Hi fellow Undead fans.
I wasn't 100% sure if this was the appropriate part of the forum to put this, but it seemed like a general discussion :).
I was watching random odds and ends on Netflix while paint, as one does, and began watching some documentaries on the Nazis and the Occult. One particular name kept popping up, Heinrich Himmler, the Occult obsessed leader and creator of the S.S. Sort of crazy similar name to our own lichemaster Heinrich Kemmler....
Himmler was obsessed with establishing a mythic history for the Germans as a means of evidence that they were the master race. He created a very bizarre social structure for the S.S. which the historians in the documentary compared to Camelot. Himmler apparently thought of his S.S. members are black knights, sort of a new knightly order, and had many odd rituals ect within this society. He was also convinced he was an ancient king reborn and destined for greatness.
While granted these is not a mirror of Heinrich Kemmler, the similarity in names is pretty clear. Both characters also had extremely dark obsessions and sort of became the heads of personal armies. I don't think it is a stretch to say the Kemmler was at least in part inspired by Himmler.
For those of you that study WWII historical information perhaps this is old new, but it sort of was a surprising revelation for me. I know that several GW characters, especially the older ones, are heavily inspired by famous mythological characters, or historical people which have taken on mythological status (the old Bret Joan D 'Arc character is one I had in mind). But this sort of seemed less in your face and obvious then some of the others.
What are your opinions? Is this just sort of me grasping at straws? I thought this was sort of a neat find, that makes Kemmler, a figure already draped in sinister deeds a little more, well evil lol.
I wasn't 100% sure if this was the appropriate part of the forum to put this, but it seemed like a general discussion :).
I was watching random odds and ends on Netflix while paint, as one does, and began watching some documentaries on the Nazis and the Occult. One particular name kept popping up, Heinrich Himmler, the Occult obsessed leader and creator of the S.S. Sort of crazy similar name to our own lichemaster Heinrich Kemmler....
Himmler was obsessed with establishing a mythic history for the Germans as a means of evidence that they were the master race. He created a very bizarre social structure for the S.S. which the historians in the documentary compared to Camelot. Himmler apparently thought of his S.S. members are black knights, sort of a new knightly order, and had many odd rituals ect within this society. He was also convinced he was an ancient king reborn and destined for greatness.
While granted these is not a mirror of Heinrich Kemmler, the similarity in names is pretty clear. Both characters also had extremely dark obsessions and sort of became the heads of personal armies. I don't think it is a stretch to say the Kemmler was at least in part inspired by Himmler.
For those of you that study WWII historical information perhaps this is old new, but it sort of was a surprising revelation for me. I know that several GW characters, especially the older ones, are heavily inspired by famous mythological characters, or historical people which have taken on mythological status (the old Bret Joan D 'Arc character is one I had in mind). But this sort of seemed less in your face and obvious then some of the others.
What are your opinions? Is this just sort of me grasping at straws? I thought this was sort of a neat find, that makes Kemmler, a figure already draped in sinister deeds a little more, well evil lol.