The Nazis loved the Bayeux Tapestry. They loved it so much that they tried (and failed) to steal it away to Germany at the ...
Under the command of SS chief Heinrich Himmler, the Ahnenerbe group commissioned Schlabow and other scientists to travel to occupied France and study the Bayeux Tapestry in 1941. At some point ...
According to the State Archive, Schlabow was commissioned as part of a German group of scientists by the SS institution "Deutsches Ahnenerbe" starting in 1941 to re-measure the Bayeux Tapestry.