Helen of Annoy, on 24 March 2009 - 05:57 PM, said:
Another one… *sigh*
Why is it impossible for average person to note that Himmler and Hitler were two different guys?
As for the Himmler/Göbels relations, they hated each other because both saw themselves as most important after Hitler. Göbels was not disgusted or something with SS, he was simply jealous because this “gang of thugs” was not under his control. Thugs they were, but slightly more organized and influential than a gang.
In fact, nobody had more power in Reich, because they were not part of Wehrmacht, their head Himmler answered directly and only to Hitler. Which got more complicated and interesting when things started to fell apart but...
Why am I wasting my time here?
Ah, yes.
The documentary from the OP is cheap attempt to use once again one extremely ugly but also extremely interesting period in history, without saying anything new, confirmed or important.
Wewelsburg was Himmler’s playground, and from everything I learned about it so far, it was a temple of new religion, partially based on old belief and partially on Himmler’s own fantasies. I don’t think it was satanic, though, unless pagan belief and egomania is satanic. Maybe we would know more about it if it wasn’t blown up and if it wasn’t so popular among important figures of SS to put a bullet in their head by the end of the war.
Hitler wasn’t Satanist either. The most plausible story (in my opinion, of course) is this: he decided to keep Christianity for a while, until people are ready to switch to new religion, that used old religion and old folk belief as well as new stuff, all mixed up together with Hitler as some sort of crossbreed between christian-like saviour and merge of few old gods.
For example, children in orphanages recited prayer to Hitler, not to Christian god.
Satanist by default has to acknowledge existence of Christian god in order to make Satan, fallen angel, existent in his mind. How can you have angel that rebelled against Yahweh if you don’t believe in Yahweh in the first place?
So if you have people who don’t believe middle-eastern god is in charge of this world, then you don’t have Satanists. End of story – in my opinion.
Why is this important anyway? It’s terminology, dependable of the personal beliefs of spectator, it doesn’t change or explain events.
Disclaimer: no, I don’t defend the ****ers, I just happen to be interested in that particular historical period.
Excellent and so true. Hitler was however a follower of Guido von List