The Nazi Quest for Thor's Hammer - WW2 Documentary Special

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  • Опубликовано: 22 окт 2024

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  • @WorldWarTwo
    @WorldWarTwo  Год назад +441

    With beliefs like these the Nazis certainly don't do themselves any favors for their creepy public image. It continues to live on today in fiction, with Indy (Jones, not Neidell) encountering a few Nazi occult creeps. What are some of your favorite fictional depictions of creepy Nazis?

    • @mrdestructoo
      @mrdestructoo Год назад +14

      I liked the one guy with the ice theory. (Nazi moment)

    • @theswampcleaner3856
      @theswampcleaner3856 Год назад +19

      Vitamin P? Is that an innuendo?

    • @Hrafnskald
      @Hrafnskald Год назад +22

      I like the comedic ones best: Springtime for Hitler (within The Producers) and Klaus von Kraut in "A Man Called Sarge". The best reaction to hatred is scorn and laughter at its fragility.

    • @franciszeklatinik889
      @franciszeklatinik889 Год назад +35

      I always loved the depictions of the Nazi Occult from the Wolfenstein series, even if it is a bit outlandish.

    • @alexgomez2731
      @alexgomez2731 Год назад +7

      Burgundy

  • @Carewolf
    @Carewolf Год назад +1228

    Hitler: "You must stop this nonsense with cults"
    Himmler: "Do you realise how little that narrows it down.."

    • @johncarlaw8633
      @johncarlaw8633 Год назад +18

      @@GravesRWFiA That is so old, the 2024 slogan is Make Almand Great And Glorious Again, MAGAGA

    • @annehersey9895
      @annehersey9895 Год назад +11

      MAGA-Makes Attorney's Get Attorneys!

    • @Basedlocation
      @Basedlocation Год назад +3

      Retvrn

    • @Makarosc
      @Makarosc Год назад +2

      Hitler: that's the point!!!!

    • @alistair6914
      @alistair6914 Год назад

      @@GravesRWFiA the Democrats are the nazis

  • @dogstar7
    @dogstar7 Год назад +1740

    Rudolph Hess edited Adolf Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' making him the original grammar Nazi

    • @colonelblastpack169
      @colonelblastpack169 Год назад +36

      HA!!

    • @Anthony-jo7up
      @Anthony-jo7up Год назад

      Grammar is very important to the Nazi party.

    • @thexalon
      @thexalon Год назад +113

      Constanze Manziarly, Hitler's personal chef from 1943-5, would thus be the original soup Nazi.

    • @colonelblastpack169
      @colonelblastpack169 Год назад +19

      @@thexalon HA!! No Mjolnir for you

    • @nopenotme6369
      @nopenotme6369 Год назад +32

      Historically literate dad jokes! 😁

  • @ashcarrier6606
    @ashcarrier6606 Год назад +478

    Einstein's original first draft letter to FDR:
    "In conclusion, I propose we either find Thor's hammer or pursue this compressing of radioactive metal into critical mass idea."

    • @kirbyculp3449
      @kirbyculp3449 Год назад +15

      Ashley wins the internet today.

    • @dtaylor10chuckufarle
      @dtaylor10chuckufarle Год назад +2

      @@kirbyculp3449 Agreed.

    • @forickgrimaldus8301
      @forickgrimaldus8301 Год назад +14

      "That or a Time Machine"

    • @bonkedwoofy4240
      @bonkedwoofy4240 Год назад +2

      Balanced dichotomy of singular decision.

    • @idriscorvus2237
      @idriscorvus2237 Год назад +6

      @@forickgrimaldus8301
      At the Crossroads of Fate.
      One Man and his Time Machine
      "Time will tell....sooner or later..
      Time will tell."
      -No Strings Prd.

  • @xminusone1
    @xminusone1 Год назад +141

    The special group of SS was searching for many other things, too. They believed in a literally hollow earth that was enlightened by a black sun. They searched for the agartha, a forgotten land ruled by superior beings. All these things were in the book written by Mme Blavasky, a Russian woman who supposedly explored those places in the lates 1800s. It's quite fascinating. They maybe search in Nordic countries but they also searched in Nepal and Tibet.

    • @batsnackattack
      @batsnackattack Год назад +22

      Yes, thank you. This gives us the impression they did nothing else but measure bodies. They were indeed looking for ancient temples with gates or tunnels to Blavatsky's underworld and they had other things like an obsession with universal "radio waves" (something popularized in the 'Star Wars' movies) and they searched temples, spires and stupas looking for evidence of ancient 'receivers'. Thank you for pointing this out. The video seems determined to minimize, 'wave-off' and play down.

    • @bicepbrah8179
      @bicepbrah8179 Год назад +18

      Its funny because Agartha is real

    • @Lk-be4gj
      @Lk-be4gj Год назад +1

      @@bicepbrah8179 you speak as if youve seen it

    • @bicepbrah8179
      @bicepbrah8179 Год назад +8

      @@Lk-be4gj As if i haven't

    • @BloodyVulnona
      @BloodyVulnona Год назад +2

      @@bicepbrah8179 you mean the movie?

  • @Dreadhead02productions
    @Dreadhead02productions Год назад +73

    "Himmlers helper's hikes into hysterical historigraphy" is one of the finest lines I've heard uttered on this channel.
    Bravo!

    • @friedasorber1653
      @friedasorber1653 9 месяцев назад

      Wonderful way of phrazing it. Smells of the woke of today.

  • @kcthecowboy
    @kcthecowboy Год назад +135

    This is possibly the best episode you've done sofar. It is frightening to see pictures of Himmler in civilian clothes. He is such an unassuming looking fellow. He doesn't look like one of the most evil men in history at all.

    • @IanBerg
      @IanBerg Год назад +9

      Himmler (born 1900) was the youngest major figure in the original Hitler cabinet formed in 1933 among the likes of Goebbels (b. 1897), Goring (b. 1893), Frick (b.1877) and Hitler (b. 1889) himself. He looked unassuming because he had a dull personality but he stayed in power, in the top ranks from 1933 through 1945 because of his ambition and he worked his subordinates hard.

    • @peaknonsense2041
      @peaknonsense2041 Год назад +7

      The monster's humans create are always just human. Evil resides in us all if we take leave of our senses.

