Heinrich Himmler : A Life (150 page)

146
. Greve, ‘Tibetforschung’, 177 ff., and Mierau,
Expeditionspolitik
, 394 ff.

147
. BAB, NS 19/2244, Brandt to Tobis-Filmkunst, 24 November 1939.

148
. Ibid. Himmler to Schäfer, March 1940, no day.

149
. BAB, BDC, SS-O Schäfer, Himmler to Schäfer, 24 February 1943. The book in fact appeared in 1943 with the subtitle
Erster Bericht der deutschen Tibet-Expedition Ernst Schäfer 1938/39
.

150
. See BAB, NS 19/500, Otto to Brandt, Gmund, 5 August 1939, on the secondment of a Luftwaffe major for the South America expedition. In a letter Sievers wrote on 9 August 1939 to Himmler as President of the Ahnenerbe he reminded him that in discussions with Kiss he had voiced the intention of informing the governments of Bolivia, Peru, and Chile about the Ahnenerbe expedition arranged for 1940 (ibid.).

151
. Edmund Kiss,
Das Sonnentor von Tihuanaku und Hörbigers Welteislehre
(Leipzig, 1937).

152
. BAB, BDC, SS-O Weisthor.

153
. The account in question was
Der Rasputin Himmlers. Die Wiligut Saga
(Vienna, 1982) by Rudolf J. Mund and published by the Volkstum-Verlag. It is based above all on letters, notes, and oral material from Wiligut’s adherents and admirers, of whom the author was one. Goodrick-Clarke,
Wurzeln
, took some important material from it. Hans-Jürgen Lange is more critical:
Weisthor. Karl Maria Wiligut. Himmlers Rasputin und seine Erben
(Engerda, 1998).

154
. Karl Maria Wiligut,
Seyfried’s Runen (Rabensteinsage)
(Vienna, 1903), reprinted in Winfried Katholing,
Die Sage von Ritter Seyfried und der Rebenstein bei Znaim
(Aschaffenburg, 2003), 73–115.

155
. Amongst the papers Wiligut sent Himmler were the article ‘Gotos Raunen—Runenwissen!’, which had appeared in the journal
Hagal
in 1934, with a personal dedication from Wiligut, a mythological poem in seven stanzas, a ‘mythological idyll’, a number of letters, and an Irminic prayer from 1934. The documents are published in Lange,
Weisthor
. In addition Wiligut prepared for Himmler a detailed commentary on a book dedicated to Himmler’s father,
Erklärung der Gebräuche bei der Ausstellung der Heiligen Sakramente in der rechtgläubigen Kirche
(W. Michailowskij, St Petersburg, 1870), NS 19/3944.

156
. BAB, NS 19/3670 (undated).

157
. BAB, NS 19/3671, ‘For my Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler from a loyal German!’ Initialled on 1 May 1934 by Himmler.

158
. Ibid. initialled on 17 June 1936 by Himmler.

159
. BAB, BDC, SS-O Weisthor, promotion w.e.f. 9 November 1936.

160
. Ibid. Wolff to Pancke, 5 February 1939; according to this Weisthor had ‘left the SS w.e.f. 1. 1. 39 at his own request for reasons of age and of the fragile state of his health’.

161
. Ibid. Chief of the Personal Staff, Wolff, to Schmitt, 22 August 1939.

162
. BAB, NS 19/1573, correspondence between Brandt und Wiligut, who was in Salzdetfurt being treated for rheumatism, from 18 August to 11 September 1940.

163
.
Dienstkalender
, 28 November 1941, lunch with Colonel Wiligut, Frau Ruppmann, Frau Baltrusch.

164
. Speech in 1938 in Himmler,
Geheimreden
, 79.

165
. ‘Zur Erkenntnis deutschen Wesens. Julzeit—heilige Zeit’,
Germanien
, 8 (1936), 369–72, 371; cf. Huber,
Porzellan-Manukfaktur
, 133 ff.

166
. BAB, NS 19/4003, speech at the Gruppenführer meeting in Dachau, 8 November 1936.

167
. BAB, NS 19/4004, speech at the Gruppenführer meeting in Munich in the leaders’ quarters of the SS-Standarte Deutschland, 8 November 1937.

168
. Knoll, ‘Porzellanmanufaktur’, 122 f. Huber,
Porzellan-Manufaktur
, 24, even mentions 60,000.

169
. BAB, NS 19/457, Himmler to Diebitsch, 9 June 1939, and also Personal Staff (Brandt) to the Personal Staff Munich, 5 April 1940 (ibid.); cf. Huber,
Porzellan-Manufaktur
, 136 f.

170
. Huber,
Porzellan-Manufaktur
, 136. There was also a life light embellished with a ‘children’s frieze’ and known as a ‘children’s frieze light’.

171
. Various letters in BAB, NS 19/3034 and in 3666.

172
. BAB, NS 19/3901, Order for the Conferral of the Death’s Head Ring, 10 April 1934. All SS leaders from Sturmführer upwards received the ring if they had either joined the organization before 1933 and had belonged to it for at least two years or had joined after 30 January 1933 and had been members for three years, and also all SS leaders who through belonging to the Reichswehr and police had not been able to join before 30 January 1933 received it after they had been members for two years. For a detailed account of the ring see Klaus D. Patzwall,
Der SS-Totenkopfring. Seine illustrierte Geschichte 1933– 1945
, 4th. rev. edn. (Norderstedt, 2002), 58 f.

173
. See e.g. BAB, BDC, SS-O Daluege, Himmler to Daluege, 24 December 1933.

174
. Ibid. Himmler to Daluege, 15 September 1933.

175
. BAB, NS 19/4003, speech to the Gruppenführer meeting in Dachau, 8 November 1936.

