Tea at Trianon: Adolf Hitler's Bizarre Hunt For The Holy Grail Explained

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Friday, May 16, 2025

Adolf Hitler's Bizarre Hunt For The Holy Grail Explained

It was not the Spanish Inquisition that dealt with the Cathars; just the Inquisition. From Grunge:

Himmler came to see through Rahn's framing the Cathars as an essentially Aryan faith, and the Holy Grail, which is usually associated with Christianity, a symbol of Aryan power. Indeed, through the Cathars' unorthodox reading of Biblical texts, it appeared possible to co-opt Jesus Christ himself into some new Aryan religious landscape. Himmler sent for Rahn to meet with him and convinced the young intellectual to enlist in the SS Ahnenerbe for the sake of research funding while actively undertaking a search for the Grail, which would then serve as a centerpiece of the Aryan cult that was slowly emerging within the paramilitary organization.

In preparation for the writing of "Crusade Against the Grail," Otto Rahn had traveled to the site of the ruined Montségur, searching the tunnel systems beneath the old fortifications for any sign of the Cathars having secreted the Holy Grail away from Catholic looters. As well as the Grail, Rahn was now charged with finding evidence of Aryan civilization, heading to Iceland to search for traces of mythical Atlantis.

At the SS-controlled Wewelsburg Castle, Heimlich Himmler constructed a Grail Room, expecting the SS to become the new Knights of the Round Table, with Wewelsburg as their Camelot. And like the Arthurian knights of legend, Himmler believed that he was destined to find the Grail or have it found for him. (Read more.)