BEST OF (#29 of 495) HIMMLER'S BLACK CASTLE AND THE LEGEND OF THE SS DEATH RINGS

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast

Jon Hagadorn

Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 20 September 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Heinrich Himmler, second in command only to Adolph Hitler, rebuilt Castle Wewelsburg (pronounced VIVES-BORK) in Germany to house special meetings which included all types of idol worship and satanic rituals for his SS commanders, to which he gave Death's Head rings to symbolize their lifelong devotion to the Nazi party. The castle served as a training academy for new SS, where they were steeped in Himmler's own view of Aryan history, a center for exploration and archeology that supported his theories of a master race, and a laboratory for engineering study of a crashed UFO which was brought there for study., and from which the Nazi's developed a flying saucer. Over 11,500 "death rings" were returned to Himmler, who hid them prior to the end of the war, one legend being that he buried them in a crypt below the castle.

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0:00.0	Today, a little known true story that involves a German SS officer named Heinrich Himmler, who was second in command to Hitler within the Nazi party.
0:10.0	It involves an ancient castle with a bloody history, cult worship, a crashed UFO, an Indiana Jones style hunt for artifacts,
0:19.5	and a quantity of missing sterling silver rings which featured a skull and mystic
0:24.4	symbols, rings that once given met membership till death in Himmler's cult of
0:30.3	SS believers. There were over 14,000 of these death rings awarded to top
0:36.4	SS officers and very few exist today. According to legend, most were removed
0:42.2	from dead SS officers toward the end of World War II,
0:45.0	returned to Himmler's Castle at Vivensburg,
0:48.0	and placed in a steel box which was in the last days of Hitler's rule,
0:52.0	buried in an unknown location. which was in the last days of Hitler's rule,
0:52.7	buried in an unknown location beneath a mountain in Germany
0:56.6	as the Allies approached, and the crypt was blasted closed
1:00.5	and then forgotten.
1:02.3	No paperwork exists as to its actual location. The rings may
1:06.5	also be sealed in a chamber beneath the Vival Sport Castle which stands on a
1:10.8	hilltop in Germany and serves as a museum today.
1:16.0	Coming up, the story of the Nazi SS officer Heinrich Himmler who planned and ordered the death of millions of innocence,
1:22.0	his very creepy castle and the legend that surrounds his death rings, known as the totin cop rings. Oh, And then. Welcome to another episode for 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories and Mysteries.
2:01.0	This is your host, John Hagadorn.
2:04.7	And today's story is a true story.
2:07.2	The legend being the unknown location of thousands of death's head rings called
2:11.5	Toten cop rings designed by order of Germany's top
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