Ernst Schäfer and the Search for the Aryan Race

This section introduces Ernst Schäfer, who led an expedition to Tibet in 1939 on behalf of Heinrich Himmler. The goal of the expedition was to find evidence that would support the Nazi belief in a superior Aryan race.

The Expedition to Tibet

• Ernst Schäfer led an expedition to Tibet in 1939.

• The expedition was sent by Heinrich Himmler, who wanted to find evidence of the Aryan race.

• The team conducted experiments, took photos and collected artifacts during their time in Tibet.

• Himmler hoped that if they could prove that Aryans had been in these far away lands, it would justify reclaiming their rightful living space in the East and exterminating other races.

The Origins of the Aryan Race

This section explores the origins of the term "Aryan" and how it became associated with Nazi ideology.

Sir William Jones' Discovery

• Sir William Jones discovered that most European Middle Eastern and Indian languages had actually all been derived from the same parent tongue - proto-indo-european language.

• Jones called speakers of this ancient language Aryans, which became a new term into our language.

Problems with Using "Aryan" as a Term

• Technically there's no way to know whether these were a United tribe or even one race or population.

• Language isn't race, so the language doesn't tell us whether they were all blonde blue-eyed Super Saiyans or if some of them were little green men from Mars.

The Evolution of Language

This section explains how language evolves over time and provides an example of how the word "hundred" evolved from proto-indo-european to modern languages.

The Evolution of the Word "Hundred"

• The word kantum was the proto-indo-european word for a hundred.

• Over time, it evolved into kentum which was how the Romans and Latins pronounced it.

• From this we get sentim in old Italian and sent in French and other languages which is why a cent is one hundredth of a dollar or why a century is a hundred years.

• If we go automatic come to them and listen to the first letter k, it's as if there's an h after the K like a KH.

The Aryan Homeland

This section discusses the location of the Aryans and how it was determined.

Determining the Location of the Aryans

• Proto-Indo-Europeans had copper and later bronze, which rules out Europe.

• They had words for horses and beekeeping, which rules out the Middle East, Siberia, and Central Asian steps of Kazakhstan.

• They were farmers and animal breeders, not hunter-gatherers, which means that northern forests of Europe are excluded.

• By going through all the words used by proto-Indo-Europeans, we can narrow down their location to the step region south and west of the orals and north of the Caucasus.

Nationalism in Central Europe

This section discusses nationalism in Central Europe during the 1800s.

Rise of Nationalism in Central Europe

• In the 1800s there was a lot of fascination with an ancient tribe called Aryans who conquered Northwestern India.

• Language distinguishes us from other speakers and creates communities or folks.

• Nationalists hijacked Darwin's natural selection idea to explain why some races or folks ruled over others.

• German speakers in Central Europe embraced these ideas especially those in multiethnic Habsburg Empire who wanted a pan-German Empire that included all little states plus Austrians.

• Failure to unite all German speakers frustrated many nationalists whose reaction was to increase intensity of their pan-German theories.

German Imperialism

This section discusses German imperialism during industrialization.

Latecomers to Industrialization

• Germany and Austria were late comers to this industrial world with pre-capitalist attitudes surviving.

• There was anxiety over all of this with many reacting by trying to align themselves with the past.

• Racism emerged as a result of these changes.

• Germans and Austrians felt like they were under attack from other races around them, especially the Slavs who they believed were encroaching on their culture.

Austrian German Racist Nationalism

This section discusses Austrian German racist nationalism.

Reaction to Perceived Attack on Culture

• Austrian German racist nationalism was a reaction to a perceived attack on their culture by other nationalities within a multiethnic Empire.

• The more the state and powers called for unity and inclusivity, which is anti-national by nature, the worse the reaction became intense internationalism drove people into nationalist camp eventually resulting in two of the biggest wars in history and destruction of millions of people in following decades.

Origins of German Volkish Nationalist Movements

This section discusses the origins of German volkish nationalist movements.

Theosophy Religion

• The origins of the German volkish nationalist movements emerged from Theosophy religion created by Russian Mystic Helena Petrovna Blavatsky.

• In her books, she ranted against rationalist and materialistic culture of modern Western Civilization thus appealing to German nationalists.

