilliant minds of the time. In Austria and Germany in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a semi-occult pan-German movement arose. In 1887, the Hermetic Society "Golden Dawn" was founded in England, originating from the English Rosicrucian Society. The goal of the Golden Dawn was (through the mastery of magical rituals) to gain power and knowledge available to the “initiates.” This society maintained contacts with similar Germanic societies.

The order of Guido von List, which was founded in 1908 in Vienna, belonged to the Vienna movement. An inner circle was created in Liszt's society - "Armanenorden". Liszt considered him the successor to a whole chain of organizations that for centuries passed the baton of secrets from priest-kings to each other.

In his work “The Mysterious Language of the Indo-Germans,” List described the Germanic tradition as the exclusive bearer of the wisdom and spirituality of the ancient ancestors who inhabited the mystical continent of Arctogea. The book contained a map of this legendary land with its capital Tule. Young Hitler met with Liszt in Vienna.

In 1912, a conference of German occultists was organized, during which it was decided to found a “magical brotherhood” - the “German Order” (in 1932, Hitler would accept the offer to become Grand Master of the Order). The order was founded, but it was torn apart by internal strife, as a result of which one of the brothers of this order, in 1918, organized an independent “brotherhood” - the Thule society. The symbol of this mystical organization was a swastika with a sword and a wreath. Grouped around Thule were those who in the future were destined to play a decisive role in the formation of the Nazi Party.

The book “The Morning of the Magicians” by Louis Pauvel and Jacques Bergier, published in 1959 in France, says that the legend of Thule goes back to the origins of Germanism and tells of an ancient highly developed civilization that inhabited a lost island, like Atlantis, somewhere on Far North. German mystics claimed that the island of Thule was the magical center of this ancient civilization, which possessed powerful secret magical knowledge that disappeared without a trace under the water along with the island. It was this ancient sacred knowledge that the members of the Thule Order tried to resurrect.

According to J. Bergier and L. Pauvel, the Thule Order was a fairly serious magical brotherhood: “Its activities were not limited to an interest in mythology, the observance of meaningless rituals and empty dreams of world domination. The brothers were taught the art of magic and the development of potential capabilities. Including the ability to control such an invisible and all-pervading force, called “vril” by the English occultist Lytton, and “kundalini” by the Hindus. Vril is a huge energy, of which we use only an infinitesimal part in everyday life, it is the nerve of our possible divinity. The one who becomes the master of vril becomes the master over himself, over others and over the whole world... And perhaps the most important thing: they taught (the brothers. - Author) the technique of communication with the so-called “Secret Teachers”, or “Unknown Supermen”, invisibly guiding everything that happens on our planet.”

In addition, the activities of the Thule society were not limited to magical rituals; its members took an active part in the political life of the country, thus, the order influenced politics and, as will be seen later, this influence was very significant.

Already in October 1918, the brothers of the lodge, mechanic Anton Drexler and sports journalist Karl Harrer, on the instructions of Baron von Sebottendorff, founded the organization "Political Workers' Circle", which later turned into the DAP (Deutsche Arbeiterparrei - German Workers' Party). Subsequently, the newspaper of the Thule Order, the Völkischer Beobachter, came under the direct subordination of the NSDAP, which “evolved” from the DAP.

Soon, front-line soldier and former corporal Adolf Hitler entered the NSDAP as number seven (as he believed, a lucky number, a sign of fate...). In the lists of members of the Thule society, next to his name there was a note “visitor”, and after some time, individual ideas of the Thule theorists are reflected in his book “My Struggle”.

As you know, after the failure of the Beer Hall Putsch, Hitler ended up in Landsberg prison, where he served his sentence together with Rudolf Hess and wrote the book “My Struggle.” Before the putsch, Hess worked at the University of Munich as an assistant to Professor Haushofer.

