During World War Two, the Nazi Party, under control of Adolf Hitler, ordered for the creation of the Schutzstaffel (SS) as the foremost agency of security, surveillance, and terror for Nazi Germany. Hitler then appointed Heinrich Himmler as the Reichsfuhrer, or leader, of SS and his right-hand man in the prosecution of the Jews during the Holocaust. Himmler, who became one of the most powerful men of the Nazi Party, ordered for the creation of an SS headquarters – to lead the Aryan cult – to be located in a Renaissance castle located in the village of Wewelsburg.