Why Was Heinrich Himmler Obsessed With The Holy Grail? | Myth Hunters | War Stories

It is the most elusive treasure of all, the cup of Christ used at the Last Supper and imbued with miraculous powers, it was hardly the answer to whatever you need, the ultimate bomb, the ultimate healing, the solution to your problems, the Holy Grail has enchanted treasure

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for over a millennium and Hinrich Himler, the head of the Nazi SS, would become

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with finding it, do not underestimate Hinrich Kimler, what he wants, what he gets, he traveled the world in his search and it is said who sent special forces. top secret missions, who better to send your Grail Quest than Uto Sceni, the Nazi one-man fighting machine and placed the resources of the SS in the hands of Germany's top Grail hunter?

Oto ran was really the real Indiana Jones that would eventually give him his life. in the ultimate Nazi treasure hunt, this is the story of Himmler's search for the Holy Grail Berlin 1933 the Nazis are in complete control of Germany Otto Ron, a cash-strapped young writer, heads to a meeting and is responding to a mysterious telegram sent to him by an anonymous benefactor. they offered him 1,000 Reichsmarks a month, a very impressive salary to write a book, the meeting is at 7, Prince Albert Straser, Ron has no idea who will be waiting for him, he goes there and who he must see, but Hinrich himself Kimler, the fury of the Reich, HCK Himler was the second most powerful man in Nazi Germany, only surpassed by Adolf Hitler.

Himler was the head of the SS, a fearsome paramilitary organization that controlled much of the Nazi state. He charged that he was executing a remarkable, almost unbelievable mission to find the Holy Grail. The Holy Grail is the most sought after treasure in history. The Holy Grail is the cup of the Last Supper. The cup of Christ that is supposed to have been used to celebrate the first communion. It is commonly believed that the same cup was used by the disciple Joseph of Arthea to collect the blood of Christ while he was nailed to the cross, but other legends say that it is even older than that, that the Grail was used by Abraham, the patriarch founder of the Ark of the Jewish people, there are other people, of course, who think that it is the cup of Abraham and this cup apparently became part of the Sacred Treasury of the Jews and was carried with the Ark of the Covenant throughout the ages. years.

The legend of the grill has grown and become more embellished. Sometimes it is said to be a stone or a plate, but most. commonly it is a chalice, whatever it is. All legends agree that the Grail has miraculous powers, since the Grail is supposed to provide eternal life to whoever possesses it. The Grail is the answer to whatever you need, that will fill you when you're empty, that will heal you when you're hurt, it's kind of, um, the ultimate bomb, the ultimate in healing, the solution to one's problems, such is its mystique. The Grail has

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ical King Arthur and the Knights of him concern their search for the Grail. Discover the past with exclusive military history documentaries and adree podcasts presented by world-renowned historians, all on History hit. Watch them on your smart TV or on the go with your mobile device. Download the app now to see everything from the gripping history of Band of Brothers to Operation Barbarosa and D-Day. Immerse yourself in the dramatic stories of this extraordinary era by signing up. via the link in the description, but despite thousands of years of searching no one has found it, but why would Himler want an item like that?

Not only was he a fanatical Nazi, it seems he had other very unusual beliefs, he was obsessed with mystery. The legend of astrology. occultism and Germany's pagan past Himler was fundamentally today we would call him a geek he was the type of person who was very interested in talking he would play Warhammer every day um you know he was just a nerd if you want I mean there is no There is a word to describe it well. Hinr Himler was obviously an extremely strange man, but he occupied a position of extraordinary power. Don't underestimate Hinrich Himler.

What he wants, he gets. He formed the SS from him according to the traditions of the pre-Christian tribes of Germany. He promoted a cult. of ancestor worship and within the SS Christian Festival it would be replaced by pagan festivals instead of Christmas and Easter. Himler had his SS celebrate the winter and spring solstices. Officers were married in SS rituals called airv. SS appointment ceremonies replaced baptisms. It was like he was trying. to create a new Nazi religion by awakening the old gods and ancient traditions of his Germanic ancestors. They hoped to create a new order that would dominate Europe for the next thousand years.

