Heinrich Himmler and the "Vatican of the SS": The Cult of Wewelsburg
If Adolf Hitler was an anti-mystical political pragmatist, his most terrifying lieutenant, Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler , was a genuine, dogmatic religious fanatic. Himmler did not simply view the Schutzstaffel (SS) as an elite police apparatus or military force; he envisioned it as a modern, neo-pagan monastic order destined to eradicate Christianity and institute an ancestral religion of blood, soil, and racial divinity. At the very center of this dark esoteric empire stood a 17th-century triangular fortress in Westphalia: Wewelsburg Castle . ▲ WEWELSBURG CASTLE (The SS "Vatican") / / / / Top \ --> OBERGRUPPENFÜHRERSAAL /─────────\ • Marble floor with Dark Sun (Schwarze Sonne) / Middle \ • 12 stone pillars for SS Inner Apostles /───────────── / Bottom \ --> THE CRYPT (Die Gruft) /─────────────────\ • 12 sunken stone p...