Jimu News trainee reporter Sun Zhe
According to a BBC report on September 15, in 1938, the German Nazi Party sent a five-member team to Tibet, China, to explore the origin of the so-called Aryan race. Why was the German Nazis so interested in the Aryans, and why did they send a team to Tibet, China?

Photos of the five-member team (source: BBC)
According to public information, the Aryans were originally an ancient nomad on the grasslands of the southern Ural Mountains in Russia and migrated to in Central Asia. Amu Darya and The plain between Syr Darya, they are called Aryan- Punjabi. Around the 14th century BC, the Aryan-Punjabs went south and entered the northwestern part of the South Asian subcontinent. These are the Aryans mentioned in ancient Indian literature. They expelled the ancient Dravidians to the south, creating Vedic culture and establishing The caste system brought the Aryan-Punjabi language to India. In the end, the ancient Aryans and the ancient Dharavidians merged into the South Asian subcontinent with unique physical signs today.

Hitler and the main member of the German Nazi Party Heinrich Himmler (source: BBC)
In about 500 BC, an Aryan named Zoroastrian He founded , a religion that was once believed by most of the settled Aryan peoples. The famous German philosopher Nietzsche admired Zoroastrian very much and called him Superman. Hitler also admired Nietzsche. He declared that his German nation was a noble Aryan. But in fact, Hitler was not a historian, and lack of necessary archaeological methods at that time, the conclusion that the German nation originated from Aryans is more like Hitler's subjective assumptions.
After Hitler took control of national sovereignty in 1933, the SS began to resolutely implement the Nazi ethnic cleansing order.While the German Nazis brutally slaughtered millions of Jews and were classified as "inferior" groups by the Nazis, they also concocted a secret plan called "The Source of Life". This project is led by Himmler , with the goal of creating "superior" Aryans across Europe.
At that time, the German Nazis believed that most Aryans moved to a safer place. According to the German Nazis, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau as the "roof of the world" met this condition, and the Aryans were likely to go to Tibet. .
In 1938, a team of five German scientists was sent to Tibet, China, to explore the Aryan race. Anthropologist Bruno Berger was one of the team members. During the expedition to Tibet in China, he conducted bone tests on 376 Chinese Tibetan residents, studied their facial details, and took nearly 2,000 photos. He also conducted bone tests on the residents of Sikkim and carefully recorded their characteristics including the head and other body parts.

Bruno Berger (second from left) and group members in Lhasa, China (Source: BBC) in 1939 Part of the information was brought to Salzburg in Austria, but in 1945, most of the information and pictures taken were destroyed by the war.
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