All language subtitles for Himmler The Mystic

Nazi Germany, a state in which children
have become a national obsession.

Hitler has proclaimed it must be
considered reprehensible to withhold

children from the nation.

If the fertility of the healthiest
bearers of the nationality is

systematically promoted, the result...
will be a race which has eliminated the

germs of our present physical and hence
spiritual decay.

In the doctrines of National Socialism,
this spiritual decay has but one cause,

the dilution of the Aryan race by the
blood of inferior peoples.

Only by breeding from the racially
purest can the greatness of the Aryans

restored.

In the vanguard of the Nazi racial
mission is Hitler's praetorian guard,

Before he can enter the SS elite, a
candidate must have his German ancestry

proved back to the year 1750.

Before marriage, the prospective bride
of an SS man is subject to rigorous

racial investigation.

From the offspring of Hitler's guard,
many generations in the future, it

intended to come the racially purest of
German stock.

A superior breed of human, born to rule.

The origins of this terrifying vision
are strange and contradictory, an

union between the teachings of a modern
scientific movement and the esoteric

doctrines of the occult.

By the late 1920s, the German scientific
and medical world had wholeheartedly

embraced a new movement, the science of
eugenics.

The founder of eugenics is an
Englishman, Sir Francis Galton, the

Charles Darwin.

The aim of eugenics, Galton had written,
is to breed out feeble constitutions

and petty and ignoble instincts, and to
breed in those which are vigorous,

noble, and social.

To the disciples of eugenics, the
intelligent and the industrious, The

ill, the criminal and the alcoholic are
so because they carry within them the

traits of their parents.

The fear is that inferior types, by
breeding faster than those of more

stock, will produce a catastrophic
decline in the quality of the human

Only by the most drastic measures it is
believed can disaster be averted.

The solution favored by the eugenics
movement is the legal control of human

breeding.

Laws must be passed for the compulsory
sterilization of the feeble -minded, the

alcoholic, the insane, and the pauper.

At the same time, valuable members of
society are to be encouraged to have the

largest possible number of children.

In the 1920s, while eugenics in Europe
is still in the realms of scientific

theory, in the United States of America,
it has long since been put into

practice.

The state of North Dakota had banned
marriage for alcoholics, the insane, and

those suffering from tuberculosis, as
early as the turn of the century.

In 1907... The state of Indiana had
passed the world's first law allowing

sterilization of the mentally ill and
criminally insane.

By 1930, 28 American states have passed
similar laws, and 15 ,000 people in

mental hospitals and prisons have been
compulsorily sterilized.

By 1939, the figure will have reached 30
,000.

The health office of the government of
the German Weimar Republic makes a

detailed study of American eugenic laws.

It is deeply impressed by America's
sterilization campaign, and leading

eugenicists praise US restrictions on
the immigration of foreigners, and the

laws passed in some southern states
banning intermarriage between the races.

There is a growing concern in German
medical circles that Germany is being

behind in the struggle for racial
improvement.

By 1927 eugenics, now with the new name
racial hygiene, is rapidly gaining

respectability in Germany.

More and more university medical
faculties offer courses in the subject.

An institute specializing in racial
hygiene is founded by the German Health

Office.

The task of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute
is to study means of halting what an

influential reporter called the physical
and mental degeneration of the German

people.

Racial hygiene has also become a central
pillar in the strange ideology of a

rising political party.

Adolf Hitler had spent much of the year
1924 imprisoned for his part in an

attempted coup against the Bavarian
government.

While in prison, he'd read a recently
published and widely praised textbook on

human heredity and racial hygiene.

He'd also written his political
testament, Mein Kampf.

In Mein Kampf, Hitler's commitment to
the doctrines of racial hygiene is made

clear.

The state, he writes, must set race at
the center of all life.

It must see to it that there is only one
disgrace, to bring children into the

world despite one's own sickness and
deficiencies.

Here, the state must act as guardian of
a millennial future, in the face of

which the wishes and selfishness of the
individual appear as nothing.

To Hitler.

The millennial future which the state
must defend is the coming triumph of

man.