    • @harrymaciolek9629
      @harrymaciolek9629 Год назад +3

      Which was first, the occultism or the evil?

  • @TheTrickster923
    @TheTrickster923 Год назад +530

    Even Hitler thought Himmler's obsession with ancient artifacts was cringe. Hitler complained to Albert Speer that Himmler was spending all his time at archaeological sites digging up stone axes and mud huts, while everyone knew that when the Germans were crouching around fires wearing furs, the Greeks and Romans were discussing philosophy in beautiful stone temples.

    • @robertmiles1603
      @robertmiles1603 Год назад

      the greeks and romans were sodomite limpwrists in skirts who could not withstand the fall of civilization as the fearless german warriors did and had a boring gay inbred mythology that everyone already knows. theres a good reason skyrim, tolkien, etc r not based on greek crap
      German chieftain: "CRUSH YOUR ENEMIES. SEE THEM DRIVEN BEFORE YOU. HEAR THE LAMENTATIONS OF THEIR WOMEN."
      Roman emperor (sounds like Snaggletooth from Yogi Bear): "Oh, gee, I've raped my catamite nephew to death, good thing I don't mind doing it again even if he's dead, tee hee! I'll even bring my horse/husband in so he can join in the fun!"

    • @Jarod-vg9wq
      @Jarod-vg9wq Год назад +9

      8:43 truest statement I’ve ever heard.

    • @larshofler8298
      @larshofler8298 Год назад +51

      You do realize that the ancient Greeks were pagans? And that their obsession with pure Germanic people has nothing to do with how Germanic people used to be? Also, no, the ancient Greeks didn't discuss philosophy in stone temples lol they likely did so in their homes, which were just ordinary houses.

    • @TheTrickster923
      @TheTrickster923 Год назад +80

      @@larshofler8298 thank you, but I was paraphrasing what Hitler himself said about it.
      The exact quote from him is: ”Why do we call the whole world's attention to the fact that we have no past? It's bad enough that the Romans were erecting great buildings when our forefathers were still living in mud huts; now Himmler is starting to dig up these villages of mud huts and enthusing over every potsherd and stone ax he finds. All we prove by that is that we were still throwing stone hatchets and crouching around open fires when Greece and Rome had already reached the highest stage of culture. We really should do our best to keep quiet about this past. Instead Himmler makes a great fuss about it all. The present-day Romans must be having a laugh at these revelations.”

    • @BlankEmporium
      @BlankEmporium Год назад +31

      ​@@statenthusiast3382 I don't think the point's about paganism so much as how primitive Hitler believed ye Norse men to be by comparison to the Greeks and Romans.

  • @stumpe9662
    @stumpe9662 Год назад +708

    You know the more I learn about these Nazis the weirder they seem

    • @alitlweird
      @alitlweird Год назад

      the more they seem like modern democrats and RINO globalist degenerates.

    • @stumpe9662
      @stumpe9662 Год назад +2

      @@alitlweird go away

    • @miracleyang3048
      @miracleyang3048 Год назад +45

      And Hitler more sane than i thought

    • @stumpe9662
      @stumpe9662 Год назад +1

      @@Tommy-xs4zq okay

    • @oscarwind4266
      @oscarwind4266 Год назад +41

      When I was a kid they seemed like wacky clowns, then in middle school they seemed like horrifying monsters when the realization they murdered 6 million people for no reason really set in, then they went back to clowns with this.

  • @christopherjustice6411
    @christopherjustice6411 Год назад +1616

    Of all the people who could be strong or worthy enough to wield Mjolnir, Himmler is at the bottom of the list.

    • @grahvis
      @grahvis Год назад +185

      I would have thought one look at him would rule out any idea he was a member of a superior race.

    • @Significantpower
      @Significantpower Год назад +213

      And Thor was among other things, the protector of the weak. The only way Himmler will touch that hammer is when old Odinson introduces it to his skull at speed.

    • @prestonjones1653
      @prestonjones1653 Год назад +238

      "A true Aryan man is as blonde as Hitler, as tall as Himmler, and as athletic as Göring."
      -a man who was shot about five minutes after making this statement.

    • @felixbabuf5726
      @felixbabuf5726 Год назад +35

      @@prestonjones1653 Wait that was an actual quote? I thought it was just a quip the Russians used for a poster.

    • @thedeadcannotdie
      @thedeadcannotdie Год назад +13

      He's on the list?

  • @Valdagast
    @Valdagast Год назад +405

    _“There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do.”_ Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

    • @penhullwolf5070
      @penhullwolf5070 Год назад +32

      Terry Pratchett has a better understanding of human nature than any other Author I have read.
      This quote is one of my favourites.

    • @PalleRasmussen
      @PalleRasmussen Год назад +10

      Read "Ordinary Men".

    • @neilwilson5785
      @neilwilson5785 Год назад

      Himmler; the boring bank manager who is offered real power.

    • @rvanhees89
      @rvanhees89 Год назад +3

      I cant remember what the title is, but the one that is about the ethnic conflict between the dwarves and the trolls.
      Some of the language that one of the leaders of the dwarven fanatics uses, is simply bonechilling.
      Terry Pratchett was one of mankinds greatest observers.

    • @Valdagast
      @Valdagast Год назад +1

      @@rvanhees89 Thud, I think.

  • @hatuletoh
    @hatuletoh Год назад +1413

    As my grandmother, who lived through the war, used to say: "the nazis would have been very amusing if they hadn't slaughtered millions of people."

    • @dr.barrycohn5461
      @dr.barrycohn5461 Год назад +50

      No, they notoriously lacked a sense of humor individually and collectively. The book of nazi humor was only a paragraph, if that. There weren't any nazi comedians.

    • @Game_Hero
      @Game_Hero Год назад +239

      @@dr.barrycohn5461 No need to, their ridiculous beliefs are the joke here.

    • @richbulena8847
      @richbulena8847 Год назад +46

      @@dr.barrycohn5461 I was once wandering the stacks of Columbia University’s library when I came across a pile of pile of magazines that were apparently a monthly sent out to Nazi party members full of light articles and pictures of friendly soldiers. The back cover was a “joke page” that was truly appalling.

