Hitler's Nazi regime had close connections with the Tibetan Government. There were several SS expeditions to Lhasa.
Dalai Lama Nazis
The Nazi Connections
Throughout his life the Dalai Lama has had close associations with many Nazis, including Bruno Beger, who was convicted for his ‘scientific research’ at Auschwitz; and Miguel Serrano, head of the Nazi Party in Chile and the author of several books that elevate Hitler to a god-like status. As a child he was under the tutelage of Heinrich Harrer – a former sergeant in the SS, Hitler’s most loyal soldiers – who for some years in Tibet before the Chinese occupation taught the young Dalai Lama about the outside world
Heinrich Harrer ... became the Western guru of Tibet's young 14th Dalai Lama ... The 85 year old Austrian has been confronted with a terrible secret from his past: that he was a member of Hitler's SS.
Vanity Fair
H. G. Bissinger
The Tibetan court used to have close ties with the Nazi regime, SS-expeditions were welcomed to Lhasa with full mark of respect. To this day, His Holiness has never distanced himself from these inglorious relationships.
Stern Magazine
Tilman Muller
Gerald Lehner: Do you know the Dalai Lama personally?
Bruno Beger: Yes, I've met up with him several times in recent years. The last time was in London together with Heinrich Harrer, that was an invitation from him.
Zwischen Hitler und Himalaya: die Gedächtnislücken des Heinrich Harrer
Bruno Beger is a convicted Nazi war criminal, involved in the deaths of 86 jews from Auschwitz and a friend of the Dalai Lama
[The Dalai Lama] invited me to go to Dharmasala where he lives now. We had a very interesting talk. It is good to know that before Buddhism was introduced in Tibet, Tibetans were a warrior' s race and their religion, the Bon, used also the same swastika of Hitlerism. Until today the Intelligence Services of England and United States have been unable to discover the real mysterious links that existed between Tibet and Hitlerist Germany.
Interview with Miguel Serrano
Miguel Serrano
Gerald Lehner, Zwischen Hitler und Himalaya – Die Gedächtnislücken des Heinrich Harrer, (Vienna, Czernin Verlag, 2007);
Heinrich Harrer, Seven Years in Tibet, 1952.
Gerald Lehner and Tilman Müller, Stern Magazine 23, 1997, ‘Ein Held mit braunen Flecken’
Robert J. Lifton, The Nazi Doctors : Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide (New York, NY: Basic Books, 1988), 286.
Alfred Pasternak, Inhuman research: medical experiments in German concentration camps, 2006
Bruno Beger, Meine Begegnungen mit dem Ozean des Wissens, Konigstein 1986.
Beger’s memoirs of Tibet which appeared on The Government of Tibet in Exile Official Website on April 15 2008 but have since been removed, can still be seen here.
Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of Identity, (New York University Press, 2002).
For interview with Serrano where he discusses being the Dalai Lama’s guest in Dharamsala shortly after Indira Gandhi’s funeral in 1984;
Mike Billington, Why Nazis love the Dalai Lama,includes a photo of the Dalai Lama with Serrano in Chile in 1992 (Serrano was the head of the Nazis in Chile at the time).
Andrew Purvis and Angela Leuker, ‘Jorg Haider’s New Clothes’,Time, 10 April 2005.
Article from Nürnberger Abendzeitung, 19 May 2008, ’Dalai Lama in Nürnberg’: Fans Jubeln, Gegner schimpfen – Steffen Windschall; quoted by German magazine Stern No. 32, 30 July 2009; part of the original German article can be found here
Stern No. 32, 'The Two faces of the Dalai Lama', Tilman Müller, 30 July 2009, a podcast of the original german can be found here, and an English translation is available here.
Victor & Victoria Trimondi, The Shadow of the Dalai Lama, (Patmos Verlag, 1999).
Claudia Dreifus, New York Times, ‘The Dalai Lama’, Sunday, 28 November 1993.
Also see...
- Why we are exposing the Dalai Lama
- The Issue of Religious Intolerance
- An Accessory to War and Violence
- The Illusion of Democracy
- Partnership with the CIA
- The Union of Religion and Politics
- The Nazi Connections
- Where has all the Money Gone?
- How Superstition Shaped History
- What has been Achieved for Tibet?
- Collaboration with Communism
- The Politics of Reincarnation
- Torture and Execution Ordered by the Thirteenth Dalai Lama
- Prisoners of the Potala: The Sixth to Twelfth Dalai Lamas
- Wars and Murders ordered by the Fifth Dalai Lama
- The Pure Dharma of the Early Dalai Lamas
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Dalai Lama, Tibet, and Nazi Germany Collaboration
The Dalai Lama and Heinrich Harrer
