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.