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,
SS-Brigadeführer Siegfried Taubert,
SS-School Haus,
Wewelsburg, near Paderborn,
Westphalia

To SS-Brigadeführer Weisthor
Caspar-Theyss Strasse 33,
Berlin Grunewald

3 October 1938

STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL: COURT OF HONOUR PROCEEDINGS, 6 — 8 NOVEMBER 1938

Herr Brigadeführer,

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:

Reichsführer-SS Himmler
SS-Obergruppenführer Heydrich
SS-Obergruppenführer Heissmeyer
SS-Obergruppenführer Nebe
SS-Obergruppenführer Daluege
SS-Obergruppenführer Darre
SS-Gruppenführer Pohl
SS-Brigadeführer Taubert
SS-Brigadeführer Berger
SS-Brigadeführer Eicke
SS-Brigadeführer Weisthor
SS-Oberführer Wolff
SS-Sturmbannführer Anders
SS-Sturmbannführer von Oeynhausen
SS-Hauptsturmführer Kindermann
SS-Obersturmbannführer Diebitsch
SS-Obersturmbannführer von Knobelsdorff
SS-Obersturmbannführer Klein
SS-Obersturmbannführer Lasch
SS-Unterscharführer 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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Friday, 4 November

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.