Otto Wilhelm Rahn (1904 - 1939) is one of the most enigmatic figures of the 20th Century but, paradoxically, one of the least known. Popular opinion has it that in the early 1930s, on the orders of Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Himmler, Rahn was sent to the South of France to find and bring to his Nazi masters the fabled Treasures of the Temple of Solomon, which included the Grail Chalice and the Ark of the Covenant. These legendary artifacts would have been employed by Hitler and his cohorts as occult talismans of power to give them an upper hand in their demonic quest for world domination. Convinced he had cracked a code in the pages of Wolfram von Eschenbach's classic novel "Parsifal" and identified the hiding place, the language scholar Rahn travelled to Languedoc.
Even today no one knows if Rahn ever did find the Grail. Otto Rahn took his secrets to the grave when in March 1939 he committed suicide...or did he? Otto Rahn’s exploration objectives in the Pyrenees and their alleged outcomes have forged a legend which Steven Spielberg’s researchers readily conceded was their inspiration for the creation of one of Hollywood’s most exciting and notable screen characters: Indiana Jones.
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