Spear of Destiny

In 1999 I visited Vienna, Austria, and went to the Kunsthistoriche Museum there expressly to see this: The Spear of Destiny, otherwise known as the Spear of Longinus.

Back in 1911 or so, Hitler would visit this relic and stand on this very spot, transfixed by the amazing history of this relic (Wikipedia reference). Hitler believed that, while in posession of this spear, he would be invincible. In fact, while in Vienna for only two days (or was it eight hours? I forget) in 1939, he spent two hours of in the museum, waiting while the relic was placed under his control.

Two days later (or was it two weeks?), Hitler invaded Poland.

UPDATE: The spear was also recently analyized on a Discovery Channel special and although not thought to date from the time of Christ, it has some other unusual features. The spear itself contains a nail thought to be from the "true cross", but that nail inside has ANOTHER nail inside THAT one that they cannot properly date!