Why Was Heinrich Himmler Obsessed With The Holy Grail? | Myth Hunters | War Stories
The Holy Grail, the most prized relic of Christianity has been shrouded in mystery for centuries. Said to be the cup used by Christ at the last supper it is believed by many to hold miraculous powers. For centuries Kings, knights and treasure hunters have sought it, but it has always remained elusive and out of reach of human hands.
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There was a documentary made in the late 1980s about this. The Nazis tried to get the holly grail but two archaeologists found it. Unfortunately it was lost down a chasm.
lol that was Indiana Jones and Raiders of the Lost Ark
@@matthewshaw3144 Don't explain the joke :)
@@mbovenka Especially badly, it was The Last Crusade.
@@matthewshaw3144 No it wasn't.
Didn't realise this comment was a joke until I read the other replies. I had to Google chasm.
Mabey the Grail is all the friends we made along the way
Or the enemies, since the point of life in Christianity is to die at one point, getting to heaven or oblivion, which a source of ethernal life would prevent. Think about it.
Maybe...
Tf have you been smoking? 😂
You'd be surprised how close that is to the mark. :)
Watch, the holy grail is just another cup in someone’s beer stein collection.
Likely 😂
Compliments to the sound editor , however music wasn’t quite loud enough I almost heard what was being t said 🙄
😂
So the holy grail is so powerful and grants eternal life…. Yet any group or individual has possessed it has been defeated and none are alive ? Sounds like the holy grail needs an operators manual 😮
🤣🤣🤣🤣
I think it's one of those "you won't die of old age, but..." things. Such forms of immortality are certainly not unheard of.
Precisely. You can't wield something of God's for evil like that.
@@demsandlibsareswinecancer4667 Yeah, don't you remember what happened with the Ark Of The Covenant?
Nobody has ever possessed it tho. Only searched for it.
Just make sure you choose the cup of a carpenter, not a king.
Ummm carpenter is probably a miss translation
@@gowdsake7103 probably, but his occupation would have been similar. Handyman, builder, mason, civil engineer-- whatever, they're all the same general idea.
Didn't realise Lemmy was a grail enthusiast
😂
Read that comment JUST as he appeared on screen. You're my hero.
i thought it were ritchie blackmore 🤣
Don't look up his house on youtube..
I don’t share you’re greed The only cup I need Is the holy grail The holy grail
I’ve seen a movie about this, I think it was called Monty Python
There was also a movie where The Holy Grail played a major plot point called Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade.
A person of high quality culture I see!
It was! A great movie!!
@mariakelly90210 We've already got one, uh it's very nice
Who started the legend and quest for this object that may or might not exist?
The real Holy Grail is a 1959 Les Paul burst.
Lol
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Yeah. I would love a 59 LP but it's never gonna happen.
Action Comics #1... the true HG
Easier to find a wooden cup in a cave!
The fact be told, the cup Jesus probably used was a little clay vessel. The gold chalice or grail is a RCC myth
Thank you. I was just about to post the same thing.
Or made from Olive wood well he was a Carpender like his step-dad.
Idk it’s not like gold chalices etc weren’t used back then by the rich
@@mika2swaggy251 Jesus wasn't rich though.
@@MorganScorpion the person’s whose house they were at was
6:32 There's no need to insult Nerds by comparing them to Heinrich Himmler.
Looks like Himmler was the OG Nerd. 😅
I'd say he would love 40k but that's me tiny German man! Join the dark templar
Himmler was hardly a Tri Lamb or a Alpha Bata.
I bet hed love a game of risk 😂
Right?! I was sitting here stunned like…”am I Heinrich Himmler?” lol what a comparison!!!
The Spear of Longinus AKA Spear of Destiny was also important
The Spear Of Destiny, by Trevor Ravenscroft.
The Thule Gesstaffle that pierced JC
The holy knickers were far more important
@23:42 - That certainly looks like Guy de la Bédoyère from the old Time Team gang. I love this guy.
Why is Everyone saying Raiders of the Lost ark? That’s the Ark. Raiders of the lost “Ark”. That was “The Last crusade”. lol
Because there were Nazi's in that one too?
