Original Aryans in Tibet?

Adolf Hitler was known for his racially motivated ideology and believed that “Aryan” Nordic people had entered India from the north some 1,500 years earlier. He also believed that the Aryans had committed the “crime” of mixing with the local “un-Aryan” people, losing the attributes that had made them racially superior to all other people on earth. For this so- called crime Hitler regularly expressed deep antipathy for the Indian people and their struggle for freedom, articulating his sentiments in his speeches, writings, and debates.

With his order in 1938, Heinrich Himmler, a leading member of Germany’s Nazi party and a key architect of the Holocaust, sent a five-member team to Tibet to search for the origins of the supposed Aryan race. Journalist and Author Vaibhav Purandare recounts the fascinating story of this expedition, which passed through India. The group of Germans landed surreptitiously along India’s eastern borders. They were on a mission to discover the “source of origin of the Aryan race”.