A couple of Cultural items

[Matthäus Klein]

Irminsul form candle holder. A fair amount of work went into this piece with all the hammered patterning.

this is the real deal.. love it

[David Fettes]

Well I bought the Bamberg Reiter today, very very cheap and looks ok from 6 feet away!!

[Thorsten B.]

That surely looks like a good deal.

[ErichS]

Well I bought the Bamberg Reiter today, very very cheap and looks ok from 6 feet away!!

Very nice and from the same maker as mine. This maker also made the Reiter in terracotta as well.

[Jack83]

Yes - has already been done to this one.

Hmm....I spy wooden plates off to it's left side!

[Thorsten B.]

Good eye.

[maestro]

ANDREAS' "unique SS-Ahnenerbe material listed!"

in case you fellows haven't see what he has up for sale, well feast your eyes on these.. enjoy!

Here's the Aryan baby cradle (AHNENERBE-SS 1944 CRADLE)


http://www.od43.com/Ahnenerbe-SS_Collection.html

[maestro]

Ahnenerbe-ss 1944 cradle

[maestro]

Ahnenerbe-ss 1944 cradle

[maestro]

Ahnenerbe-ss "sippentruhe"

http://www.od43.com/Ahnenerbe-SS_Sippentruhe.html

[maestro]

Ahnenerbe-ss "sippentruhe"

talk about quality! wow!

[maestro]

Ahnenerbe-ss julleuchter

& last finishing touch!

http://www.od43.com/Ahnenerbe-SS_Julleuchter.html

[Steve T]

in case you fellows haven't see what he has up for sale, well feast your eyes on these.. enjoy!

Here's the Aryan baby cradle (AHNENERBE-SS 1944 CRADLE)


http://www.od43.com/Ahnenerbe-SS_Collection.html

Maestro,

What's the Ahnenerbe connection?

[Thorsten B.]

There is none.

[maestro]

....Ahnenerbe Connection

Maestro,

What's the Ahnenerbe connection?

Andreas is more qualified to answer your question, & so here it is:

The Ahnenerbe was developed to research the anthropological and cultural history of the Aryan race, and later lent itself to experimentation and voyages intent on proving that prehistoric and mythological Nordic populations had once ruled the world. New applicants in the SS were educated about their Nordic past through weekly classes taught by senior RuSHA (Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt or Race and Settlement Office of the SS) graduates using the periodical SS-Leitheft. On July 1, 1935 at Berlin's SS headquarters, Himmler met with five racial experts representing Darré and with Dr. Herman Wirth, one of Germany's most famous pre-historians. Together they founded an organization called Deutsches Ahnenerbe--Studiengesellschaft für Geistesurgeschichte (German Ancestral Heritage--Society for the Study of the History of Primeval Ideas) - later shortened to its better-known form in 1937. At the meeting they designated the official goal "to promote the science of ancient intellectual history" and appointed Himmler as the superintendent with Wirth serving as the president. Wirth left the project at the beginning of 1937. On February 1 of that year, Dr. Walther Wüst was appointed the new president of the Ahnenerbe. Wüst was an expert on India and a Dean at Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, working on the side as a Vertrauensmann for the SS Security Service. Referred to as "The Orientalist" by Sievers, Wüst had been recruited by him in May 1936 because of his ability to simplify science for the common man. After being appointed president, Wüst began improving the Ahnenerbe by moving the office to a new headquarters in Berlin-Dahlem that had cost 300,000 Reichsmark. In January 1939 the organization was incorporated into the SS. In 1936 the first of a series of expeditions was launched. The first official expedition financed by the Ahnenerbe went to Bohuslän, a region in southwestern Sweden. Himmler appointed Wolfram Sievers to be the managing director of the expedition. Another Ahnenerbe sponsored voyage led to the Karelia region of Finland, also in 1936.