Based on research conducted by Louis Pauvel and Jacques Bergier, Karl Haushofer, being the German military attaché in Japan at the beginning of the century, was initiated in this country into the secret Order of the Green Dragon. In the tenth years of the 20th century, Haushofer visited Buddhist monasteries in Lhasa (yellow caps), where he studied magical practices and rituals. Having risen to the rank of general during the First World War, Haushofer more than once surprised his colleagues with his extraordinary clairvoyant abilities, which he used in analyzing military operations, and, apparently, developed them after communicating with initiates of the East.

After the war, Haushofer devoted himself to science and began teaching geography at the University of Munich, where Rudolf Hess met him, subsequently becoming his student and assistant.

After the failure of the Beer Hall Putsch, Karl Haushofer, the famous professor and general, visited Hitler and Hess in Landsberg prison almost every day. Moreover, Haushofer is interested not so much in the fate of his protégé Hess as in the personality of Hitler. Why such attention to the person of Hitler? The thing is that Haushofer was one of the founders of the Thule society, and the Nazi party became its political branch. After the putsch, the gray cardinals of the order drew attention to the suggestible and mystical young man, who had already proven himself to be an orator able to capture the attention of the audience, and finally made their choice - Hitler would be the Fuhrer. Suggestible and prone to mysticism, possessing undoubted qualities of a medium and capable of capturing the attention of a crowd, Hitler fit perfectly into the triad known to all occultists. And then, as they say, it’s a matter of technique - the magician “pumps up” the medium, and he influences the collective consciousness of the crowd...

Very soon a new powerful secret order will appear, designed to unite the mystical organizations of Germany that are scattered and torn apart by internal conflicts, absorbing all their experience and knowledge - the crown of the “evolution” of German occultism - the Ahnenerbe Institute.

The ideological basis of the Ahnenerbe was laid by Hermann Wirth, a Dutch-German archaeologist and mystic who studied ancient symbols, languages and religions. In 1928, he published his work entitled The Descent of Mankind. According to his theory, at the origins of humanity there were two proto-races - the Nordic, spiritual race of the North, and the Gondwanan race of the South, seized by base instincts - representatives of these races were scattered among various modern peoples.

Herman Wirth

In 1933, a historical exhibition called “Ahnenerbe”, which translates as “ancestral heritage”, takes place in Munich. The organizer of the exhibition is Professor Hermann Wirth. The exhibition featured many exhibits collected in different parts of the world - in the Alps, in Palestine, in the caves of Labrador... The age of some runic and proto-runic manuscripts presented at the exhibition was estimated by Wirth at 12 thousand years.

The Wirth exhibition was visited by Himmler himself, an ardent supporter of “racial theory”; he was delighted with the exhibits presented there, which, in his opinion, perfectly conveyed the superiority of the Nordic race. By this time, Himmler was already Hitler’s right hand, the head of the SS, a structure that emerged from small security detachments of the party, eventually becoming a powerful state organization. Now the SS, in addition to other functions, tried to take on the role of observer of the “purity” of the Nordic race in spiritual, mystical and genetic terms. And this required specific knowledge. They were looked for in the past, as it is known that there were various secret mystical orders, but they lacked cohesion and government support, there was knowledge, but it was scattered, and a lot of money was required to search for new ones. There was a need for a new government organization that would deal with all these problems. Thus, on July 10, 1935, on the initiative of Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler, Gruppenführer SS racologist Richard Walter Dare and researcher of ancient German history Hermann Wirth, the Ahnenerbe was founded. The headquarters was located in the city of Weischenfeld, Bavaria. The initial tasks of the Ahnenerbe were reduced to research into ancient Germanic prehistory.

From 1937 to 1939, Ahnenerbe was integrated into the SS, and the leaders of the institute were included in Himmler’s personal headquarters. By 1939, the Ahnenerbe had 50 institutes under the leadership of a specialist in the field of ancient sacred texts, Professor Wurst.

Wewelsburg Castle, Ahnenerbe headquarters after entering the SS

According to some reports, the state spent staggering amounts of money on research conducted at Ahnenerbe, exceeding what the United States spent on creating the first atomic bomb.

