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Letter From Josef Wimmer To Reinhard Heydrich, August 5, 1940, Josef Wimmer

Dowsing Research

Writing to Reinhard Heydrich, Head of the Sicherheitspolizei and of the SD, Josef Wimmer summarizes a letter from Paul Beyer of the Reich Association for Dowsing, in which Beyer states that dowsing is useful in many areas and offers examples from his own experience. Wimmer references his own response to a prior document. He states that the regulation of dowsing is planned for the period following the end of the war, but transitional provisions could be made in agreement with the Ahnenerbe for the time being to allow the use of dowsers for economic and military purposes.

Note From Rudolf Brandt Representing The Reichsführer-Ss Himmler To Reinhard Heydrich And The Ahnenerbe, July 23, 1940, Rudolf Brandt

Dowsing Research

In this note sent to the Head of the Sicherheitspolizei and the SD and to the Ahnenerbe, Rudolf Brandt as a representative of the Reichsführer-SS states that he is sending to the recipients copies of a paper from the Reich Association for Dowsing regarding the confiscation of literature on dowsing and pendula. He mentions in particular works published by J. Huber in Diessen vor München as well as a book from Baron von Pohl on earth radiation as a pathogen. He conveys the opinion of the Reichsführer-SS, Heinrich Himmler, that the works should be released and the Ahnenerbe consulted on …

Letter From Paul Beyer To Heinrich Himmler, July 12, 1940, Paul Beyer

Dowsing Research

In this letter, Dr. Paul Beyer writes to Heinrich Himmler, Reichsführer-SS and Head of the German Police regarding the confiscation of literature related to dowsing and pendula. He relates his attempts to address the confiscation with Dr. Koch of the Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, who ordered the confiscation. He requests that Himmler abolish the program and proposes the creation of a department dealing specially with dowsing questions which would benefit from Himmler's protection.

Letter From Wolfram Sievers To Walther Wüst, June 4, 1940, Wolfram Sievers

Dowsing Research

A letter from Wolfram Sievers, managing director of the Ahnenerbe, to Walther Wüst, curator of the Ahnenerbe. Sievers states that he is forwarding a letter from the Head of the Sicherheitspolizei and the SD as well as a letter from Dr. Paul Beyer which includes the document "My Successes with Dowsing Rods". Sievers asks that Wüst take action in forwarding the documents to Josef Wimmer, as the meeting they had planned had not yet taken place. A handwritten note from Wüst confirms this transaction.

Letter From The Head Of The Sicherheits Polizei And The Sd To The Ahnenerbe, May 31, 1940, Head Of The Sicherheitspolizei And The Sd

Dowsing Research

This letter, composed on behalf of the Head of the Sicherheitspolizei and the SD Reinhard Heydrich, was written to accompany a document forwarded to the Ahnenerbe. The document in question is Paul Beyer's "My Successes with Dowsing Rods". The writer notes that nothing is known of Baron von Leesen and the Ahnenerbe should deal with the document as circumstances require.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. Xvi, No. 15, Wku Student Affairs

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This issue contains articles:

• Summer School to Open June10
• Unusual Musical Program Given
• Virginia Helm, Hugh Johnson Pupils Heard
• Over 300 to Be Included in Graduating Classes for 1940
• Two Geography Trips Taken
• W.J. Edens, H.L. Stevens Head Depts.
• Talisman Being Distributed Today
• Third Monthly Recital Presented May 16
• Student Wins National Honor – Polly McClure
• Weldon, Robert. Application for Peace
• Don’t Lose Your Balance
• Last Class …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. Xvi, No. 14, Wku Student Affairs

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This issue contains articles:

• Western Honors Students’ Mothers Today with Varied Programs
• Modern Choir Sings at Chapel
• New York Tour Leaves June 2 – World’s Fair
• Berea Defeats Western, Eastern
• Stow the Pans! – Cedar House
• Miss Lena Logan Honored
• Remember Those Snakes?
• Speech Contest Coming Soon
• In Memoriam – Joint Club Banquet
• Million-Dollar Brain Storm – Adolf Hitler
• Snapshots
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• Agriculture Alumnus …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. Xvi, No. 13, Wku Student Affairs

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This issue contains articles:

• Six Seniors Included in 1940 College “Who’s Who”
• Life Magazine May Photograph Textile Display – Kentucky Museum
• Peace Syndicate Formed at Kentucky Intercollegiate Press Association
• Music Contest Attracts 3,500
• Governor Appoints New Regents
• Senators to try Constable Searcy, Alleged Murderer – Congress Debating Club
• College Heights Herald Receives Three Awards
• Barbed Wire and Trenches
• We Can’t Live Without ‘Em
• Court Trouble – Tennis …

Letter From Paul Beyer To Heinrich Himmler On The Uses Of Dowsing Rods, April 3, 1940, Paul Beyer

Dowsing Research

Dr. P. Beyer explains to Himmler the uses for dowsing rods and offers examples of success using dowsing rods to locate oil and gas deposits, water, mineral deposits and to avoid lightning.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. Xvi, No. 9, Wku Student Affairs