@@danirasys And Steven Speilberg stole the idea for that film from a French author and researcher, I believe Jean-Luc Chaumeil which was based on historical events if memory serves, unlike the Hollywood version. And it turned into a nasty lawsuit. But Dan Brown would do the exact same thing when he stole the idea for the DaVinci Code from the Book ''Holy Blood Holy Grail,'' released in 1982, also about that region of France, also based on true events, so the story goes and that ended up in a huge lawsuit too. That area's very busy!The treasure legends ever end!
what a fantastic documentary, I enjoyed it thoroughly. Subscribed for sure
I thought the most elusive treasure of them all was The Ark Of The Covenant.
Nazis disagree strongly😂
Only the penitent man will pass!
That thing belongs in a museum!
Yes there it was 😂
That's what I thought
Himmler a ‘nerd’, no. It was a typo for ‘Terd’.
A Terd who previously raised Berds.
What's a terd?
You look like Himmler, are you his great grandson, amazing likeness
Thank you so much guys. God bless you all . RIP 😢🙏
You are kiddding right
Fascinating!
its fake.
It was never “imbued with miraculous powers”. Neither was his plate or his chair. Only him.
Myths
Richard Stanley made the film Hardware in the 80's. Legend.
Yes, but not really an anthropologist as claimed
Until the making of “The Island of Dr.Moreau” derailed his directing career
Wasn't he one of The Knights who say "Nein!"
No dopey, it was nee
Rahn is the interesting one in this story. Pretty interesting stuff
Otto Rhan is who Indiana Jones was based on.
@@groenrizla2513 I will have to go watch that movie thanks
Richard Stanley! I met him at the Fields of the Nephilim aftershow party in 2008.
Now I know where Henry Jones Sr. and René Belloq were drawn from.
Fortune and glory 😊
Funny how he wanted the holy grail but forgets Jesus was Jewish
He wanted a cup which may or may not be incredibly powerful and magical ❤️🔥
@@bessthurgood9444Fact that Jesus was a Jew and wanting something he touched is odd. Do not believe it had any powers.
Only half Jewish. His dad was a dove.
Jesus was also the first Christian....
@@growshreebag1581 Humans who believe in him are christian, Jesus is Hebrew.
The holy grail is not a cup... it's the blood line of Christ and Mary, this is why the Knights Templar went to the holy lands, and they found it.
5,000 ads on this thing bruh. Every 5 minutes dude
Ublock origin will fix that
KZhead premium will fix that
Dude you zoned out
they never got it. indy got there first and chose wisely
I think I saw this as a TV show............35 YEARS AGO!
This channel is very environmental. It recycles everything.
And still no Grail or Spear of Destiny, No Atlantis
What was it with Heinrich Himmler and his obsession with The Occult, anyway?
It came with the cross dressing and other closeted interests
Look, everybody has their favorite coffee cup…do you think for a minute that Jesus would just leave that behind? He was probably thinking, “man I love this cup, this thing is tight, y’all can kick rocks, nerds I’m taking this with me.” Hence why no one will ever find it 😂
I worked with a Himler in SE Ohio. He looked like Himmler so I asked and he said yeah he was an uncle. They dropped the m. Damn good kid too.
The holy grail is just a metaphor for enlightenment. The cup is God, which is what prophets drink from to acheive immortality. To literally acheive immortality, you have to give your egoic self to God and become an empty vessel for God, this is "death while alive"
Well said. That's my thinking to.
Yep, I seriously doubt it's an actual cup or something.
yes, of course.
0:46 Hey! Ritchie Blackmore!
Hearing from Richard Stanley on this, 🙏
Two great legends came out of medieval Europe: the Holy Grail and the Wandering Jew. Neither had any solid historical basis. Both provoked literary work, and the Grail romances still occupy a place in the collective Western imagination. Wagner's Parsifal is one of the greatest operas. To think that the Grail isan object waiting to be found is to miss the point.
When searching for the Grail, be sure to check out English castles with French garrisons. You will have to endure some fierce taunting.
So Indiana Jones had a back story
Everyone thinks the cup of Christ would be some grand thing but most likely it was made of wood or clay and not adorned at all. Jesus was against such things as displays of wealth hence why he went against the church and flipped over the table.
Elsa: “It would not be made out of gold.” Indy: “That’s the cup of a carpenter.”
It was the money-changer's table he overturned....outside the temple.
Everyone feels the need to state the obvious... as you just did.
Good wins in the end.
