The compelling story of a trek across an exotic land-and the sinister consequences It was an SS mission led by two complex individuals-one who was using the Nazis to pursue his own ends, and one so committed to Nazism that afterward he conducted racial experiments using the skulls of prisoners at Auschwitz. "Himmler's Crusade" relates the 1938 Nazi expedition through British India to the sacred mountains of Tibet in search of the remnants of the Aryan people, the lost master race. Based on a wide range of previously unused sources, this intriguing book reveals the mission-a pet project of Reichsfuhrer Heinrich Himmler--to be the result of both