The Master Plan: Himmler's Scholars And the Holocaust by Pringle, Heather - 2006

New York: Hyperion Books, 2006 Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 9 1/2 h x 6 1/4w. A real nice clean unmarked 463 page first edition hardcover. 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..