Unholy Alliance

A History of Nazi Involvement with the Occult (New and Expanded Edition)

Peter Levenda

• Publisher: Ibis Press
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN: 9780892541904
• eBook ISBN: 9780892546800
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: German History
• Index: History

In June of 1979, Peter Levenda flew to Chile—then under martial law—to investigate claims that a mysterious colony and torture center in the Andes Mountains held a key to the relationship between Nazi ideology and its post-war survival on the one hand, and occult ideas and practices on the other. He was detained there briefly and released with a warning: "You are not welcome in this country." The people who warned him were not Chileans but Germans, not government officials but agents of the assassination network Operation Condor. They were also Nazis, providing a sanctuary for men like Josef Mengele, Hans-Ulrich Rudel, and Otto Skorzeny. In other words: ODESSA.

Published in 1995, Unholy Alliance was the first book in English on the subject of Nazi occultism to be based on the captured Nazi archives themselves, as well as on the author's personal investigations and interviews, often conducted under dangerous conditions. The book attracted the attention of historians and journalists the world over and has been translated into six languages. A later edition boasts the famous foreword by Norman Mailer.

How did occultism come to play such an important role in the development of Nazi political ideology? What influence did such German and Austrian occult leaders as Lanz von Liebenfels and Guido von List have over the fledgling Nazi party? What was the Thule Gesellschaft, and who was its creator, Baron von Sebottendorf? Did the Nazi high command really believe in occultism? In astrology? In magic and reincarnation?

This is a new and expanded edition of the original text, with much additional information on the rise of extremist groups in Europe, Latin America, Asia, and the United States and the esoteric beliefs that are at their foundations. It is the first book in a trilogy that includes Ratline and The Hitler Legacy. This is where it all began.

Index

A∴-A∴ (Argentum Astrum), 43, 157–159, 246

Abbey of Thelma, 284–289

Achmeteli, Dr. Michael, 237

Adolf Hitler (Toland), 46

Aftermath (Farago), 15–17, 20

Agartha legend, 66

Ahnenerbe (Ancestral Heritage Research and Teaching Society)

application of work of, 225–226

archaeological sites and, 178, 225

background information, 168–169

description of, 171–175

Deutsche Akademie and, 174–175

Hedin and, 173–174

Himmler and, 172, 182

history of, 172–174

Hörbiger Doctrine and, 197–200

Iceland Project and, 187–191

legacy of, 278

Nazi Party's image and, 169–171

Nuremberg Trials and, 277

Paderborn and, 179

pagan library of, 181

researching, 169

rune scholars and, 183–187

SS and, 167, 182–183

Tibet Expedition and, 191–197, 200

Aktion Hess, 251

Aktion Hudal (Hudal), 15, 269–270

Albigensians, 204–209

Alessandri, Jorge, 298, 315

Allende Gossens, Salvador, 14, 17, 21, 311–312, 316–318, 326

Altamirano, Carlos, 321

Anderson, Jack, 361–362

Angleton, James Jesus, 351

Anthroposophical Society, 43, 84

Anti-Semitism

Christianity and, 349–350

current, 345

Ford and, 100–101

List and, 78

Lovecraft's, 91

Nazi Party and, 63–64

Protocols of the Elders of Zion and, 47–49, 148

“rational,” 78–79

in United States, 345

von Liebenfels and, 78

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Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Prologue to the Third Edition
• Foreword
• Preface to the Second Edition
• Introduction: At the Mountains of Madness
• I: THE BY-PATHS TO CHAOS
• II: THE BLACK ORDER
• III: WITCHES' SABBATH IN AMERICA
• Epilogue: Hasta La Vista, Baby
• Afterword to the Third Edition
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Acknowledgments
• Index
• About the Author