    • @hatuletoh
      @hatuletoh Год назад +38

      @@dr.barrycohn5461 Right. That's partly why they were "amsuing," which is not to be confused with someone who is "funny" in that he makes one laugh. To laugh at versus laugh with, so to speak.

    • @camilogonzalez5576
      @camilogonzalez5576 Год назад +4

      I think that reflection is precisely what allows Sparty to record this episode with a straight face

  • @ethanwmonster9075
    @ethanwmonster9075 Год назад +186

    Mussolini and Franco : Jesse, what the hell are you talking about.

    • @danielmp2085
      @danielmp2085 Год назад

      The allies effort to stop Spain from joining the axis was partly made up of british inteligence paying spanish generals to speak to Franco about how Hitler was a pagan that rejected christianity while the british and americans where pius christians. The nazis weird relation with christianity was part of the reason Franco never trusted them.

    • @forickgrimaldus8301
      @forickgrimaldus8301 Год назад +11

      Yeah when Franco and Mussolini of all people think you are nuts than the Nasis were really nuts.

    • @anon2427
      @anon2427 Год назад +2

      @@forickgrimaldus8301 why was Mussolini nuts

    • @forickgrimaldus8301
      @forickgrimaldus8301 Год назад +3

      @@anon2427 the dude created Fascism so he is Nuts just not in a psychological sense.

    • @anon2427
      @anon2427 Год назад +13

      @@forickgrimaldus8301 can you tell me why instead of just asserting it though

  • @yankeecantrell
    @yankeecantrell Год назад +40

    In 2022, himmler would have been a “Libra” and would have been preaching about essential oils and magic crystals

    • @bdleo300
      @bdleo300 5 месяцев назад

      @@animeXcaso I'm not saying Himmler... but Himmler.

    • @shoot2kill647
      @shoot2kill647 13 дней назад

      Not that kind of pagan, lmao

  • @gregoryblack2044
    @gregoryblack2044 Год назад +103

    I do appreciate this special a lot, since so many discussion of Nazi Occultism are either "would you get a load of these kooks," or History Channel breathless rushes through the most sensationalist presentations possible. Obviously this occult connection was there and needs to be described, but it's nice to have a discussion that is down to Earth about it.

    • @sonoftherabbitpeople4737
      @sonoftherabbitpeople4737 Год назад +5

      The Nazi-occult connection gets pretty weird.

    • @theadversary
      @theadversary Год назад

      Uh huh

    • @Lk-be4gj
      @Lk-be4gj Год назад +1

      nazi occultism is essential to understanding nazism. the mainstream doesnt want you knowing the occult roots of these satanic ideologies like communism.

    • @heem8814
      @heem8814 Год назад

      @Death to America gaming SWARTHOIDS SEETHING

  • @KAPTAINmORGANnWo4eva
    @KAPTAINmORGANnWo4eva Год назад +129

    I hope at some point when Himmler was finding out Donitz was firing him _somebody_ finally told him to his face how ridiculous all this crap was.

  • @danielnavarro537
    @danielnavarro537 Год назад +244

    This is unrelated to this but there is a funny story about Himmler. During the war, as Nazi germany was facing manpower shortages. Himmler sought to create new SS divisions from Estonia, Latvia, etc. In his words, the men from those countries are Aryan, sort of. For an example, if a squad of 4 Latvians are in combat. Out of the four, three them of die. Himmler would say that the other three “Aryan spirits” would go to the one survivor. Himmler was a crazy person who believed in crazy ideologies.

    • @alexs_toy_barn
      @alexs_toy_barn Год назад +15

      TIKHistory has entered the chat

    • @danielnavarro537
      @danielnavarro537 Год назад +4

      @@alexs_toy_barn Ahaha. You knew the reference.

    • @robertsansone1680
      @robertsansone1680 Год назад +2

      Heinz Guderian, the famous panzer general, said of Himmler, "He seemed like a man from another planet". I believe that was his way of saying "an Alien". 👽

    • @iMoD190
      @iMoD190 Год назад +9

      @@alexs_toy_barn can you not ruin this channel by bringing up TIK? the man is a historic denialist and bottom of the barrel pop historian.

    • @alexs_toy_barn
      @alexs_toy_barn Год назад +9

      Can you please read more sources other than marxist historians, please and try and challenge your own preconceived ideas, for once?

  • @Professor_sckinnctn
    @Professor_sckinnctn Год назад +173

    This was literally the most hilarious episode ever. I know it's also serious, but well done Spartacus for so many subtle and not so subtle digs.

    • @crites234
      @crites234 Год назад +11

      The vitamin P comment that made me snort XD

    • @Professor_sckinnctn
      @Professor_sckinnctn Год назад

      @Joshua Isgrigg1488 ruclips.net/video/iyc62g7YQM0/видео.html

    • @Conn30Mtenor
      @Conn30Mtenor Год назад

      Vitamin P and concerns over SS men having buttsex.

  • @DirtyHairy1
    @DirtyHairy1 Год назад +193

    As an Austrian, this recorded influx of austrian lunatics makes sense to me
    edit: the lesson is to export what you have in abundance

    • @awesomeguy4358
      @awesomeguy4358 Год назад +16

      The Volkisch movement was originally Austrian. As well Pan-Germanism. Austrian germans were highly racist against slavs during the days of the empire, which gave birth to radical nationalistic movements. Knowing this, it is no surprise that Hitler was Austrian. The influence of such ideas on a young man can be devastating.

    • @Lirelir
      @Lirelir Год назад +1

      Hat sich halt echt nix gändert ge

    • @Lirelir
      @Lirelir Год назад +5

      @@awesomeguy4358 was? We still have an incredibly racist part of the people here in Austria...

    • @buddermonger2000
      @buddermonger2000 Год назад +1

      thank you for clearing that up

    • @garlandgarrison3739
      @garlandgarrison3739 Год назад

      @@Lirelir Really? Damn.

  • @hemidas
    @hemidas Год назад +300

    *B.J. Blaskowitz has joined the chat.*

    • @OnionChoppingNinja
      @OnionChoppingNinja Год назад

      GET PSYCHED!

    • @509Gman
      @509Gman Год назад +11

      Ja, ein… hot dog

    • @ForelliBoy
      @ForelliBoy Год назад +11

      "Hey Heinrich. I found this little mallet in an old shack and I suddenly felt the need to smash a few watermelons. Of course, there ain't any watermelons around..."

