"Ahnenerbe" (Ancestral Heritage), the research network founded by Himmler, served to reinforce Nazi ideology from the start. Wolfram Sievers was the managing director of the organization from 1935 to 1945. This edition of his work diary is a first-class source of scientific history and, with its extensive biographical register, provides a unique "who's who" of German scientific history under National Socialism, which did not end in 1945.

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Julien Reitzenstein, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany.