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

[@WorldWarTwo]

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]

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

[@theswampcleaner3856]

Vitamin P? Is that an innuendo?

[@Hrafnskald]

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]

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

[@alexgomez2731]

Burgundy

[@Carewolf]

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

[@johncarlaw8633]

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

[@annehersey9895]

MAGA-Makes Attorney's Get Attorneys!

[@Basedlocation]

Retvrn

[@Makarosc]

Hitler: that's the point!!!!

[@alistair6914]

@@GravesRWFiA the Democrats are the nazis

[@savethelighthouse]

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

[@colonelblastpack169]

HA!!

[@Anthony-jo7up]

Grammar is very important to the Nazi party.

[@thexalon]

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

[@colonelblastpack169]

@@thexalon HA!! No Mjolnir for you

[@nopenotme6369]

Historically literate dad jokes! 😁

[@ashcarrier6606]

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]

Ashley wins the internet today.

[@dtaylor10chuckufarle]

@@kirbyculp3449 Agreed.

[@forickgrimaldus8301]

"That or a Time Machine"

[@bonkedwoofy4240]

Balanced dichotomy of singular decision.

[@idriscorvus2237]

@@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]

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]

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.

[@Aaaakiller]

Its funny because Agartha is real

[@Lk-be4gj]

@@Aaaakiller you speak as if youve seen it

[@Aaaakiller]

@@Lk-be4gj As if i haven't

[@BloodyVulnona]

@@Aaaakiller you mean the movie?

[@Dreadhead02productions]

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

[@friedasorber1653]

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

[@TheTrickster923]

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]

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]

8:43 truest statement I’ve ever heard.

[@larshofler8298]

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]

@@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]

​@@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.

[@ethanwmonster9075]

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

[@danielmp2085]

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]

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

[@anon2427]

@@forickgrimaldus8301 why was Mussolini nuts

[@forickgrimaldus8301]

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

[@anon2427]

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

[@stumpe9662]

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

[@alitlweird]

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

[@stumpe9662]

@@alitlweird go away

[@miracleyang3048]

And Hitler more sane than i thought

[@stumpe9662]

@@Tommy-xs4zq okay

[@oscarwind4266]

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.

[@hatuletoh]

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]

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]

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

[@richbulena8847]

@@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]

@@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]

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

[@christopherjustice6411]

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

[@grahvis]

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

[@Significantpower]

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]

"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]

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

[@thedeadcannotdie]

He's on the list?

[@kcthecowboy]

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]

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]

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

[@harrymaciolek9629]

Which was first, the occultism or the evil?

[@Valdagast]

_“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]

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

[@PalleRasmussen]

Read "Ordinary Men".

[@neilwilson5785]

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

[@rvanhees89]

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]

@@rvanhees89 Thud, I think.

[@danielnavarro537]

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]

TIKHistory has entered the chat

[@danielnavarro537]

@@alexs_toy_barn Ahaha. You knew the reference.

[@robertsansone1680]

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]

@@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]

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

[@DirtyHairy1]

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]

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]

Hat sich halt echt nix gändert ge

[@Lirelir]

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

[@buddermonger2000]

thank you for clearing that up

[@garlandgarrison3739]

@@Lirelir Really? Damn.

[@gregoryblack2044]

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]

The Nazi-occult connection gets pretty weird.

[@Reptilia222]

Uh huh

[@Lk-be4gj]

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

[@heem8814]

@Death to America gaming SWARTHOIDS SEETHING

[@ethanmcfarland8240]

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

[@thunderbird1921]

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]

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

[@wulfsorenson8859]

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

[@hemidas]

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

[@OnionChoppingNinja]

GET PSYCHED!

[@509Gman]

Ja, ein… hot dog

[@ForelliBoy]

"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]

*Manon Baptiste:* 👀

[@ChunkSchuldinga]

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.

[@KAPTAINmORGANnWo4eva]

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.

[@Professor_sckinnctn]

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]

The vitamin P comment that made me snort XD

[@Professor_sckinnctn]

@Joshua Isgrigg1488 kzbin.info/www/bejne/n6rGZ2WdbL6Eg5I

[@Conn30Mtenor]

Vitamin P and concerns over SS men having buttsex.

[@yankeecantrell]

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

[@bdleo300]

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

[@shoot2kill647]

Not that kind of pagan, lmao

[@Thor_Artur]

You poor fool, I feel sorry for you.

[@RyMac87]

😂

[@pastlife960]

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.

[@robertnett9793]

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?

[@Physiker17]

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.

[@Mrchupa]

Did he say “ getting some vitamin P”? Lmao

[@mrskittles08]

Sparty's spicier than he immediately comes off as

[@Sakai070]

I straight up died and revived

[@ivvan497]

what does P stand for exactly?

[@rvanhees89]

@@ivvan497 Poon

[@Stellathebella-v6w]

I’m so grateful someone else wrote this first 😂

[@marklaurenzi1609]

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.

[@haydenwoodyard3624]

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

[@Joorum]

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.

[@alexanderboulton2123]

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

[@ethanol4695]

Spartacus beat Mark Felton for this one.

[@monsterforge1763]

Thank Fuck!

[@saadkhan1128]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/gmOUlYOKpridprM&ab_channel=Atun-SheiFilms both beaten by auten-shie films

[@ahorsewithnoname773]

@@saadkhan1128 Great channel.

