Nazism was always interested in hidden. And it is that in pseudosciences, Hitler and his They sought arguments of the alleged superiority of the ARIA race. That led them to seek evidence of their elucubrations and not only in libraries, but on the ground.
In 1935, Heinrich Himmler, Supreme Leader of the SS and Hitler’s right hand – whose death is 80 years old this Wednesday, April 30 -, He founded the Ahnenerbe o Society for research and teaching on German ancestral inheritance. Through this association, the Nazis supported and financed research activities on the existence and past of the ARIA race. The results, exaggerated and misrepresented, were used to justify the war and the extermination of the enemy.
Ahnenerbe was dedicated to organizing archaeological, anthropological and ethnographic expeditions throughout the world. One of them set out to find the underground kingdom of Agarthathat the Nazis believed that it was the capital of the hollow earth or Hollow world theory. Yes, Hitler and his people came to believe that our planet was hollow.
The idea that the earth was hollow
The improbable hollow earth theory is not the creation of the first Nazis but also began to circulate in the thirteenth century. Later, in 1692, Edmond Halley (yes, that of the comet) conjectured that the earth could be formed by A hollow wrapping about 800 km thick, two interior concentric wraps and a more internal nucleus. In this way he wanted to explain the abnormal readings of the compass and even speculated that gas escapes caused the northern lights.
Already in 1818, John Cleves Symmes, an American army officer “contributed” his variant of hollow land theory, with the concept of Openings to the inner world in the poles. The hollow relay elucubration was taken by Cyrus Reed Teed. One day from 1869, this American doctor and alchemist went to the dark side of pseudoscience … by divine inspiration. Messiah proclaimed himself and changed name. Like Koresh, he defended the existence of a concave or “cellular” cosmology. According to Koresh, Humanity and the surface of the Earth exist inside a sphere that covers the universe.
Years later, another American, William Richard Bradshaw, published his science fiction novel The goddess of Atvatabar (1892). In this story, the protagonists of the world above They find an advanced civilization under earth that uses spiritual power to have eternal youth or resurrect the dead.
Lalley, Symmes and Koresh’s papers or Bradshaw’s novel had to reach a member of the Ahnenerbe. The truth is that a high position of the Nazi party made Hitler the theory of hollow land and He even convinced him of the need to make an expedition to confirm it through the inverted earth hypothesis.
Not only was it about misrepresenting the history and geography for greater glory of the Aria race, but of winning the war. And to this collaborated the imagination of many. It was the case of Peter Bender, a German war prisoner in France. Upon his return to Germany he created the Holtweltlehreliterally “wooden world theory”, where he resumed many of the elements described by Koresh.
Bender suggested that the German navy made an expedition to Rügen Island, in the Baltic Sea, to try to identify British ships with powerful telescopes directed upwards, along the supposed terrestrial concavity (through the hole), using infrared rays. The Nazis were very predisposed to believe any esoteric madness that left the orthodox science of the Jews in poor place. So they sent a scientific expedition. That was, of course, a failure and Bender ended up in a concentration camp.
Nazi swastika in Tibet
The Ahnenerbe also commissioned an expedition to Tibet. It took place between April 1938 and May 1939, and its objective was to conduct diverse research on geography, ethnography and fauna and flora of the Himalayas. The expeditionaries sought indications confirmed by the theories promoted by Nazi racist doctrine and others related to the fond of the occultism and esotericism of the third Reich authorities.
The anthropologist of the Rusha, one of the SS sections, Bruno Beger, was in charge of supervising the investigations in his racial and occultist aspect. Part of the objectives was the Giant search but also of Agharta, that hollow land, and its capital Shambala. The myth in which some Nazis believed was that from that city they would rule the world if they invoked Ling Gesar. It is a tribal hero who was king of the province of Ling, west of the Tibetin the eleventh century.
The papers carried by those expeditionaries placed Agharta in the Mountains of the Tibet or under the Gobi desert. From that location, the “intraterrestres”, inhabitants of that underground civilization, had a galleries network to move to the rest of the globe.
In the search for Agharta They arrived in the sacred city of Lhasa, home of the Dalai Lamathen a child. And although they got the swastika to greet heaven from the top of the Tibet, those of the Ahnenerbe had to return home. It was 1939 and the war was about to explode. All the effort was nothing, as in one way or another it would have happened: after all today we know that the earth is not hollow.
