Was Rudolf Rahn SS-mann ??

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Was Rudolf Rahn SS-mann ??

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Post by WojtekK » 27 May 2003, 18:29

I read that Rudolf Rahn had SS-Brif. rank. It's that true ??

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Post by Georges JEROME » 27 May 2003, 22:48

Ambassador Rudolf Rahn was not SS member

therefore there is an SS Obersturmführer Otto Rahn who dissapear in 1939 in strange circunstances.
He was involved in historical researchs of Himmler

a french book "the mistery Otto Rahn" deal with his quest of Cathares secrets in south west of France


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Post by WojtekK » 28 May 2003, 07:05

Thank you Georges !!

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Post by Requin Marteau » 28 May 2003, 12:06

JEROME Georges wrote:Ambassador Rudolf Rahn was not SS member

therefore there is an SS Obersturmführer Otto Rahn who dissapear in 1939 in strange circunstances.
He was involved in historical researchs of Himmler

a french book "the mistery Otto Rahn" deal with his quest of Cathares secrets in south west of France
Bonjour,
The title of the book is "Montségur et le Graal, le mystère Otto Rahn",
Christian Bernadac, Ed France Empire, ISBN 2-7048-0740-X.


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Otto Rahn

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Post by Kephra » 29 May 2003, 09:23

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Source: The Secret King. Karl Maria Wiligut - Himmler's Lord of the Runes - The Real Documents of Nazi Occultism, translated by Stephen E. Flowers, Ph.D., edited by Michael Moynihan, p.30

...One of the most enigmatic figures of the SS was Otto Rahn (1904-1939). As a young man, Rahn spent time in the late 1920s and early 1930s in the Pyrenees region of southern France conducting research on the Cathar sect and the possibility of the Holy Grail being a part of their still-hidden treasure. In 1933 he published his most important work: Kreuzzug gegen den Gral (The Crusade against the Grail). But toward the mid-1930s financial problems forced him back to Germany where, in April of 1936, swept up in the Movement, he joined the SS. Rahn had been in personal contact with Wiligut and was a civilian employee of the SS for about a year before this. He was immediately made part of the Reichsführer-SS personal staff, and so worked closely with Wiligut. Rahn, like "Weisthor", entered the SS with a personal secret. Rahn was a homosexual, which could result in a death-sentence if discovered. While in the SS Rahn undertook research trips to locations in Germany and even to Iceland, althrough he was never on an official SS expedition to southern France as is sometimes reported. In 1937 Rahn published his second book: Luzifers Hofgesind: Eine Reise zu Europas guten Geistern (Lucifers Retinue: A Journey to the Good Spirits of Europe). This is a kind of esoteric travelogue in which Rahn recounts the significance of various landscapes and monuments from
southern France, Italy, Germany and Iceland. Rahn lectured within SS-circles on the theme of Luzifers Hofgesind, i.e., that Lucifer is the bringer of enlightenment and the enemy of the Jewish God, and that the retinue of Lucifer includes all those "good spirits" who fight for this enlightenment. Rahn was very well-liked by both Wiligut and Himmler. Himmler tried to give Rahn every opportunity to survive in the SS in the face of persistent reports of his homosexual activity. It is most likely that Rahn came to believe he would meet a dishonorable end in the SS, so to prevent this he wandered into the mountains near Söll, Austria, drank a bottle of liquor and allowed the winter cold to take his life. Himmler personally mourned the loss of Rahn.
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Post by WojtekK » 29 May 2003, 15:14

Danke Kephra !!

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