[NAZI OCCULT]: DARRE RICHARD WALTHER: (1895-1953) SS-Obergruppenfuhrer of World War II. Reich Minister of Food and ...

[NAZI OCCULT]: DARRE RICHARD WALTHER: (1895-1953) SS-Obergruppenfuhrer of World War II. Reich Minister of Food and Agriculture 1933-42. T.L.S., R Walther Darre, one page, 4to, Hohenlychen Sanitorium (although on the colour printed stationery of Der Reichsbauernfuhrer [Leader of the German Peasantry] featuring a logo with the motto Blut und Boden [Blood and Soil]), 9th December 1936, to Colonel [Wiligut], in German. Darre writes, in full, 'Let me present my very warmest sincerest congratulations for your birthday tomorrow. I hope that I shall very shortly be able personally to grasp your hand, and can say how happy I am to be able to call you my friend and counsellor'. With blank integral leaf. Some very light, extremely minor age wear, VG Karl Maria Wiligut (1866-1946) Austrian occultist and SS-Brigadefuhrer. Wiligut, who also used the alias Weisthor, was employed within the personal staff and offices of Heinrich Himmler and Karl Wolff, and claimed to be in the tradition of a long line of German mystic teachers, reaching back into prehistoric times. He also claimed to have spiritual powers that allowed him direct access to genetic memories of his ancestors thousands of years in the past. Wiligut contributed significantly to the development of Wewelsburg as the order-castle and ceremonial centre of SS pseudo-religious practice and also designed the Totenkopfring, which Himmler personally awarded to prestigious SS officers.