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ehind the Kundun, Dr. Bruno Beger. Beger was the actual “expert” who pushed forward the racial<br />

studies research by Himmler’s Ahnenerbe project (Kater, 1997, p. 208). He too, like the Tibetan<br />

explorer Ernst Schäfer, was a member of Himmler’s personal staff. In 1939 he went to the Himalayas<br />

as a member of the SS Expedition. <strong>The</strong>re he measured the skulls of more than 400 Tibetans in order to<br />

investigate a possible relationship between the Tibetan and Aryan ‘races’. In 1943, Beger was sent to<br />

Auschwitz where he took the measurements of 150 mainly Jewish prisoners. <strong>The</strong>se were later killed<br />

and added to a collection of skeletons. In 1971 Beger appeared in a German court and was sentenced<br />

to three years imprisonment on probation for his national socialist crimes.<br />

Frontpage of Bruno Beger’s book: “Meine Begegnungen mit dem Ozean des<br />

Wissens“ („My meetings with the Ocean of Knowledge”) – Königstein 1986<br />

For the <strong>Dalai</strong> L<strong>am</strong>a Beger has been of great help, because he did compose a statement, that<br />

Tibet was not part of China. (See <strong>The</strong> Status of Tibet in 1938-39 - Dr. Bruno Beger – (www.<br />

tibet.ca/en/wtnarchive/1994/11/24-2_1.html). <strong>The</strong> head of the <strong>Dalai</strong> L<strong>am</strong>a between two<br />

former SS-men: Bruno Beger on right side of his head and Heinrich Harrer on left side of his<br />

head: http://www.tibet.com/Status/statement.html

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