In Fiction
The attempted destruction of the castle by Heinz Macher is the setting for the climax of the thriller Black Camelot by Duncan Kyle published in 1978 by William Collins Sons & Co Ltd. While the burning is taking place, the protagonists of the novel attempt to obtain secret papers stored there by Himmler about the involvement of British and American companies with German industry during World War II.
The town and castle of Wewelsburg, the Reichs SS Leadership School, as also some of the castle's illustrious patrons and visitors like Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler, Karl Maria Willigut, SS-Obengrupenführer and chief of the SS-Reichssicherheitshauptamt (including the Gestapo and Kripo) Reinhard Heydrich, and SS-Gruppenführer Arthur Nebe play a prominent part in the 1990 novel The Pale Criminal by Philip Kerr. This novel was also released as a part of the 1993 Bernie Gunther trilogy Berlin Noir.
The comic title Green Lantern Annual #3 (1994) brings the story "Rings of Evil", set in an alternate universe where the SS rose to world domination. This victory was made possible by Himmler's magic practice within Castle Wewelsburg.
The castle was an inspiration for the Castle Wolfenstein in the series of video and computer games.
Wewelsburg is also featured in the video game Medal of Honor: Underground (2000), in a mission where French Resistance Fighter Manon is sent to uncover Himmler's occult activities in the castle.
Wewelsburg Castle is one of the settings in the 2009 novel Release by Nicole Hadaway.
The vault in Wewelsburg Castle and a modified version of the Schwarze Sonne mosaic is used in James Twining's The Black Sun (James Twining)
In the Italian comic book Martin Mystère, Aslaug, the daughter of the Valkyrie Brynhildr, with the help of Karl Weisthor, attempted to open a portal to Hindarfjall in the Obergruppenführersaal in Wewelsburg in 1936, but she was stopped by the agent of the American secret service "Elsewhere", who was unknowingly working for Loki, the god of fire.
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