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    Wewelsburg (German pronunciation: [ˈveːvl̩sbʊɐ̯k]) is a Renaissance castle located in the village of Wewelsburg, which is a district of the town of Büren...
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    It first appeared in Nazi Germany as a design element in a castle at Wewelsburg remodeled and expanded by the head of the SS, Heinrich Himmler, which...
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    For the Castle of Wewelsburg see Wewelsburg The German Wewelsburg town is part of the Büren (Westphalia) city in Paderborn district since a local government...
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    outskirts of Büren-Wewelsburg which existed from 1941 to 1943 when it was disbanded. From May 1939, a small camp, the Wewelsburg satellite camp of Sachsenhausen...
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    return of all rings of dead SS men and officers to be stored in a chest in Wewelsburg Castle. This was to be a memorial to symbolise the ongoing membership...
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    Austria (1995) Ignalina, Lithuania (2003) The village of Wewelsburg is the home of the Wewelsburg Renaissance castle, which was a focus of SS mythology during...
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    Vogelsang wewelsburg.de/ Wewelsburg Castle Kirsten John-Stucke: Wewelsburg 1933 - 1945. Cult and terror site of the SS (PDF; 5.1 MB) "Wewelsburg 1933–1945...
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    so-called Black Sun, derived from a mosaic floor in Himmler's remodel of Wewelsburg; and the Celtic cross, originally a symbol used to represent pre-Christian...
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  • characters in the Grail-mythos (see The "SS-School House Wewelsburg"). Himmler had visited the Wewelsburg on 3 November 1933 and April 1934; the SS took official...
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  • performed a solitary rite at Walhalla, the subterranean section of the Wewelsburg castle in Germany that was utilized as a ceremonial space by the Schutzstaffel's...
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    scuola-SS Haus Wewelsburg 1934–1945 [The Fortress of Heinrich Himmler: The Center of SS Ideology: A Chronicle With Pictures of the SS Haus Wewelsburg School,...
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  • scuola-SS Haus Wewelsburg 1934-1945 [Heinrich Himmlers Burg — Das Weltanschauliche Zentrum Der SS — Bildchronick der SS-Schule Haus Wewelsburg 1934-1945]...
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  • adjutant of the SS, Wiligut developed his plans for the rebuilding of the Wewelsburg into an allegorical "center of the world". Wiligut's friend Manfred von...
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    "Himmlers Wewelsburg und der Rassenkrieg. Eine historische Ortsbestimmung", in Schulte, Jan Erik (ed.), Die SS, Himmler und die Wewelsburg (in German)...
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  • and museum director of the Wewelsburg Museum. She is the editor of numerous documentations on the history of Wewelsburg during the National Socialist...
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  • of twelve sig runes first appearing on the floor of the north tower of Wewelsburg, after Heinrich Himmler ordered it to be remodeled, it gained modern popularity...
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    Münster (1st row), Emperor William Monument at the Porta Westfalica and Wewelsburg castle (2nd row), Nordkirchen Castle and skyline of Dortmund (3rd row)...
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    monuments or in special SS-designated places. In 1933, Himmler bought Wewelsburg, a castle in Westphalia. He initially intended it to be used as an SS...
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    rotational symmetry. The design was incorporated as a mosaic into a floor of Wewelsburg Castle during the Nazi era and may have been inspired by Alemannic Iron...
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  • reportedly one of the few Schutzstaffel officers inducted into the rites at Wewelsburg Castle, and after the war claimed that he had arranged the eventual surrender...
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    similar building projects in Königsberg, Oldenburg, Posen, Saarbrücken and Wewelsburg. At the influence of the Gauleiters, Hitler also greatly increased the...
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    Cook, Stephen; Russell, Stuart (2000). Heinrich Himmler's Camelot: the Wewelsburg Ideological Center of the SS, 1934-1945. Kressmann-Backmeyer. ISBN 978-0967044309...
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  • Miguel Serrano, and its articles included studies of Thulianism, Himmler's Wewelsburg, tributes to old SS leaders, "a reprint of the ONA Mass of Heresy [and]...
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    influenced by occultism and according to one theory, developed the SS base at Wewelsburg in accordance with an esoteric plan. The Sun Language Theory is a pseudohistorical...
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    by thirty million." — Heinrich Himmler's statement to SS officers at Wewelsburg castle, June 1941 According to a 1978 essay by German historian Andreas...
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  • Cook, Stephen; Russell, Stuart (2000). Heinrich Himmler's Camelot: the Wewelsburg Ideological Center of the SS, 1934–1945. Kressmann-Backmeyer. ISBN 978-0-9670443-0-9...
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    Waffen-SS foreign volunteers and conscripts Waffen-SS in popular culture Wewelsburg § Nazi era Equivalent to a full general. The independence of the LSSAH...
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  • Serrano identified Aryan-Hyperborean blood as the "light of the Black Sun", a symbol found at SS-cult site Wewelsburg Castle....
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    German cultural monuments"), which was primarily dedicated to restoring Wewelsburg, an old castle that was supposed to be turned into a cultural and scientific...
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  • Alderney Heinz Macher Leader of the SS group ordered to blow up the castle Wewelsburg Dr. Josef Mengele Born 16 March 1911. Medical officer at Auschwitz-Birkenau...
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