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As head of the SS, Himmler operated the Ahnenerbe organization, which researched esoteric traditions and occult symbols to support Nazi racial ideology, providing a documented institutional link between Nazism and occult research that underpins later mythology.
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Born
October 7, 1900 · Munich, Germany
Died
May 23, 1945
Nationality
German