The Nazi Occult War: Hitler's Compact with the Forces of Evil

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by  FitzGerald

The NAZI OCCULT WAR
Hitler’s Compact with the Forces of Evil
Michael FitzGerald
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ISBN: 978-1-78212-703-1
Contents
Introduction
C O
HAPTER NE
Dark initiates
C T
HAPTER WO
The Vril Society
C T
HAPTER HREE
A new religion for Germany
C F
HAPTER OUR
The new Teutonic Knights
C F
HAPTER IVE
The Nazi Grail castle
C S
HAPTER IX
Occult Reich
C S
HAPTER EVEN
In search of Atlantis
C E
HAPTER IGHT
The real ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’
C N
HAPTER INE
‘Aryan Science’ in the Third Reich
C T
HAPTER EN
Occultism at war
Conclusion
Bibliography
Introduction
A
dolf Hitler’s impact on the world is unprecedented and unparalleled. In twelve
short years he left an indelible impact on history and the consequences of many
of his actions continue to affect the world today. Even during his lifetime he was
as much a myth as a human being and with the increasing distance of years his
figure still fascinates to a unique degree; if anything he has become even more
like a cartoon villain than a real individual.
Following the defeat of Germany in the Second World War many people who
had been enthusiastic Nazis rushed to denounce Hitler and to deny or minimize
their own part in the regime. The safely dead Hitler and, to a lesser extent,
Himmler were blamed for all the excesses and barbarity of the regime in a mass
process of collective denial of guilt and individual responsibility that remains a
unique phenomenon in human history.
The culmination of Hitler’s cult of personality: Albert Speer’s ‘Cathedral of Light’ inspired a feeling of
religious awe among those attending the Nuremberg Rally of 1936
There are several ways of interpreting historical events and processes and in
particular the career of Hitler and the extraordinary period of the Nazi
particular the career of Hitler and the extraordinary period of the Nazi
ascendancy. Hitler himself subscribed to Carlyle’s ‘great man’ theory and saw
himself as a heroic figure who had taken charge of the destiny of Germany and
sought to place it on the path to greatness. Many of his contemporaries agreed
with that estimate and broadly saw Hitler in those terms.
According to the Marxist interpretation of events Hitler was simply a pawn
who was manipulated into power to serve the interests of a desperate capitalist
class and prevent the possibility of a Communist takeover in Germany. His
policies were nothing more than capitalism applied with exceptional brutality
and Hitler himself nothing more than a tool of big business. It was largely the
level of unemployment within Germany that gave Hitler his chance.
Conservative interpretations of Hitler and the Nazis tend to stress the sense of
national humiliation following the Treaty of Versailles, the occupation of the
Ruhr and the shared sense of national failure. By giving Germans back a feeling
of collective self-confidence, pride in their nation and themselves, a revived
sense of community and the promise of renewed greatness Hitler won their
support and was able to make himself master of Germany.
In recent years what might be called ‘technical’ explanations have become
more common. These theories stress the ability of Hitler and Goebbels to use
propaganda, Hitler’s power as a public speaker, the relative youth of the Nazi
leadership and Hitler’s cynical attempt to project an image of ‘sex appeal’ to
women voters as the principal reasons for his success.
There are also various psychological explanations for Hitler’s temporary
triumph. His ability to tune in to the collective feelings of a nation, his capacity
for rousing the emotions of a mass audience and his uncanny genius for
diagnosing people’s strengths and weaknesses have all been put forward to
account for the Nazi phenomenon.
By 1938, the whole nation was marching to Hitler’s relentless drumbeat – every German was expected to
sacrifice himself for the Führer’s vision of the future
A variation of the psychological analysis approach is the range of theories
putting forward an occult explanation for Nazism. Such ideas were first put
forward as early as the 1930s, but it was with the astonishing success of Pauwels
and Bergier’s The Morning of the Magicians in the 1960s that they entered
popular consciousness and became fashionable. A number of other writers
followed their example, some engaging in a serious analysis of the extent to
which occult factors did or did not play a significant part in the regime and
others in little more than fantastic speculation.
