interesting article on Castle Wewelsburg
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,687435,00.html
I admit to being a bit confused as to what myths are being "exploded" here. Himmler was obsessed with occult-like rituals and paraphanelia, and envisioned the SS as some sort of "holy" order along the lines of the Jesuits or Teutonic Knights of old. There are oceans of documentation and eye witnesses to this. Wewelsburg was to be a symbolic center for that, as the article itself points out. So again, I'm not sure what "myths" are being disproven.
I admit to being a bit confused as to what myths are being "exploded" here. Himmler was obsessed with occult-like rituals and paraphanelia, and envisioned the SS as some sort of "holy" order along the lines of the Jesuits or Teutonic Knights of old. There are oceans of documentation and eye witnesses to this. Wewelsburg was to be a symbolic center for that, as the article itself points out. So again, I'm not sure what "myths" are being disproven.
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