    • @GeneralSmitty91
      @GeneralSmitty91 Год назад +2

      *Manon Baptiste:* 👀

    • @ChunkSchuldinga
      @ChunkSchuldinga Год назад

      BJ Blaskowitz sends nazis to hell with their pagan false gods so Doomguy can finish them off there. The Jews are God's chosen people for a reason.

  • @ethanmcfarland8240
    @ethanmcfarland8240 Год назад +104

    Imagine explaining this to American or British GIs, you’d think they’d be absolutely bewildered

    • @thunderbird1921
      @thunderbird1921 Год назад +1

      It actually might explain a famous American propaganda poster from World War II. Underneath the title "This is The Enemy", it shows a Nazi stabbing a Bible clean through with a dagger, totally desecrating what many Christians believe to be the inspired Word of God. The basic message was that the Nazis sought to destroy Christianity. Sounds like there was at least SOME truth to that poster!

    • @forickgrimaldus8301
      @forickgrimaldus8301 Год назад +6

      US GI: What in the god damn
      British GI: me too Old Chap

    • @wulfsorenson8859
      @wulfsorenson8859 Год назад +2

      I think they’d be more bewildered by you turning your children into drag queens 😂

  • @pastlife960
    @pastlife960 Год назад +72

    On Schafer’s Tibetan expedition, he supposedly shot and killed a yeti, had it stuffed, and sent it back to Germany. Just in case that trip wasn’t weird enough.

  • @MRCHUPA
    @MRCHUPA Год назад +77

    Did he say “ getting some vitamin P”? Lmao

    • @mrskittles08
      @mrskittles08 Год назад +22

      Sparty's spicier than he immediately comes off as

    • @Sakai070
      @Sakai070 Год назад +5

      I straight up died and revived

    • @ivvan497
      @ivvan497 Год назад +2

      what does P stand for exactly?

    • @rvanhees89
      @rvanhees89 Год назад +2

      @@ivvan497 Poon

    • @muddmouth
      @muddmouth Год назад +1

      I’m so grateful someone else wrote this first 😂

  • @marklaurenzi1609
    @marklaurenzi1609 Год назад +26

    Himmler's helpers hysterical hikes into hysterical historiography?! That may be the finest alliteration I have heard since the original "Lost in Space." It was frabulous grabulous, zip zoop zabulous! Sparty, you are now my favorite.

  • @robertnett9793
    @robertnett9793 10 месяцев назад +9

    Sooo, basically you say, the Nazis trying to get their hands on the Ark of the Covenant and the Holy Grail is the most realistic part of Indiana Jones?

  • @sirhenrymorgan1187
    @sirhenrymorgan1187 Год назад +29

    8:57 it’s rather ironic that guys like Himmler read stories of how the mighty Romans could never conquer the “German savages”, yet Germany would proceed to ally themselves with Italy, who (under Mussolini) saw themselves as the one true successor to the Romans and set out the create a Neo Roman Empire (the Italian Empire).

    • @robertmiles1603
      @robertmiles1603 Год назад

      italians are and have always been a pretty piss poor excuse for romans

  • @Joorum
    @Joorum Год назад +26

    According to what I've read, Goebbels disliked the occult side of nazism (as he saw himself belonging to the more pragmatic side of the movement) and was critical of the world ice theory, saying that one can be a good national socialist without holding such beliefs. He's what I pictured in my mind during Spartacus' final thoughts about how faith in conspiracy theories can function without a strong mythological element.

  • @ethanol4695
    @ethanol4695 Год назад +105

    Spartacus beat Mark Felton for this one.

    • @monsterforge1763
      @monsterforge1763 Год назад +6

      Thank Fuck!

    • @saadkhan1128
      @saadkhan1128 Год назад +18

      ruclips.net/video/L21dPTqSjpQ/видео.html&ab_channel=Atun-SheiFilms both beaten by auten-shie films

    • @ahorsewithnoname773
      @ahorsewithnoname773 Год назад +1

      @@saadkhan1128 Great channel.

    • @hopfinatorischerkuchenkrieger
      @hopfinatorischerkuchenkrieger Год назад +1

      @@romitkumar6272 He made a video about it before though.

    • @finchborat
      @finchborat Год назад +3

      Actually, Felton made a video about the SS ring sometime back.

  • @lamnaa
    @lamnaa Год назад +76

    Always amuses me to hear how annoyed Hitler was at Himmler's archaeological interests.
    "Why do we call the whole world's attention to the fact that we have no past? It's bad enough that the Romans were erecting great buildings when our forefathers were still living in mud huts; now Himmler is starting to dig up these villages of mud huts and enthusing over every potsherd and stone ax he finds. All we prove by that is that we were still throwing stone hatchets and crouching around open fires when Greece and Rome had already reached the highest stage of culture. We really should do our best to keep quiet about this past. Instead Himmler makes a great fuss about it all. The present-day Romans must be having a laugh at these revelations."

    • @jliller
      @jliller Год назад +3

      Which civilization was the most "advanced" 2000 years ago means nothing with regard to which civilization is superior today. No more than whether your great-grandfather was a horse thief and a adulterer should define whether you today are a good or bad person.

    • @pg1448
      @pg1448 Год назад +29

      @@jliller It kinda does if you believe in the inherent genetic superiority of your race. How do you reconcile your ancestors being a lot more primitive than those of people you regard as racially inferior with the claim to descend from the Aryan master race? Some nazis therefore clinged to the ridiculous belief the ancient Romans, Greeks or even Egyptians had nordic, germanic blood to get out of this contradiction

    • @jliller
      @jliller Год назад +2

      @@pg1448 Two words: Teutoburg Forest.

    • @robertmiles1603
      @robertmiles1603 Год назад +3

      such discoveries as the goseck circle, nebra skydisk, bronze hats, runes, statues and other fine art, stone age ruins, certainly stonehenge (they knew astronomy), the invention of soap, chain armor and sophisticated chariots and many other things show that in fact northern europeans did have a history before roman contact. keep in mind that the gauls were the only people alexander feared

    • @altechelghanforever9906
      @altechelghanforever9906 Год назад +3

      @@jliller Three words: Holy Roman Empire.

