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Towards the end of [[World War II]] in Europe, Ahnenerbe members destroyed much of the organisation's paperwork to avoid being incriminated in forthcoming war crimes trials. Numerous members escaped Allied denazification policies and remained active in West Germany's archaeological establishment in the postwar era. This stifled scholarly research into the Ahnenerbe, which only intensified after German reunification in 1990. Ideas promoted by the Ahnenerbe have retained an appeal for some neo-Nazi and far-right circles and have also influenced later pseudoarchaeologists.<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahnenerbe Ahnenerbe wiki]</ref> | Towards the end of [[World War II]] in Europe, Ahnenerbe members destroyed much of the organisation's paperwork to avoid being incriminated in forthcoming war crimes trials. Numerous members escaped Allied denazification policies and remained active in West Germany's archaeological establishment in the postwar era. This stifled scholarly research into the Ahnenerbe, which only intensified after German reunification in 1990. Ideas promoted by the Ahnenerbe have retained an appeal for some neo-Nazi and far-right circles and have also influenced later pseudoarchaeologists.<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahnenerbe Ahnenerbe wiki]</ref> | ||
==Operation Paperclip== | |||
Under the [[Operation Paperclip]] German scientists who had worked in secret were brought to the U.S. privately, among them Viktor Schauberger and Wernher Von Braun, both had been working on these projects and now introduced this secret technology to the United States Government. | |||
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