The Nazi faith in the destiny of the
Aryan race is not the creation of Adolf

Hitler, nor does it spring from the
movement for racial hygiene.

Its origins lie in the teachings of
mystics, clairvoyants, and secret

dedicated to the occult.

In the violent aftermath of the First
World War, an increasing fascination

the mystical and the esoteric had swept
the German aristocratic and educated

classes.

So widespread is the influence of
mystical doctrines that even one of

most powerful generals believes that
national salvation lies in reviving the

worship of the Norse guard Wotan.

General Erich Lutendorff hero of the
Great War and former chief of the German

General Staff, freely admits that he
believes he is in psychic communion with

the Nordic race soul.

In 1923, Lutendorff had led an abortive
coup in Bavaria.

His ally was the little -known political
agitator Adolf Hitler.

Many of the members of Ludendorff's
circle, including his future wife, are

closely associated with an influential
occultist group calling itself the Edda

Society.

The Edda Society is founded in December
1925 by Rudolf John Gorsleben.

Some years earlier, Gorsleben had been
active in extreme nationalist politics.

He had been a speaker at meetings of the
occultist Thule Society.

and had founded a political movement
with the anti -Semite Julius Streicher.

Streicher would later become a key
figure in the infant Nazi party.

Gorsleben then abandons politics.

He immerses himself in the task of
deciphering the ancient Nordic script of

runes, and penetrating the secrets of
the Icelandic verses known as the Edda.

In these, Gorsleben believes can be
rediscovered the priceless magical

of the vanished Aryan godmen.

In widely read periodicals, Gorsleben
and the Edda occultists teach that

of the blood of the Aryans are present
in the German people.

Warning against racial dilution,
Gorsleben writes, Remember, God dwells

you.

It is a creed which will become the
lifelong conviction of Heinrich Himmler,

Reichsfuhrer of the SS.

As a youth, Himmler had avidly consumed
the writings of the German occultists.

He'd grown obsessed with astrology,
spiritualism, and herbalism.

Above all, he'd adopted as his own the
mystical doctrine of the Arian.

If, as Himmler had come to believe, the
blood of the Aryans runs most strongly

in the veins of Germanic peoples, then,
by breeding from the purest individuals,

a race of superhumans could be produced,
a race in which the Aryan psychic

powers would grow ever stronger.

Himmler, trained as an agriculturalist
and devoted to the occult, is embarking

on the strangest eugenics experiment in
history.

By 1934, a year after the Nazi seized
Europe power in Germany, Himmler has

firmly established the entry
requirements for membership of his SS.

The SS Race and Resettlement Bureau
investigates the racial ancestry of

applicant.

Candidates for membership of Himmler's
elite must also submit to a rigorous

physical examination.

Only those of strongly Nordic
appearance.

who are free from bodily defects and the
good proportion and stature are

accepted.

Then begins a year -long process of
transformation.

Central to the F .S. man's training is
immersion in the cult of the Aryan and

the ideology of National Socialism.

He must also master the extraordinary
set of doctrines enshrined in the F .F.

Catechism.

It is a catechism in which God is the
race.

Why do we believe in Germany and the
Führer?

Because we believe in God. We believe in
Germany, which he created, and in the

Führer, Adolf Hitler, whom he has sent
us.

Why do you obey?

From inner conviction, from belief in
Germany, in the Führer, in the movement,

in the SS, and from loyalty.

On November the 9th, the anniversary of
the coup of 1923, the day symbolized by

the rune of remembrance, the SS
candidate swears the kith and kin oath.

In it, he binds himself and his future
family to obey the SS marriage law.

None will marry unless the union is
approved by the SS Race and Resettlement

Bureau.

Henceforth... the SS man's family are
entitled to wear the coveted badge of SS

clan membership, a sunflower bearing the
rune of fertility.

The strict racial qualifications for SS
marriages are widely praised by the

scientists and medical men of Germany's
racial hygiene movement.

Inspired by the example of the SS,
measures are already underway to control

breeding of Germany's civilian
population.

Within months of Hitler's becoming
Chancellor of Germany, the first of a

of eugenic laws is passed.