176
. Ibid. For a time this was nothing more than an announcement: see BAB, NS 19/3081, Personal Staff to Frau Gahr, 8 June 1939, and further correspondence on the design that was finally put forward.

177
. Examples in BAB, NS 19/3034 and 3666; cf. Gudrun Schwarz,
Eine Frau an seiner Seite. Ehefrauen in der ‘SS-Sippengemeinschaft’
(Hamburg, 1997), 64.

178
. Ackermann,
Himmler
, 66.

179
. BAB, NS 19/1148, referred to RFSS with a letter of 17 April 1937; published with a commentary in Schwarz,
Frau
, 53 ff.

180
. BAB, NS 19/4003, speech at the Gruppenführer meeting in Dachau, 8 November 1936. See also speech at the wedding ceremony of SS-Sturmbannführer Deutsch, 2 April 1936 (ibid.).

181
. Instructions for the Organization of Name Consecrations, formerly Slg. Schumacher (BAB), discussed in detailed in Ackermann,
Himmler
, 84 ff.

182
. BAB, NS 19/4003, speech at the Gruppenführer meeting in Dachau, 8 November 1936.

183
. A facsimile of the official record of the ceremony is published in Lang,
Adjutant
, 43 f.

184
. BAB, NS 19/4003, speech at the Gruppenführer meeting in Dachau, 8 November 1936.

185
. NARA, T 580/143/167, circular 5/38, 30 September 1938.

186
. BAB, NS 19/4005, speech in Alt-Rehse.

187
. BAB, NS 19/3667, list of summer-solstice celebrations in which the RFSS has taken part.

188
. BAB, NS 2/6, Wolff to RuSHA, 26 October 1936.

189
. BAB, NS 2/54, 28 February 1938.

190
. BAB, NS 19/530, summary report of the SS Main Office dated 25 October 1938, enclosing the reports from senior SS leaders sent in at the request of the Personal Staff.

191
. ‘Frühjahrswettkampf der SS’,
SS-Leitheft
, 3/1 (1937), 45–7, also ‘Sonnenwendkämpfe der SS’,
SS-Leitheft
, 3/3 (1937), 62–4 (for the second quotation).

192
. BAB, NS 19/4004, speech to the Gruppenführer meeting in München in the officers’ quarters of the SS-Standarte Deutschland, 8 November 1937.

193
. BAB, NS 19/4003, speech to the Gruppenführer meeting in Dachau, 8 November 1936.

194
. BAB, NS 19/2240, correspondence of the Personal Staff concerning the ‘light sayings’ for the celebrations in 1936 and 1937.

195
. Ibid. 16 November 1937; cf. Ackermann,
Himmler
, 65, and Schwarz,
Frau
, 63.

196
. BAB, NS 19/1312, Brandt to Ellersiek, 8 November 1938.

197
. BAB, NS 19/4003, speech at the Gruppenführer meeting in Dachau, 8 November 1936. Italics in the original.

198
. Ibid. Gruppenführer meeting 8 November 1936; similarly BAB, NS19/4004, Gruppenführer meeting in Bad Tölz, 18 February 1937.

199
. BAB, NS 2/231, 16 April 1940.

200
. BAB, NS 19/4003, Gruppenführer meeting in Dachau, 8 November 1936.

201
. Schwarz,
Frau
, 57, with reference to a letter from the head of the SS Main Office of October 1935.

202
. BAB, NS 19/4003, Gruppenführer meeting in Dachau, 8 November 1936.

203
.
Tagebücher Goebbels
, 21 August 1935.

204
. BAB, NS 2/56, RFSS’s Guidelines for Comradeship Evenings, 22 February 1941.

205
. Doc. PS-1992 (A), in
IMT
, vol. 29, pp. 206 ff.

206
. Karl Hüser,
Wewelsburg 1933–1945. Kult- und Terrorstätte der SS. Eine Dokumentation
(Paderborn, 1982), 11 ff.

207
. Ibid. 26 ff.

208
. Ibid. 23 ff.

209
. BAB, NS 19/3901, order of 6 November 1935.

210
. Hüser,
Wewelsburg
, 24.

211
. Ibid. 32 f.

212
. Ibid. 61 ff.

213
. NS 19/3667, RFSS’s guest list at the Wewelsburg between 1935 and 1938. On the dates of 12/13 May, 25/26 May, and 1 July 1935 see BAK, NL 1126/7, appointments diary for 1935; for 4 to 6 February and 7 to 9 May 1937 see the diary for 1937 (Wildt, ‘Terminkalender’, 689).

214
. Speech of 8 November 1938, in Himmler,
Geheimreden
, 25 ff., here 26.

215
. Hüser,
Wewelsburg
, 43 f.

216
. Ibid. 65.

217
. BAB, NS 19/1446, on his visit to the castle from 15 to 18 January 1939.

218
. BAB, NS 19/1446; this instruction is undated (also published in Ackermann,
Himmler
, doc. no. 21).

219
. Speech from 1938, quoted in Himmler,
Geheimreden
, 79. BAB, NS 19/3901, Himmler’s instruction regarding the transfer of death’s-head rings belonging to fallen SS men to the Personnel Main Office, 6 December 1939.

220
. BAB, NS 19/4004, speech in Bad Tölz, 18 Februar 1937. Cf. Ackermann,
Himmler
, 105.

221
. This can be found in the personal files of numerous SS leaders (BAB, BDC, SS-O).

222
. Hüser,
Wewelsburg
, 50 ff.

223
. Uta Halle,
‘Die Externsteine sind bis auf weiteres germanisch!’ Prähistorische Archäologie im Dritten Reich
(Bielefeld, 2002), 180 ff.

224
. BAB, NS 19/1631, Wolff to Galke, who was the person in the Personal Staff with responsibility for the Externsteine, 27 April 1937.