Simon Mattacks
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3 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 13 Sep
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Some sources report that these finds included what Rahn thought was the Grail.
Barber writes that, among other salacious tales, some say Himmler kept von Eschenbach's Parzival book as bedside reading.
but he adds that there is no real proof of it, and such tales have become entangled with the familiar stories of modern fiction.
So often, he laments, when dealing with the Grail, imagination plays a much greater part than reality.
He goes on to dismiss even the idea that the Nazis sought the Grail for its supernatural powers,
saying that they were much more interested in fabricating a history of an idealistic Germanic religion than they were in looking for the grail.
If Barber is correct, we must leave that adventure story about the Nazi treasure hunters to Indiana Jones.
But, Barber adds, it is not fantasy to suggest that imagery around the Grail contributed to the rise of National Socialism in Germany, even prior to Rahn and Himmler.
Wagner's production furthered ideals about the perfection of the Grail and the people in its orbit.
Like the knights did before, those who sought the Grail were in the service of something great.
And so these ideas about some sort of Germanized religion became linked with Parzival and the Grail.
Barber cites a single piece of evidence that echoes down through history.
Hitler once spoke of a brotherhood of Templars around the Grail of pure blood.
So it may have been a good idea for the film industry to send Indiana and his father after the Nazis in the end.
But as conspiracy theories tend to do, the new pairing of the Grail and the Cathars managed to live on despite being a complete fabrication.
In the 1970s, a BBC archaeology program called Chronicle aired a series of documentaries related to the Holy Grail.
The Chronicle series had long been considered to be very respectable and had been generally lauded by critics.
However, a trio of episodes about the Knights Templar drew criticism.
Despite the negative attention, those segments inspired a 1982 book called The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail.
Both the BBC documentaries and the book advanced wild and largely unfounded theories about the Holy Grail.
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