Even the design of the SS Insignia reflected his obsession with Germany's pagan past. They were two bridegrooms from the sea, definitive symbols of a long-dead Germanic people, you have this creation of a kind of complete

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ology that begins to become a real religion in quotes, you have all these kinds of elements that the Nazis want to include. and you know, if you're trying to create a religion, if you want to see how to do it right, you should just study him and learn what he did because in many ways you know he was the perfect kind of cult leader and that's what Nazism became. and that's what the religion behind narcism became, it was basically a cult.

Imler's obsession with mysticism led him to focus on one of the greatest legends of all, the legend of the Holy Grail, which he selected for his headquarters at Velburg Castle in northeastern Germany. He set up a round table and a ritual chamber in the basement of the north-facing tower. He named the rooms after King Arthur and the Holy Grail. This was to be Himmler's Camelot, a castle for his new night order. He wanted the SS to be a kind of conical knights and I wanted to combine the Aruvian myth with the real and current military machine, recognized by me, I wanted to have those same nocturnal virtues that you read about in the Legends of the Grail, now that he had his castle and his Knights, there was one last something I needed now.

I mean, what better to have in your Aruan style night castle than the Grail itself and that's why Ron had been summoned to meet it because Ron was Germany's leading expert on the Holy Grail. Otto Ran was born in 1904 and grew up during the horrors of the Holy Grail. The First World War as an escape was immersed in legends and mythology. He was in love with all the myths and legends of the old days because the present wasn't so nice, so he ran away to books and stories and, uh, the stories of Wodan and the donors. and all the Norse stories, his favorite myth, very popular in Germany, was that of one of King Arthur's Knights of the Round Table, known in Germany as a parcifal.

The best known version of the story was written by the wolf Lan Von Ebar in the 13th century in the story a young parival searches for the elusive Grail in Ashar's version The Grail is not a cup but a rock The Grail is described as a stone hard and dark that is contained in a relic and ebach says Whoever has the stone or is close to it will have eternal life and will be healed according to legend to finally find the Grail in a mythical castle that ashbach calls mes Ron was captivated by the story Believing that Munal VES was a real place and that the story of Passal was really true, he was convinced that by studying it he could find the castle and if he could find Msales then he would find the Grail.

The young man dedicated himself to investigating these myths. I think Otto was infused with the idea of ​​actually finding the truth behind these Legends. Mo, he had a very methodical attitude. German mind, he was trying to reconstruct the myth by finding the historical person who became the figures of mythology. We can see in his work that there are maps and genealogies, after years of research, he finally discovered a clue, he found it in the songs of The Troubadours, the traveling poets of the medieval courts of France. Oto ran and rightly decided that the trador's songs were really the only authentic record of what had happened.

Many of the written records had been destroyed, but through oral means. tradition through songs and legends The echoes of what had really come still survived to this day in some of these songs sung by the troubadours of a medieval religious sect called the Cathars, the Cathars were said to possess great treasures , including a sacred relic. a rock that had fallen from the sky ran he was sure that this relic must be the Holy Grail as Eshach describes it. The Cathars were certainly real. They were a 12th century religious sect predominantly from the larger southwestern region of France.

What we call Catharism is actually a Variant of Christianity that believed that no intermediaries were needed between man and God, that any individual could have direct communication with the Divine, which meant that the entire hierarchy of priests, prelates, cardinals, the entire The church is somewhat irrelevant, which also bothered Catholicism. endlessly, the Pope called the Cathars heretics and a cruel crusade was launched against them and this religious group of people were persecuted by the Roman Catholic church because they opposed the Roman Catholic Church throughout the south of France, the Cathars were Massacred by the thousands by the Pope's forces the last remaining Cathars were besieged in a mountain fortress called Monag Monsur was the place where the Katars made their last stand in the war of 1244.

This was when the armies surrounded the castle for 10 months, finally the odds were too much for them 10,000 against approximately 300 fighters after a 16 day truce, the surviving Cathars under his command, their last priest, Ber and Marty, were chained by the hands and neck and dragged down the mountain at dawn, hanging them, cutting their throats as a way to destroy. the faith once and for all and finally after they surrendered, 200 Cathars were burned at the stake, so it went down in history as the last resistance of the Katars, all this was a verifiable fact, but if it was believed that the trator's stories were also true.