The Law for the Prevention of
Genetically Diseased Offspring

network of genetic health courts.

These have the power to order that
individuals suffering from any of a

mental or physical ailments be
sterilized.

The campaign is organized on a massive
scale.

1 ,700 genetic health courts will, in
1934 alone, order over 56

,000 sterilizations.

Within 10 years, almost 400 ,000 Germans
will have been sterilized.

In support of the German sterilization
campaign, the Reich Health Office and

German medical journals publish graphic
illustrations of the cost to the public

of maintaining the mentally and
physically handicapped.

One poster insists, we do not stand
alone.

While a German mother holds her baby, a
man holds a shield inscribed with the

1933 sterilization law.

Around them are arrayed the flags of
nations that have already legalized

compulsory sterilization.

The second major eugenics law is
designed to control the breeding of the

population at large.

The law for the protection of the
genetic health of the German people

that all those who wish to marry submit
to a medical examination.

Marriage is totally forbidden to those
suffering from diseases believed to be

hereditary.

The third eugenic measure is passed in
the autumn of 1935.

Physicians of the racial hygiene
movement had long argued that

between the races is genetically
harmful, producing degenerate offspring.

The law for the protection of German
blood and German honour, forbids

between Jews and non -Jews.

Following this new measure, racial
hygienists devise complex formulae for

calculating the proportions of Jewish
blood which each partner can possess if

marriage is to be allowed.

The massive task of racially
investigating all those wishing to marry

entrusted to the SS Race and
Resettlement Bureau.

Heinrich Himmler's vision of the SS has,
from the beginning, extended far beyond

his eugenic project to breed a race of
pure -blooded Aryans.

His intention is to create a military
religious order, an order steeped in

mysticism.

Himmler has pronounced, we assemble and
march according to unalterable laws.

as a national socialist order of Nordic
men, and as a sworn community on our way

to a far future.

In devising rituals and practices for
his Nordic order, Himmler has looked for

inspiration to the Teutonic tribes of
Germany's distant past.

On Himmler's instructions, SS
archaeologists from the Race and

Bureau are intensely researching the
history of races they believe to be of

Aryan descent.

To advise him in his search for the
religion of the ancient Teutonic tribes,

Himmler has recruited into the SS a
renowned Germanic occultist, a man whose

claim is to be the last in a long line
of Aryan priest -kings.

Karl Maria Willigat was born in Vienna
in 1866.

During the Great War, he'd risen to the
rank of colonel in the Austrian army.

Willigat claims to possess ancestral
clairvoyant memory, the power to recall

history and experiences of the Germans
over thousands of years.

He believes that in himself... is an
unusually pure strain of the normally

latent psychic powers of the Aryans.

Villigut's clairvoyant visions have told
him that German blood, culture and

history are far more ancient than
historians and scientists can know.

According to Villigut, the history of
the Aryans had begun in 228 ,000

BC.

An era in which there were three suns in
the sky and the world was populated by

giants and other fantastic creatures.

Villigut's own royal line. He claims to
have originated in a union between the

gods of air and water in the very
earliest days of the earth.

Villigut claims that amongst his
ancestors are many of the greatest of

heroes.

All of Villigut's line through the ages
has remained faithful to the occult

traditions of the Aryan Germans.

Impressed by Villigut's clairvoyant
powers, Himmler accepts Villigut into

and appoints him head of the Race and
Resettlement Bureau's Department of

Prehistory.

In a remarkably short time, Villigut
will rise to the rank of SS Brigadier on

Himmler's personal staff.

By 1934, Himmler's SS is becoming one of
the most powerful organizations in the

Reich.

Germany's state police forces are, one
by one, falling under Himmler's control.

The SS is responsible for all
intelligence and security duties in the

Party.

The SS Race and Resettlement Bureau is
dramatically expanding as it polices the

National Eugenics Program.

The SS is rapidly becoming a state
within the Nazi state.

Now Heinrich Himmler, with the help of
Carl Zilligut, plans the strangest of

his creations, an SS spiritual center,
an order castle for his Germanic

brotherhood.

