The Nazis loved the Bayeux Tapestry. They loved it so much that they tried (and failed) to steal it away to Germany at the ...

The Ahnenerbe operated as a think tank in Nazi Germany between 1935 and 1945. Heinrich Himmler established it as an SS appendage devoted to the task of promoting the racial doctrines espoused by ...

Under the command of SS chief Heinrich Himmler, the Ahnenerbe group commissioned Schlabow and other scientists to travel to occupied France and study the Bayeux Tapestry in 1941. At some point ...