Here is what J. Bergier and L. Pauvel write in their book about the activities of the Ahnenerbe: (these studies) “... covered a huge area, from scientific activity in the proper sense of the word to the study of the practice of the occult, from vivisection of prisoners to espionage on secret societies. There negotiations were held with Skorzeny about organizing an expedition, the purpose of which should be the abduction of St. Grail, and Himmler created a special section, an intelligence service, dealing with the “area of the supernatural.” The list of problems solved by Ahnenerbe is amazing..."

For example, the volume of only that part of the Ahnenerbe archival materials that was exported to the territory of the USSR in 1945 amounted to 45 railway cars! Most of these archives are closed to this day. Some of them were hidden away from the eyes of civilization, in Chukotka, in a top-secret Soviet town (the village of Gudym), under which in 1958, on the orders of N.S. Khrushchev, the underground military secret facility Anadyr-1 was built. Along with other things, there Soviet scientists conducted research and experiments in the field of genetics, just like the Germans in their time, with the only difference that they started research almost from scratch, and one of the numerous Ahnenerbe institutes was responsible for this research.

The areas of activity of the Ahnenerbe were so wide, and the volume of archival documents was so large that just to systematize them, it would be necessary to create a separate research institute, so in the framework of this article we will focus only on some of the most intriguing aspects of the activities of this mystical organization.

In its research, Ahnenerbe intensively used psychics, clairvoyants, mediums... It should be noted that the methodology of such work was not something completely new. Germany has used psychics before, for example in the intelligence service during the First World War. In addition, during the First World War, dowsers assigned to units of the German army were very successfully used to detect mines and borders, minefields; they also searched for underground water to supply the army with drinking water. The dowsing method proved to be so successful that already in 1932, dowsers were trained by the military engineering school in Versailles.

One of the most important directions in the activities of Ahnenerbe was the search for ancient knowledge of “super-civilizations”, forgotten magical runes, biblical and other mythical artifacts, especially those that, according to Ahnenerbe historians, were the most powerful types of weapons of the ancient Gods. In search of this knowledge (and Ahnenerbe scientists regarded knowledge transformed through the prism of science as a weapon), Ahnenerbe organized numerous expeditions to the most inaccessible corners of our world: Antarctica, Tibet, South America, etc...

In addition, the possibility of obtaining knowledge from extraterrestrial civilizations was not excluded. For these purposes, Ahnenerbe had specially trained contactors.

Operation Grail.

Grail

The leadership of the expedition was entrusted to the archaeologist and writer, author of the anti-Catholic book “The Crusade against the Grail” Otto Rahn. The search for the Grail was carried out in the Cathar castles in the Pyrenees, and although there were rumors that the excavations were successful, there was no documentary evidence of this, and the leader of the expedition himself, SS Sturmbannführer Otto Rahn, mysteriously disappeared in 1938.

In search of Shambhala.

In 1938, under the auspices of the Ahnenerbe, an expedition headed by Ernst Schaeffer, who had been to Tibet before, was sent to Tibet. The expedition had several goals, but the main one was the search for the legendary country of Shambhala, where, according to legend, representatives of an ancient highly developed civilization lived, “rulers of the world,” people who knew everything and controlled the course of human history. Of course, the knowledge attributed to this people could not but interest Hitler, who was striving for world domination.

Forbidden City Lhasa (Tibet)

Living water of Lake Ritsa.

Abkhazia was of no less interest to the Third Reich, and soon, on the initiative of Nazi leaders, the Ahnenerbe expedition and elite SS troops were sent there. What were the Nazis looking for in the mountains of Abkhazia? The fact is that, according to the Ahnenerbe Institute, there was a source of living water there, so necessary for the gene pool of “true Aryans.” The high-altitude Lake Ritsa, from where this “living water” was drawn, was located in a rather inaccessible place, but this did not stop Hitler, and a road was built to the lake, carefully guarded by elite SS troops.

