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The
Daily Mail article connected the discovery of the “rare” witchcraft books at the Czech National Library with the creation by Himmler of a special unit called
H-Sonderkommando in 1935, so named for the first letter of the German word
Hexe, meaning witch. Apparently this unit was part of a systematic search by the Nazis for texts connected with magic and witch-hunt trials, subjects which came to obsess Himmler, who believed “the hocus pocus books held the key to Ayran supremacy in the world,” according to the
.
The Local claimed that the SS troops combed over 260 libraries and archives for information, accumulating the largest collection of books on witches and their persecution in medieval Germany, which was dubbed the witch library. Quoting a Norwegian Masonic researcher, the article claimed that about 6,000 of the 13,000 books were seized from the Norwegian Order of Freemasons in Oslo.