The 10 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time by Brad Meltzer

Author:Brad Meltzer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
Published: 2020-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

Hitler and the Spear

Adolf Hitler was said to have first seen the spear in Vienna, in a museum. But know this: There are almost as many legends about Hitler’s relationship to the Spear of Destiny—and its promise of near-infinite power—as there are surrounding the spear itself.

Many of those legends come solely from a 1973 book by Trevor Ravenscroft, The Spear of Destiny, which claims that Hitler first saw the spear in Vienna, where it had been returned after the Napoleonic Wars. Hitler was a boy at the time, but was already dreaming of world conquest. What sort of kid dreams of conquering the world? The kind who grows up to be Adolf Hitler.

The way Ravenscroft tells the story, upon seeing the spear, the young Hitler was seized by a mystical vision that foretold his possession of the spear and its use to help him conquer the world.

But Ravenscroft goes even further, arguing that Adolf Hitler’s ruthless rise to power, and his actual launching of World War II, were all undertaken to capture the spear. According to him, everything else was secondary to getting the Spear of Destiny into Hitler’s possession.

OK. Time out. Let’s just be clear here. No question, that’s taking the crazy a bit too far. Even a quick look will tell you that there are no credible historians who take Ravenscroft and his theories seriously.

Of course, there are plenty of Ravenscroft enthusiasts all over the Internet, but secondhand Ravenscroft is even wackier than the original. However, we do owe Ravenscroft’s book for one thing: The screenwriter of Raiders of the Lost Ark used it as part of the movie’s plot.

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