The Occult Roots of Nazism - Secret Aryan Cults and Their Influence on Nazi Ideology

Sixty years after the defeat of the Third Reich, the complexities of Nazi ideology are still being unravelled. This enormously influential book has provided the first serious account of these ideological origins. The book demonstrates the way in which Nazism was influenced by powerful occult and millenarian sects that thrived in Germany and Austria at the turn of the century. These sects (principally the Ariosophists) promoted doctrines of popular nationalism, ''Aryan'' racism and occultism to support their advocacy of German world-rule.Their ideas and symbols filtered through to nationalist-racist groups associated with the infant Nazi party, and in time exerted a strong influence on Himmler''s SS. Their fantasies were played out with terrifying consequences in the Third Reich: Auschwitz, Sobibor and Treblinka are the hellish museums of the Nazi apocalypse, the roots of which lay in the millennial visions of occult sects. This bizarre and fascinating story contains lessons we cannot afford to ignore.>

Product details

• Authors: Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, Goodrick-Clarke Nicholas
• Publisher: Tauris, I.B.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2019
• EAN: 9781838601850
• ISBN: 978-1-83860-185-0
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 196 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Spirituality > Ancient knowledge, ancient cultures; Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; austria, History of Ideas, European History, Germany, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Occultism, Second World War, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), POLITICAL SCIENCE / Religion, Politics & State, Occult Studies, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General