The castle of Wevelsburg had been built
in the early 1600s on the site of a 10th

century Saxon fort.

Set in the romantic surroundings of
Paderborn in Westphalia, Wevelsburg had

a deep impression on Heinrich Himmler.

We have been looking for a castle for
our SS for a long time, Himmler

I have found a suitable ruined castle
dating back to Germanic prehistory.

In late 1934, the SS purchases the
sacred site and begins the massive task

reconstruction.

Karl Willigert had accompanied Himmler
on his earliest visit to the castle.

His researches had revealed an ancient
prophecy.

Here, in writing, reports Willigert, is
the prophecy concerning the great

determining battle of which we spoke.

Lilligat has unearthed a Westphalian
legend in which Weibelsberg is destined

become a magical German stronghold in a
future conflict between Europe and Asia.

The prophecy coincides exactly with
Himmler's belief that the SS is to be

bastion of Europe against a massive
onslaught from Asia.

Already, Himmler's order is preparing
for the millennial conflict to come.

The SS is to become the most formidable
military force in Europe.

On December the 14th, 1934, Himmler
orders the formation of an SS military

detachment, the SSVP.

Almost from the outset, the military
training of the SSVT is revolutionary.

The emphasis is less on the barrack
square drill, favored by the regular

than on the creation of a new breed of
military athletes.

In the words of an SSVT commander,
training is designed to produce a supple

adaptable type of soldier, athletic in
bearing.

capable of more than ordinary endurance.

Unlike the regular army, the SFVT is
organized into highly mobile battle

It is also the first German military
formation to adopt camouflage uniform,

to the astonishment of army commanders,
to maneuver with live ammunition.

To the SS, casualties in training are
simply to be expected.

While the SSVT is to become an elite
force in the service of the Fuhrer and

Aryan mission, another arm of the SS is
already at war.

The SS Death Heads formation is
commanded by Theodor Eicher.

It accepts without question the Nazi
slogan.

National socialism, the expression of
our biological knowledge.

The task of the death's head is to
isolate and, if necessary, destroy those

believes infectious germs in the body of
the German people.

Jews, homosexuals, political dissidents,
and social misfits.

The means of quarantine is the
concentration camp.

As the SS empire spreads its roots deep
into the fabric of the Nazi state,

Heinrich Himmler, advised by Carl
Villegut, continues to develop and

rituals of his order.

The officer class, envisaged by Himmler
as the priests and high priests of the

SS, are to be distinguished by the award
of special symbols of their place in

the hierarchy.

At Himmler's personal discretion,
members of the SS Corps of Leaders can

awarded the SS Dagger.

The dagger is the visible sign of SS
nobility and of the favor of the all

-powerful Himmler.

Irrespective of rank, proven SS men are
presented with a silver death's head

signet ring.

The ring is based on a design created
for Himmler by Carl Villegut.

Its symbols are of deep mystical
significance.

The Sig rune, emblem of victory.

The Hagal rune, the rune of hail,
destruction, and enclosing.

Included is the personal rune group of
the Villigot ancestral tradition.

And the swastika, symbol of the destiny
of Aryan man.

In 1937, Himmler decrees that the rings
of all dead SS men are to be returned to

him for safekeeping in a locked chest
deep in the castle of Babelsberg.

The return of the ring is a symbol of
the dead man's eternal community with

SS order.

The transformation of Himmler's SS
castle is by now gaining momentum.

Under the architect Hermann Bartels, the
west and south wings have been fully

renovated. The moat and gardens have
been restored and a bridge built leading

the imposing main gates.

By 1938, the east wing too has been
completely renovated.

True to the deeply secretive nature of
the SS, Himmler has banned all but the

most trustworthy from visiting
Weibelsberg.

Bartels has virtually excluded local
companies and labour from the project.

Instead, contingents of the Pioneer
Corps have been drafted to the region

all over Germany.

In the renovation of the castle
interior, Himmler spares no expense.

Handling and furnishings, doors and
balustrades, are all of solid oak.

An elaborately carved spiral staircase
is built in workshops on the site.

Everywhere there is the finest of
decorative wrought iron work.