• She studied Indian law focusing on Sanskrit and Aryan languages.

• She mixed science with pseudoscience and spirituality.

Theosophy and Guido Von List

This section discusses the origins of Theosophy and its impact on German and Austrian nationalism. It also covers Guido Von List's adoption of Theosophical ideas and his creation of a new religion.

Theosophy

• Theosophy is a belief system that claims to have access to secret knowledge about the nature of reality.

• Helena Blavatsky was the founder of Theosophy, which she claimed was created by the solar and electric energy of fohat.

• According to Blavatsky, there were seven consecutive root races who became progressively superior as they emerged.

• Some of these races included the astral race, hyperboreans, lemurians, atlanteans, and Aryans.

• Blavatsky's work had a major impact in Germany and Austria.

Guido Von List

• Guido Von List was a Roman Catholic who converted into a neo-German pagan faith.

• He combined Theosophical ideas with volkish ideology to create his own religion called Votanism.

• He claimed that ancient tutons had practiced a gnostic religion emphasizing the initiation of man into natural mysteries.

• His basic sources for this ancient religion were the Eda and runes from Norse mythology.

• He germanized some names from Blavatsky's work to mythical Teutonic names.

Guido Von List's Ideology

This section covers Guido Von List's ideology in more detail.

Anti-Capitalism

• Von List disliked how capitalism resulted in the destruction of traditional trades and bemoaned the decline of medieval guilds.

• He despised modern banking and usury wanting to return to a pre-capitalist mode of financing commerce.

The Great International Party

• Von List sought a more concrete personification of these widespread socio-economic transformations in the monolithic conspiracy of the great international party.

• He said that the great international party could be discerned in financial institutions, political parties, and their neglect of German national interests.

• He demanded the annihilation of the great international party in order that the Aryan Germans could enter the promised land of happiness and prosperity.

Pan-German Empire

• Von List's blueprints for a new pan-German empire called for the ruthless subjection of non-Aryans to Aryan masters in a highly structured hierarchical society.

The Roots of Nazi Ideology

This section discusses the origins of Nazi ideology and how it was influenced by various writers and intellectuals in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

Warning Against Breeding with Lesser People

• The primary purpose of the Old Testament was to warn Aryans not to breed with the Lesser people.

• Lassa races should be exterminated through sterilization and castration.

• Land came up with the idea to deport Jews to Madagascar prior to WWI.

Writers and Intellectuals Influencing Nazi Ideology

• Houston Stuart Chamberlain, Oregon Fisher, Georg Von schunerer wrote that Aryan race would be destroyed by an ocean of black and yellow races.

• Carl househofer said that indo-German peoples needed more living space.

• Volkis religion reached its pre-nancy peak under Theodore Fritch who created a new anti-semitic Lodge organization in 1912.

Thule Society

• Rudolph fonsi bottendorf established the Thule Society during WWI.

• Cotton Dove said "yesterday we experienced the collapse of everything which was familiar dear and valuable to us in the place of our princes of Germanic blood rules our deadly enemy Judah."

• The Thule took part in fighting The Red Army in Bavaria during the Revel there fighting with Camp Cooper app when app entered the city Anton Drexler and Carl Hara were also members of the Thor society.

Nazi Party

• Deutsche Arbiter party German Workers Party was the forerunner of the nsdap.

• The foundation of the Nazi party had been established by C botendorf Drexler and Hara.

Hitler's Ideology and National Socialism

This section covers the ideological foundation of national socialism, which is based on an anti-Christian, especially anti-Catholic, racist religion that sees Christianity as a Jewish evil. The Aryan Volk was considered mystical and superior to all others.

Hitler's Ideology

• Hitler chose the swastika because a bunch of Mystics thought that Aryans might have been in India.

• The ideological foundation for national socialism is based on an anti-Christian, especially anti-Catholic, racist religion that sees Christianity as a Jewish evil.

• They were against the Freemasons and were pan-German believing that the Aryan Volk was mystical and superior to all others.

• Hitler didn't believe in everything mentioned so far. He didn't actually believe that there were Aryans in Tibet like Himmler did.

National Socialism as a Religion

• National socialism should be classed as a religion since everything these guys believed is based on belief.

