Wewelsburg (it. Wewelsburg) Home School SS

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Wewelsburg (it. Wewelsburg) - Renaissance castle south of Buren (Germany, North Rhine - Westphalia) near Paderborn. It is known mainly as a museum and a former school on the ideological training of officers of the SS «SS Schule Haus Wewelsburg», which is associated with many legends. In the 1980s in the castle museum was opened.

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Interesting Facts: This castle, probably because of its particular history under the Nazis, was selected prototype Castle Wolfenstein in the eponymous series of computer games of the late 90-ies.

In the game Medal of Honor: Underground present level Wewelsburg: Dark Camelot, in which the action takes place in the vicinity of the castle and in himself. It is noteworthy that, among other opponents of the main character must be destroyed 12 SS soldiers in knightly armor, armed with swords.

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The existing building Wewelsburg castle in Renaissance style was built in 1603-1609 gg. prince-bishop Dietrich von Fürstenberg Paderborn (ruling from 1585 to 1618). In the Thirty Years War the castle was badly damaged, and in 1815 after a lightning strike burned north tower.

In August 1934, the castle was handed over to the SS, and began his career as a museum and school on the ideological preparation of the SS officers as part of the Main Service of race and population, and in February 1935 came under the direct control of personal commission Reichsfuhrer SS. [1] reconstruction of the castle charge architect Herman Bartels (Hermann Bartels), who is also in the early 1940s produced a grand project of developing the area around the castle, which was never carried out. [2] During the reconstruction of the castle used the labor of prisoners of concentration camp Niederhagen small. According to Himmler, after the "final victory" (it. Endsieg) in the castle will be the "center of the world" (it. Mittelpunkt der Welt).

In 1945, the castle was blown up, but most of the buildings survived and is now restored.

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Versions of the significance of Wewelsburg during the Nazi era

The impetus for the mythologizing Wewelsburg castle, which took in the early 1990s, an extremely sharp form, were the words that Chief of RSHA VI Walter Schellenberg in his posthumously published memoirs, described the importance of the castle Wewelsburg for a religious party ideology SS:

Himmler was the best and largest collection of books on the Jesuit Order. For years, he studied at night this vast literature. Therefore, the organization of the SS, he built on the principles of the Jesuit Order. He relied on the statutes of the Order, and "Exercises" of Ignatius Loyola [...] management structure like a hierarchical system of the Catholic Church. Near Paderborn in Westphalia, he ordered the construction of a medieval castle, called Wewelsburg - it was sort of the SS monastery, where the annual general meeting of the Order held a secret consistory. There were all those who belonged to the top leadership of the Order, exercise our spirit in the art of concentration. [3]

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The museum building is 3 floors down SS)) foty museum will not stand, for obvious reasons, can be poszhe if Dial courage

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plaque at the entrance to the castle

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12 view of the main tower



the right wall of the main tower

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Right tower

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Entrance to the museum but we did not go there because of the time ((

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a small triangle in the center of the castle is everything else was the plan to create a Nazi killing machine here

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I actually after 15 km under the sun

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Catacombs museum

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Room 2 * 2 with holes in the walls

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someone answer me that the STE? (answer vinyl cellar)

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