-Caveat Lector-
In a message dated 11/18/99 11:58:34 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> FWIW, I've run across a story about one of the "retreats" at the Wewelsburg
> called by Himmler for his twelve SS-Gruppenführer (generals), including, of
> course, Heydrich. (That there were twelve of them was not a coincidence;
> Himmler deliberately invoked the image of the Knights of the Round Table.)
> Each man was assigned a room (identified by a medieval knight's heraldic
> shield, probably drawn from the Arthurian legends), where he was supposed
to
> meditate on the classics of German literature, such as *Das
Niebelungenlied*
> or *Parzival*. And most of them duly, if awkwardly, did just that.
Heydrich,
> however, did not. Defying Himmler's instructions, he had packed a bottle of
> Schnapps, several packs of cigarettes, and a detective novel, and while his
> colleagues were contemplating such figures as Siegfried and Klingsor,
> Heydrich stretched out comfortably with the latest "Krimi."
>
> Himmler and Heydrich were merely two sides of the same coin. Himmler
> believed in the occult, as did many of the Nazi Reichsleiter; Heydrich did
> not believe in anything except Heydrich, a belief system shared by quite a
> few of the Nazi elite. When Heydrich banned all occult groups and
practices,
> his objective was to focus the attention of the masses entirely on the
> person of Adolf Hitler and the institution of the NSDAP. Himmler's seances
> were *not* public affairs; they were intended to raise supernatural power
> for the benefit specifically of the SS and particularly its Reichsführer,
> Heinrich Himmler. Both Himmler and Heydrich were concerned solely with
> power, however that might manifest itself. That Heydrich was a
thoroughgoing
> cynic (as befitted a Nazi leader who may well have been part Jewish) and
> Himmler was a complete, even credulous, believer, becomes essentially
> irrelevant in considering their respective roles in the history of the
Third
> Reich. What matters is the way they exercised their very considerable
power,
> and the way they increased that power by manipulating the structure and the
> symbols of the Nazi state.
>
Thank you. I am familiar with the story you relate about the happenings at
Wewelsburg. I believe that Himmler because of his more credible nature
lacked the focus that was necessary to do the job that needed to be done. I
believe he spread himself too thin. I believe that Heydrich was a much
bigger threat because he had his minds eye focussed on the objective always.
That is the only point I wished to make, and I certainly agree with the rest
of your comments. Credibility for the occult and supernatural in no way make
a person "less" evil for his actions or potential harm, neither does it
necessarily make that person not intelligent enough to make sharp decisions
when necessary. There was most assuredly a difference between the two men.
Because of that difference I'm glad it was not Heydrich in charge of the SS
later in the war.
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