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Wewelsburg, a small village of the town of Büren in Paderbornland, Westfalia (Nord), Germany has for hundreds of years been the site of a beautiful stone castle set atop a natural rock outcropping overlooking a wide valley. Built between 1604 and 1607 on the ruins of a much older fortress, Wewelsburg castle was the seat of Fürstbischof Theodor von Fürstenberg. For many years it was host to history, accommodating Napoleon, the Prussians and countless religious leaders.

The documentation includes the actual rental contract of the castle, letters from the Bauleitung SS-Schule Haus Wewelsburg, architectural plans, building contracts, copies of newspaper articles of Himmler visiting Wewelsburg, Himmler’s calendar showing travel to Wewelsburg, building costs, etc., etc.


Wewelsburg 1933 bis 1945 SS Kult- und Terrorstätte has photos of Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler at the Wewelsburg, Gauleiter Dr. Meyer, architect Hermann Bartels, Hauptschulungsleiter Hans Peter des Coudres, Burghauptmann Siegfried Taubert, interior woodwork, Wewelsburg chairs, the castle library, the crypt, architectural models, swastika symbols incorporated in floors and ceilings of the castle, WMF silverware and tableware from the Wewelsburg, SS uniforms, the SS Death Head ring or Totenkopfring der SS, the community house at Wewelsburg with its runic symbols, etc., etc.

In 1933 Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler was searching Germany for an acceptable site for an Ordensburg (or Order Castle) and Reichsführerschule (or National Leader School) for the high leadership within the SS. Subsequent to a comprehensive investigation, Himmler determined that Wewelsburg possessed the proper Germanic history and site potential to become the home of his “Order of Nordic Men” so he leased it from the government for 100 years at a cost of 1 Reichsmark (40 US cents) per year! Today Wewelsburg castle still stands and the SS headquarters is a SS Museum housing a collection not duplicated anywhere else on earth.

Wewelsburg 1933 bis 1945 SS Kult- und Terrorstätte (Wewelsburg 1933 - 1945, SS Cult and Terror Site) by Karl Hüser is a 1+ inch thick, 8-¼ x 9-¾ inch well-researched, 3-½ pound hardcover documentary with 465 pages and a large 19 inch color fold-out in the back. It was published in 1987 as a guide to the first big exhibition of historical Third Reich SS material to be held in the renovated old SS Headquarters Building adjacent to the castle. The book covers the history of the castle, the race and ideology aspect of the castle, the Reichsführerschule, the place and meaning of the castle within the SS, the organizational structure of the SS, the concentration camp established to renovate the Wewelsburg, the expansion of the castle, all the way through its destruction by the SS at Easter 1945.

This is a Second Expanded edition of Wewelsburg 1933 bis 1945 SS Kult- und Terrorstätte from 1987 published for the Kreismuseum Wewelsburg by Verlag Bonifatius and printed in Paderborn, Germany. It is complete, in very nice, little-used condition without any odor.