{"id":1028,"date":"2008-05-25T21:11:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-25T21:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1028"},"modified":"2008-05-25T21:11:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-25T21:11:00","slug":"nazi-archaeology-and-the-holy-grail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1028","title":{"rendered":"Nazi Archaeology and the Holy Grail"},"content":{"rendered":"

There really was a Nazi archaeologist who sought the Holy Grail<\/a> and wrote a book about it, Otto Rahn:<\/p>\n

There was more in a similar vein — a lot more. To the untrained ear, this has a note of desperate flannel about it. However, Himmler loved the book and ordered 5,000 copies to be bound in the finest leather and distributed to the Nazi elite. By now it must have dawned on Rahn that he was swimming with some extremely nasty sharks. It must also have dawned on him that he was trapped — especially when he read the proofs of <\/em>Lucifer’s Court and found that one blatantly anti-Semitic passage had been inserted by someone else.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There really was a Nazi archaeologist who sought the Holy Grail and wrote a book about it, Otto Rahn: There was more in a similar vein — a lot more. To the untrained ear, this has a note of desperate flannel about it. However, Himmler loved the book and ordered 5,000 copies to be bound […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[20,22],"class_list":["post-1028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-archaeology","tag-weirdness"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-gA","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":900,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=900","url_meta":{"origin":1028,"position":0},"title":"Gallimaufry","author":"Chas S. 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