  • @Physiker17
    @Physiker17 Год назад +17

    Legend has it if you say "Himmler's helpers' hikes into hysterical historiography" 3 times in front of a mirror, an Austrian occultists will appear and tell you his Schnitzel recipe using ancient runes.

  • @alexanderboulton2123
    @alexanderboulton2123 Год назад +9

    Somebody asks "Who up pondering they orb?" and Himmler's eyes light up as he squeals "omg meeeee"

  • @haydenwoodyard3624
    @haydenwoodyard3624 Год назад +13

    Funny thing is in the myth Thor himself couldn’t wield the hammer without using his strength enhancing belt and gloves, I don’t know how they think they’d be able to lift it

  • @IIAlphaQII
    @IIAlphaQII Год назад +49

    Vitamin P?
    My guy

    • @obi-wankenobi1750
      @obi-wankenobi1750 Год назад +3

      Oh yeah

    • @paulableman2663
      @paulableman2663 Год назад +7

      I almost spat out my drink at that

    • @Bluehawk2008
      @Bluehawk2008 Год назад +5

      Sounds... out of character for him to say that.

    • @archlich4489
      @archlich4489 Год назад

      @@Bluehawk2008 Agreed

    • @witeshade
      @witeshade Год назад +3

      @@Bluehawk2008 does it though? He seems like the kind of guy who you'd be talking to and then he would blindside you with something so ridiculously funny and well crafted that you won't even be able to respond, and then he'll just continue on as before but with a sparkle in his eye as you continue to be speechless.

  • @AbbeyRoadkill1
    @AbbeyRoadkill1 Год назад +19

    What I took from this video is that Raiders of the Lost Ark is practically a documentary.

    • @stunner9005
      @stunner9005 Год назад +2

      Fact is often stranger then fiction. The early plot for call of duty: Nazi zombies is also based on fact. The SS tried to make zombie soldiers during the end of the war.

    • @julioalbertoherrera1339
      @julioalbertoherrera1339 Год назад

      There is story about Himmler stealing a huge masonic library in Norway and sending tbe books to a haunted castle in Czechoslovakia. And it is probably true.

  • @CannibaLouiST
    @CannibaLouiST Год назад +73

    this imaginary weapon sounds like an EMP bomb

    • @OllamhDrab
      @OllamhDrab Год назад +21

      Such a thing, of course, would have had very little effect on any of the technology of the time.

    • @Paladin1873
      @Paladin1873 Год назад +12

      @@OllamhDrab You may be right since it was vacuum tube technology, which is more resistant to EMP than modern microcircuits.

    • @Sabrowsky
      @Sabrowsky Год назад +11

      @@OllamhDrab there is something deeply funny about the fact that the one sensible thing that Himmler's crackpipe generated would be useless anyway

  • @malusdarkblade8680
    @malusdarkblade8680 Год назад +33

    8:14 bro was literally schizoposting irl💀

  • @brianverrett4018
    @brianverrett4018 Год назад +11

    I straight up spit out my coffee when you said “Getting some regular Vitamin P”. Well played sir.

  • @JustSomeCanuck
    @JustSomeCanuck Год назад +25

    How high-quality, halcyon and hearty was the hilarity from hypothesizing "Himmler's helpers' hikes into hysterical historiography"?

  • @stephennapp8241
    @stephennapp8241 Год назад +31

    And there I was playing Castle Wolfenstein thinking "this is exactly what WW2 was like".

  • @mikegriffin104
    @mikegriffin104 Год назад +7

    "One day my spirit will rise from the grave and the world will know that I was right."

  • @Significantpower
    @Significantpower Год назад +85

    Spartacus is right about Mein Kampf. I had to read portions of it for an undergrad class. The writing is so poor and disjointed that it took me a while.
    I've written better university essays while hungover.

    • @cyberfutur5000
      @cyberfutur5000 Год назад +24

      It's utterly terrible. I think it's partly due to it being dictated, not written. It was just Hitler walking up and down the prison cell, raging on and on, while (I believe) Hess wrote it down. To put it mildly, that*s not exactly how Goethe wrote his books^^
      (And partly due to it coming out of the deranged mind of Hitler)

    • @JanoTuotanto
      @JanoTuotanto Год назад +2

      Yeah, but just reading a part of it helps you to get more fun out of Power Puff Girls.
      Since Mojo-Jojo speaks like Hitler writes, his speech being that of Hitler's way of writing ,as he speaks the way Hitler writes since his way of speaking is that of Hitler's writing !

    • @Soundbrigade
      @Soundbrigade Год назад +7

      Someone suggested that neo-nazis sentenced to jail for intimidating people, should, added to the punishment be required to read Mein Kampf. For me that sounds like allowing torture in our correction system.

    • @Kubinda12345
      @Kubinda12345 Год назад +9

      True.
      What annoyed me the most is the utter lack of explanation why mixing of races is bad.
      If I remember correctly, there's an example that when a horse and a donkey breed together, their offspring is something that can't reproduce and this example is used as an analogy why mixing of races is bad because the result would also be something doomed to failure. That's it.
      Who knows, perhaps I'm too open minded about this stuff and the mindset of possible readers was much different. But it's still totally weird.

    • @cyberfutur5000
      @cyberfutur5000 Год назад

      @@Kubinda12345 and isn’t a mule pretty awesome in many aspects? I mean, it can’t reproduce, ok… but looking at some fellow humans, that wouldn’t be all bad, wouldn’t it?^^
      it’s about ten years since I read it and I can’t remember many details, just how badly written it was, how empty the arguments felt and that reading frakturschrift is annoying but after ten pages or so manageable. ^^
      and I remember that I thought we should make it (at least in parts) mandatory to read in schools instead of banning it. maybe with a shitload of footnotes, but the whole ban just gives it this mystical aura, wich it totally not deserves, everybody who reads parts of it must see hitler for that rambling weird dude, reminiscent of that one old drunk tin head man from the bar around the corner. I think we would have less neo nazis if people would actually know this crap. at least that’s what I remember thinking ten years ago. maybe i’d be talking differently, if I read it today, given I’m older, and seeing how believing in weird nonsensical hatred seems to be pretty en Vogue right now…
      but it would probably not hurt to go through it in history or german classes… I mean we read and dissected martin luther texts, wich aren’t any less antisemitic and hateful and you don’t see me killing peasants and jews. oh and we read goebbels, why is that any better than hitler? he was the dangerous talker of the bunch, after all.
      is it even still banned in germany?

