SS

Typically followed the Geneva Conventions.

And it was run by the Luftwaffe, as I said, and not the SA or the SS.

Because of this, the general treatment of the prisoners was not as cruel as other camps.

Because you have airmen holding airmen.

Now, they talked him down a bit because he was, like, well embarrassed and enraged, but they were like, hey...

If you massacre a whole bunch of Allied pilots, this might result in a retaliation against our own men that are held in Allied POW camps.

And so instead, Hitler ordered to the head of the SS, Heinrich Himmler, that more than half were to be shot specifically.

As the prisoners were recaptured, they were turned over to the Gestapo.

We just have a minute.

The Abwehr held itself apart from the SS, the Gestapo, and other elements of brutality of the regime because of Canaris, the commander.

Is that correct, James?

I think it was, Canalis was viewed as a kind of spiritual godfather, if you like, to the internal resistance to Hitler and the Nazis.

There's the Operation Night and Fog, which is Hitler's announcement for anybody who resists us can be killed.

No law is necessary.

That empowers the Gestapo, the SS.

and even the Abwehr, who can arrest without warrant.

He grew in military ranks while he was climbing the ladder in the Church of Satan, until he left to start an infamous new cult, the Temple of Set.

He traveled to a Nazi castle, the Black Heart of Heinrich Himmler's SS, to perform his own private ritual in their sacred secret North Tower.

And the craziest part, he just went quiet, vanished for the last 20 years of his life, and slipped out of this world so silently that nobody even noticed he was gone for an entire year.

Today, we are walking through his whole story, the Satanism, the psyops, the castle, the daycare, and we are going to try to figure out where the real man ends and the monster begins.

And it turned him from just being like a weird guy with some funny eyebrows that's into Satanism into like a real villain in the public eye and definitely historically.

Aquino was deeply, genuinely fascinated by the occult dimension of Nazi Germany.

So the SS mythology, the runes, the symbols, figures like Heinrich Himmler and his personal mystic, Karl Maria Wilgut, And one place in particular, this place, Weevilsburg Castle.

Now, to be careful here, because pop culture definitely, you know, talks about Nazi occultism and it turns into like, you know, sci fi and like hidden supernatural power and all that kind of stuff.

And actually, some Nazis are Knights of Malta, which kind of, uh, strains credulity, so to speak.

But Himmler, who was the head of the SS under Hitler, was a Knight of Malta, too.

And he had...

And that, there's kind of a secret overlap.

... he's in these Christian organizations.

Same with Galen.

And Himmler was a, just a, I mean, the SS had really dark occult stuff, like, so what's Himmler doing in a Christia- a Crusader organization?

Right.

Tim found an assessment from Alexander's bosses at the Foreign Office, where he had worked for a time as a translator.

There was a very significant S dot in red crayon on this evaluation form, and by this time, I, I knew it didn't stand for Schutzstaffel, uh, [laughs] the SS of the German forces.

I knew it actually, uh, was an acronym in Whitehall bureaucratic speak for Secret Service.

Could Alexander Patrick Wilson have been a spy? Within this treasure trove of information, there was also a letter.

You did

... which was, which was the SS.

Himmler.

And Himmler was into the occult.