Reply #79: Some Serious NAZI Shit, there, Bob.

[Octafish]

The NAZIs were into occult shit, just like the top reptiles of the BFEE.

The Nazis And The Occult

Lowell K. Dyson, Ph.D. Columbia, 1968

There is probably more mythology about the nazis and the Occult than about Hitler's sex life or his later (?) life in Argentina -- or at the South Pole. In certain circles it is a cottage industry and a particular kind of writer repeats "facts" from earlier books which were repeated from "facts" in other earlier books, which in turn may have come from such absolutely trustworthy sources as the National Inquirer. (I am very sorry to tell you that simply because something is in a book does not make it true). The following bibliography is my interpretation of some of the books which I have collected over the years.

Lets's start our with the one serious book which everyone with an open mind and a willingness to evaluate sources should start with:

Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, The Occult Roots of Nazism: Secret Aryan Cults and Their Influence on Nazi Ideology, The Ariosophists of Austria and Germany, 1890-1935 (published 1985; republished as pb. by I.B. Tauris & Co., Ltd. London: 1992 -- I think there is also now an American publisher) This is a book by a scholar with a D.Phil. From Oxford and who is a serious student of the occult. It has well-researched material on the 19th and early 20th century volkish and occult groups and leaders: Ariosophy, Wotanism, the Armanenschaft, Order of New Templars (NOT the OTO), the Germanenorden, the Edda Society, the Thule, the probably imaginary Vril; von List, Lanz "von Liebenfels", "von Sebottendorff", Wiligut, et cetera, et al. You come away with a recognition that although a few occultists operated on the fringes of Nazism, they were pretty pitiful.

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