What had happened to the Cathar treasure and the Holy Grail when the crusaders entered the castle there was no trace of the mythical treasure the infinite amounts of money they had expected and over the years um several legends and rumors have grown about what really happened to The Treasure of the Cathars The Treasures of Faith published local stories discovered that said the Cathars had managed to smuggle their treasure out of the castle before it fell. There was a very enduring story, a myth perhaps that there were four of the Cathars who were hiding in the castle um against the terms of the ceasefire who apparently escaped the night before the burning taking with them the legendary Holy Grail the People began to believe that it had been smuggled out of the Cathars who escaped according to this legend and then hid the Grail somewhere.

In the network of caves and caverns that run for thousands along the mountains, they became convinced that the legend was true and that the Grail had to be hidden in Monsur. I can see Ron's thinking in that, he thought that these really were the places described in the original myth and certainly he was very inspired and excited by what he had found. Alo was pretty sure that he had to find the Grail here, that this must have been the place where they hid it even before being summoned by Himler. Ran had traveled to Monsur, a beautiful remote area of ​​the French Pyrenees, he was sure that the Grail could be found in the unexplored mountains of this region.

He spent years exploring the area. All of these places were completely off the map at the time, no one knew about this story. or about the existence of castle caves, the work was difficult and treacherous, but undeterred, he invested more and more money in the search, we took over the lease of a small hotel that was actually a facade for his continuous explorations of the area. He started really methodically working his way through all the cave systems, he certainly had his work cut out for him, it's the largest limestone district in Europe and he wasn't a trained archaeologist, in fact he was a trained etymologist, but he certainly got his hands dirty. run was really the real Indiana Jones he was out there he was in the forest he was climbing caves he was climbing castles he was looking for relics and searching for treasures he finally made a breakthrough deep in the caves he found children's prints which he copied his notebook in a well-known cave as the Bethlehem Grotto discovered a strange pentagonal depression carved into the wall.

He believed that the Cathars were once in the pentagram when they were being initiated into the order. He also discovered human skeletons in caves that he believed were Cathars. Still to be determined, this was solid evidence that the Cathars had brought the Grail here if he could explore deeper into the caves. Ron was sure thatHe would eventually find it, but after years of expensive exploration, Ron ran out of money. Otto left France under something. For some reason, he was unable to make payments on the hotel he had acquired and had not been able to pay his staff and, in fact, there were legal proceedings against him when he returned to Germany with everything he had. .

As a sign of his efforts there were notes for a book, but, unbeknownst to him, a copy of his book would fall into the hands of the only man in Germany who had both the resources and the will to relaunch his expedition, Hinrich Himler, before the Germans arrived. Nazis. Powerful people like Oton, do you know those kinds of insignificant and rude figures? You know they are obsessed with finding the Holy Grail. This was something that no one took seriously, but suddenly there's this whole new regime that takes these things extremely seriously. Ron had never done it.

He showed some interest in Nazi politics, but now Hinrich Himler would provide a solution to the biggest problem he faced in his search for the Grail because he offered money for the only thing he needed. They told him that the SS would be in charge of financing his investigation um that they would give him all the money he needed to continue his search, the only drawback was that you would have to wear a black uniform and inform his superiors. He now found himself in the SS, an organization recruited from Nazi Germany's regional elite and its members.

They were required to prove their ethnic purity and trace their German lineage. Often, as early as the 18th century, he ran some of the most intimidating branches of the Nazi state, including concentration camps and the secret police. Despite this, he seems to have no concerns about joining. when you have no money and someone offers you 1,000 rice marks a month and all you have to do is join the SS and you can throw a card, you can go anywhere in Europe and do your hobby Al's His hobby was research, so who said, yeah, I'll take the money, I'll go look for, you know, treasures and stuff, why not?

In 1936, at his order, a Shaur Iran joined one of the strangest and most unusual teams of the SS, a fully staffed unit. academics called it anaura, if you want the classic example of how the Nazis manipulated intellectualism and academic behavior, you can't go further than looking at the anaa. This was an institution ultimately created by Himer to investigate, quote, German ancestry and to see how a mythology of Aryanism and Germanic culture could be constructed. Himler believed that Germans were a superior race separated from all others by their nobility and purity. The task of the nura was to provide intellectual proof of this claim.

