Weisthor
S S-SturmbannFuhrer Richard Anders,
Order of Knights Templar, Berlin
Lumenklub, Bayreutherstrasse 22 Berlin W.
To S S-BrigadeFuhrer K. M. Weisthor
Berlin Grunewald
27 August 1938
STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL
Dear BrigadeFuhrer,
My inquiries have confirmed that Police Headquarters, Alexanderplatz, did indeed receive an anonymous telephone call. Moreover a conversation with the ReichsFuhrer’s adjutant, Karl Wolff, indicates that it was he, and not the ReichsFuhrer, who made the said call. He very much dislikes misleading the police in this fashion, but he admits that he can see no other way of assisting with the inquiry and still preserve the necessity of the ReichsFuhrer’s anonymity. Apparently Himmler is very impressed.
Heil Hitler,
Yours, Richard Anders
S S-HauptSturmFuhrer Dr Lanz Kindermann
Am Kleinen Wannsee
Berlin West
To Karl Maria Wiligut
Caspar-Theyss Strasse 33,
Berlin West 29
September 1938
STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL
My dear Karl,
On a serious note first of all. Our friend Reinhard Lange has started to give me cause for concern. Putting aside my own feelings for him, I believe that he may be weakening in his resolve to assist with the execution of Project Krist. That what we are doing is in keeping with our ancient pagan heritage no longer seems to impress him as something unpleasant but none the less necessary. Whilst I do not for a moment believe that he would ever betray us, I feel that he should no longer be a part of those Project Krist activities which perforce must take place within this clinic.
Otherwise I continue to rejoice in your ancient spiritual heirloom, and look forward to the day when we can continue to investigate our ancestors through your autogenic clairvoyance.
Heil Hitler,
Yours, as ever,
Lanz
The Commandant,
S S-BrigadeFuhrer Siegfried Taubert,
S S-SchoolHaus,
Wewelsburg, near Paderborn,
Westphalia
To S S-BrigadeFuhrer Weisthor
Caspar-Theyss Strasse 33,
Berlin Grunewald
3 October 1938
STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL: COURT OF HONOUR PROCEEDINGS, 6-8 NOVEMBER 1938
Herr BrigadeFuhrer,
This is to confirm that the next Court of Honour will take place here in Wewelsburg on the above dates. As usual security will be tight and during the proceedings, beyond the usual methods of identification, a password will be required to gain admittance to the school house. At your own suggestion this is to be GOSLAR.
Attendance is deemed by the ReichsFuhrer to be mandatory for all those officers and men listed below:
ReichsFuhrer-SS Himmler
SS-ObergruppenFuhrer Heydrich
SS-ObergruppenFuhrer Heissmeyer
SS-ObergruppenFuhrer Nebe
SS-ObergruppenFuhrer Daluege
SS-ObergruppenFuhrer Darre
SS-GruppenFuhrer Pohl
SS-BrigadeFuhrer Taubert
SS-BrigadeFuhrer Berger
SS-BrigadeFuhrer Eicke
SS-BrigadeFuhrer Weisthor
SS-OberFuhrer Wolff
SS-SturmbannFuhrer Anders
SS-SturmbannFuhrer von Oeynhausen
SS-HauptSturmFuhrer Kindermann
SS-OberSturmbannFuhrer Diebitsch
SS-OberSturmbannFuhrer von Knobelsdorff
SS-OberSturmbannFuhrer Klein
SS-OberSturmbannFuhrer Lasch
SS-Unterscharfuhrer Rahn
Landbaumeister Bartels
Professor Wilhelm Todt
Heil Hitler,
Taubert
There were many other letters, but I had already risked too much by staying as long as I had. More than that, I realized that, for perhaps the first time since coming out of the trenches in 1918, I was afraid.
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Driving from Weisthor’s house to the Alex, I tried to make some sense out of what I had discovered.
Vogelmann’s part was explained, and to some extent that of Reinhard Lange. And perhaps Kindermann’s clinic was where they had killed the girls. What better place to kill someone than a hospital, where people were always coming and going feet first. Certainly his letter to Weisthor seemed to indicate as much.
There was a frightening ingenuity in Weisthor’s solution. After murdering the girls, all of whom had been selected for their Aryan looks, their bodies were hidden so carefully as to be virtually impossible to find: the more so when one took into account the lack of police manpower available to investigate something as routine as a missing person. By the time the police realized that there was a mass-murderer stalking the streets of Berlin, they were more concerned with keeping things quiet so that their failure to catch the killer did not look incompetent – for at least as long as it took to find a convenient scapegoat, such as Josef Kahn.
