Hello, everybody. Welcome back to another episode of the...

I'm going to say casualty grudence. That's the wrong show, Simon. That's another show I do if you want to check it out.

It's, might I say, fantastic. This is, Decoding the Unknown today. Katie's written me a script. It's about the Rasputin at the Nazis. I mean, we might adjust that title slightly

because this goes out on YouTube

as well as a podcast, and you don't want to use the N-word

Nazis, or the the N-word

Nazis or the other N-word for that matter. Anyway, North East Germany, 1935, SS leader Heinrich

Himner has acquired a triangular-shaped castle to turn into a school for the study of Germanic folklore and ideological education.

What is this like Heinrich Himmler's side gig?

The focus soon shifts, however, with the addition of Oberfura Willegut into the mix.

This mysterious Austrian soldier with links to the occult has made his way into Himmler's personal staff and was now influencing Himmler,

to turn Wellesburg Castle into the equivalent of a Vatican for the SS, using his esoteric beliefs,

as the basis for this major operation that was going to take about 30 years to complete.

Well, bad news. It's 1935. You've only got a few more years.

Himla believed in Willer got so much so that he promoted him to Brigaduror or Brigadier in 1936.

It was just a regular soldier.

It's like, congratulations, you're now a Brigadier General.

All right.

However, just three years later, the man known as Himmler's Rasputin was secretly retired, his reputation in Tatters. So what do we know

about this figure that Himmler was basing the future of the SS on? And what was the secret

that brought him down? And most importantly, have I never heard of this guy? I feel like I've

covered everything about the Nazis because, you know, people on YouTube like clicking on stuff

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