- Bruno Beger
Bruno Beger (27 April 1911- 2004) was a German Racial anthropologist who worked for the
Ahnenerbe . In that role he participated inErnst Schäfer 's 1938 journey toTibet , helped the Race and Settlement Office of the SS identifyJew s and helped locate subjects needed for a skeleton collection to help educate on the identification of Jewish peoples.Early life
Beger was born in 1911 to an old
Heidelberg family that soon after came upon hard times when Beger's father was killed inWorld War I , but a family friend paid for him to attend theUniversity of Jena where he was first exposed toHans F. K. Günther during a lecture, a man who would encourage him through his early academic career inanthropology andethnology .ervice in the SS
In 1934, Beger began working a part-time job in the Race and Settlement Office of the SS where he eventually became a section head. Beger was asked to be part of a journey to
Hawaii , but while this expedition was waiting for final approval, he was invited on a trip to Tibet led byErnst Schäfer which he accepted instead. His study of the Tibetan peoples convinced him that they were of a superior variety of humanity, occupying a position between the Nordic and Mongol.Racial experiences
Beger worked together with
August Hirt at theReichsuniversität Straßburg . His duty, which he carried out, was to provide the nazi physician with detainees of diverse ethnic types from various concentration camps in order to serve the Hirt's lethal racial experiments.References
*Hale, Christopher. "Himmler's Crusade: the True Story of the 1938 Nazi Expedition into Tibet" Bantam, 2004. ISBN 978-0553814453
*Pringle, Heather. "The Master Plan : Himmler's Scholars and the Holocaust." Hyperion, 2006. ISBN 0-7868-6886-4
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