The S.S. organisation had been constituted, by Himmler, according to the principles of the Jesuits Order. Their regulations and the Spiritual Exercises prescribed by the founder of the Jesuit order, St. Ignatius of Loyola, were the model Himmler tried to copy exactly... The whole structure of the direction was a close imitation of the Catholic Churchs hierarchical order. A mediaeval castle, near Paderborn in Westphalia, called Webelsbourg, was restored to serve as what could be called a SS monastery. Walter Schellenberg, former chief of the German counter-espionage.
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