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HEINRICH HIMMLER’S
CAMELOT
ISBN 0-9670443-0-8
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Military Trader Magazine - “Getting to the Bottom of the SS-Totenkopf Ring” by Stephen Cook, published in the August 2003 issue of Military Trader Magazine, explains the importance of the Runic symbols as the ring’s hallmark, thereby solving a mystery, ending speculation/assumptions, and indisputably establishing Wiligut-Weisthor as the designer. This discovery and detailed explanation with photographs provides confirmation of our statement on page 166 of Heinrich Himmler’s Camelot and an update to page 169 regarding how the runes were originally designed and cast. Research for the article was by Stephen Cook and Stuart Russell, who are especially grateful to Frau Gabrielle Winckler, one of Heinrich Himmler’s personal staff and secretary to Weisthor. While describing a family heirloom during an interview in June 2001, Frau Winckler unwittingly provided circumstantial evidence of the linking information to the hallmark runes on the Death’s Head Ring, correlating with his signatures on other documents. Military Trader Magazine - “Getting to the Bottom of the SS-Totenkopf Ring” The History Channel - The Secret Passages series, by Jaffe Productions, featured a segment on our book, Heinrich Himmler's Camelot, in a program they titled "America's Stonehenge." First aired on May 20, 2002, the program is rebroadcast periodically. Military Trader Magazine - “Getting to the Bottom of the SS-Totenkopf Ring” England - Channel Four first aired Hitler's Search for the Holy Grail, a Maya Vision International award-winning documentary production, in August 1999, receiving critical acclaim from the media and the public. See below for various press comments. Channel Four quickly aired its second broadcast on October 1, 2000, and has subsequently offered additional broadcasts as well. Military Trader Magazine - “Getting to the Bottom of the SS-Totenkopf Ring” USA - PBS made arrangements to air a one-hour, amended version of Hitler's Search for the Holy Grail in late-November 2000. Although the PBS special had 18 minutes edited out, it continued to feature Heinrich Himmler and his mystical Wewelsburg Castle in major roles. Viewership was estimated at 5.9 million, and the success prompted PBS to plan additional broadcasts. PBS is airing this documentary at various times, so please check programming schedules for your area for information as it becomes available. Press Comments - "Indiana Jones was fiction, but only just - the Nazis really did set out to find occult treasures like Odin's spear, Tibetan skulls and the relics of Atlantis. Presented by Michael Wood, this 90-minute special contains rarely seen footage of German expeditions to Antarctica, Tibet and Venezuela in the late Thirties. Some of it is in colour and shows Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS and the driving force behind the Third Reich's archaeological quests to prove the existence of an ancient Aryan master race. Though interviews with former member of Himmler's staff, the programme conjures up the dark world of myth and legend that exercised such a hold on Nazi leadership." "Presented by Michael Wood, produced by Rebecca Dobbs (who worked with Wood on BBC2's excellent 'In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great' and directed by the Bafta and Emmy-winning Kevin Sim, it's an impressive film which welds an account of the work of an SS unit called Ahnenerbe (the Ancestral Heritage Society), which mounted archaeological and anthropological expeditions around the world… Himmler set up the Ahnenerbe in an attempt to use history and archaeology to yolk the future to a glorious, mythic Aryan past. He saw the SS as a brotherhood of knights on a quasi-medieval quest and established a kind of Camelot at Wewelsburg. ("Theirs is no purer, more intense and intellectually higher body than the SS," says Florentine Rost van Tonningen, the widow of a senior SS officer, in a present-day interview.) And annexed to arguments about ethnic purity and the special destiny of the German race were academic speculations about Atlantis, the Holy Grail and the earliest Aryan kings. Crucially, Wood never allows such esoteric pursuits to be divorced from the wider picture. There's footage of expeditions to Antarctica and Tibet, but we end up with Dachau…" "A fascinating exploration into the esoteric spiritual belief underpinning the Nazi movement." "It's complacent to believe we wouldn't have been seduced by it all. Personally, I wouldn't like to think that I could ever have been persuaded, but the symbolism involved was very powerful." "This remarkable film… Wood tours Himmler's castle-museum with bewilderment … The elegant widow of a senior SS commander shows no regret for anything except the Nazis' defeat. There is extraordinary archive footage of the expeditions to Tibet, Venezuela and the Arctic in search of the roots of Aryanism." "To Hitler and Himmler, the grail was an idea, a symbol, for their belief that Germans were the Chosen Ones, the master race whose bloodlines linked directly to the mythical Aryans of prehistory… A sombre Michael Wood narrates a spellbinding tale…" "At Wewelsburg Castle, "the centre of the Nazi universe," Himmler drew heavily on Arthurian legend to set up an SS version of Camelot. The belief also took hold that the Gods and the first Germans had once lived together on the island of Atlantis ... We were told too, that Himmler saw himself as the reincarnation of Heinrich I, the 4th-century founder of the first Reich..." "So obsessed was Himmler with the idea of linking this glorious, mythical Aryan past to an even more glorious future that he transformed the castle of Wewelsburg into a Teutonic version of Camelot, with his senior SS officers as the new Knights of the Round Table and himself as the reincarnation of King Heinrich I, founder of the First Reich… Presented by Michael Wood, in a succession of Wagnerian settings and speaking in a string of increasingly dramatic soundbites, and produced by Rebecca Dobbs, this was no entertaining adventure, but it was no less riveting for that… More shocking still was the widow of the senior SS officer who persisted in her claim that the war was a Holy War, the Nazis' philosophy was noble and all Hitler had wanted to do was unite the German race." "The documentary was refreshingly free of the pompous reconstructions and arty camerawork which usually accompanies these things. There were German voices and subtitles for a change, instead of the standard translations delivered by an overanimated actor." "Indiana Jones raced the Nazis …in brilliant action movies. It seemed like swash-buckling hokum but, as Channel 4's Secret History showed, the big screen adventures were based on chilling fact. Hitler believed that the Germans were of pure Aryan blood, descended from a lost race of superior humans who inhabited the sunken continent of Atlantis. He wanted the Holy Grail…which is traditionally seen as a symbol of purity… Hitler had Heinrich Himmler establish the SS as warrior knights based on the legends of King Arthur's Camelot… Eminent scientists, archaeologists and scholars combed the globe - going to Tibet, the Canaries, even Iran… The lesson of our century is that totalitarianism kills." Military Trader Magazine - “Getting to the Bottom of the SS-Totenkopf Ring” |
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