  • @pablolopez4740
    @pablolopez4740 Год назад +8

    17:09 "Open portals to hell", that is a nice reference to Hellboy👹

  • @msgfrmdaactionman3000
    @msgfrmdaactionman3000 Год назад +107

    How do the Nazis expect to pick it up if they found it?

    • @leonardogomez8812
      @leonardogomez8812 Год назад +85

      Don't worry guys, stiener's counter offensive will pick up the hammer and win the war lol

    • @interestingengineering291
      @interestingengineering291 Год назад +2

      The first thing that came into my mind

    • @_chew_
      @_chew_ Год назад +50

      @@leonardogomez8812 Mein Führer... Steiner... Steiner is not worthy. He could not lift the hammer.

    • @finchborat
      @finchborat Год назад +29

      @@_chew_ *Hitler slowly takes off his glasses, orders nearly everyone out of the room, and has the epic of all tirades*

    • @zacklapaglia7644
      @zacklapaglia7644 Год назад +1

      @@finchborat That was an order! Steiner's lifting of Mjölnir was an order! How dare he not obey my order and lift Mjölnir! How can he not lift Mjölnir?! The Military and the SS has been lying to me! The generals are no more than a bunch of disloyal cowards, unworthy to lift Mjölnir!!!

  • @samwill7259
    @samwill7259 Год назад +27

    This just reminds me of those april fools videos you guys did about comic book characters fighting the nazis.
    I'd love to see something like that with some more real superhero meat on its bones, the soldiers characters are fun but seeing you guys talk about The Human Torch or The Justice Society would make my millennia!

  • @SteamboatW
    @SteamboatW Год назад +51

    "Not the best authors" *lol* Understatement of the century.

    • @rogercoppock407
      @rogercoppock407 Год назад +4

      An understatement, yes. Their book is boing.

  • @thedeadcannotdie
    @thedeadcannotdie Год назад +66

    How worried was Himmler about homosexuality that he thought Christianity was a hotbed for it? It hilariously reminds me of that meme 'gays are trying to murder me'. Also that whole 'bring beautiful girls or the guys will turn gay' is hilarious.

    • @509Gman
      @509Gman Год назад

      Uh, the Catholic priests? You think the boy buggering was a later 20th century thing only?

    • @ArkadiBolschek
      @ArkadiBolschek Год назад +2

      Methinks someone doth protest too much...

    • @nopenotme6369
      @nopenotme6369 Год назад +4

      Monty Pythons “Search for the Holy Grail,” scene, being tortured by all those naughty maidens only to be rescued.

    • @jliller
      @jliller Год назад +6

      They're the finest specimens of Aryan manhood. So stunning that not only can no Aryan woman resist them, and many men can't either!

    • @robertmiles1603
      @robertmiles1603 Год назад

      priests are infamous kiddie fiddlers but the bible does say no homos (or animal humpers)

  • @user-sc5iv2rp2t
    @user-sc5iv2rp2t Год назад +10

    In case you don't know Athens has three systems of underground passageways. One ancient, one Byzantine and one modern. There many campaign props, sacks, kits with the SS insignia have been found over the years.

  • @bobfrancis123
    @bobfrancis123 Год назад +5

    That alliteration at 13:06! Chef’s kiss! Great episode, Sparty!

  • @theoldar
    @theoldar Год назад +7

    The last two minutes is gold.

  • @ISawABear
    @ISawABear Год назад +39

    Welp, time to watch the bullet proof monk, and play Uncharted 2 again.

    • @leonardogomez8812
      @leonardogomez8812 Год назад +2

      Just don't play on Crushing, the Monastery is going to ruin you royally lol
      Also love your content

  • @mcintoshpc
    @mcintoshpc Год назад +3

    7:07 my man genuinely pulled a “this was revealed to me in a dream” and other people bought it

  • @kassidymiller3223
    @kassidymiller3223 Год назад +8

    I can't believe you said 'Himmler's helpers hikes into hysterical historiography' with a straight face 😅

  • @ethanduncan1646
    @ethanduncan1646 Год назад +7

    I think my brain would explode if I had to listen to some German SINGING lines from Mein Kampf.

  • @zackkilgore528
    @zackkilgore528 Год назад +5

    Himmler: Mein Führer we must research the cosmic Ice of the Vril so that we can obtain Mjölnir!
    Hitler: (•_•) Dude just stop, this is cringe.

    • @zackkilgore528
      @zackkilgore528 Год назад

      @@animeXcaso I mean they both believed in National Socialism but it was just Himmler that was into the Occiltism.

  • @herbertkeithmiller
    @herbertkeithmiller Год назад +13

    13:04 Himmler's historical hikes into hysterical historography.

  • @klutttmuttsprutt6087
    @klutttmuttsprutt6087 Год назад +7

    I think we need a bloopers cut of this episode! So many words to mess up. 😁

  • @mammuchan8923
    @mammuchan8923 Год назад +7

    If this wasn't coming from a credible source like TGH, I would have thought I stumbled into an Ancient Aliens style documentary 😂. 10/10 to Sparty for the flourish of Alliteration - "hikes into hysterical historiography" - classic!

  • @hinzkunzinger7891
    @hinzkunzinger7891 Год назад +12

    This episode is so good, I think it deserves a "never forget" at the end.

  • @The_Honcho
    @The_Honcho Год назад +13

    My family lived in eastern Ukraine and recalled the Germans reopening churches after they won the battle of Kiev. So I always thought it was weird they get plastered as pagans while doing that, along with wearing “Got Mitt Uns” on all their uniforms when they launched Barbarossa

    • @planderlinde1969
      @planderlinde1969 Год назад

      That is because the Germans at that time were primarily Catholic Christians. The pagan stuff was almost exclusive to the SS and other nazi die hards.

    • @wegfarir1963
      @wegfarir1963 Год назад +6

      Of course they did. They weren't who they are made out to be.

    • @Liam-vu6uv
      @Liam-vu6uv Год назад +3

      Didn't they also uncover mass Graves from soviet atrocities, such as the Holodomor?