The same reason any man searched for holy relics, the delusion of power and the illusion that it could bestow power
Randall Carlson has something to say about this. Hint: the grail is not a chalice
Carlson is a pseudo historian, not to be taken seriously. Besides, Jesus was swatted with a naked boy (Mark 14: 51-52). “Slave piracy” would explain why him and two “robbers” were crucified the next day. Normal criminals were stoned, hung or topped.
Nah. He doesn’t know and neither does Graham Hancock.
Is he related to tucker?
It's a bedpan!
The true "holy grail" every frat boy has been looking for since the beginning of fraternities
He was most definitely power crazy
He should have lied in faked some kind of evidence that the Braille was in another country and got permission to go investigate and never came back
He wanted to drink from holy cup so he cud meet the Knights of Ni .
Ekiekiekiepekanwhooshckkhyfujnn
I actually drink coffee from it every morning😇
🥃 I FOUND IT!! I'm keeping it.
That’s funny 😆
What a story. Why isn't this a movie?
Legendary snipe hunt.
They hired Robin Hood as researcher.
WHERE INDIANA JONES AT
Basically this is Raiders of The Lost Ark movie in real life.
The guy whose face melts off?? Himmler.
perhaps the immortal™️ has possession of the grail©️
the Cathars had to hock the Grail. Cost of living.
Dummy actually thought it was a CUP! 😂😂😂
Superb clip about the subject and person, Imagine if he had found it and hid it himself as he knew he would be killed if they knew truth about him!
6:21 as a gamer, fan of fiction (particularly Tolkien) and War Hammer I take great issue with this guys statement and the link he is making here.
It’s the truth my man. He’s not saying that every geek is as evil as …, but he was a geek lol
Asked to prove things that are not true. Sounds like modern day universities.
Bahaha 😂
I highly doubt that the Lord himself would allow someone SO appalling and evil as Himmler to have the Holy Grail, if it really does exist. The Holy Grail would probably be something simple like a wooden cup or some sort of tin cup. Not one adorned with jewels etc. The Savior's life was about service and preaching, not about wealth or gold as man does. His whole life was that of selflessness and giving. The EXACT opposite of anything Himmler or the Nazis were about. The best part of this video was Guy calling Himmler a nerd. ❤
If there were such a thing as your God surely he would never allow Himmler and The Nazis to live in the first place. More proof, not that any is needed, that your God does not exist.
Please. Like "Lord" wouldn't allow his ground offices to be a haven for men who hurt children up until maybe a decade or two ago.
The Holy Grail is a messianic bloodline
@@samziegler4957Exactly! Pedophiles hidden behind religion. Probably has been for centuries, not a few decades.
@samziegler4957 The problem is- if God doesn't exist, you have no one to blame for the way the world is. Things are just horrible and nothing can be done to fix that. There is no hope for all those tortured and murdered children in history. They suffered and died for nothing. If God exists, there is hope that something good is coming for them at the end. Sure, you don't belive it, but why not hoping? Nothing wrong with hope. Hope I'd better than being hopeless and miserable.
Himmler is a good match with Jack Sparrow. Looking for Ponce de León fountain of youth😎
Tale as old as time.
If it does exist it’s probably in a pawn shop or flea market somewhere with no one realizing what it is. Like that episode of family guy where it turns out to be just a coffee mug with “Jesus” written on it 😂
The Nutzis had a writer called Otter Arm?
I guess if you drank 10 cups of red wine from the cup of Christ, you would feel pretty happy indeed. I mean it looks like they were having a party. Jesus an ad !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm surprised no one claims they have Jesus' baby teeth.
No one at that time cared enough to save them..
He should have been looking for the holy hand-grenade of Antioch, it blows your enemy to tiny bits. It says so in the book of armaments carried by brother Maynard, I can't remember which chapter.
Chapter Two, Verses Nine to Twenty-One.
Book of Atilla
@@katienewberg3668 Saint Atilla lol
Marc 16th '44 Otto was at a Buck's Party with Heinrich in Brussels
Influenced by the catholic faith He might have found it in the vatican along with other relics In the movie The scarlet and the black kappler the german Commander suggests to Himmler that a raid on the Vatican would be feasible But himmler baulked at the Suggestion saying such would Be detrimental!