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This issue contains articles:

• Honor Roll for Fall Term Released; 10 Make All “A’s”
• John Lewis Delights Students
• Seniors Discuss U. S. Neutrality
• Rachel Lowrey-Mitchell Crabtree
• Dr. Arndt Stickles’ Book to Be Released Tomorrow
• Cherry Country Life Club Meets
• Social Affairs Get Spotlight
• Our Own Fault
• Let’s Try It
• Scarlett O’Hara Passes as Spring(?) Zephyrs Blow
• Baylor, Robert. Desk Set Is Given …

Irish Travel, Vol 16 (1940-41), Irish Tourist Association

Journals and Periodicals

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Cover Page Of "Breton Bibliography", Gerhard Von Tevenar

Breton Nationalism

Cover page of "Breton Bibliography", published in 1940

Sergio De Benedetti Manuscript (English Translation), Sergio De Benedetti

Sergio De Benedetti Manuscript

The autobiography of a young physicist who left Italy after the passage of the Racial Laws in 1938. Written in 1941, this account covers the tumultuous years between the two world wars. English translation.

Sergio De Benedetti Manuscript, Sergio De Benedetti

Sergio De Benedetti Manuscript

The autobiography of a young physicist who left Italy after the passage of the Racial Laws in 1938. Written in 1941, this account covers the tumultuous years between the two world wars. Written in Italian.

Who Betrayed France ?, André Pierre Marty

Van Sickle Leftist Pamphlet Collection, 1900-1993

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Power Politics In The Baltic, Harold E. Barto, Reginald M. Shaw

All Faculty Scholarship for the College of Education and Professional Studies

A year ago the attention of the world was focused upon central Europe. Then for a brief moment Poland flashed, and today the Baltic Sea region is in the spotlight. After a lapse of some two centuries, this sudden re-appearance of the Baltic to assume a major role in European affairs calls for comment. Touching upon these Baltic waters are six small democracies (Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Esthonia, Liatvia, Lithuania) and two powerful totalitarian states ( Germany and Russia.) In view of recent and current developments, two questions arise : ( 1) will one or both of the totalitarian states control …

The Polish Corridor., James Otis Kelley

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. Xvi, No. 3, Wku Student Affairs

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This issue contains articles:

• Faculty Notes – Arndt Stickles, Ercell Egbert, History, Bert Smith, Gordon Wilson, T.S. Marks, Horace McMurtry, Mary Gear
• Distinguished Persons to Appear Here – American Association of University Women
• Borrone, Bert. Dr. Arndt Stickles’ Book Grew out of Long Interest
• Miss Ellen Jeffries Sponsors Field Study Trip
• International Affairs Are Discussed
• Two Unusual Squirrels Are Discovered – White Squirrels
• Walter Wright Selected Head of High …

Backgrounds Of German-Polish Relations, Harold E. Barto

All Faculty Scholarship for the College of Education and Professional Studies

Poland's leading role in Europe's most recent crisis which has developed into the Second World War has given new emphasis to her position in world affairs. Due perhaps to the varied course of events that have attended Polish destinies for her 1000 years of history, press dispatches relative to her past are sometimes wholly inadequate and not infrequently confusing. It is with the hope of giving the average reader a fuller background of Polish affairs that this article has been written. The writer has endeavored to deal with the events briefly and as objectively as is humanly possible.

Letter From Lieutenant General Franz Barchausen, Franz Barchausen

World War II Documents of Special Interest

Translation: “German Military Commission in Slovakia, Pressburg, September 1, 1939. Captain Dr. Nagel has orders to guide the members of the Polish legation of Pressburg through the war zone to the Slovak-Hungarian border. Signed: Franz Barckhausen, Lieutenant General and Director of the German Military Mission.”

Pressburg is the German name for Bratislava, Slovakia. The Slovak Republic was a client state of Nazi Germany from 1939 to 1945. Zofia Drzewieniecki (then Zofia Kryżanowska) was working at the Polish Consulate in Bratislava at the time and this letter was delivered into her hands. The members of the Polish Consulate were safely delivered …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. Xv, No. 18, Wku Student Affairs

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This issue contains articles:

• Prof. Franz Strahm Gives Recital in Chapel
• Eighteen Students Receive Penmanship Certificates
• Howard Robey receives Honor at University of Kentucky
• Haywood Brown Initiated into Phi Delta
• Alumni Association Officers – Carl Cheyney, R.I. Glover
• Western Grad to Practice Surgery in Texas – Buell Lawrence
• Graduate Employed on Tour of West – Houston Gardner
• Music Building Foreman Attended Western – E.R. Baucum
• Harry Spilman Speaks for Manufacturers
• Arndt …

Zeitschrift Für Wünschelrutenforschung / Journal Of Dowsing Rod Research; Volume 20 Issue 7/8, Josef Wimmer, Paul Beyer, Reich Association For Dowsing, Franz Wetzel, Joseph Wüst, Friedrich Lautenschlager, Hans Falkinger, Hanns Fischer, Helmuth Husserl

Dowsing Research

The July/August 1939 issue of the Journal of Dowsing Rod Research, published by the Reich Association for Dowsing. Paul Beyer, Chair of the association, wrote (in other documents in this collection) to the Ahnenerbe, Himmler and Heydrich requesting support for dowsing and the association. This particular issue includes an article by Josef Wimmer, Head of the Department of Applied Geology within the Ahnenerbe.

