Museum of death: Heinrich Himmler’s eerie castle plays host to macabre Nazi memorabilia
A macabre museum dedicated to the history of Nazi Germany’s evil SS has opened in the eerie castle that was once home to its boss Heinrich Himmler.
Wewelsburg Castle – now dubbed ‘Naziland’ by critics – was SS leader Himmler’s headquarters for the darkest deeds of World War II.
A Nazi SS helmet which is part of the display at Wewelsburg castle in western Germany
Eerie: The so-called ‘Crypt’ opened during the opening of the exhibition ‘Ideology and Terror of the SS’ at Wewelsburg castle
Now the 17th century fort – near Paderborn in Germany – has become a £7 million museum cataloguing the evil done by Himmler and his fanatical henchmen.
Himmler – who was obsessed with the occult – used concentration camp labour to build a giant swastika in the basement where SS heroes were to be cremated.
Elsewhere he constructed a chamber with an eternal flame overlooked by 12 pillars for SS ‘knights’ as his version of King Arthur’s round table.
Nazi memorabilia: SS uniforms and insignia are among the items on display at the castle designed by SS leader Heinrich Himmler
Evil: Nazi and SS paraphernalia and propaganda. The exhibition contains 1,000 pieces charting the history of the SS as it developed from Hitler’s elite guard to a band of more than a million that committed unspeakable crimes across Europe
But critics have warned that the museum will become a shrine to far right neo-nazis who will make pilgrimages to the castle.
Deputy museum director Kirsten John-Stucke said: “Unwanted right wing visitors who want to make the castle a pilgrimage site will be kicked out.”
Despite the criticism German authorities now intend to open more exhibitions about the Nazi regime – including a museum in Berlin dedicated to the dreaded Gestapo secret police on the site of its former HQ.
A Swastika adorns the ceiling of the ‘Crypt’. The circular crypt had a gas pipe in the floor for an eternal flame, and 12 pedestals at even intervals around the walls
Wewelsburg castle, a renaissance castle which was used by the SS during Nazi rule
Left: An SS manual on display at the spiritual home of SS leader Heinrich Himmler, right
Mohammed Abbasi 
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