    • @realestpersonman
      @realestpersonman 9 месяцев назад +5

      That’s because nobody plasters the whermact or even the entire ss as pagans you dunce, the person in the video explicitly expresses this. There were a select handful of occultists and pagans within the ss and that’s what’s being discussed

  • @KrisV385
    @KrisV385 Год назад +8

    I am impressed that Sparty isn't stopping time and again to laugh out loud for a good while before resuming his narrative. Sparty of course points out that laughing at monsters habits does not excuse their actions. Great episode!

  • @metalheaded666
    @metalheaded666 Год назад +52

    As a pagan myself, it is still difficult at times to express myself. A few years ago, for example, there was a shirt in a store that had runic symbols on it (all the runes of the Viking alphabet). But shortly after it had come out, it was pulled from all the stores because people thought that it was a nazi shirt. Now it this a 2 sided problem: 1 being that the nazi's did use a lot of the old German/Nordic symbols (and with the swastika even Buddhist), but also that the educational system doesn't learn the difference between the 2.
    I see too many instances of runes being used/written wrong, people think that the Black Sun is a Germanic symbol (when it's actually a fantasy design of Himmler's) and the swastika is saying enough (even when you use it in the correct way it will be very, very difficult to explain it. And yes, there is a difference between the nazi used swastika and the real ancient symbol).

    • @washingtonradio
      @washingtonradio Год назад +14

      Even if one is aware of the issues you raised, the problem many of us have (myself included) we don't know much about the pre-Nazi history and usage of these symbols to even have a hope on understanding how they desecrated by the Nazis.

    • @OllamhDrab
      @OllamhDrab Год назад +3

      @@washingtonradio Frankly, a lot of people trade on that, including Nazis, original and the newer versions.

    • @Okido24
      @Okido24 Год назад +15

      I got a tattoo with runes. I never got a reaction about me being a Nazi. Usually people ask if I’m into Vikings (yes the tv-serie:)))
      I like Norse mythology. Sue me.

    • @joejohnson4183
      @joejohnson4183 Год назад

      What I find interesting that numerous symbols and runes that were used by the SS are now considered nazi symbols even though they were around for centuries beforehand . But what about the Christian cross , is it not a sign of white supremacy since the KKK use a burning cross as a symbol to terrorize Jews , blacks and Catholic's or others they felt were lesser people ? Eventually the left will try and state the cross as a symbol of white supremacy and place it in the same category as the swastika .

    • @GeertTheDestoyer
      @GeertTheDestoyer Год назад +11

      As you have metal in your username, i assume you like metal?
      Some of the associations within the metal scene of pagan symbols had to do with the scene itself. There are quite a couple of pagan/folk black metal bands that are far-right to openly neo-Nazi that portray runes and other germanic pagan symbols. So, in the metal scene, it's kinda taboo as it may be associated with these beliefs.

  • @podemosurss8316
    @podemosurss8316 Год назад +7

    In the Spanish TV show "El Ministerio del Tiempo" (Ministry of Time), the protagonists (a squad of time-travelling secret agents) have to contend with nazis searching for ancient artifacts, on this case the "Grail of Grails", which later turns to be the secret behind time-travelling. I recommend that show in general, it's both funny, interesting and well researched, basically the protagonists are a group of 3 time-travelling secret agents: Julián, a paramedic from modern day Spain; Alonso, a soldier from the Spanish tercios; and Amelia, one of the first women to attend university in Spain on the late XIX century.

  • @GnosticAtheist
    @GnosticAtheist Год назад +16

    The trick is that here in Norway we alternate on who has the hammer, so the nazis never could stay on the trail.

  • @Robbi496
    @Robbi496 Год назад +8

    I have NEVER heard Sparty be quite so sarcastic?? I love it!

  • @greedy9310
    @greedy9310 Год назад +4

    18:45 when I wrote about this in a school report I was penalised by my teacher for arguing that the Nazis were human, and thats what made them horrifying.
    they weren't demons, devils, or whatnot. It wasn't an evil force of nature which did such things. It was man, man who committed such terror and pain and carnage on the Earth. And that makes man the scariest monster of them all

  • @Mothdir
    @Mothdir Год назад +6

    I find it wonderful to see a smirk on your face, Spartacus. In midst of the terror of WW2, this episode is, in my books, comedy.
    Thanks for this episode and all of Timeghost team's work!

  • @welcometonebalia
    @welcometonebalia Год назад +4

    Thank you.
    Among those nazi occultists, one not mentioned here was Otto Rahn, who was obsessed about the Grail (among other things), thinking he could find it in the Cathar castles of Southern France, althoug it seems most of his "career" regarding this happened before he joined the SS; but his "works" seemed to have gained him the interest of Himmler at the time. But Rahn's biography appears to be... quite obscure?

  • @redjirachi1
    @redjirachi1 Год назад +3

    Heinrich Himmler was basically a real life Indiana Jones villain

  • @zombygunslinger
    @zombygunslinger Год назад +5

    I visited a cemetary in Austria with wooden markers for local soldiers who were never recovered. For the SS markers they used runes for birth and death rather than the German words.

  • @erikgranqvist3680
    @erikgranqvist3680 Год назад +7

    You guys should do a special on Hitlers rhetoric technique, and why it was so dangerous. Because evil as he was, he had the power and precense to win a public.

  • @kevinriseborough1521
    @kevinriseborough1521 Год назад +10

    “all you have to do is convince yourself that there is an “us and them” and “they” are out to get you”. Oldest play in the playbook and we still fall for it today 😢

    • @Nero_Karel
      @Nero_Karel Год назад

      A they "they" like "muh evil crazy notsees"? lol

  • @Nachoto
    @Nachoto Год назад +3

    *Himmler, on the phone with Hitler:* Yes...yes... Of course my führer... I will tell the scientist to keep working on the nuclear project... Don't worry we will turn the war around...Ok, goodbye.
    Himmler: now Thor's hammer will be a total surprise

  • @tristanharvu665
    @tristanharvu665 Год назад +5

    We don't laugh at Nazis since they slaughtered millions, despite having many laughable beliefs such as these. But we do laugh at many modern day extremists, such as consipiracy theorists, Qanon, Alex Jones. But imagine what they'd commit if they gained as much power as the Nazis did.

