Hitler's Search For The Holy Grail

Record ID: 127645
  • Title: Hitler's Search For The Holy Grail
  • Date: 19th August 1999
  • Summary: The Nazi historical department sought to justify the master race theories of the SS ideology. History was used as a political tool and historians and archaeologists collaborated. Archive footage includes colour film of the Nazi expedition to Antarctica: Nazi expeditions across the world from the Baltic to Persia to Venezuela; the Nazi 1938 expedition measuring skulls in Tibet; Himmler on an archaeological site; the Nuremberg trial of Wolfram Sievers,the head of the SS-Ahnenerbe (the Ancestral Heritage Society),Himmler's Archaeological and Historical Unit. Includes interviews with members of Himmler's personal staff and the wife of an SS Commander.
  • Description:New evidence and film archive reveals the extraordinary strory of the SS Archaeological Unit - the real Raiders of the Lost Ark.
  • Broadcaster:Channel 4
  • Collection: Channel 4
  • Genre:Documentary and Factual
  • Producer:Maya Vision Ltd.
  • Programme Episode:Episode 1
  • Transmission Date:19/08/1999
  • Rights:UK and Eire
  • Decade: 1990s
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