A National Socialist German organization whose goal was to research the anthropological and cultural history of the Aryan race, and later to experiment and launch voyages with the intent of proving that prehistoric and mythological Nordic populations had once ruled the world.
Origin
Borrowed from German Ahnenerbe, from Ahnen, plural of Ahn, + Erbe.
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