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help| Otto Wilhelm Rahn (February 18, 1904—March 13, 1939) was a German medievalist and a Obersturmführer of the SS, born in Michelstadt, Germany. Speculation still swirls around Otto Rahn and his research. From an early age, he became interested in the legends of Parsifal, Holy Grail, Lohengrin, and the... Read enhanced Wikipedia article |
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Otto Rahn
Otto Wilhelm Rahn (February 18, 1904—March 13, 1939) was a German medievalist and a Obersturmführer of the SS, born in Michelstadt, Germany. Speculation still swirls around Otto Rahn and his research. -
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Religious aspects of Nazism
Otto Rahn had written a book Kreuzzug gegen den Gral (Crusade against the Grail) in 1933. -
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Rahn
Otto Rahn, a German medievalist and an Obersturmführer of the SS -
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List of World War II topics (O)
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Montségur
On March 13, 1939 — near the anniversary of the fall of Montségur — Otto Rahn mysteriously froze to death on a Tyrolean mountain top. -
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Manisola
In his book The Crusade Against the Grail, Otto Rahn, a German medievalist says, "Together with Nadal (Christmas), Pascos (Easter), and Pentecosta (Pentecost), the principal Cathar holiday was the Manisola, ..." Concerning the dates when the ceremony took place, Rahn states that it was celebrated four times a year, according to a solar calendar: on the equinoxes in spring and autumn, and at the summer and winter solstices. -
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Indiana Jones
German archaeologist Otto Rahn -
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Richard Stanley (film director)
He has since completed two documentary films, The Secret Glory in 2001, examining SS officer Otto Rahn's search for the Holy Grail and The White Darkness in 2002 which examines voodoo practices in Haiti. -
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Antonin Gadal
Otto Rahn, the Nazi historian and occultist, is believed to have approached him in his own quest for the secrets of the Cathars (Rahn believed that the Cathars were the trustees of the Holy Grail) but Gadal refused to co-operate with him. -
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Raymond Roger Trencavel
This identification has been favoured in more recent years by Otto Rahn in his Crusade Against the Grail, Peter Berling in various works in his series The Children of the Grail, Jean Blum in Mystère et message des Cathares, and Joaquín Javaloys in his historical novel Yo, Parsifal: el mítico caballero del Grial.
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