Jour­nal­ist Heather Pringle brings to light a lit­tle known episode in Ger­man his­to­ry: Hein­rich Himmler’s attempt to prove that Ger­mans were supe­ri­or beings as far back as the Stone Age. He cre­at­ed the Ahnenerbe, a research insti­tute ded­i­cat­ed to bring­ing evi­dence that backed Nazi racial the­o­ries to the pub­lic through mag­a­zine arti­cles, muse­um exhibits, and books. Himm­ler, head of the SS, used his schol­ars to cre­ate data sup­port­ing Hitler’s ideas. Pringle has done exten­sive research, using cap­tured Ger­man doc­u­ments in the Nation­al Archives and Records Admin­is­tra­tion in Mary­land, the orig­i­nal Ahnenerbe files in Berlin, and oth­er archives and libraries in Ger­many and the rest of Europe. Her twen­ty- six-page bib­li­og­ra­phy doc­u­ments this effort. In doing so, she expos­es a rel­a­tive­ly unknown chap­ter in the his­to­ry of the Holo­caust and shows that ​“schol­ars” were will­ing to tai­lor their research for polit­i­cal purposes.