The chambers of SS leaders, each room
named after a Germanic hero, are to be

filled with appropriate relics.

Arms and armor are collected from all
over Germany.

Himmler has pronounced, May the spirit
of the most distant past be the future

this castle.

By the late 1930s, the National
Socialist aim of increasing the

racially desirable Germans has been
given the highest national priority.

The means is to remove German women from
paid employment and return them to the

home.

Their task will be to produce the
greatest possible number of children.

Soon after the foundation of the Nazi
state, government loans worth a year's

salary are awarded to men whose wives
leave their jobs.

The amount which must be repaid is
reduced for every child the family

By 1940, 1 ,700 ,000 loans will have
been granted.

In 1938, a decree is issued requiring
that all public officials marry or

All couples married for five years who
are still childless incur a tax penalty.

Grounds for divorce are broadened.

to include the inability of a wife to
bear children.

Abortion is illegal for those classed as
Aryans, but encouraged for non -Aryans.

At the instigation of Heinrich Himmler,
laws are passed removing all legal

obstacles to Aryan women bearing
children outside marriage.

Himmler has decreed, sacred to us is
every mother of good blood.

Of the greatest value of all are the
offspring of his SS elite.

In December 1935, Himmler had founded
the project which would remain his

obsession for almost ten years.

He calls it the Lebensborn, the spring
of life.

It is a chain of maternity homes and
breeding centres for his SS racial

In Himmler's words, a nursery garden for
pure Germanic blood.

In Germany, there will be ten such
homes, each...

Veiled in secrecy and under heavy SS
guard.

I fostered rumors, Himmler admits, to
the effect that every single woman

desiring a child could turn to
Lebensborn in the strictest confidence.

We only recommend genuinely valuable men
as procreation helpers.

In spite of the stringent racial
qualifications required, there is no

of prospective mothers.

The Nazi League of German Maidens has
officially stated, although not every

German girl can hope to find a husband,
you can all become mothers.

An SS race and resettlement resolution
of 1937 notes, the Lebensborn will bring

them together with a man, not casually.

but in full awareness that they are
fulfilling a noble duty towards the

At a naming ceremony, the children of
the Lebensborn project are immediately

immersed in the Germanic ritual of the
SS clan.

Males are touched on the forehead with
an SS dagger, symbolizing their first

initiation into Himmler's mystical
order.

Mothers of SS children are told,
remember that you are but a link in the

endless chain.

For years, Himmler has pondered the
question of how his SS order is to be

governed.

Taking his inspiration from the Knights
of the Round Table, Himmler has

appointed a shadowy inner council of
twelve chosen SS leaders.

The ritual setting for their
deliberations is the castle of

In the massive north tower of the castle
is an inner sanctum, a vast circular

hall, its walls twelve feet thick.

Around the chamber stand twelve columns.

On the floor is a mosaic of swastikas,
forming a sun wheel of twelve radiating

spokes.

In this strange chamber, Himmler and his
chosen twelve commune with the Aryan

race soul.

and the spirits of the Germanic
ancestors.

Deep below the inner sanctum cut into
the solid bedrock is the crypt,

Here are performed ceremonies of the
dead.

In the center, the wooden coats of arms
of a dead SS knight are to be

ceremonially burned.

Twelve stone plinths around the walls
will hold twelve urns, each of which

one day hold the armorial ashes of a
departed knight.

In the crypt burns an eternal flame,
symbol of the continuity of the Order

its eternal mission in the service of
the race.

In 1937, Heinrich Himmler, speaking to
senior German army officers, proclaims,

The next ten years will see a war of
annihilation conducted by the subhuman

enemies of the entire world against
Germany, the colonel of the Teutonic

and guardian of the culture of the human
race.

It will mean, warns Himmler, the
existence or non -existence of that

of which we are the leading nation.

In reality, the war of racial
annihilation foreseen by Himmler will be

about to be waged by Germany.

For Adolf Hitler, the first step in the
creation of a greater Germanic empire

has been to order, in March 1936, the
reoccupation of the demilitarized

Rhineland.

It is a blatant contravention of the
Treaty of Versailles.

