Otto Rahn and the Quest for the Grail

A Hessian language scholar and a Nazi guru who wielded immense influence within the Hitler regime, Rahn persuaded Hitler that the Grail was the Sacred Book of the Aryans. But who was he. In fact anyone who has watched the Indiana Jones films has seen Otto Rahn in action. The story lines of those movies mirror Rahns incredible adventures in the South of France in the early 1930s. The story persists that Rahn found the runic Grail tablets in the Pyrenean grottoes and they were, like the Ark of the Covenant in Raiders, crated up and shipped to Berlin Himmler (Toht in Raiders) was actually Rahn's superior The Austrian mountain Schloss in Last Crusade equals the Nazis concealment of the excavated Languedoc treasures in the Schleigeiss Glacier These fabulous artifacts, unearthed as a result of Rahns phenomenal scholastic detective work in decoding the hidden messages within the medieval Grail masterwork Parsifal, were believed to include the Grail Cup, the Spear of Destiny, the Tablets of Moses, the Ark of the Covenant, the Sword and Harp of David, the Sacred Candelabra and the Golden Urn of Manna. But as this well-researched book demonstrates, far from being an SS adept, Otto Rahn was a key defender of freedom in a time of chaos and cruelty, a modern day Argonaut who sought the Golden Fleece in order to rekindle the dimming Light of humanity.