I like history. Ancient, Pre-Columbian, European, Mesopotamian… pretty much all of it. I like the paranormal as well. Poltergeists, apparitions, UFO, Cryptozoology all are interesting to me.
When history and the paranormal collide…well I just have a field day.

A few years ago I saw a documentary titled “Hitler and The Occult” on the History Channel. I was so impressed by the research and story telling that I got on their website a minute after the show was done and bought a copy of it.

We all know that Hitler was a sociopath. He used his intelligence against humans and is responsible for one mankind’s greatest atrocities. Not many people know the inner struggles and illogical beliefs of this once failed artist. (I say failed not because he did not have talent, but because he did not believe in his work as an artist. Low self-esteem?)

What is know is that Hitler and his henchmen were deeply involved in the occult. From Rudolf Hess to Heinrich Himmler. Himmler is one of the most enigmatic of the henchmen. Taking over Germany’s Wewelsburg castle, and setting up a “spiritual bootcamp”, Himmler was as devoted to Hitler’s political and military plans as he was to his dark occult views.

The Wewelsburg castle. Located in Germany, in the village of Wewelsburg, was used after the mid 1930s by the Schutzstaffel under the orders of Heinrich Himmler. Himmler wanted to convert the castle into the main Schutzstaffel cult site. Wewelsburg was used as a spiritual training camp for all soldiers under Himmler. They were subjected to bizarre occult practices which included: a round table that seated the top 12 SS leaders. Obviously modeled after the tales of King Arthur. Ceremonial worship of the ashes of dead SS leaders, seances to try and reach the fallen and other weird practices.

Himmler would order his trusted SS leaders to sit in the main room of the castle for hours and contemplate and meditate. According to those who were close to Himmler, he believed he was the reincarnation of the Saxon King Heinrich the first. He even named his own personal chamber in the castle as “Himmler’s Crypt”. A dedicatory name to the Saxon king.

Himmler also confided in Karl Maria Wiligut. Known as “Himmler’s warlock”, Wiligut was committed into an asylum in 1924, before ever meeting Himmler.
Wiligut’s medical records included domestic abuse, violent behavior, “eccentric” behavior and occult interest. Released in 1927 he eventually made his way from Austria to Germany where he eventually crossed paths with the SS and Himmler and using the SS movement as a catalyst for his own “eccentric behavior”. His stay was short lived as Himmler himself was made aware of his sketchy past:

From wikipedia:

In November 1938, Karl Wolff, chief adjutant of Himmler’s personal staff and the second-highest ranking officer in the SS, visited Wiligut’s wife and learned of Wiligut’s earlier involuntary commitment to a mental institution, which proved embarrassing to Himmler. Wiligut’s staff was notified that his “application” for retirement on grounds of age and poor health had been granted in February 1939, and the official retirement was dated August 28, 1939, only a few days prior to the outbreak of World War II. Wiligut’s final years were insecure: he moved to Aufkirchen in 1939, to Goslar in 1940, and to Wörthersee in 1943, and after the war to a refugee camp in St. Johann near Velden, where he suffered a stroke. After this he was permitted to return to Salzburg, but he soon moved on to Arolsen in Hesse, where he died on 3 January 1946. His gravestone is inscribed with “UNSER LEBEN GEHT DAHIN WIE EIN GESCHWÄTZ” (“Our Life Passes Away Like Idle Chatter”).

I present to you, History Channel’s “Hitler and The Occult”

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