Hitler’s Search for the Holy Grail

The true story behind Raiders of the Lost Ark. How Hitler and the Nazis created the Ahnenerbe, a pseudoscientific organization established by Heinrich Himmler as an SS appendage and then went on a quest to find the power objects from history and prove the myths of Atlantis, the Grail and an ancient German master race. Michael Wood explains where these ideas came from, shows us how history was used as a political tool and the way top scholars collaborated to provide the ideas used by the SS as a justification for the genocide that followed, ending with chilling footage from the 1946 trial of Wolfram Sievers, the Ahnenerbe’s Chief Administrator.