How did Heinrich Himmler try to justify the Holocaust through the Atlantis myth?

Heinrich Himmler, the architect of the Holocaust, funded archaeological expeditions seeking evidence of a superior ancient civilization in an attempt to validate his genocidal ideology. Nazi archaeologists speculated that the ancestors of German people originated from Atlantis and escaped to Germany when the continent sank, creating a fabricated lineage of superiority. This manipulation of mythology transformed Atlantis from an ancient parable into pseudo-scientific justification for horrific violence. Similar to how others had misused the Atlantis story, Himmler employed this bogus historical narrative to provide a foundation for some of the most heinous acts in human history, claiming a divine or superior origin for the German people.