The neba is very much your baby these are your academics these are your scientists these are your historians these are your archaeologists and ultimately they are there to do one thing to prove you right unfortunately you are completely wrong as an academic join the anba was the equivalent of selling your soul because to be a member they would ask you to prove things that were not true for example himler even wanted anaura to prove that jesus was not jewish they were creating their own bible an aryan bible a bible in which jesus was an Aran theba claimed that Jesus was part of a tribal group that was not Semitic but Aryan.

It's hard to believe that you can take Judaism out of the Bible, but that's what the Nazis were doing and they literally did it: they created an Arian Bible, although it might seem ridiculous that Anaura's work wasn't harmless. One must be very careful not to dismiss the nurba honor as a group of harmless nutcases. No, these people are willingly subverting their own knowledge and their own academic excellence to demonstrate something that will later be used to murder people, but for the moment Ron turned a blind eye in return, he received abundant funding in his quest for the Grail with their backing. .

Ron threw himself into his research with renewed vigor and soon published a second book, Lucifer's Court. Based on new research and on his previous explorations of the caves around Monsur, where he was convinced the Cathars had hidden. The Grail Himler was impressed with Ron's progress commissioned by Re Fur. 5,000 copies of Ran's book were bound in the finest leather and distributed to the Nazis. The Elite Otto books, the first crusade against the Grail and its sequel, The Court of Lucifer, quickly became required reading at a certain promotion level within the SS, if you rose above a certain rank, you had to read and bet because many people were really cursed.

At the thought of having to go through that material with his backing, Rose quickly ran through the ranks of the SS even though he was not typical SS material, he was a scholar, an academic, a writer, a poet and um, and not a warrior, he was a terrible one. soldier who was um no no he wasn't a great physical specimen he smoked too much he was very uh he wasn't very useful on the exercise field he was very very poor with a gun he still got promoted very quickly and ended up as an overr and furer but his new power and It took a terrible toll on his integrity when reading the proofs of his new book he discovered that someone had inserted anti-Semitic passages and he decided to ignore this even though his only interest was finding the Grail.

It was a deal with the devil that I think he maybe he was quick to spot Himler now he would send all over Europe to find the Grail. Ships to any number of locations. There are many letters from the time when Otos asked for permission. to visit various sites and excavate various sites and are literally lists of place names. He visited the most famous pagan sites in Europe. He conducted excavations and visited pre-Christian monuments across the continent, including the Steiner exen, a towering rock formation in northwestern Germany, where the ancient Germans were located. The tribes had worshiped for centuries, even Himler sent him running to Iceland at the head of an SS expedition in search of the Grail, but despite a worldwide search that lasted more than 2 years, Ron was unable to find it due to the fact that it did not exist. was able to find the physical Grail. it made him very nervous because he couldn't really please him the way he wanted to please him little by little he ran he began to lose Himmler's trust there was a growing desperation in the way Oto tried to safeguard his position he was desperate to try and come up with some kind of material evidence for Himler to try to prove that he was really valuable to the Nazi party after all and when he returned from one of his trips, he began to see the SS for what it really was a terrifying force that oppressed and brutalized its victims, it really became a kind of state within a state, almost like a parallel form of the army's police force.

Al was away a lot, so he didn't really see him much and when he returned home to Germany he noticed. the change noticed the difference suddenly it became clear to Ron the danger he was in for not finding the Grail I think he realized that his days were numbered he began to drink he began to smoke a general feeling of panic seems to have taken over him things Ron desperately hoped that Hinrich Himler would give him more time, but Himler's patience ran out. In 1937, Himler stripped Ron of his rank and sent him to act as a guard at the famous Daau and Booken Wildd concentration camps. .

