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The Aryan race was a racial grouping term used in the period of the late 19th century to the mid - 20th century to describe multiple peoples . It has been variously used to describe all Indo - Europeans in general ( spanning from India to ___MASK8___ ), the original Aryan people specifically in Persia and India , and most controversially through Nazi misinterpretation , the Nordic or Germanic peoples . The term derives from the Aryan people , from Persia and India , who spoke a language similar to those that have been found in ___MASK8___ . The Han Chinese , Han people or simply Han (  ; pinyin : " Hànzú ", literally " Han ethnicity " or " Han ethnic ___MASK5___ "; or  ; pinyin : " Hànrén ", literally " Han people ") are an ethnic ___MASK5___ native to East ___MASK66___ . They constitute approximately 92 % of the population of China , 95 % of Taiwan ( Han Taiwanese ), 76 % of Singapore , 23 % of Malaysia and about 18 % of the global population . Han Chinese are the world ' ___MASK2___ largest ethnic ___MASK5___ with over 1 . 3 billion people . Bruno Beger ( 27 April 1911 -- 12 October 2009 ) was a German racial anthropologist who worked for the Ahnenerbe . In that role he participated in Ernst Schäfer ' ___MASK2___ 1938 journey to Tibet , helped the Race and Settlement Office or SS - Rasse - und Siedlungshauptamt of the SS identify Jews , and later helped select human subjects to be killed to create an anatomical study collection of Jewish skeletons . Tibet ( Tibetan Pinyin : " boe ", ; / i t  s¹ /) is a region on the Tibetan Plateau in ___MASK66___ . It is the traditional homeland of the Tibetan people as well as some other ethnic groups such as Monpa , Qiang , and Lhoba peoples and is now also inhabited by considerable numbers of Han Chinese and Hui people . Tibet is the highest region on Earth , with an average elevation of . The highest elevation in Tibet is Mount Everest , Earth ' ___MASK2___ highest mountain , rising 8 , 848 m ( 29 , 029 ft ) above sea level . Mount Everest , also known in Nepal as Sagarmth and in China as Chomolungma /  , is earth ' ___MASK2___ highest mountain . Its peak is above sea level . Mount Everest is in the Mahalangur Range . The international border between China ( Tibet Autonomous Region ) and Nepal runs across Everest ' ___MASK2___ summit point . Its massif includes neighbouring peaks Lhotse , ; Nuptse , , and Changtse , . The Hui people ( Xiao ' erjing : ; Dungan :  , " Xuejzw ") are a Chinese ethnic ___MASK5___ which is composed predominantly of adherents of the Muslim faith and found throughout China , though they are concentrated mainly in the Northwestern provinces of the country and the Zhongyuan . According to a 2011 census , China is home to approximately 10 . 5 million Hui people , the majority of whom are Chinese - speaking practitioners of Islam , though some practice other religions . The Tibetan people are an ethnic ___MASK5___ that is native to Tibet . They number an estimate of 7 . 8 million . Significant Tibetan minorities also live outside of Tibet Autonomous Region ( TAR ) in China , and in India , Nepal , and Bhutan . The Tibetan Plateau , also known in China as the Qinghai  Tibet Plateau or the Qingzang Plateau or Himalayan Plateau , is a vast elevated plateau in Central ___MASK66___ and East ___MASK66___ , covering most of the Tibet Autonomous Region and Qinghai Province in western China , as well as part of Ladakh in Jammu and Kashmir state of India . It stretches approximately north to south and east to west . With an average elevation exceeding , the Tibetan Plateau is sometimes called " the Roof of the World " and is the world ' ___MASK2___ highest and largest plateau , with an area of ( about five times the size of Metropolitan France ). Sometimes termed the Third Pole , the Tibetan Plateau contains the headwaters of the drainage basins of most of the streams in surrounding regions . Its tens of thousands of glaciers and other geographical and ecological features serve as a " water tower " storing water and maintaining flow . The impact of global warming on the Tibetan Plateau is of intense scientific interest . An ethnic ___MASK5___ or ethnicity is a category of people who identify with each other based on similarities , such as common ancestral , language , social , cultural or national experiences . Unlike other social groups ( wealth , age , hobbies ), ethnicity is often an inherited status based on the society in which one lives . In some cases , it can be adopted if a person moves into another society . Membership of an ethnic ___MASK5___ tends to be defined by a shared cultural heritage , ancestry , origin myth , history , homeland , language or dialect , symbolic systems such as religion , mythology and ritual , cuisine , dressing style , art , and physical appearance . Ernst Schäfer ( 14 March 1910  21 July 1992 ) was an explorer , hunter and zoologist in the 1930s , specializing in ornithology . His zoological explorations in Tibet served as a cover for his role in the German secret service during the height of the Great Game , the race between Russia and Britain to control Central ___MASK66___ . Heinrich Luitpold Himmler ( 7 October 1900  23 May 1945 ) was " Reichsführer " of the " ___MASK91___ " ( Protection Squadron ; SS ), and a leading member of the Nazi Party ( NSDAP ) of Nazi Germany . Nazi leader Adolf Hitler briefly appointed him a military commander and later Commander of the Replacement ( Home ) Army and General Plenipotentiary for the administration of the entire Third Reich (" Generalbevollmächtigter für die Verwaltung "). Himmler was one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany and one of the people most directly responsible for the Holocaust . The SASM / GNC / SRC romanization of Tibetan , commonly known as Tibetan pinyin , is the official transcription system for the Tibetan language in the People ' ___MASK2___ Republic of China for personal names and place names . It is based on the Lhasa dialect of Standard Tibetan and reflects the pronunciation except that it does not mark tone . It is used within China as an alternative to the Wylie transliteration for writing Tibetan in the Latin script within academic circles ; Wylie transliteration ( with a " v " replacing the apostrophe ) is more commonly used . Nazi Germany is the common English name for the period in German history from 1933 to 1945 , when Germany was governed by a dictatorship under the control of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party ( NSDAP ). Under Hitler ' ___MASK2___ rule , Germany was transformed into a fascist state in which the Nazi Party took totalitarian control over nearly all aspects of life . The official name of the state was " Deutsches Reich " from 1933 to 1943 and " Großdeutsches Reich " (" Greater German Reich ") from 1943 to 1945 . The period is also known under the names the Third Reich and the National Socialist Period ( abbreviated as " NS - Zeit "). The Nazi regime came to an end after the Allied Powers defeated Germany in May 1945 , ending World War II in Europe . ___MASK66___ is Earth ' ___MASK2___ largest and most populous continent , located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres and sharing the continental landmass of Eurasia with the continent of Europe . ___MASK66___ covers an area of , about 30 % of Earth ' ___MASK2___ total land area and 8 . 7 % of the Earth ' ___MASK2___ total surface area . The continent , which has long been home to the majority of the human population , was the site of many of the first civilizations . ___MASK66___ is notable for not only its overall large size and population , but also dense and large settlements as well as vast barely populated regions within the continent of 4 . 4 billion people . The Ahnenerbe was an institute in Nazi Germany purposed to research the archaeological and cultural history of the Aryan race . Founded on July 1 , 1935 , by Heinrich Himmler , Herman Wirth , and Richard Walther Darré , the Ahnenerbe later conducted experiments and launched expeditions in an attempt to prove that mythological Nordic populations had once ruled the world .