Heinrich Himmler walks down a stone hallway lit by burning torches.
His medieval robes brush against the ground as he reaches for the heavy wooden door in
front of him.
He pushes it open, and walks into a circular room with an eternal flame burning in the
middle.
Sitting around the flame are his twelve knights.
Himmler has created his own Camelot, and these are his Knights of the Round Table.
Except all of the men are genocidal maniacs.
Himmler takes his place around the eternal flame.
Everyone waits in silence for the head of the SS to speak.
He truly believes himself to be the reincarnation of a 9th century medieval king who drove the
Slavs across the River Elbe named Henry the Fowler.
Himmler is so deeply convinced of his own delusion, that it has driven him to create
a fantasy world in his newly acquired castle.
This may seem like something out of a World War II thriller, but it is all too real.
Himmler had acquired Wewelsburg Castle at the start of the war, and from the beginning,
he knew it would be the place he could make all of his crazy dreams come true.
Himmler had his eye on Wewelsburg due to its relatively close location to the Battle of
the Teutoburg Forest, where the Germans defeated Roman armies in 9 CE.
His new castle was somewhat run down at the time of purchase, but that did not stop the
Nazi from signing an 100 year lease.
Himmler had grand plans for Wewelsburg, many were based around the education of his Schutzstaffel
troops, and the indoctrination of young Aryans into the ways of the Nazi party.
But some of his other ideas were so crazy that even Adolf Hitler questioned Himmler’s
sanity from time to time.
Himmler planned to recreate a medieval style community based on King Arthur’s Camelot.
Except his town would be full of members of the Aryan race.
He started by having a giant moat encircle the three sided Wewelsburg Castle.
The plaster that had been used to cover the walls was removed, so the barren stones could
give the fortress a more medieval feel.
There were also a number of repairs that needed to be carried out to fix damage from neglect
and the wars of long ago.
And it should come as no surprise who was given the task of repairing Himmler’s fantasy
fortress.
Jewish people from the nearby concentration camps of Niederhagan and Sachsenhausen were
used as slave labor.
During its refurbishment phase, men, women, and children wearing their striped concentration
camp uniforms would work tirelessly to make Himmler’s Camelot dream a reality.
And during this project, many innocent people would die from overexertion and accidents
during construction.
Wewelsburg Castle would never be completely finished since Himmler could only dedicate
so much time to overseeing his dream project.
Yet many people, including Hitler himself, did not know the extent to which Himmler’s
deep obsession with King Arthur and his legends went.
This is why he had an actual round table constructed and appointed twelve SS knights to sit around
it with him.
It would be here that Himmler and his knights would discuss the murder of millions of innocent
people.
SS officials would debate which towns or cities needed to be decimated in order to make room
for a German population to move in.
Himmler and his knights also discussed the mass genocide of anyone who did not fit the
Aryan mold while meeting inside the walls of Wewelsburg.
Basically, even though Himmler was trying to mimic King Arthur and his Knights of the
Round Table, there was nothing chivalrous or heroic about what he was doing.
He bastardized the Arthurian legends to allow him to live out his sick fantasy.
And the worst part was: Wewelsburg Castle and the medieval world that Himmler created
within and around it was also used for brutal murders, occult rituals, and torture.
Himmler thought of Wewelsburg Castle as being the epicenter for the mystic powers that the
Nazis would eventually possess.
Himmler, along with the rest of Nazi leadership, wanted to dismantle organized religion.
The moral compass of Christianity made mass genocide hard to swallow for many people,
so the Nazi’s plan was to destroy the Christian church and replace it with an ideology where
everyone worshiped the State.
However, Himmler had other plans as well.
The future religion that he and his Aryan followers from Wewelsburg Castle would obey
was much darker.
This new world religion would be embedded with mysticism and ingrained in occultism.
His SS Knights of the Round Table would become spiritual leaders and priests, who would be
some of the most powerful men in the world.
During World War II Himmler was already grooming his knights for such a role.
Before major battles, SS leaders were recalled to the castle to be prepared spiritually for
the engagement ahead.
The SS knights and the footsoldiers they commanded were given rings engraved with skulls and
other occult symbols.
In Himmler’s future, anyone who wore such a ring would be identified as an elite member
of the new religion.
In fact, when an SS soldier died, their ring was brought back to Wewelsburg Castle where
it would be placed in a casket.
It is estimated around 11,500 Totenkopfring or “death’s head rings” were created.
Some speculate that the rings may have been buried in a mountain nearby Wewelsburg, but
no one has yet discovered them.
One of the most influential Arthurian legends Himmler sought to emulate was the quest to
seek out the Holy Grail.
And even though the Nazi’s desire to acquire religious relics and mystical objects is depicted
in many movies and television shows, there is actual truth to some of these fictitious
tales.
Himmler desperately wanted to collect as many sacred and mystical artifacts as possible
to house in Wewelsburg Castle.
He believed that by securing so many supernatural objects in his fortress, the site itself would
become a mecca for the new Aryan race and all those who believed in the occult.