[@hopfinatorischerkuchenkrieger]

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

[@finchborat]

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

[@IIAlphaQII]

Vitamin P? My guy

[@obi-wankenobi1750]

Oh yeah

[@paulableman2663]

I almost spat out my drink at that

[@Bluehawk2008]

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

[@archlich4489]

@@Bluehawk2008 Agreed

[@witeshade]

@@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.

[@lamnaa]

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]

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]

@@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]

@@pg1448 Two words: Teutoburg Forest.

[@robertmiles1603]

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]

@@jliller Three words: Holy Roman Empire.

[@brianverrett4018]

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

[@DavidInWroclaw]

My orange juice went into my nose!😅

[@midsue]

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

[@msgfrmdaactionman3000]

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

[@leonardogomez8812]

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

[@interestingengineering291]

The first thing that came into my mind

[@_chew_]

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

[@finchborat]

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

[@zacklapaglia7644]

@@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!!!

[@CannibaLouiST]

this imaginary weapon sounds like an EMP bomb

[@OllamhDrab]

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

[@Paladin1873]

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

[@Sabrowsky]

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

[@mikegriffin104]

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

[@bobfrancis123]

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

[@AbbeyRoadkill1]

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

[@stunner9005]

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]

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.

[@theoldar]

The last two minutes is gold.

[@thedeadcannotdie]

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]

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

[@ArkadiBolschek]

Methinks someone doth protest too much...

[@nopenotme6369]

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

[@jliller]

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]

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

[@mcintoshpc]

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

[@user-sc5iv2rp2t]

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.

[@Significantpower]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

@@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?

[@ISawABear]

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

[@leonardogomez8812]

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

[@JustSomeCanuck]

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

[@inisipisTV]

Hilarious histrionics.

[@ToddSauve]

Now that is a spoonerism cubed!

[@schroedingersdog7965]

Ah! Apt alliteration's artful aid!

[@stephennapp8241]

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

[@SteamboatW]

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

[@rogercoppock407]

An understatement, yes. Their book is boing.

[@malusdarkblade8680]

8:14 bro was literally schizoposting irl💀

[@Showergelski]

Now yuo see ...

[@pablolopez4740]

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

[@kassidymiller3223]

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

[@GnosticAtheist]

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

[@josefschmeau4682]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@marginalia777]

🧙‍♂

[@Kuac85]

Your work is amazing and an inspiration. Well done!

[@KrisV385]

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!

[@skin4700]

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❤

[@podemosurss8316]

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.

[@zombygunslinger]

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.

[@welcometonebalia]

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?

[@klutttmuttsprutt6087]

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

[@ethanduncan1646]

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

[@The_Honcho]

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]

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]

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

[@Liam-vu6uv]

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

[@realestpersonman]

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

[@herbertkeithmiller]

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

[@trackah123]

Himmler : "i found Thor's hammer ⚒ i shall now be named Hammler"

[@redjirachi1]

Heinrich Himmler was basically a real life Indiana Jones villain

[@catsupchutney]

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

[@hinzkunzinger7891]

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

[@dr.barrycohn5461]

Excellent segment, Sparty!

[@Trever101]

Wow, those Tibetan expedition photos were amazing

[@samwill7259]

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!

[@ArcadiaJunctionHobbies]

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

[@rolfagten857]

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

[@expectationofplenty]

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

[@Robbi496]

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

[@zackkilgore528]

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]

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

[@mammuchan8923]

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!

[@nopenotme6369]

Spartacus has a better haircut.

[@Paciat]

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.

[@historymyths4662]

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

[@elbeto191291]

Time to boot up Return to Castle Wolfenstein then

[@michaelgreen1515]

"Cast a spell on" is a phrase that goes back way before WW2 to indicate anyone influenced to extremes by a group or person.

[@Mothdir]

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!

[@dr.kroenen2425]

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

[@Soundbrigade]

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.

[@stephaniejaniczekssmugglerscan]

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

[@stephaniejaniczekssmugglerscan]

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

[@rolfagten857]

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

[@erikgranqvist3680]

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.

[@marginalia777]

Great idea for a video!

[@ciarancrossin1607]

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

[@Alex343-t8h]

*Swedish Pagans starts playing *

[@alexamerling79]

Swedish pagans marching ashore

[@floydvaughn9666]

Immigrant Song.

[@TheTrickster923]

Or Twilight of the Thunder God

[@victorpamplona3744]

One Rode to Asa Bay

[@DJW1981]

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

[@metalheaded666]

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]

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]

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

[@Okido24]

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]

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]

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.

[@RichardGoth]

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

[@tristanharvu665]

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.

[@warrenlodge6754]

Oh dear zod. Sparty did a joke! 😂😂😂. As usual, superb work. Thank you.

[@Sabrowsky]

I think my mind has developed a pavlovian response to Sparty where I become depressed when I hear his mildly scandinavian accent, because it took me a few minutes to realize "oh wait, this one is not one of the soul shatteringly horrible ones, this is one of the silly ones"

[@Javaman92]

THIS was excellent! Well done Mr. Olsson.

[@Deathtroopers09]

"Whosoever holds this hammer, if he be worthy, shall possess the power of Thor." Definitely not worthy, so no finding or lifting that.

[@marginalia777]

Mjolnir could have changed her mind

[@Zaxxon22]

The wonderful wordplay in this episode was very entertaining

[@soylentgreen6082]

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

[@MKULTRAVOLUNTEER1984]

Wonderful broadcast thank you for sharing

[@greedy9310]

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

[@darthcheney7447]

Singing Mein Kampf? Give that man a Grammy. Also, contact Mel Brooks while he's still alive.

[@Nachoto]

*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