Ahnenerbe in Abkhazia

In 1942 (according to rumors), an underground base of submarines was allegedly created there, on which “special forces” were transported to Germany in special silver-coated canisters.

Lake Ritsa

According to some reports, this miraculous water was subsequently used to synthesize blood plasma necessary for children of “true Aryan origin” who were born as part of the Lebensborn (“Source of Life”) program, supervised personally by Himmler. For this purpose, throughout the Third Reich, young women with good health, but most importantly with an impeccable Aryan pedigree, were selected to give birth to children from SS officers.

Advanced technologies and torsion research of the Ahnenerbe Institute.

One of the "flying disc" schemes

It is known that the magicians of “Anenerebe” actively practiced obtaining knowledge under the influence of various hallucinogenic drugs, in a state of trance - an altered state of consciousness, when the contactee tried to establish communication with the so-called “Higher Unknowns” or, as they were also called, “External Minds”.

Karl-Maria Wiligut, a German pagan and mystic who greatly influenced the occult sentiments of the Third Reich, was considered one of the best Ahnenerbe specialists in the field of black magic. Being on good terms with the Reichsführer SS, Wiligut had such a serious influence on the Nazi elite that he was even nicknamed “Himmler’s Rasputin.” Thanks to his connections and influence, he quickly moved up the ranks of the Nazi state, starting his career in the SS as the head of the department for the study of early history, under the pseudonym Karl Maria Weisthor, already in April 1934 he received the rank of SS Standarterführer, in November - Oberfuehrer, and in 1935 transferred to Berlin and promoted to Brigadefuehrer. In 1936, again appearing in the official lists under the pseudonym Weistor (one of the names of the ancient German god Odin), he headed one of the Ahnenerbe scientific groups and participated in excavations together with Günther Kirchoff in the Black Forest on the Murg hill near Baden-Baden, where , in his opinion, there should have been the ruins of an ancient Irminist settlement. Among other things, in the SS Wiligut played the role of an Irminite priest, participating in marriage rituals in the SS castle of Wewelsburg.

Karl Maria Willigut

The roots of the ancient Wiligut family are lost in the mists of time. The coat of arms of this family, with two swastikas inside, bears a close resemblance to the coat of arms of the medieval rulers of Manchuria, and first appears in manuscripts of the 13th century. The Wiligut family had one very unusual relic - mysterious tablets with ancient runic writings, which they passed on from generation to generation. The information encrypted in the letters contained a description of some complex magical rituals. That is why, back in the Middle Ages, the curse of the Catholic Church was imposed on the family. However, the Wiliguts did not give in to persuasion to destroy the heretical writings and thereby lift the curse.

And these tablets reached Karl Wiligut. Possessing clairvoyant abilities, he always emphasized that he was the keeper of some ancient magical knowledge, and more than once amazed Himmler with visions of his ancestral memory. In a trance, he described in great detail the laws and rituals of the ancient Germanic people, their system of military and religious practice. To achieve the state of “birth trance,” Wiligut even composed special mantras. He made a significant contribution to the occult component of the Ahnenerbe and in 1939 retired, secluded himself on his estate, where he died in 1946. For some reason, the peasants who lived in the nearby villages from his estate considered Wiligut, like his ancestors, to be the secret king of Germany. He was the last of the damned family.

Decoding runes with Wiligut's autograph

"Ahnenerbe" used the found ancient occult "keys" (spells, formulas, runic signs, etc.) for the so-called "sessions with the gods." For these purposes, the institute spared no expense. Throughout the territory of the Third Reich, mediums, psychics, clairvoyants were involved in work in the Ahnenerbe... Particular attention was paid to experienced and famous mediums and contactees (such as Maria Otte and others).

Project "Thor".

