Location 1931 Berlin Museum. Several German officers are walking through the museum with Nazi scientist. The scientist are eager to show the Nazi officers a large square stone object in the basement of the museum that is leaking freezing cold streams of air. This stone was one of the many parts of the Temple of Isthar or also known as The Ishtar Gate at Babylon. This particular stone brought to the museum in 1918 had been of little interest. It was believed to be a tomb but all efforts to open it had failed.
The Nazi officers are Hermann Göring, Albert Speer, Heinrich Himmler, and Joseph Goebbels. They follow the scientist down to the basement of the museum where they see a very large square stone. one side of it is exposed and flat. They can see ancient writing carved into what looks like a doorway. The doorway is closed but it is leaking a steady stream of freezing cold air.
Heinrich Himmler asks the scientist where they found this. They say it was found under the Gates of Isthar. It was reguarded as no more then a curiosity until last week when one side of the rock peeled off revealing a smooth surface and what looks like a door. They said they have tried to put lights near the surface of the stone to better read the ancient writings. However any attempts to do so results in the bulbs bursting. They had to set up torches just to light the area. The steady stream of freezing air grows even more intense as the Generals walk closer to the surface.
Goebbels looks around then tells the scientist that this is all interesting but it really has no value to them. Himmler does not agree and he stays there with the scientist as the other Nazi officers leave. He goes up to the smooth rock surface where he sees what appears to be the indentations of a hand print. He puts his hand into this. The doorway cut into the rock falls away revealing an opening.
The general goes in with a torch. In the dim light he sees a beautiful ring sitting on a rock pedestal in the middle of the room. He picks up the ring and turns around. He can see faintly in the corner of the darkened vault a
figure standing upright like a statue. He goes over with the tourch to have a look. The statue appears to be a young girl. The skin is white as marble. The statue like figure though is wearing what appears to be a garment from the middle ages. It is Pandora and she is frozen in her tracks. The German officer orders two soldiers that are in the museum to carry
the girl out of the vault and they stand her up against the generator in the corner of the basement till he while they examine the glowing ring.
Himmler takes the ring out of the vault and gives it to the scientist where they eagerly look it over. Himmler looks over where the statue of the girl was placed and notices that she is no longer there. He looks around. He is astonished to see what appears now to be the same girl walking toward him talking several languages at once. Himmler tells the girl in German that she is among friends. She responds back to him in his own language.
The two of them walk up out of the basement of the museum and walk in front of one of the exhibits the Temple Pergamon
Heinrich Himmler (1900-45) became leader of the SS in 1929 and was in reality leader of all of Germany's political police force from 1934. He was mainly responsible for the terror of the Nazi Party.
Ishtar Gate, reconstructed entrance to the city of Babylon,
on display in the State Museum of Berlin
Gates of Isthar Excavation
Temple Pergamon
in Berlin Museum
