Don't forget Hitlers (well Himler TBH) crazy search for the Grail, and all things ubermensch in the searh for the 'true' aryan, and all that Spear of Longinus stuff (was that actually true?).

More likely to be one of those medieval 'tourist' thingies to draw in the pilgrims for their doshola (does the work really never fuckin' change, are wereally that 'base'?)

Anyhoo, this is up on Wiki, but not sure I really believe it....

Trevor Ravenscroft

The "Spear of Destiny" is a name given to the Holy Lance in various accounts that attribute mystical powers to it. Many of these have originated in recent times, and several popular New Age and conspiracy theory books have popularized the legend of the Spear.

Trevor Ravenscroft's 1973 book, The Spear of Destiny (as well as a later book, The Mark of the Beast), claims that Adolf Hitler started World War II in order to capture the spear, with which he was obsessed. At the end of the war the spear came into the hands of US General George S. Patton. According to legend, losing the spear would result in death, and that was fulfilled when Hitler committed suicide and Patton died in a car accident in an army camp.

Ravenscroft repeatedly attempted to define the mysterious "powers" that the legend says the spear serves. He found it to be a hostile and evil spirit, which he sometimes referred to as the Antichrist, though that is open to interpretation. He never actually referred to the spear as spiritually controlled, but rather as intertwined with all of mankind's ambitions.