The pinnacle of Ahnenerbe's research in the field of influencing the subconscious and controlling human behavior were attempts to create psychophysical weapons of mass influence and control. Psychophysical weapons are capable of influencing large masses of people, controlling their behavior and consciousness, while the targets themselves are often unaware that their psyche is being influenced from the outside. The development of such weapons has always been of great interest to the Third Reich, and no money was spared on projects related to its development.

Rune magic in the service of the Third Reich.

The runic tradition on the territory of modern Germany was formed in ancient times, under the influence of several schools - Scandinavian, Gothic and, possibly, West Slavic. As a result, by the Middle Ages, Germany had formed its own school of runic magic - Armanic, which had a very original character and noticeable differences from other traditions. In general, according to some scientists, the first runic signs on the territory of central Europe appeared 10-12 thousand years ago and were used for cult and magical purposes. In ancient times, it was believed that magical runes applied to a warrior’s weapons and armor made him invulnerable. Such weapons were considered “enchanted” and, as a rule, they were possessed by great warriors or leaders.

Armanic rune system

With the advent of the Catholic Church and the Holy Inquisition in Europe, runic writing was supplanted by the Latin alphabet, magical rituals were prohibited, and their followers were persecuted as pagans and exterminated. In 1100, one of the last Great Temples of the pagan faith of the Germans was destroyed and soon there was not a single functioning Great Temple left in Europe. However, peoples remained - bearers of tradition. Despite the ban of the church, some followers of the pagan faith managed to preserve the ancient runic knowledge of their ancestors (for example, the Wiligut runic tablets).

Again, significant interest in rune magic was shown only at the beginning of the 20th century, thanks to the book of Guido von List “The Secret of the Runes” published in 1908 and in the same year the opening of the “Guido von List Society” was officially proclaimed - as an association of people striving to the revival of the religious and magical practices of the ancient Germans. Soon other secret mystical societies picked up List’s ideas and, uniting in the “German Order,” exchanged knowledge in this area.

Guido von Liszt

Runic magic, being the main direction of the work of the German Order, retained its importance in the Ahnenerbe. Active work was carried out here to collect and study ancient runic signs, as well as create new ones. All state and military Nazi symbols were based on runic symbols. In 1933, the infamous SS symbol was developed here - the double Zig (Soul) rune - “double lightning strike” - the Victory rune. The author of the idea was Sturmhaupführer Walter Heck. Each rune had its own specific magical meaning. Following the mystical traditions of the ancient Germans, in the Third Reich runes of various meanings were used almost everywhere: on government buildings, standards of military units and formations, they were attributes of state power... Special security runes - amulets runes developed by the Ahnenerbe mystics based on the ancient German ones , were applied to all the military equipment of the Nazis (tanks, planes, etc.) and even to the helmets of soldiers - all this was supposed to make them “invulnerable”.

SS award rings with runic symbols

SS officers were required to study runic writing and ancient Germanic magical rituals. Almost all the highest ranks of the SS were members of mystical societies. In fact, mysticism and rune magic in the Third Reich were elevated to the rank of a cult and religion, and the Ahnenerbe was the main temple and embodiment of this “new religion.”

In 1945, the war ended, and at the subsequent Nuremberg trials, the incredible cruelty of the Nazi regime was revealed. The black magicians of the "Ahnenerbe" - scientists and killer doctors, who replaced their white coats with SS uniforms, appeared before the tribunal, and their developments ended up in the hands of the victorious countries and were never made public.

Reichsführer SS Himmler understood more than anyone else how important the role symbolism played in his “Black Order”. Guided by these considerations, on April 10, 1934, he established one of the most mysterious attributes of the SS - the Death's Head ring.

The ring, designed by Himmler's associate Wiligut, was decorated with runes, oak leaves and a death's head, symbols that contributed greatly to the aura of mystery surrounding the SS.

It was both the product and the source of the taint of arrogance inherent in all elite fighting forces. The very idea of a ring with runic symbols was undoubtedly borrowed from Germanic mythology.