The camps were built by the Nazis to imprison political and social undesirables at the time, the inmates in banales included socialists, communists, gypsies, Jehovah's Witnesses and homosexuals who were herded into inhumane conditions, saw people injured, beaten, murdered, I wanted to get out of there quickly. he didn't want to have anything to do with it he wanted to run away he wanted to go somewhere else live somewhere else he asked several times to live here in France but they denied him he really didn't want to be part of the Germany he had become he wrote to a friend I am very sorry for my country impossible for a tolerant liberal man like me to live in the nation that my home country has become I was scared there was a particular reason why what Ron had seen in the book, Andal filled him with terror because he was hiding a dangerous secret, he himself was homosexual, she had covered this up from the SS from the beginning because obviously, homosexuality, like being Jewish, was something that would certainly get one sent to the camps.

Many people died for the same reasons and there was something even worse. Ron wasn't a full-blooded Aryan, he was Jewish, he had Jewish roots through his mother Clara and um, which he managed to cover up for quite a long period of time. An SS member had to prove that he was of pure Aryan descent, it was something he had been deliberately avoiding. There is also the issue of Aron passing him the racial purity certificate that he was required to complete and that he never presented an Aron pass necessary to show four generations of pure German lineage because presenting his would have been tantamount to suicide.

He had hoped that if he could find the Grail no one would care about his passing from Annon, but he hadn't. He found it and in 1939 his luck finally ran out. People found out that his parents, especially his mother, were Jewish and it was obvious that he was gay. He did not survive long in Nazi Germany, coupled with his inability to find the Grail, Ron's options were clearly narrowing. Otto's position in the SS became untenable. He must have realized that he was suicidal to stay in March 1939. He ran and traveled to the German-Austrian border high in the snow.

Alps covered he headed towards the mountains here winter temperatures are well below freezing Ron took only a bottle of whiskey and some sleeping pills. It is interesting that he was very close to the March 16 anniversary of the fall of Chadow. of monore and the burning of the Cathar sea perhaps he chose that date deliberately I think he chose the Endura the death of the Cathars to sit in the forest in the middle of the forest on the side of a mountain with some magnificent ones he took a couple of bottles of pills to sleep knowing that he would not wake up because he would freeze to death the night an advertisement in a Nazi newspaper reported the tragic death of a prominent SS officer and scientist in 1939, Europe entered the war, his SS were in the middle of the fight, but still, the right fury continued his search for the Grail throughout the war, yes, one could have easily assumed that the death of his bif fell, his leader Hunter Hunter could have closed the entire program, but this one did not It was quite the end of his interest in the occult and the archaeological The Oddities of the Past In 1940 Himler accompanied Hitler on a mission to Barcelona to convince the Spanish dictator General Franco to take Spain into the war, but Himler had a motive. hidden to travel with fury to Spain he had a new clue to the Grail took him to Moner Abbey in the Pyrenean mountains an hour from Barcelona an abbey built on the foundations of an ancient castle the SS had discovered an ancient Catalan folk song about a Grail as a mystical source of life in that castle, Himler now believed that the Grail Castle might not be Monsur in France but Monserat in Spain.

Himler ordered the only German-speaking monk at the Abbey, Andrew Ripple Noble, to help him with the search, but if the monk knew anything. He decided not to tell Himler and the right-wing furer left Spain empty-handed, however it seems that Himmler's search did not end there. The next stage of the story would be taken up by the American author Howard Bookner in 1991 as a young man in 1945, but he was not part of the American advance through Europe like Ron, he would become fascinated with the legend of the Grail. Colonel Howard Bner had been a surgeon in the Third Battalion of the US Army and was supposedly the first Allied doctor to enter there.

There he supposedly discovered information. of a captured SS officer that he included in his book about the Nazi quest for the Grail. BNA wrote a book called Emerald Cup, a very curious book according to Booker's sources, now that Himler had ruled out Spain, he once again focused his attention on the French Pyrenees. but this time he decided to take a radically different approach, frustrated by the efforts of scholars such as Ran Himler. He now called on one of the Reich's greatest military heroes to undertake the Otto Sceni mission. He is a werebear. He is very tall.

