jesspy, I’ve found a few links about this programme for those of us who didn’t catch it…
Nazi Expeditions tells the bizarre and chilling story one of history's most perverse, eccentric, and frightening scientific expeditions: the Nazi's 1938 Himalayan expedition to Tibet to find a Nordic master race that was supposed to have survived the demise of the legendary Atlantis.
December 1938. A German research ship sailing under the Swastika flag glides through the Antarctic Ocean in search of stone and ice samples. Geologists are looking for evidence to support the bold "global ice theory", according to which a comet was supposed to have crashed to Earth in prehistoric times and scattered the "original Aryans" all over the world.
The true facts behind the Nazi expeditions have never been fully explained. Who financed them? Who planned them and why? The film sequences shot during the expeditions appear seemingly harmless. But behind the apparently innocent pictures were the machinations of one of the most powerful and most dangerous Nazis of all:
Heinrich Himmler, the leader of the Nazi's dreaded SS, the second-most-powerful man in the Third Reich. Without him as one of the main protagonists, the gripping story of the expeditions cannot be retold.
From his youth, Heinrich Himmler was fascinated by the world of German folklore and mythology and prehistoric research. In 1935, he founded a society for the advancement of scientific research. It was called Ahnenerbe (Ancestral Heritage) and constituted around 30 scientific departments. The expeditions within and beyond the German Reich were planned, approved, led and cartographically recorded in direct collusion with Himmler. To be ensured of financing and approval, the expeditions had to pursue an ideological objective: they were supposed to produce proof of the superiority of the German race and thus reinforce the National Socialists' ideologically founded claim to world supremacy.
The Nazi expeditions are journeys of discovery into the ideology of National Socialism, the irrational fantasies of racial insanity, the religious-like Fuhrer cult and the belief in world supremacy, conducted by serious scientists and failed individuals, adventurers and discoverers.
Nazi Expeditions describes the exploratory expeditions undertaken by the Nazis at home and abroad, and with previously unpublished library material and statements by contemporary witnesses, members of the expeditions and internationally renowned historians and scientists, for the first time throws light on the mystery of these often bizarre operations. Unpublished film shots, propaganda films, written documents and photographs from public and private archives provide incredible testimony to the expeditions that were carried out by the Third Reich. SourceIn the early 1930s, Himmler founded the Ahnenerbe, the so-called ancestral heritage foundation. Ahnenerbe researchers were supposed to provide the proof that the Germans were truly the master race. In 1938, Himmler sent a team of SS scientists, including the ornithologist Ernst Schäfer and the archaeologist Bruno Beger, to Tibet to find the origins of the Aryan race. The expedition reached Lhasa and carried out a number of different research projects as well as making a film for propaganda purposes back in Germany. The group was recalled before war broke out and although other planned expeditions to South America and North Africa were shelved, the work of the Ahnenerbe went on during the war. As well as illuminating Himmler's mystic and increasingly bizarre beliefs and crackpot theories, the program looks at how scientists like Schäfer and Beger dealt with the Nazi ideological machine.SourceQUOTE(Sylph)
this is a favorite subject, the occult legacy of the nazis...i've heard a few interesting tales (of which i like to call folktales), of how the nazis discovered the lineage of the nordic peoples of the earth ~ a lineage that did not originate from this world, but arrived from beyond the skies long ago.. upon discovery, hitler & the various parties dedicated their resources to restore that lineage to its original state of evolutionary perfection & eugenics, a methodology to meet those ends was created for that singular purpose...the word Aryan is a misunderstood one by many, thinking it to be only linked to racism ~ nothing is farther from its truth...simply, i learned it to be a word that describes more - the purity of perfection, the perfect being of their race ~ genetically, physically, mentally, etc.. why? perhaps to re-establish what was lost if the folktales had any measure of truth to them...perhaps they actually discovered something that gave them the motivation.. a piece of their past revealed?
Sylph, interesting post; it sounds like this show was basically going into the detail of what you highlighted here. I was wondering if you perhaps had any links with relevant info?
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I think Sylph is a potential racists. to think that what they were achieving was in any way good or as you stated 'amazing' is totally a racists comment.
If you read the post in context, you would perhaps not make such an accusational post.

Nazi topics are always going to be a slightly taboo and so we must be sensitive when dealing with them, and it doesn’t help when this sort of comment is posted.
I think this quote from soulmatrix’s website says it best ~
‘In order to understand your enemy you [must] understand what led him into his actions.’ It is this that we are discussing; not the evil acts committed. Please bare that in mind.
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Well, I was gonna make fun of sylph, but you all beat me to it. Nazis have that negative image because, well, they are sort of, you know, evil and all..'
Comments like this are hardly constructive to this thread and serve only to frustrate readers.
Sylph, I for one think your post has been the most informative in regard to this topic. From what I’ve read, the documentary didn’t deal with where true Aryans came from; it dealt with how the Nazis set out on their own self-righteous ‘scientific’ expeditions to justify to themselves how they were a superior race. I think it’s an interesting topic and one that is well worth a discussion, so lets leave out the name-calling and get this topic back on track please.