i think everyone watching the thread just in case a clue is dropped and we can all go off and find the rings! as has been said very very good thread!!!!
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Wewelsburg village is a quiet little place.........Comment
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Situated at the edge of the Teutoburg Forest...........Comment
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Where the Germanic hero Hermann, also known as Arminius,..........Comment
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Defeated the much stronger Roman Legions of Quintus Varus..........the basis for the scenes at the beginning of the films 'Gladiator' and 'The Fall of the Roman Empire'..........Comment
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This Germanic victory attracted Himmler to Wewelsburg, and to the nearby Externsteine, a sort of Stonehenge, where the old tribes had performed religious ceremonies.........Comment
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At Sachsenhain, the Reichsfuehrer set up 1000 stones, arranged in pagan style, to commemorate the 1000 pagan Saxons beheaded by the Christian Emperor Charlemagne in the 9th Century........which Himmler regarded as an early example of anti-German genocide, to be remembered by all SS men........Comment
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The SS-Ahnenerbe was established to fund the reconstruction of Wewelsburg, and to study Nazi ancestral heritage, to 'prove by scientific means the racial hypotheses of the Third Reich'..........Comment
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Himmler's 'guru', SS-Brigadefuehrer Karl-Maria Wiligut-Weisthor, who claimed to trace his Germanic ancestry back to a line of ancient kings, firmly established himself at the castle having already designed the SS-Totenkopfring and other SS regalia...........Last edited by Robin Lumsden; 07-14-2004, 02:41 PM.Comment
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He claimed to be able to decode the hidden mysteries of the runes, found carved into stones at the Externsteine and elsewhere across northern Europe and beyond........Comment
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And 'invented' secret ceremonies to be carried out in the gruft, or crypt, beneath the castle's north tower.....Comment
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Himmler viewed Wewelsburg as a new Montsalvat, the castle of the Grail Knights,...........Comment
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And the Wewelsburg Castle crypt bore more than a passing resemblance to the stage set at Bayreuth Opera House, where Wagner's 'Parsifal' related the story of the Grail Knights, blood mysteries and the chosen few...........Last edited by Robin Lumsden; 07-22-2004, 09:09 AM.Comment
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And where the Holy Lance played its part in the story........remember the triangular shape of the castle and its planned location at the tip of a huge spear in the centre of the planned SS town............Comment
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The mythical Holy Lance was said to bring its owner limitless power.........and Himmler hoped to find it................and store it at Wewelsburg............Comment
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