William the Conqueror in Podcasts

Now dim those lights, get comfortable, and prepare to meet the real William the Conqueror, not the heroic founder of a dynasty, but one of history's most calculated and ruthless warlords.

While not, we can assume, for any tips on invasion that William the Conqueror might have been able to offer at an interval of nearly 900 years. No, the reason scientists were dispatched in 1941 to Bayeux by the SS's Ahnenerbe, or Ancestral Heritage Organization, was to see what evidence the tapestry might offer to bolster Nazi racial theory. You see, William the Conqueror was a Norman. His ancestors were Vikings, so he was a kind of honorary Aryan.