The Occult Roots of Nazism
Secret Aryan Cults and Their Influence on Nazi Ideology
Published on 31. December 1997
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-1-85043-495-5 (ISBN)
Description
An account of how Nazism was influenced by powerful occult and millenarian sects that thrived in Germany at the turn of the century. These sects (principally the Ariosophists) espoused doctrines of popular nationalism, "Aryan" racism and occultism to support their advocacy of German world rule.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Illustrations
20 halftones, line illustrations, bibliography, index
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 134 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-85043-495-5 (9781850434955)
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Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke
The Occult Roots of Nazism
Secret Aryan Cults and Their Influence on Nazi Ideology
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Content
the background - the Pan-German vision, the modern German occult revival 1880-1910; the ariosophists of Vienna - guido von list, wotanism and Germanic theosophy, the armanenschaft, the secret heritage, the German millennium, Jorg Lanz von Liebenfels and theozoology, the order of the new templars; ariosophy in Germany - the Germanenorden, Rudolf von Sebottendorff and the Thule society, the holy Runes and the Edda society, Herbert Reichstein and ariosophy, Karl Maria Wiligut - the private magus of Heinrich Himmler, ariosophy and Adolf Hitler. Appendices: genealogy of Lanz von Liebenfels; genealogy of the Sebottendorff family; the history of ariosophy, new templar verse; the modern mythology of Nazi occultism.