  • @ciarancrossin1607
    @ciarancrossin1607 8 месяцев назад +2

    Is a serious subject, but the reference to Gotham city asylum had we wrinkled

  • @Hrafnskald
    @Hrafnskald Год назад +5

    10:07 It's nice to know that, along with all their other mistakes, the SS messed up their runic ring designs. Combining Nid with Gebo for "I need Gifts", reversed Ansuz for "Odin doesn't like this" and upside down Fehu for "I'm poor and lacking in cattle" = EPIC FAIL. Might as well call them Nithrings :)

    • @penhullwolf5070
      @penhullwolf5070 Год назад +2

      It seems that the reversed Ansuz was at least accurate.
      The Allfather apparently didn't look kindly on the Third Reich.

  • @catsupchutney
    @catsupchutney Год назад +1

    That ring with the skull fits right in with the Mitchell and Webb skit: "Are we the baddies?"

  • @franciszeklatinik889
    @franciszeklatinik889 Год назад +6

    I have always been fascinated by the Nazi Occult (aka the Ahnenerbe) since both the Indiana Jones films and the Wolfenstein games. I guess reality is weirder than fiction, plus it is coincidence that this was posted a day before Winter Solstice :D.

  • @Kuac85
    @Kuac85 Год назад +8

    Your work is amazing and an inspiration. Well done!

  • @ArcadiaJunctionHobbies
    @ArcadiaJunctionHobbies Год назад +3

    Irish author Thomas Sheridan wrote an incredible book - Walpurgis Night - about all this based on the weponisation of Teutonic Folk Magic.

  • @dr.kroenen2425
    @dr.kroenen2425 Год назад +2

    "the worst piece of literature forged by human hand." Lmfao this guy's killin me

  • @Paciat
    @Paciat Год назад +4

    I talked to an old German once. In his youth he badly wanted a necklace with a Thor's hammer. But many saw this as a nationalist symbol. He was very surprised that Hitlers bunkers in Wolfschanze (now in Poland) were left as they were when Germans blown them up when retreating. In Germany ruins like that would be removed from landscape and culture. Just as Thor's hammer was.

  • @RichardGoth
    @RichardGoth Год назад +1

    Great summary! I always recommend Kurlander's book "Hitler's Monsters" to anyone seeking the latest research on Nazi Occultism

  • @williamtomkiel8215
    @williamtomkiel8215 Год назад +7

    perfect demeanor, given the extent and content of this ( scholarly) presentation- but the '"gleam" in his eyes is priceless

  • @Trever101
    @Trever101 Год назад +2

    Wow, those Tibetan expedition photos were amazing

  • @stephaniejaniczekssmugglerscan
    @stephaniejaniczekssmugglerscan Год назад +7

    Indiana Jones and the Hammer of the gods… title writes itself

    • @stephaniejaniczekssmugglerscan
      @stephaniejaniczekssmugglerscan Год назад +1

      Weird how so many SS men and top Nazis were rumored homosexuals

    • @rolfagten857
      @rolfagten857 Год назад

      @@stephaniejaniczekssmugglerscan Ernst Roehm / read the book "The pink Swastika"

  • @rolfagten857
    @rolfagten857 Год назад +2

    You missed Karl Ruprect Kroenen from "Hellboy" in the beginning of your video.

  • @Alex343-t8h
    @Alex343-t8h Год назад +29

    *Swedish Pagans starts playing *

  • @expectationofplenty
    @expectationofplenty Год назад +2

    Damn you Sparty you made me laugh out loud on the train with that “vitamin P”

  • @Soundbrigade
    @Soundbrigade Год назад +4

    The saw that goes with Mjölnir, Thors hammer, was sold on eBay a while ago …. I think it was called Hrefna and was used by Ofnir the gardening god.

  • @historymyths4662
    @historymyths4662 Год назад +2

    New indiana jones movie idea: Indian Jones and the quest for Thors Hammer.

  • @bcvetkov8534
    @bcvetkov8534 Год назад +13

    God Himmler's insanity is truly knows no bounds.

  • @101jir
    @101jir 9 месяцев назад +2

    For their shared, twisted views, the Nazis were surprisingly diverse in their religious backgrounds, from a (very likely) atheist (Goebbels), a pagan (Himmler), a Catholic (Goering), and a protestant (Hess)

  • @soylentgreen6082
    @soylentgreen6082 Год назад +4

    The hammer is probably in Tonsberg. It is where the Rainbow Bridge touches Earth after all...

  • @mrgunn2726
    @mrgunn2726 Год назад +1

    Le Gasp! Spartacus! Did you actually say; Vitamin P? Oh my, is it warm in here....🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @nevenfitnic2441
    @nevenfitnic2441 Год назад +6

    Loved Sparty's'subtle irony on these beliefs while explaining the subject! 😁

  • @skin4700
    @skin4700 6 месяцев назад

    As soon as you said your name is Spartacus Olsson I was interested. But your comedic serious tone got me spilling my coffe. Great video, great host. Good job, sir. Best wises from Croatia❤

  • @antonios.6278
    @antonios.6278 Год назад +3

    I believe Himmler was also looking for the holy grail in Spain (a bit like in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade), he visited the monastery of Monserrat in Catalonia, where it is hidden, according to tradition. There is also another holy grail in Valencia´s cathedral.

    • @stunner9005
      @stunner9005 Год назад +2

      He was looking for: the holy grail, the holy Lance, the Ark of the covenant, and any other item of power.

  • @midsue
    @midsue Год назад +3

    A good classical in fictional movie history is when Indiana Jones meets Adolf Hitler in the last crusade and gets his autograph.

  • @keithrosenberg5486
    @keithrosenberg5486 Год назад +7

    quote> It was a strange transformation of a nation. On the one hand, it was extremely radical and had the direst of consequences; on the other hand, it faded without a trace when the Third Reich collapsed. This transformation had all of the attributes of a psychosis, though it engulfed a whole nation, rather than an individual. The Nazis called it “revolution,” but it was national insanity. Only the wisest and bravest could resist.
    Bruno Manz A Mind In Prison The memoir of a Son and Soldier of the Third Reich.

  • @DJW1981
    @DJW1981 Год назад +2

    Very good, thought you might have mentioned Otto Rahn but I guess he was on a different track.