According to myths, the god Thor had a ring made of pure silver, by whose name the ancient Germans swore, just as Christians swear on the Bible.

The words of the oath were carved in runes on the spear of Odin (Wotan). The Death's Head ring was a piece of silver in the form of a wreath of oak leaves, on which there were images of a death's head, two zig runes, a swastika, a Heilszeichen and a Hagall rune. Inside the ring was engraved the inscription: Meinem lieben (to my dear), followed by the owner's surname, the date of delivery and a facsimile of Himmler.

Technologically, the ring was made from a silver plate, which was bent and a death's head made from a separate piece of silver was soldered over the seam. The rings were finished by hand by jewelers from the Otto Gahr firm.

The larger the diameter of the ring, the greater the distance between the zig-runes located to the left and right of the death's head. The width of the ring was 7 mm, thickness - 3.5 mm.

Among members of the SS, the ring was highly valued. Initially, such rings were awarded only to representatives of the “old guard,” whose number did not exceed 5,000 people. However, by 1939, the criteria for receiving the ring had relaxed.

Now it could be awarded to any SS commander who served in the SS for 3 years and had an impeccable record. If, after the presentation of the ring, the commander violated the SS disciplinary code and was demoted in rank or position or expelled from the SS, he was obliged to return the ring and the award document to him. The same applied to commanders who resigned.

The award document stated the following:

“I present to you the SS Death's Head ring. It should be a sign of our loyalty to the leader, our unwavering obedience to our superiors and our unshakable unity and comradeship.

The death's head is a reminder that we must be ready to give our lives for the good of society at any moment.

SS Death's Head Ring

The runes opposite the death's head are a symbol of prosperity from our past, to which we are again connected through the worldview of National Socialism. Both zig runes symbolize the name of our security detachment.

The swastika and hagall rune should remind us of our unshakable faith in the victory of our worldview. The ring is surrounded by oak leaves, a traditional German tree.

This ring cannot be purchased and should never fall into the wrong hands. After you leave the SS or life, the ring returns to the Reichsführer SS. Reproduction and counterfeiting of rings are punishable, and you are obligated to prevent them.

WEAR YOUR RING WITH HONOR! G. Himmler "The ring, which was worn on the ring finger of the left hand, was usually awarded at ceremonies for conferring the next title. The awarding of the ring was recorded in the command list (Dienstaltersliste) and the owner’s personal file.

Owning a ring was so honorable that many SS men who did not have one ordered similar ones from jewelers or concentration camp prisoners. Some wore their old death's head rings from their Freikorps days. But these rings were significantly inferior in quality to the Death's Head ring.

In the event of the death of the owner, the award document was given to his closest relative for safekeeping, and the ring was returned to the Main Personnel Directorate of the SS. Accordingly, if the owner of the ring died in battle, the ring was removed from the corpse and given to the unit commander, who sent it to the Main Personnel Directorate. From there the rings arrived at Himmler's castle, with which, according to the Reichsführer SS, they connected their owners on the astral level.

The castle had a special room - the tomb of the ring owners "Dead Head"(Schrein der Inhaber des Totenkopfringes), where the rings were kept as “a symbol of the invisible presence of fallen comrades in arms.” Of course, they were treated with due respect and reverence.

On October 17, 1944, due to the difficult military situation, the production and distribution of rings was stopped for the duration of the war. Official SS data show that in 10 years (from 1934 to 1944) about 14,500 rings were awarded. By January 1, 1945, 64% of the rings arrived at the storage facility in Wewelsburg (which indicates that the ring was more often awarded to SS commanders), 26% were in the hands of the owners and 10% were lost on the battlefields. Thus, by the end of the war, just over 3,500 rings were in circulation outside Wewelsburg.

In the spring of 1945, Himmler ordered the rings from the vault to be walled up in a rock near Wewelsburg with a directed explosion so that they would not fall to the enemy.

The order was carried out.

These rings have not yet been discovered.