• Belief that because of our language and the words written in some Hindu text that there was a race of Super Saiyans that came from Germany descended from a race of giants in hyperborea.

Heinrich Himmler's Beliefs

• Heinrich Himmler subscribed to Hans Gunter's theories and even though he had been Catholic in his youth he read books on the Jewish roots of Communism and was persuaded to drop Christianity thinking it was just Jewish superstition instead.

• Himmler created the Ahnenerbe with Richard Walther Darre tasked with finding the origins of the German Race by delving into German prehistory and Archeology.

• The race Pope had told him that the Hindu Veda scripts were in fact written by ancient Nordics but that the further the Nordics had gone East, the more their blood was corrupted by the lesser races.

The Role of Territorial Claims in the World Ice Theory

This section discusses how the World Ice Theory was used to support territorial claims, particularly by those who believed that they were descended from the Aryans.

The Importance of Territorial Claims

• The World Ice Theory was partly used to support territorial claims.

• Carl Maria Villegut, nicknamed the Rasputin of Himmler, was sought out for his psychic services to provide more concrete evidence for these claims.

Carl Maria Villegut's Beliefs

• Villegut claimed to be a descendant of Germanic sages and possessed ancestral clairvoyance memory.

• He believed that his ancestors could trace their lineage back to ancient air and water gods and that Pagan Saxons were suppressed by Charlemagne in the 9th century.

• His chronology of prehistory began around 228,000 BC when there were three sons in the sky and Earth was populated with giants, dwarves, and other mythical beings.

Villigut's Legacy

• Villigut became an important figure among volkish groups and the SS due to his reputation as a descendant of Germanic sages.

• After being certified insane in 1927, he remained in contact with members of the volkish movement and came back as a sage after his release.

• Himmler made him head of an SS department for pre and early history within the race and settlement main office in Munich.

The SS Totenkopf Ring and Hyperborean Beliefs

This section discusses the design of the SS Totenkopf ring and how it was influenced by hyperborean beliefs.

The Design of the SS Totenkopf Ring

• Carl Maria Villegut, also known as Billy Guts, designed the SS Totenkopf ring.

• The double rune with two SS lightning bolts and an up-pointing arrow indicated the traditions of Villegut's ancestry.

• In November 1938, Billy Guts' wife let authorities know about his previous admission to a mental asylum. Himmler forced him into retirement soon after.

Hyperborean Beliefs

• Julius Evola, a racist in the fascist party of Italy, talked about hyperboreans.

• Ernst Zundel took the idea of lost colonies and decided that they were in Antarctica which is why there are now secret Nazi bases there.

• These ideas are still around today because humans need faith in something either because a higher power does exist or because they need comfort and purpose in life.

Conclusion

This section concludes by summarizing how traditional religion has been on decline leading people to flock towards cult-like ideologies such as nationalism, racism, socialism etc., to fill their spiritual void.

Summary

• Traditional religion has been on decline leading people to flock towards cult-like ideologies such as nationalism, racism, socialism etc., to fill their spiritual void.

• Ernst Zundel took the idea of lost colonies and decided that they were in Antarctica which is why there are now secret Nazi bases there.

• These ideas are still around today because humans need faith in something either because a higher power does exist or because they need comfort and purpose in life.

The Origins of Religions and Cults

The speaker discusses how many religions and cults were born out of a crisis of faith, citing leaders such as Hitler, Himmler, Marx, Lennon, Stalin, and Mussolini who all went to religious schools in their youth before renouncing their faith.

Religious Conflict and the Birth of New Ideologies

• Many ideologies are born out of religious conflict.

• National socialism, fascism, Marxism are religions that fought Holy Wars.

• These ideologies caused a lot of death in the 20th century and beyond.

• Despite seeming like nonsense to us today, these people genuinely believed in their ideologies.

Recommended Reading

• Three books were heavily relied upon for this video: "The Horse, the Wheel and Language," "Himmler's Crusade," and "The Occult Roots of Nazism."

• "The Horse, the Wheel and Language" is recommended for those interested in pre-history and language.

• "The Occult Roots of Nazism" is highly academic but provides valuable insights for those interested.

• "Himmler's Crusade" strikes a balance between readability and covering important points.

Additional Resources

• Link to the speaker's video on Hitler socialism is provided.