History Decoded by Brad Meltzer

Author:Brad Meltzer
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Workman Publishing
Published: 2013-10-22T04:00:00+00:00

Heinrich Himmler was the head of the SS, Hitler’s most elite military group. He was also the man behind the horrors of the extermination camps, where more than six million Jews and ethnic Europeans were gassed, cremated, and worked to death in the single most horrible and most chillingly efficient mass murder campaign the world has ever seen.

For me, here’s the heart of the story: Real or fake—whether it had mystical powers or not—if this object is being chased by the most evil man of all time, I want to know more about it. Yet the more we searched, the more we realized that there was one person who might’ve been even more obsessed with the spear than Hitler himself: Heinrich Himmler.

Trained as an agronomist, Himmler was also deeply committed to both the study of the occult and the attempt to put occult forces to work for the darkest goals of the Third Reich. Those forces included the power of the Spear of Destiny.

But the spear was far from the only focus of Heinrich Himmler’s obsession. A self-styled “intellectual,” Himmler developed and promoted any number of “theories” explaining the superiority of the Aryan people. The Aryans, Himmler believed, were meant to rule the world—and impose their superiority upon it.

And ready for creepy nuttiness? He believed that Germans were superior to all other people, and put that belief to the test by tracking down the burial places of great heroes from the Aryan past. Such graveyards were designated “breeding cemeteries” because they thought babies who were conceived in graveyards would inherit the attributes of the heroes buried there. That’s right. They were trying to make babies in cemeteries.

Most important, Himmler was an ardent member of the Thule Society, a group dedicated to both mysticism and the superiority of the Aryan race.

Himmler took his fascination with the occult so far, he had a precise replica of the spear made for his private office, where he kept it near a vial of his own blood. And yes, a vial of your own blood is easily the worst paperweight ever.

So what happened to Himmler? He killed himself in prison after the war, rather than standing up to face his accusers and accepting punishment for his crimes. So much for the super-German.

Yet before he was captured, before the Third Reich fell to the Allies, Himmler may have put into place a fantastic plan involving the Spear of Destiny, German submarines . . . and Antarctica. Which again takes us back to the only question that matters: Where is Hitler’s spear today?

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