LoneStar, (I knew something didn't make sens with the date of the events)
You shall take a deeper look at this story.
The 2 scientific expeditions of Schaefer occured before the 2nd WW, while
the Dalai-lama was , at the time of the last expedition,
only 4 years old - and still living with his mother in Amdo, never yet came to Lhassa.
thus Schaefer never encountered the Dalai-lama.
He had an audience , with the governor Reting Rinpoché, wich was before the Dalai-Lama left his home as a child, in Amdo, to come to Lhassa.
However, Heinrich Harrer, an Austrian explorer and mountaineer, became friend with the Dalai-Lama, while WW2. The movie (book) Seven Years in Tibet, was the subject of his story with his encounter with the Dalai-lama and his venue to take refuge in Tibet.
He never participate in the war, as he was hiding from the british in tibet, after he escaped India. As an Austrian, he was considered as an ennemy.
He was member of the SS prior to the war but was never engaged in the german war.
He, Himself, wrote about his membership, his regrets as he was young without critical mind, and he later wrote and exposed the nazis crimes
Laurent Dispot, a Liberation journalist, was confused with the 2 different characters and it is consider that the Dalai-Lama nazi connection is a myth to DA him.
On a strictly factual analysis, the relation with the Dalai-Lama and Schaefer is not possible as he was younger than 4 years old and was not even living in Lhassa as the Dalai-lama.
french link the liberation :
http://www.liberation.fr/tribune/2008/05/06/reponse-sur-les-liens-entre-le-dalai-lama-et-les-nazis_71041
* Concerning the Nazi symbol, I observed it about 15 years ago and ask to a Zen monk teacher. He confirmed that Nazis had taken this symbol from buddhism and made it a nazi symbol , which had certainly no similarity int their representation.
Like $cientology cross and Christian cross. :confused2: