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<blockquote data-quote="Andrew D. Gable" data-source="post: 1475069" data-attributes="member: 4144">This is only speaking from my knowledge, so others may be more knowledgable than me:As to the involvement of Himmler, or other Nazis for that matter, in the occult, it's somewhat tenuous to say.&nbsp; It's rather undeniable that the Nazis used runes and mystic symbols as symbology, and the Nazi party is thought by some to be a political arm of the Germanenorden society (which, in turn, was an outgrowth of the occult Thulegesellschaft, or Thule Society).&nbsp; Himmler specifically, however, is more tenuous.&nbsp; I've found a reliable site which states that Himmler's reorganization of the SS and implementation of the Final Solution utilized &quot;mystical elements&quot;, though I can find no real reliable statement of what those elements were, or how dependent on them he was.&nbsp; Several sites I've found note that Himmler was using Wewelsburg Castle (in Bavaria, IIRC) as a &quot;cult center&quot;, a place to teach SS ideology - but nothing to state definitively that it was anything beyond an SS training center.&nbsp; True, there are some weird-looking things in the architecture, like runic/mystic symbols on the floor, and he had a round table brought into the castle, as he thought of the castle as a sort of Camelot.&nbsp; Most of the Nazi/occult stuff, AFAIK, comes from Ravenscroft's books, and I've heard questionable things about his reliability.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Andrew D. Gable, post: 1475069, member: 4144"] This is only speaking from my knowledge, so others may be more knowledgable than me: As to the involvement of Himmler, or other Nazis for that matter, in the occult, it's somewhat tenuous to say. It's rather undeniable that the Nazis used runes and mystic symbols as symbology, and the Nazi party is thought by some to be a political arm of the Germanenorden society (which, in turn, was an outgrowth of the occult Thulegesellschaft, or Thule Society). Himmler specifically, however, is more tenuous. I've found a reliable site which states that Himmler's reorganization of the SS and implementation of the Final Solution utilized "mystical elements", though I can find no real reliable statement of what those elements were, or how dependent on them he was. Several sites I've found note that Himmler was using Wewelsburg Castle (in Bavaria, IIRC) as a "cult center", a place to teach SS ideology - but nothing to state definitively that it was anything beyond an SS training center. True, there are some weird-looking things in the architecture, like runic/mystic symbols on the floor, and he had a round table brought into the castle, as he thought of the castle as a sort of Camelot. Most of the Nazi/occult stuff, AFAIK, comes from Ravenscroft's books, and I've heard questionable things about his reliability. [/QUOTE]

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