He is very charming. very imposing, he has a duel scar on one of his cheeks, um, and in many ways it is a fairly unreconstructed Nazi scene, he was the head of Germany's special troops, the most famous and feared commando of the German army, bold, fearless and a hero to the Nazi faithful. Lookner claims that Himler had sent none other than Otto Sceni, the famous paratrooper in Commando, supposedly the most dangerous man in the world, to recover the sacred treasure. He has tested the academics, he has tested the brainiacs. Why did we send Otto Schoeni? Sceni was more than qualified to In September 1943 he had led a daring raid on a prison in the Italian Alps to free the captured Italian dictator.

Bonito Musolini, arriving by glider with a squadron of elite German commanders, came under intense fire,but the scenarios would ensure the success of the mission and his own Glory upon returning with Molini alive, in many ways represents a kind of ultimate Nazi fighting machine. Now, who better to supposedly send your Grail Quest than Otto Sceni, so according to Bookner, in March 1944, Himler accused Sceni of another top secret. mission, but this time to Monsur Castle in France to find the Grail sceni decided to revisit Ran's theory that the Grail had been taken from the castle 700 years earlier by the escaped Cathars.

Colonel Howard Bner believed that OS sceni was capable of looking. in the castle with a military mentality and imagine how such a feat could be possible until now no one could understand how the Cathars could have escaped three sides of the castle were besieged by thousands of soldiers and the remaining side retreated towards an impassible precipice, but studying this cliff had a revelation, one side of the castle is a steep cliff and obviously everyone thinks well, the Grail can't be hidden there, that's impossible, there's no way they could have done it, but scene because he's a supposed tactical military genius, You know?

He's the first person to say ah, but what if he's hiding there? The scenario discovered that using ropes the escaped Cathars could have climbed unseen over the castle walls and down the cliff face, if he was right, everyone else had been looking in the wrong place. The mountain side quickly assumed that the Cathars would have taken the least likely route out of the castle and escaped up the steep side of the cliff and, according to bner um, quickly followed their trail from the base of the cliff for 6 days. after it was said that sceni arrived in Monsur was the anniversary of the Cathar massacre.

March 16, 1944 marked the 700th anniversary of the fall of the castle. A small group of locals chose to celebrate the occasion with a simple ceremony at the base of the castle and then something unexpected happened. The story goes that while they were meeting. on the mountain that a German plane flew over is the 700th anniversary of the Cathar massar and the plane makes a cross a Cathar cross in the sky BNA claims that this was a sign from Himler that Sceni had succeeded in his mission in recovering the emerald cup, but could it be true if Scorsi had really succeeded where everyone else had failed and found the Grail? bna's story is certainly entertaining, but there is a fundamental problem with his telling and that concerns otos scorsi every time you hear the name of the Otto School.

In relation to any fantasy story, to me that is a very important meaning that the story is bound to be a pile of rubbish. Although Oeni was a real person captured by the Allies at the end of the war, he could not have led this mission. By linking um scan's supposed recovery of the Holy Grail to the 700th anniversary of the fall of the castle, it means he must have been here on March 16, 1944, but the Allies have proof that Otto sceni was not in France . In March 1944 he was in Yugoslavia, where the Germans were engaged in fierce fighting.

Now the truth is that when he was supposed to be searching for the Holy Grail in France, he was in fact, you know, somewhere near the Eastern Front. The burner story gets even wilder. The Grail is taken by a Nazi ubot to Antarctica, where it is placed in an ice cave at a secret Nazi base in the Muig Hoffman Mountains. I mean, this all makes for a wonderful story and I certainly look for the Indiana Jones movies that we love. idea of ​​uniformed Nazi Stormtroopers ransacking the castles in the panels. I mean, this is fun. I mean, you know, but it's just not true, but while the Booker story is just a fantasy, the story of the Nazi quest for the Grail is not.

Heinrich Himler was obsessed with mysticism and financed expensive expeditions to the Grail, including the Rams, but he never found it because in all likelihood it never existed. Hinrich Himler was eventually captured by the Allies at the end of the war and committed suicide while in British custody. This is the house in lunberg where himler committed suicide in that room the most despicable of all german criminals manages to take poison after arrest but the horrible truth is that millions of people across europe would lose their lives on direct orders from this man, orders that the Nazis tried to justify. through the work of the anaura and men like the Grail Hunter Oto ran