Journal of Dowsing Rod Research, organ of the Reich Association for Dowsing

Editor: Dr. Paul Beyer

Volume 20

Issue 7/8 July/August 1939

Herold-Verlag Dr. Franz Wetzel & CO.K.-G. Munich-Solln

Contents:

Invitation to the General Assembly of the …

Memo From Wolfram Sievers, June 12, 1939; Forwarded To Josef Wimmer On August 3, 1939, Wolfram Sievers

Dowsing Research

In this memo, Wolfram Sievers reports changes to be made to proposals made in a report on dowsing based on a telephone conversation with SS-Sturmbannführer Ehlich. The note at the bottom forwards the memo to Josef Wimmer who is in possession of the paper in question.

Report On The Visit Of Dr. Wentzel On June 6, 1939, Unknown

Dowsing Research

This report on a visit to Berlin by Dr. Wetzel notes progress in scientifically determining physical causes for the dowsing rod phenomenon and laments the rejection of dowsing by experts due to activities by "dilettantes and frauds", whose activities should be stopped through official measures.

Wetzel expressed a desire for the Association for Dowsing to come under the umbrella of the German Police with the protection of the Reichsführer-SS, possibly within the Ahnenerbe. He compares dowsing research to World Ice Theory research, both facing opposition from government and party officials which could discourage researchers.

Wetzel additionally mentions his support for …

Letter From The Reich Main Security Office To The Ahnenerbe, May 26, 1939, Reich Main Security Office

Dowsing Research

This note from the Reich Main Security Office on behalf of the Reichsführer-SS (Heinrich Himmler) accompanied a report on dowsing rods which was submitted to Himmler. The note states that the report was being forwarded for information purposes.

Report Of The Sd Directed At Reichsführer Ss Heinrich Himmler, May 26, 1939, Sicherheitsdienst

Dowsing Research

This report from the SD responds to the petition by the Reich Association for Dowsing which defends dowsing and asks for measures to regulate dowsing and empower the association in its oversight capacities.

The SD response begins with a summary of the arguments made by the Reich Association for Dowsing which refers to dowsing successes and outlines obstacles in the form of hostility from the science community, lack of resources, and the detrimental effect of "wild dowsers" on the overall reputation of the practice.

The paper then explores the organization itself, noting that it is based on a system of …

Letter From Wolfram Sievers To Walther Wüst, May 22, 1939, Wolfram Sievers

Dowsing Research

In a note to Ahnenerbe curator Walther Wüst, Wolfram Sievers states that he is forwarding documents on dowsing to Josef Wimmer. Wimmer is asked to provide his opinion, particularly on a paper from the Reich Association for Dowsing. It is hoped that this can lead to the creation of a research center proposed by curator Wüst.

International Armament As A Threat To World Peace, David Quabius

Bachelors’ Theses

In this thesis I will try to prove that International Armaments are a threat to world peace. When· a nation prepares for war the men who manufacture guns and munitions do a great business. And when war breaks out they really make money. They are willing to sell arms to anybody that is willing to buy. Therefore, they often encourage war so as to sell their implements of destruction.

Letter From Heinrich Harmjanz To Wolfram Sievers, April 23, 1939, Heinrich Harmjanz

Miscellaneous Documents

Heinrich Harmjanz writes to Wolfram Sievers regarding concerns about Dr. Zastrau, after Zastrau's father-in-law Dr. Gernlein had attempted to intervene. He notes Zastrau's past as a Marxist and strong opponent of National Socialism who made disparaging comments about Nazis and Hitler. He mentions Zastrau's hunger for power and a mysterious disappearance from a previous position. Harmjanz refers to rumors that Zastrau was romantically involved with a Jew and states that this has not been denied. He concludes that while his knowledge of Zastrau was limited to the period of 1930-1933, such an individual would not be welcome in the Ahnenerbe.

Letter From Dr. Otto Huth To Wolfram Sievers, March 30, 1939, Otto Huth

Miscellaneous Documents

Otto Huth writes to Wolfram Sievers requesting an increase in salary. He begins by questioning the rule that all department heads possess the venia legendi, offering counterexamples. He then states as acting head of department he should receive the same salary as an appointed head of department. He describes his current work and the expenses needed for its completion, stating that an increase in salary is required. Moreover, he had been forced to spend time and energy on literary endeavors rather than his scientific Ahnenerbe pursuits. He ends by pointing out the recognition he had received for his methodology in …