{"id":1148,"date":"2023-08-07T03:00:58","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T03:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/the-castle-at-the-centre-of-nazi-terror-bbc-reel\/"},"modified":"2023-08-07T03:00:58","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T03:00:58","slug":"the-castle-at-the-centre-of-nazi-terror-bbc-reel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/the-castle-at-the-centre-of-nazi-terror-bbc-reel\/","title":{"rendered":"The castle at the centre of Nazi terror \u2013 BBC REEL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RLbnpbfBmGQ?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>During WW2, German SS leader Heinrich Himmler attempted to turn a Renaissance castle into a headquarters for the Nazis&#8217; major paramilitary organisation.<\/p>\n<p>Dubbed the &#8216;Centre of the World&#8217; by Himmler and the SS, plans for a vast redesign of Wewelsburg Castle were drawn up. The work was carried out by the prisoners from an on-site concentration camp but not completed.<\/p>\n<p>Today, the castle is a carefully curated museum designed to inform new generations about the castle&#8217;s history and the horrendous ideology of the SS. It&#8217;s also a memorial to those who were interred there.<\/p>\n<p>Video by Next Stop Stories<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to BBC Reel: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/bbcreel?sub_confirmation=1 <\/p>\n<p>More videos: https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/reel<\/p>\n<p>#bbc #bbcreel #bbcnews<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RLbnpbfBmGQ\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During WW2, German SS leader Heinrich Himmler attempted to turn a Renaissance castle into a headquarters for the Nazis&#8217; major paramilitary organisation. Dubbed the &#8216;Centre of the World&#8217; by Himmler and the SS, plans for a vast redesign of Wewelsburg Castle were drawn up. The work was carried out by the prisoners from an on-site [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[15,17,16,18,19],"class_list":["post-1148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","tag-bbc","tag-bbcnews","tag-bbcreel","tag-factual","tag-features","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}