The German Expedition of 1938

Introduction

A group of Germans headed by Ernst Schäfer stayed in Sikkim for a few months before they could get permission to go into Tibet. The origins of the expedition was cloaked in secrecy but this team took a lot of photos in Sikkim.

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The whole team with Sir Basil Gould, the Political Officer in Sikkim, at the Tibetan Border

Mission school in Lachen, a Finnish missionary with her assistant and a native pastor

The Yumbulakhang fortress at Khambadzong, on the Tibet- Sikkim border, as photographed by Ernst Krause in 1938