>>508717505Many in the SS held the traditional native european belief in reincarnation.
You may've noticed in many photos of SS graves that very often, when they used pic rel's rune as a grave marker, they used it in the "upright" position, which indicates Life, Beginning, Birth, et cetera. Why did they do that? You may think it doesn't make sense, that it would only make sense to use it "upside down" to indicate death.
The reason they used it in the upright position was because many of them believed they would be reincarnated at some point in the future, and thus born again, so the grave markers with the rune in the "upright" position were to indicate that "This man isn't dead, he is with us forever, for he will return; he will be reborn!"
Within the SS, 200 000 copies of the book "Irdische Unsterblichkeit"* was distributed, which deals with the topic of the germanic people's traditional belief in reincarnation.
Here is the book: https://archive.org/details/IrdischeUnsterblichkeit/page/n1
Reichsfรผhrer Heinrich Himmler himself believed he was the reincarnation of Heinrich der Vogler, who died in 936. Himmler visited his grave many times in Quedlinburg.
* The book is specifically about the germanic people, however, it was the belief of ALL europeans, not only those living in the germanic lands