Grail goes back to Ancient Aryan/Persian mythology of being in the possesion of King Jamshaid
EVERYTHING in the buy bull is from Pershia
We all know that The Grail is in The Canyon of The Crescent Moon. Surprised Himmler never knew this 🤷🏼♂️
Funny. Nowhere in the Bible is Jesus quoted as telling his followers that objects have magical powers, or instructing them to worship or venerate objects. To do so would have been anathema to Jesus as a Jew.
The Knights Templars have the Holy Grail
Where is it written that the grail has special powers?
I think it was in the Beano annual, 1986.
Well, I'll ask him, but I don't think he'll be very keen. Uh, he's already got one, you see.😂
That cup probably doesn't exist anymore.
The Grail isn't a cup, but a VESSEL. People shouldn't ask "what" it was, but WHO it was...
@@rickmills4801 The Royal bloodline of Jesus!!!
@@gzdPr yeppers. Just to make the point, I would like to point out that the Jewish historical writings refer to Jesus as a Rabbi. To be a Rabbi, THE MAN MUST BE MARRIED. Who was his wife? Mary Magdalen, it's generally believed. After the Crucifixion, Mary Magdalen, and Mother Mary, hopped aboard one of Joseph of Aramathia's ships, and fled to Europe. Mary Magdalen was pregnant at the time, and therefore THE VESSEL OF THE BLOOD OF CHRIST, and therefore establishing the line of the Royal Houses of Europe.
@@rickmills4801 👍👍👍👍👍👍
@@rickmills4801the inbred houses of Europe?
Obviously what happened to the researcher is terrible, but he definitely made some pretty bad choices. Joining and working for the group that wants to murder your people is wild. He was bound to get caught, so why not just leave right away?
I think that in 1936, no one knew what the Nazi’s were going to do. At that point they were praised for bringing Germany out of the depression. Only later, in 39 did the world begin to see what they were doing, then it was too late.
Why do we need dramatic background music for this kind of programme? Isn't the material dramatic enough without this tittivating?
You can't find what doesn't exist.
Send in John Rambo!
And I thought it was the "Spear of Destiny" at Köln Cathedral
A Book, by Trevor Ravenscroft. Wrote extensively about the Grail .
Poor cathars
Did he look for the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull too?? Ok, bad joke.
For the same reason everyone does. The rumor of immortality and the infamy of finding it. Though I have to say it would counter the argument of the Arian race.
Cup of coffee ☕
East Tennessee Shine . Make old men young again !
I know or have a pretty good idea what happens to the grail ?
Where is the video with underwater frogmen midget submarines ?
This guy was cool
Supposedly it is still at the castle "Arrrrrggggg'. I'd be happy enough just finding castle 'Anthrax', and leave it at that. I doubt I'd make it past the 'Bridge of Death' anyway; I don't know the capital of Assyria, or my favorite color.
The Holy Grill* Dude's looking for Paul Wall.
Oh, wow! I never knew there was any historical basis for Raiders of the Lost Ark.
very much so. The nazi's were always trying to find religious artifacts to alter the history around them. They were really in to the spear that punctured the side of Christ.
Apparently you've never read the Bible.
@@lightdancedesigns that's true, but I didn't realize Himmler was mentioned in it. Learn something new every day
There is. The Ahnenerbe searched all over the world for " Special " objects. Sadly they did a whole lot more.
Watching this on March 16th 😅
Interesting, but a whole lot of what if's... lol
Cathartic sitting in the forest
Theres a really good documentary about this called europa: the last battle
Its supposed to be in the Cathedral of Valencia in Spain
The Holly Grail does not officially exist. Unless it was created in 400 AD.. Which may be possible. Because Jesus never drank out of any fancy gold cup
Jesus was a carpenter. I think maybe olive wood rather than gold.
@@cynthiaalver l do happen to own a plastic cup from my dead brother. But it isn't how things started out.
@@ChristopherWHerbert Just making an observation.
@cynthiaalver unfortunately most of this imagery of Jesus Christ. Including the long hair and beard was not idolised until it originated around the 4th century of 400 AD. That's the way the cookie crumbles. While it is doubtful anyone would have bothered to keep the drinking vessels from the last gathering and meal of Christ.
What's more, even if such an object did exist, the notion that it would possess magical powers is ridiculous, and would have been anathema to Jesus as a Jew!
People's imagination sometimes run wild.Like chasing the wind.😂
U know its today I'm just knowing what the holy Grail means....Gosh!!!
I mean, if you’ve got the Money why not go on an impossible hunt for something that probably doesn’t exist