The Nazis and the Occult: The Dark Forces Unleased by the Third Reich

177 Pages·2012·1.8 MB·english

by  Paul Roland

Nazis and the Occult
Paul Roland
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Contents
Introduction
CHAPTER 1: The Dark Gurus
CHAPTER 2: The Spear of Destiny
CHAPTER 3: Hitler – Medium or Magician?
CHAPTER 4: Astrology in the Third Reich
CHAPTER 5: Occult Science
CHAPTER 6: The SS: Myth of the ‘Black Knights’
CHAPTER 7: Satan and the Swastika
Conclusion
Timeline
Bibliography
Introduction
When my father surveyed the destruction of Nazi Germany in 1946 as part of the
Allied army of occupation, he shared the belief held by the victors that they had
defeated a formidable military machine and liberated a population who had been
living under a totalitarian dictatorship since Adolf Hitler’s accession to power in
1933. During the war, Churchill, Roosevelt and even Stalin – who it later
transpired had murdered even more of his own people than had Hitler – joined
with religious leaders in describing the Second World War in apocalyptic terms
as being a battle between the forces of light and darkness, a struggle between
Good and Evil for the soul of the civilized world. But this was considered
merely religious and political rhetoric.
At that time, conventional historians attributed the rise of Nazism exclusively
to socio-economic factors and that remained the accepted view for the next
twenty years. Hitler had appeared at a time of national crisis to haul a
demoralized Germany off its knees following the inglorious defeat of the First
World War and restore its national pride. He brought it through a decade of
political instability and ruinous inflation by ruthlessly eliminating the opposition
and borrowing far beyond his country’s means. Hitler has been called a shrewd
political strategist, but in truth he simply did as he wished and damned the
consequences. In crude terms he was spoiling for a fight. His inner demons
demanded constant stress, adoration and attention like a spoilt child. Once in
power he refused to pay the punitive reparations imposed on Germany by the
victors and he rebuilt his armed forces in defiance of the Versailles Treaty which
was intended to limit German rearmament. Then he marched into the occupied
Rhineland, annexed Austria and snatched back the Sudetenland, half hoping for
a reaction from an outraged international community – again the action of a
petulant bully. But this only earned him the admiration of his people and the
grudging respect of other world leaders who would like to have been equally
self-assertive.
It was not only the fascist leaderships in Spain and Italy who openly admired
Germany’s ability to get its own house in order, but many European aristocrats
who shared Hitler’s suspicion of the Jews whom they regarded as having far too
much control of the financial infrastructure. And despite their initial dislike of
the petty bourgeois Austrian corporal, German industrialists also came to
embrace the New Order, grateful for the revitalization of the German economy –
particularly the armaments industry on which many had built their fortunes and
family names.
By the time Germany hosted the Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936, the nation
was regarded as a model of reconstruction and regeneration, and was looked
upon with envy by Britain and America – as well as by its long-time enemy
France – all of whom expressed their regard for the German qualities of
resourcefulness, industry and organization. As for the Nazis’ persecution and
disenfranchising of the Jews, made legal by the iniquitous Nuremberg Laws, this
was excused as being the excessive zeal of a regime which would come into line
with its neighbours in due course.
The worst their critics would say was that the Nazis were political
opportunists and street brawlers whose strutting leaders affected cultural
pretensions which they never possessed, inviting comparison with America’s
gangsters. But no one seriously believed that there was anything more sinister at
work behind the scenes than rabid nationalism – not until the full extent of Nazi
atrocities were revealed to the world at the Nuremberg trials. Disbelief at the
scale of the wholesale murder of millions and the clinical efficiency with which
it had been perpetrated led even the most dispassionate observers to describe the
Nazis as evil and Hitler’s power over his people as messianic.
But no one seemed able to answer the questions which the revelations of
Nuremberg had raised: namely, how could a cultured nation which had produced
Goethe, Beethoven, Bach, Schiller, Einstein, Kant, Hegel and so many of the
world’s greatest thinkers and artists allow itself to be led lemming-like to the
precipice of self-destruction by a ragged collective of criminals, misfits, sadists
and petty bureaucrats – the very dregs of its society? And why did that society so
readily fall for the blatant propaganda perpetrated by men who shamelessly
appealed to their basest instincts? Moreover, how could one explain the enigma
of the demagogue himself? As the respected British historian A.J.P. Taylor
remarked: ‘How could a man so ignorant, so enslaved by stupid dogmas, have
achieved such practical success?’ It seemed inconceivable that a man of Hitler’s
limited imagination, intellect and avowed indolence could have galvanized a
nation into following him blindly where he willed, unless there was something
else empowering him which the people sensed and entrusted with their fate. In
short, what was the true nature of the regime that had raised Germany from
defeat to be master of Europe and thence to wholesale destruction in less than 12
years?
It was not until the occult revival of the late 1960s that interest in the Third
Reich and its possible link with black magic gave birth to a slew of sensationalist
‘alternative’ histories and fictional accounts of Nazi associations with ‘dark
forces’. Popular culture of the period reflected the public’s morbid fascination
with the more sensational aspects of the supernatural, spawning such films as
Rosemary’s Baby, The Exorcist, The Omen and The Boys From Brazil, in which
mad Nazi doctor Josef Mengele successfully cloned young boys from cells taken
from Hitler’s body.
But the horrors were not all confined to fiction. The Age of Aquarius dawned
to reveal the sadism inflicted by Nazi-loving Charles Manson and his devil-
worshipping groupies, together with the ravages wrought on an entire generation
by drug addiction and the horrors televised daily from Vietnam. Overnight the
hippies’ psychedelic dream darkened and disillusionment set in. Many began to
question the nature of evil and wonder if the devil and his disciples really did
exist. And if evil was a conscious entity actively seeking entry into our world,
could that account for the nightmare of Nazism from which the world was just
beginning to awaken?
In the past forty years, a number of writers have claimed to have uncovered
the truth concerning Hitler’s pact with some diabolical agency, but in the main
they have merely exploited our persistent morbid fascination with the Third
Reich and perpetuated the myth of Nazi involvement with the occult. It is the
purpose of this book to demystify these dark fairy tales and reveal the true nature
of Nazi Germany’s link with arcane influences and of evil itself.
I have drawn extensively on secret Nazi documents and the private diaries and
correspondence of Hitler’s ‘satanic’ mentors, as well as those of the members of
his inner circle to reveal whether Nazi ideology was indeed rooted in occultism.
The intention of this book is to explain how an ill-educated, psychologically
unbalanced nonentity succeeded in mesmerizing an entire nation, why the
German people venerated their Führer as a god and how he exercised his power
over them to the extent that they were willing to follow him to the abyss of self-
destruction. Forget what you have read, seen and heard. This is the real secret
history of the Third Reich and its dark Messiah – Adolf Hitler.