Hitler's Monsters
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Hitler's Monsters

  1. 336 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Hitler's Monsters

About this book

The definitive history of the supernatural in Nazi Germany, exploring the occult ideas, esoteric sciences, and pagan religions touted by the Third Reich in the service of power

The Nazi fascination with the occult is legendary, yet today it is often dismissed as Himmler’s personal obsession or wildly overstated for its novelty. Preposterous though it was, however, supernatural thinking was inextricable from the Nazi project. The regime enlisted astrology and the paranormal, paganism, Indo-Aryan mythology, witchcraft, miracle weapons, and the lost kingdom of Atlantis in reimagining German politics and society and recasting German science and religion. In this eye-opening history, Eric Kurlander reveals how the Third Reich’s relationship to the supernatural was far from straightforward. Even as popular occultism and superstition were intermittently rooted out, suppressed, and outlawed, the Nazis drew upon a wide variety of occult practices and esoteric sciences to gain power, shape propaganda and policy, and pursue their dreams of racial utopia and empire.

Eric Kurlander is professor of history at Stetson University. He lives in DeLand, FL.

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Information

Year
2018
eBook ISBN
9780300190373
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
World War II
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. CONTENTS
  2. Acknowledgements
  3. Introduction
  4. Part One
  5. 1. The Supernatural Roots of Nazism
  6. 2. From the Thule Society to the NSDAP: Fashioning the Nazi
  7. 3. Exploiting Hitler’s Magic: From Weimar’s Horrors to Visions
  8. Part Two
  9. 4. The Third Reich’s War on the Occult
  10. 5. The Stars Come Down to Frozen Earth
  11. 6. Lucifer’s Court
  12. Part Three
  13. 7. The Supernatural and the Second World War
  14. 8. Monstrous Science
  15. 9. Nazi Twilight
  16. Epilogue
  17. Notes
  18. Bibliography
  19. Illustration Credits
  20. Index