In the wake of the occupation, the SS
becomes deeply involved in the first

sterilization campaign to be waged on
grounds of race.

In a joint operation mounted by the
Gestapo and genetic health courts, 500

children of mixed race, the offspring of
black French soldiers, are seized and

sterilized.

It is a grim warning of horrors to come.

By now, the racial doctrines of National
Socialism have found ardent support far

beyond the frontiers of the German
Reich.

In the United States of America, the
German -American Bund, led by Fritz

is secretly supported by the German
Foreign Office.

In Belgium, the ultra -nationalist
Grexist Party is founded by Leon de

In Britain, Oswald Mosley and the
British fascists ardently support

Germany.

In Austria, Seif Inquart, leader of the
Austrian National Socialists, is

appointed Minister of the Interior in
response to German pressure.

It is he who, after violence
orchestrated by the Austrian SS, invites

forces to enter Austria and restore
order.

Austria is to become a province of
Germany.

In the wake of the occupation, SS troops
of the Gestapo and SD Security Service

arrest 76 ,000 Austrians and commit them
to concentration camps.

Next on Hitler's agenda is
Czechoslovakia.

The leader of the National Socialists in
the German -populated region of

Czechoslovakia is Konrad Henlein.

In the months following the German
occupation of Austria, Henlein provokes

crisis in the Sudeten.

His followers, armed by Germany and
supported by detachments of the SS,

uprising that will culminate in Hitler's
occupation of Czechoslovakia.

As the German army consolidates its hold
on Czechoslovakia, Himmler dispatches

an SS brigadier to Prague.

His mission is to organize the
deportation of six million Czechs and

resettlement of Czech agricultural lands
by racial Germans.

In Himmler's plan, the settlers would be
selected on grounds of racial purity by

his own race and resettlement bureau.

Even though Hitler has already spoken
favorably of the mass deportation of

Czechs, Himmler's plan comes to nothing.

The German armaments industry covets
Czech factories and labor and will

no disruption.

In Poland, Himmler's Aryan vision will
encounter no such obstacle.

In Mein Kampf, Hitler had written, We
begin where we left off 600 years ago.

put an end to the perpetual Germanic
march to the south and west of Europe

turn our eyes towards the lands of the
east.

In the summer of 1939, Hitler summons
Heinrich Himmler to his Bavarian

retreat.

In the coming invasion of Poland, the SS
is to play a key role.

It is to ruthlessly eliminate from the
Polish population all those who might

carry the seeds of a future class of
leaders.

Under Himmler's head of security,
Reinhard Heydrich, Five SS

extermination squads are to follow close
behind the invading German armies.

In Poland, Himmler will embark on the
first stage of his long -cherished

The SS is to be the vanguard of a great
Germanic migration.

In the invasion of Poland on September
1, 1939, the SS VT and Death's Head

formations are for the first time thrown
into battle.

In spite of a lack of experienced
leaders, Himmler's hand -picked fighters

fanatical in the attack, undeterred by
heavy casualties.

Unlike their army comrades, the SS have
been instilled with the knowledge that

they are in the service of a great
mission.

the conquest and enslavement of an
inferior race and the foundation of an

empire.

While the SS military formations bask in
the success of their Polish campaign,

Reinhard Heydrich's Einsatzgruppen
unleash a reign of terror.

Tens of thousands of Poles are seized
and shot.

The victims are teachers, doctors,
officials, aristocrats, Catholic priests

Jews.

Hitler had ordered, whatever we find in
the shape of an upper class in Poland is

to be liquidated.

To the horror of regular army
commanders, the SS is reveling in its

task.

By September the 27th, less than a month
after the invasion, Heydrich estimates

of the Polish upper classes in the
occupied territories, only 3 %

is still present.

For his services in the cause of racial
conquest, Heinrich Himmler is rewarded

by a grateful Fuhrer.

On September 29th, Hitler informs him
that he is to be appointed

Reichskommissioner for the strengthening
of Germanism.

The resettlement of occupied territories
is to be Himmler's exclusive province.

The East is to belong to the FS.

