The NAZI's "Black Camelot" at Wewelsburg Castle in Germany...

In Gerald Warner and Stephen Klimczuk's book!

Secret Places, Hidden Sanctuaries: Uncovering Mysterious Sights, Symbols, and Societies.

Snippet from John Henry Crosby's interview with both authors in the New Oxford Review. September, 2011.


Question:

"Give NOR readers a sample of your book. Can you summarize your findings on one or two of your most interesting topics?

Answer:

"Perhaps the most important site we cover is one of the least known: Wewelsburg Castle in Germany, which was Heinrich Himmler's Black Camelot and Nazi Vatican -- the centerpiece if the NAZI pseudo - religion that brought so much suffering to the world.

"When visitors to Auschwitz ask, How could they do it? we think the answer lies partly in this too - little - known Westphalian castle.

"The details make one's flesh creep, as this is the place that was literally designed to be the spiritual center of a new, Nazi - run world.

"Imagine a kind of Arthurian castle remodeled in the 1930s to be a neo - pagan, even Satanic, religious headquarters for the SS, complete with richly detailed ritual chambers and a round table for the highest SS generals.

"A novelist could hardly have invented it.

"But this was not the meeting place of some obscure and in significant cult: It was the mystical shrine of a movement that conquered and ruled most of Europe for several years in the twentieth century ..."

Most interesting! :)