There is of course some truth in all of the proposed explanations for Hitler’s
remarkable success. Without the dire economic position of Germany from 1929
to 1933 it is doubtful whether Hitler would ever have come to power. The sense
of national humiliation within Germany was undoubtedly profound, but it could
have been appealed to equally by a more conventionally nationalist politician as
Stresemann demonstrated during the 1920s. The ability of Goebbels to
manipulate public opinion through propaganda is also unquestionable as is
Hitler’s power as a rabble rouser and his awareness of and capacity for appealing
to the collective feelings of a nation. All these factors certainly played an
important part in his success and yet the extent to which Nazism was a unique
phenomenon remains. Stalin, Mao and other dictators were equally ruthless and
phenomenon remains. Stalin, Mao and other dictators were equally ruthless and
homicidal, but even at their worst there was a core of logic behind their actions.
Only Pol Pot among tyrants displayed the same degree of utter insanity and
destructiveness, which is perhaps why he is the only dictator regarded with
similar loathing.
Hitler’s irrationality permeated every aspect of his life, his ideas and the
manner in which Nazi Germany functioned once he came to power. His
obsessional racism went far beyond simple prejudice and his policies of
genocide continued until the last possible moment in spite of the far more urgent
demands of the war. Hitler’s frequently expressed contempt for rationality and
science was hardly a helpful attitude in terms of restoring Germany to a position
of greatness. His known belief in Hörbiger’s Glacial Cosmogony was at least
partly responsible for losing the war in Russia. During the final stages of the war
he and Goebbels examined the horoscope of Germany to find a magical reprieve
from defeat through the position of the stars in the heavens.
Many historians ignore, dismiss or downplay these aspects of Hitler and the
regime. When faced with the exaggerated claims of some writers that Hitler and
the Nazis were practising Satanists who were overwhelmingly motivated by
occult considerations it is difficult not to sympathize, but such an analysis of the
Third Reich and its leader is not remotely plausible. On the other hand to regard
the occult aspects of the regime as of no importance or even as total fabrications
is equally to be guilty of a flawed, superficial and inaccurate picture.
Occult factors and ideas undoubtedly entered into the thoughts and actions of
Hitler and other Nazi leaders. They were certainly not the most important
considerations in determining policy and decisions, but all the same they played
a part.
The Nazi Occult War separates fact from fiction, myth from reality and
examines to what extent occult factors affected Hitler and the Third Reich. The
results of this analysis may well surprise both the fantasists and the doubters.
CHAPTER ONE
Dark initiates
The twelve years during which the Nazi Party ruled Germany and
much of Europe were so fundamentally governed by irrational and
even magical thinking that the whole period has sometimes been
referred to as the ‘occult Reich’. Hitler, Hess, Goering, Himmler,
Bormann, Goebbels and Rosenberg were simply the most prominent
believers in a way of thought that was entirely at odds with the secular
thinking that had come to prevail in Europe. When the Third Reich
was no more than a smouldering ruin the Allied conquerors took a
number of statements from Nazi Party members and discovered many
documents about the way in which a range of occult notions had come
to dominate the thinking of the most powerful leaders within Germany.
They were so astonished by what they discovered that the evidence was
deliberately suppressed at the Nuremberg Trials for fear that it would
allow the defence lawyers to plead insanity on behalf of their clients.
How did it come about that Germany, a nation more closely
identified than most with the spirit of rationality and enlightenment,
had fallen under the control of a group of people who utterly rejected
these views, preferring instead to follow the promptings of occultists
and to espouse pseudo-scientific theories of race, superhuman beings
and the virtue of genocide as a means of purifying Germany and
eventually the world of the ‘corruption’ of ‘inferior races’?