Himmler's Secret Society: Inside the SS-Ahnenerbe 1936-1939

In 1935, Yrjö von Grönhagen, a 24-year old Finnish student at Sorbonne, Paris, decided to walk across Europe back to his native country. By a strange twist of fate, the following summer he would lead an ethnological expedition to Karelian woods in search of the lost magic of Aryans.

Appointed as the head of the Finnish department in Ahnenerbe, a scholarly institution that was destined to become the greatest in the world, von Grönhagen witnessed "intuitive" mystics clash with classical archae...