Founded by
Heinrich Himmler,
Herman Wirth, and
Richard Walther Darré on
July 1 1935, as Studiengesellschaft für Geistesurgeschichte‚ Deutsches Ahnenerbe´ e.V. ("Study society for primordial intellectual science "German Ancestral Heritage" (registered society)"), in 1937 renamed in Forschungs- und Lehrgemeinschaft das Ahnenerbe e.V. ("Research and Teaching Community the Ancestral Heritage (registered society)") was a
Nazi-era government
study group that billed itself as a "study society for Intellectual Ancient History".
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