Fascism & The Occult

[seemslikeadream]

Internet Archive is a great place

Occult History of the Third Reich part 3 Adolf Hitler

https://archive.org/details/AdolfHitler_201404

Conjuring Hitler
https://archive.org/details/ConjuringHitlerOpt

The Hitler Escape
https://archive.org/details/TheHitlerEscape

[KUAN]

I've read the Peter Levenda one, the other is more recent. Both claim Hitler became Dr.georg Anton poch and died Indonesia.
There's a lot on the net about it:
https://www.google.co.nz/search?espv=2& ... 8Q1QIIcigH

Hunting Hitler : New Scientific Evidence That Hitler Escaped Nazi Germany
by Corsi, Jerome R.

In 2009, three US professors with access to Adolf Hitler's alleged remains startled the world with scientific DNA proof that the skull and bones that Russia had claimed since the end of World War II were Hitler's actually belonged to a middle-aged woman whose identity remains unknown. This announcement has rekindled interest in the claim made by Joseph Stalin, maintained to the end of his life, that Hitler got away. The truth is that no one saw Hitler and Eva Braun die in the bunker in Berlin on April 30, 1945. No photographs were taken to document claims Hitler and Evan Braun committed suicide. Hitler's body was never recovered. No definitive physical evidence exists proving Hitler died in the bunker in Berlin. Dr. Jerome Corsi explores the historical possibility that Hitler escaped Nazi Germany at the end of World War II. FBI and CIA records maintained at the National Archives indicate that the US government took seriously reports at the end of World War II that Hitler had escaped to Argentina. More recent evidence suggests Hitler may have fled to Indonesia, where he married and worked at a hospital in Sumbawa. Even the chief of the US trial counsel at Nuremburg, Thomas J. Dodd, was quoted as saying, #147;No one for sure can say Adolf Hitler is dead." Putting massive amounts of evidence and research under a critical eye, Dr. Corsi shows that perhaps modern history's most tantalizing question has yet to be definitively answered: Did Hitler escaped Nazi Germany at the end of World War II to plot revenge and to plan the rise of the Fourth Reich?

Ratline : Soviet Spies, Nazi Priests, and the Disappearance of Adolf Hitler
by Levenda, Peter

Ratline is the documented history about the mechanisms by which thousands of other Nazi war criminals fled to the remotest parts of the globe - including quite possibly Adolf Hitler. It is a story involving Soviet spies, Nazi priests, and a network of Catholic monasteries and safe houses known as the rat line. The name of one priest in particular, Monsignor Draganovic, was discovered by the author in a diary found in Indonesia. Why would this name turn up in a document written in a spidery German hand in a remote island in Indonesia? As famed author Peter Levenda began his research, more information came to light: In December of 2009, it was revealed that the skull the Russians claimed was Hitler's - salvaged from the bunker in 1945 - was not that of Hitler! In 2010, files from the Office of Special Investigations of the Justice Department were declassified, revealing a history of American intelligence providing cover for Nazi war criminals. The mystery deepened, and the author returned to his own roots hunting Nazis in North America, South America and Europe. He revisited old contacts, made some new ones, and gradually the explosive story was revealed: there is no forensic evidence to prove that Adolf Hitler died in the bunker in April 1945!

[semper occultus]

...thanks for the links...that book will be a long term item on the Wish List I suspect until the big libraries start chucking their stock out......disappointed to see a whole article on video games....

[Joao]

One of the essays in there is available for download on academia.edu.

Also, the complete introduction and initial five pages (of 20) from the first essay are available via Google Books, and attached below.

Introduction

WHEN WE, THE EDITORS OF THIS VOLUME, solicited essays from our contributors, our main goal was to showcase exciting new historical approaches to that perennial topic of scholarly, pseudoscholarly, and popular interest--the Nazi occult. From supposed SS expeditions in search of the "Spear of Destiny" to Heinrich Himmler's fascination with witchcraft or Adolf Hitler's "Jewish clairvoyant," there has been no shortage of material over the decades suggesting a close connection between Nazism and the occult. [...]

To be clear from the outset, it is not our principal aim to establish a new consensus on the question of the "occult roots of Nazism," which has traditionally involved determining the extent to which esoteric or occult philosophies, "secret cults," or millenarian networks informed the creation of Nazism or were used to further its goals. We endeavor instead to solicit a variety of responses to that question, responses that both expand on and transcend the traditional range of themes and field of inquiry associated with Nazi occultism.

Esoteric Alternatives in Imperial Germany: Science, Spirit, and the Modern Occult Revival

TO MANY OBSERVERS TODAY, the world of occult and esoteric groups seems to represent a thoroughgoing rejection of the Enlightenment legacy, irreducibly alien and incomprehensible. Yet for a broad cross section of educated Germans in the Wilhelmine era, the occult and esoteric offered a powerfully appealing alternative form of enlightenment. Esoteric worldviews promised illuminating knowledge about the farthest reaches of the cosmos and the innermost depths of the soul, providing access to hidden sources of spiritual wisdom and profound insight into the secrets of the universe. Reworking key themes of modernity, occult adherents in Imperial Germany embraced esotericism as an antidote to materialism: an alternative approach to knowledge and enlightenment that could reenchant a disenchanted world and extend the ideals of Bildung, of education and character formation, as a lifelong process of constantly developing new human faculties.

[semper occultus]

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

seems to have quite a few reviews even though its not out til next month - maybe the kindle version is

[American Dream]

The Nazis as occult masters? It’s a good story but not history


Not long after the final collapse of the Nazi regime, Theodor Adorno characterised occultism as ‘the metaphysics of fools’. This harsh judgment has been roundly criticised, often with good reason, by scholars who study esoteric worldviews. Occult traditions are intellectually rich and diverse; there is much more to them than the bizarre and fantastic connotations that typically accompany any mention of esotericism. But Adorno had a point. A fixation on diabolical forces can distract attention from the social forces that shape reality. So it is with efforts to make sense out of the stark senselessness of Nazism. History, of course, does not belong to historians. In this case, however, we would do well to pay attention to what the historical record can and cannot tell us about the unsettling parallels between that time and our own. Attributing the horrors of Nazi Germany to obscure occult sources is all too often a convenient way of absolving ourselves from the hard work of understanding the past.



Look into my eyes... Adolf Hitler photographed by his personal photographer practicing for public speaking in 1925.