Yrjö von Grönhagen: Himmler’s Secret Society – Inside the SS-Ahnenerbe 1936-1939
Translated and annotated by Ike Vil
ISBN 978-952-65367-1-2 (paperback)
ISBN 978-952-65367-2-9 (hardcover w/ dust jacket)
Unknown classic of Nazi Occultism, finally in English!
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In 1935, Yrjö von Grönhagen, a 24-year old Finnish student at Sorbonne, Paris, decided to walk across Europe back to his native country. By a strange twist of fate, the following summer he would lead an ethnological expedition to Karelian woods in search of the lost magic of Aryans.
Appointed as the head of Finnish department of Ahnenerbe, a scholarly institution that was destined to become the greatest in the world, von Grönhagen witnessed “intuitive” mystics clash with classical archaeologists; lodging with the eccentric SS-Gruppenführer Karl-Maria “Weisthor” Wiligut, dubbed “Himmler’s Lord of the Runes” and “The Secret King of Germany,” he saw shady occultists come and go; and with Professor Höhne, he found the skull of Heinrich the Fowler, believed by Himmler to be his former incarnation.
Originally published in Finnish in 1948, Himmler’s Secret Society provides a unique first-hand account so-called Nazi Occultism as experienced by contemporaries who witnessed it first hand.
With dozens of original photographs, biographies, and notes
About the author:
Yrjö von Grönhagen (born 1911 in St Petersburg, Russia, died 2003 in Helsinki, Finland) was a Finnish author, journalist, and folklorist.
He was active in Ordo Sancti Constanti Magni, a Christian chivalric organisation.