This is why when Himmler and his SS knights met at the castle, they often discussed different
expeditions to track down and retrieve sacred artifacts.
One of these artifacts was obviously the Holy Grail.
Himmler couldn’t idolize King Arthur and not search for the grail himself.
He was so sure that his knights would eventually find the grail, that he had a whole room prepared
to house the cup of Christ.
It is slightly ironic that a man who wanted to dismantle Christianity would be hell-bent
on finding the cup that Jesus drank from at the Last Supper, but Himmler probably believed
the relic held immense power, and that housing it in his castle would only strengthen his
connection to the occult.
But it wasn’t just Christian holy relics that Himmler sent his SS knights to find.
He also ordered them to locate Thor’s hammer and bring it back to Wewelsburg.
If there was an object that possessed supernatural powers, Himmler wanted it.
And he almost certainly believed that finding Thor’s hammer would be of great benefit
to the Third Reich.
There are even records of Himmler telling his SS commanders to “find all places in
the northern Germanic Aryan cultural world where an understanding of the lightning bolt,
the thunderbolt, Thor's hammer, or the flying or thrown hammer exists.”
Looking for sacred artifacts and religious relics was one thing, but some of the occult
practices that may have occurred within the walls of Wewelsburg were so dark and twisted,
that even Hitler may have been shocked by them.
The Nazis were not afraid of murdering, torturing, or experimenting on people in their concentration
camps.
The horrifying truth is that some of the most terrible torture in history was carried out
by the Nazi party.
Most of the experiments were done in the name of science, when in reality, they were just
a way for the Nazis to expand their genocidal agenda.
But in the crypts of Wewelsburg Castle, Himmler and his occultists may have been performing
rituals that involved torture, mutilation, and sacrifices for no other reason than to
harness the power of the occult.
We can imagine what such a gruesome scene would look like.
Deep within the castle were winding hallways and hidden rooms.
Himmler and his Schutzstaffel Knights would be dressed in medieval garb.
The crypt they had all gathered in was illuminated by the eternal flame burning brightly in the
middle of the room.
As the SS knights waited for the ceremony to begin, Himmler would read passages from
different books on the occult.
Everyone in the room would be of Aryan descent, that is until the sacrificial victim was brought
in.
As the prisoner was led to the middle of the room, the Nazis began to chant.
Sacred relics were produced to aid in the sacrifice.
Himmler had sent his knights across the world in search of ritual items; they returned with
some that were claimed to be imbued with mystical powers.
Heinrich Himmler produced a ceremonial knife from under his robes.
The screams of the sacrificial victim filled the chamber, but beyond the thick stone walls
of the castle, all was silent in the cold night air.
Unfortunately, as Allied Forces advanced most of the documentation kept in the Wewelsburg
Castle was lost when Himmler had the fortress destroyed.
However, new diaries belonging to Himmler have recently been discovered.
Historians are working through the material and will be publishing their findings in the
near future.
It is unknown what is exactly contained within the diaries, but perhaps we will learn more
about the dark events that took place within the walls of Wewelsburg Castle.
In an almost unthinkable scenario where the Nazis had won the war, Himmler had big plans
for his Aryan Camelot.
He would have bolstered the forces of his SS knights and increased expeditions to locate
sacred objects.
The extent to which Himmler invested resources and his own time into creating the perfect
Nazi version of King Arthur’s Knights of the Round Table and Camelot, shows how deeply
invested the man was in his medieval fantasy.
It is not out of the realm of possibility that if the Nazis had won, Himmler would have
made Wewelsburg Castle his permanent home.
It would be there that the mecca of the occultist religion would be located.
It is not clear how much Hitler actually knew about the goings-on at Wewelsburg, but there
are some claims that he thought the whole thing was nuts.
It is also not known how far Himmler would go to spread the Aryan race and his occultist
religion across the world.
If Himmler truly believed himself to be the reincarnation of Henry the Fowler, then he
may have grown tired of answering to the Führer.
Would Himmler have launched his own Holy War against Adolf Hitler, and the rest of the
Nazi Party leadership, so that he could be the king of the new Aryan world?
It is unclear, but he most certainly had delusions of grandeur.
Wewelsburg Castle was restored by the German government and created into a museum as a
way to teach its citizens, and the world, of the dangers that can come with following
the ideologies of a genocidal dictator.
This was done to help ensure that history does not repeat itself.
Although the castle was severely damaged by explosives and anti-tank mines by the retreating
Nazis, Wewelsburg has been almost completely rebuilt.
Some artifacts from its time under Himmler’s control did make it to the present day.
In the castle, visitors can find pigskin chairs with the SS lightning bolts branded into them
along with other Nazi artifacts.
There are also swastikas and other Nazi symbols built into the vaulted ceilings and walls
within the fortress.
Much of the history of Wewelsburg and what went on there was lost when the Nazis destroyed
it, but archaeologists and historians are still making discoveries.
So, in the future, we may learn even crazier things that happened at Heinrich Himmler’s
castle of death.
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