The Occult in National Socialism
The Symbolic, Scientific, and Magical Influences on the Third Reich
Stephen E Flowers
Inner Traditions 2022
Pb, 544pp, £26, ISBN 9781644115749
Everybody knows how deeply the Nazis were into the occult; between Indiana Jones, the Hellboy franchise, Captain America’s foes Hydra and video games from Wolfenstein onwards, Occult-Nazi lore has now seeped into every corner by sheer osmosis. These pop culture takes are derived from 1960s “non-fiction” bestsellers like and , which in