Heinrich Harrer has been and continues to be celebrated worldwide like few mountaineers. His adventures in Tibet and numerous excursions overshadow his dubious ideologies and Nazi past to this day. Gerald Lehner paints a different picture of the idol - from his SS membership to Hollywood. Heinrich Harrer's bestseller "Seven Years in Tibet," published in 1952, made him a hero for an entire generation. Until his death in 2006, he did not acknowledge his career as an SS sergeant, which had begun underground with the SA in 1933. A confrontation with his involvement in the Third Reich had not occurred before the revelations by journalist Gerald Lehner in 1996. Now, his extensive research findings are available, which even led to Brad Pitt rewriting the script during the filming of Harrer's bestseller.