An actual SS Paranormal Division?? I know that Himmler constructed Wewelsburg Castle as a medium to contact Heinrich I, but was there ever an actual division dedicated to raising a Valkyrie-like army within the Third Reich?
Never heard of that. I have read somewhere of a department within the SS that performed research in mythology with the purpose of creating links to myths to support the myth of Aryan superiority.
Exactly how many weeks have you played Wolfenstein?! If the SS had decided to create a unit to do such things, they would certainly not have called it Paranormal Division (which is immediately associated with something bad) but something glorious, heroic and Germanic. Also, while there can be little doubt that Himmler was quite off his rocker (as are most modern neonazis and anybody associated with esotericism), I don't buy the idea that enough serious people would have been that insane to get such a project past an amateurish stage.
This sounds like something created by the good folks over at The History Channel. They have a documentary out about something similar to your posting, and I think it was hosted by a guy named Arthur Kent. I think the Documentary was part of his Histories Mysteries documentary.
Wewelsburg Castle came to assume a completely different significance in 1934 when the Reichs-Leader of the SS, Heinrich Himmler, rented the Castle from the District of Bueren for the symbolic fee of one Reichsmark per annum. Shortly before Germany capitulated, Himmler commanded a special SS squad to blow up the Castle on 31 March 1945. It was completely destroyed with the exception of the outer walls. Reconstruction began in 1949 and was completed in 1979. Today the Castle contains the Castle Museum and a youth hostel. In 1934 Himmler selected a cliff top castle in Westphalia to serve as the SS high temple. Known as Wewelsburg, the seventeenth century castle cost more than three million dollars to renovate, even though the labour was extracted free from concentration camp inmates. The sanctum included a 12,000 volume library of Aryan lore and a large dining hall with a King Arthur like round table for Himmler and twelve trusted lieutenants. Reportedly, each knight of Himmler's round table received a coat of arms. At the man's death, his emblem was to be incinerated in a pit in the Supreme Leaders' Hall and the ashes placed in an urn atop one of twelve pedestals there. The castle at Wewelsburg served as both a retreat for Himmler and as a centre for racial research. Himmler had abandoned his Catholic faith for spiritualism, astrology and mesmerism in his late teens. He was convinced that he was the reincarnation of Heinrich the Fowler, founder of the Saxon royal house, who died in 936. All these elements were incorporated into his SS 'religion'. "Himmler devised new festivals to take the place of such Christian events as Christmas and Easter, he wrote out baptism and marriage ceremonies - though he believed polygamy would best serve the interests of the SS elite - and he even issued instructions on the correct manner of committing suicide. "The center of the SS 'cult' became the castle of Wewelsburg in Westphalia, which Himmler bought as a ruin in 1934 and rebuilt over the next 11 years at a cost of 13 million marks. The central banqueting hall contained a vast round table with 13 throne-like seats to accommodate Himmler and 12 of his closest 'apostles' - making, as some occult writers have pointed out, a coven of 13. Beneath this hall was a 'Hall of the Dead', where plinths stood around a stone table. As each member of the inner circle of the SS died, his coat of arms would be burned and, together with his ashes, placed in an urn on one of these plinths for veneration." - Richard Deacon, Spyclopaedia At special SS-run boys' training academies, the Yule festival was celebrated, not as the birth of Christ, but as the rising from his ashes of the 'Sun Child' at the winter solstice....What they [the rituals] involve is essentially a twentieth-century variant of the old Sol Invictus cult, to which Constantine had subscribed 1,600 years before." "Hitler spoke of Heinrich Himmler, commander-in-chief of the SS, as 'my Ignatius Loyola'....In many respects, the SS was indeed modeled on the Jesuits, and made deliberate use of Jesuit techniques in such spheres as psychological conditioning and education. http://members.tripod.com/margoschreck/history/occult.htm ----- proof of the occult nature of Nazism lies in its initiation forms. Hitler created three castles of the Order at Krössinsee, Vogelsang, and Sonthofen. Young men who had served in the Hitler Youth, and had done their military service were to become the priesthood of National Socialism. Before taking their places, they would spend a year at each Ordensburg, with Krössinsee in Prussia the castle for political education, Sonthofen in Bavaria for physical training, and Vogelsang in the Rheinland for spiritual education; thence the graduates would go to the SS, the party, or back to the military. Of course the SS had its own order castle of Wewelsburg where SS officers visited to meet with Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler in retreats designed as meditation periods. Himmler's castle has been described as a "black Camelot," where the highest leaders met at a form of round table. ----- When the Munich Putsch of 9 November 1923 failed, one of the swastika flags carried by the Hitler marchers was drenched in the blood of those shot down that day in the Munich street. The so-called Blood Flag became the primary sacred relic of National Socialism. Each year at Nuremburg the party consecrated the standards of its units. The Führer held in one hand the blood-stained flag and touched it to the standard presented for consecration. The magic of the blood passed through Hitler into the receiving standard, bringing it to life. This was as mysterious as the Holy Communion, which itself is a blood ritual. Theoretically, every flag of the movement would be connected to the Blood Flag, and consecrated standards would then be touched to the subordinate flags.
The most ironic thing about it was that Hitler never believe in that hocus pocus Aryan crap. Unlike Loyal Heinrich.
Heh, yeah! Think about it...Guys trying to conquer Europe and believing in Hocus Pocus and magic etc...Himmler that is. Hitler was quite kind to him and seldom made fun of Himmler´s habits. But then again Hitler at times said like " You are an idot, man!Get the **** outta here..." But as well it could happen in Russia. Communism could not accept something like the Einstein theory E=mc2. So they gave an ultimatum that it doesn´t exist ( in the name of communism...). The scientists asked how could they work without these beliefs? They were told to continue like they had, politics is totally different to the real world....( well, or something like that ). I am not sure how they went on after the atomic bomb was invented or even better after they had their own atomic bomb...
