Jeanne Le Borgne
05/07/2024 at 7:28 p.m.Updated 05/07/2024 at 7:46 p.m.
Five skeletons were discovered under the house of Hermann Göring, Hitler’s formidable henchman, at the Wolf’s Den. The corpses were buried naked, surrounded by talismans and devoid of hands and feet. Details which suggest that it was a human sacrifice.
Nothing could have prepared this team of amateur archaeologists for what they were about to discover in the basement of their former home in Wolf’s Den, the town that once housed the Nazi headquarters in the north of Poland and which now welcomes nearly 200,000 visitors per year.
In February, a team of German and Polish history buffs from Gdansk managed to enter the former home of Field Marshal Hermann Göring, Hitler’s feared henchman. And according to the “Daily Mail”, archaeologists discovered human bones hidden under the wooden floor of this brick house.
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They then called the police, who eventually dug up five bodies, including that of a newborn with a “tiny” skull, nestled between the shins of an adult.
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A ritual sacrifice?
According to specialists, these could be the remains of a family made up of three adults, a teenager and a baby who were all buried naked after having their hands and feet cut off. More frightening, the five victims were surrounded by “lightning stones”, also called ceraunies, which tradition has long considered to be objects sent by the gods during a storm and supposed to bring victory in battle and good luck.
A discovery which makes Oktavian Bartoszewski, one of the members of the team who discovered the remains, believe that the victims could have been the subject of a ritual sacrifice before being placed under the foundations of the house of Göring “to ensure the success and prosperity of those who lived in the building.” “A find like that gives you goosebumps,” he says.
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The “Daily Mail” recalls that the Nazis were obsessed with everything supernatural, that Himmler was a fan of occult rites and Hitler was passionate about astrology, so imagining them resorting to black magic was not a stupid idea.
