Article: Himmler's Crusade: The Nazi Expedition to Find the Origins of the Aryan Race.(Book review)

Himmler's Crusade: The Nazi Expedition to Find the Origins of the Aryan Race. By Christopher Hale. (Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley and Sons, 2003. Pp. x, 422. $27.95.)

In the winter of 1938, a team of five Nazi SS officers, accompanied by an entourage of local porters, made its way to Lhasa, Tibet, undertaking an anthropological expedition to the "top of the world" financed in part by Heinrich Himmler, the Reichsfuhrer SS. This relatively obscure historical episode inspired the box office smash Raiders of the Lost Ark and serves as the basis for this gripping and entertaining account, originally published in the U.K. as Himmler's Crusade: The True Story of the 1938 ...

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