If Nazi medicine and its monstrous experiments were partially judged at Nuremberg the role assigned as early as 1933 by Heinrich Himmler, the master of the SS, to the entire German scientific community is less known. Obsessed by the desire to prove the superiority of the Germanic race, the future project manager of the final solution created in 1935 the Ahnenerbe (ancestral heritage) a scientific institute endowed with colossal means to carry out excavation sites and shipments around the world.