The war into which Europe has been
plunged is eagerly embraced by a rapidly

expanding armed SS.

By June 1940, Heinrich Himmler's army,
now renamed the Waffen -SS, is a

formidable motorized force of 100 ,000
men.

In the Low Countries and France, the new
divisions hunger for glory.

While the exploits of his military
athletes win the grudging respect of the

regular army, and in Hitler's words, pay
the butcher's bill, himless thoughts

are elsewhere.

To him, the war in Western Europe is
merely a distraction.

Only in the East can the destiny of the
SS be truly fulfilled.

Since early 1939, an SS plan had been in
preparation for the repatriation of up

to 30 million racial Germans resident in
foreign countries.

An agreement had been struck with the
Soviet Union and the Baltic states for

transfer of their German populations to
the Reich.

Their actual destination will be Poland.

The SS Race and Resettlement Bureau
carefully investigates the ancestry of

first wave of migrants.

in all, almost half a million people.

They are presented with Reich
citizenship and dispatched to SS transit

Their fate, according to Himmler's
blueprint for the East, is to become a

Germanic peasantry.

Their guardians and rulers are to be the
aristocracy of the SS.

By mid -1941, one million Poles and
Polish Jews had been driven from their

and deported to the area of Poland known
as the Government General.

The Jewish people of the conquered
territories had been forced into ghettos

await a fate as yet unknown.

200 ,000 repatriated Germans have been
settled on the seized lands.

Yet, resettlement is only the first
phase in Himmler's grand design.

The second is the repossession of
whatever Aryan blood can be found in the

Polish population.

On Himmler's orders, Poles are to be
subject to a massive program of racial

screening.

Tens of thousands of Polish children are
examined by the SS Race and

Resettlement Bureau.

The shape of the face, eye and hair
colour, even x -rays of the skull are

by SS physicians to detect traces of
Nordic blood.

Of those rejected as racially
undesirable, many are sterilised.

Those deemed of racial value are
forcibly taken west.

After a period of what the SS term re
-Germanization in a Lebensborn home,

are to be adopted by SS families.

For Himmler, the seizure of children of
Aryan stock is a long -term project.

Of more pressing importance is the rapid
expansion of the Waffen -SS.

In Himmler's eyes, traditional ideas of
nationality are meaningless.

All that matters is race.

His aim is the creation of a pan
-European brotherhood of the racially

international SS, ready for the coming
crusade against the Slavs and

The national socialist movements of the
Nordic countries will prove fertile

grounds for recruitment.

The Viking Division, composed of
Norwegian, Danish, Dutch and Flemish, is

first of 13 SS divisions to be raised
from Nordic or Germanic foreigners.

All are formations entirely composed of
volunteers.

To the members of Himmler's foreign
legions, in the racial vision of the SS,

lies the future of Europe.

With the seeds of a pan -European SS
army sown in the conquered West, and the

battles for the East which Himmler
foresees drawing ever closer, the castle

Wewelsburg takes on an even more
powerful significance.

Wewelsburg, spiritual center of the SS
order, is to become a city.

The North Tower, with its sacred hall
and underground vault, is to be the

point of vast circular grounds.

Surrounding them is to be built an
enormous complex of administrative

libraries, and research institutes for
astrology, astronomy, and Teutonic

history.

Ringing the city will be walls over 40
feet high.

Even the grand plan of this, the SS
Vatican, is of mystical significance.

It represents the head of a spear, its
tip pointing to the north.

The cost of realizing Himmler's vision
is to be 300 million marks, an

extraordinary sum.

The entire project is to be completed
sometime in the 1960s.

By then, the SS will possess its own
independent state, a state carved from

heartland of the Soviet Union.

To Heinrich Himmler, Operation
Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet

promises the fulfillment of all his
dreams.

With victory will come the foundation of
an SS kingdom.

With Heinrich Himmler.

grandmaster of the SS order in supreme
authority.

With SS nobles ruling as the feudal
overlords of Germanic settlers, the

will return to its millennial mission.

From the SS peasant warrior, conqueror
of the Slavs, will be bred, over many

generations, the next phase in human
evolution.