Nazi Party and the Occultism

By Davis Truman

Occult figures undoubtedly played a significant role in the formation of the NSDAP, but it is equally obvious that leading Nazis later denounced and persecuted occult groups. Occult "true believers" in the party ranks were frequently marginalized and persecuted as the Nazi Party gained prominence and power after 1919.

In any case, a surprising number of people in the Third Reich were open to occult beliefs and practices, including senior figures like Hitler and Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS and Gestapo.

Without a widespread propensity for paranormal thinking, which Hitler and the Nazi Party rushed to capitalize on and was exacerbated by military defeat and social crisis, the Third Reich would have been highly improbable. The National Socialist movement was not the first to use religious sentiment for political gain. However, Hitler's NSDAP was far more successful than other parties in appealing to a generation traumatized by war, violence, and sociopolitical upheaval by appealing to a supernatural imagination.

• Language: English
• Publisher: vincenzo nappi
• Release date: Dec 21, 2022
• ISBN: 9798215628645

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The defrocked monk Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels flew a swastika flag over Upper Austria's Castle Werfenstein on Christmas Day 1907. Lanz created strong forces through this symbolic birth ritual that would either restore the prehistoric Aryan dominion of Thule or put Germany in utter ruin. Despite being a dedicated student of the occult and a practicing mystic, Lanz could not have fully understood the energies he was releasing. His actions at the time appeared identical to the rituals, symbolic performances, lyrical allusions, and other seemingly trivial pursuits widespread throughout Germany and Austria in the three decades preceding World War I.

The German country spent most of the 19th century in frustrated fragmentation, although nationalism in Germany first emerged during the Napoleonic era. Romantic German nationalists found relief from these frustrations in bursts of heroic myth-making about the pure Teutonic past that occurred after the founding of the German Empire in 1871. Using the most up-to-date resources available in their fields, anthropologists, linguists, archaeologists, and other academics built new national histories throughout Europe. Their discoveries were used as national propaganda to establish a glorious past and their ancestors' ownership of any contested land. These narratives were exploited by poets, mystics, and politicians to develop epics, rites, and justifications for imperial expansion. Again, because of the delayed realization of a genuine unified German nation, the German representation of these developments was more intense than most. Additionally, because German nationalism positioned itself against the occupying French revolutionaries, it developed a solid anti-modern and anti-Enlightenment outlook, seeking the unadulterated, pure knowledge of the Volk.

Numerous völkisch societies were present in Austria and Germany by the 1880s. The phrases folkloric, populist, and ethnic might all be used to describe the word völkisch, depending on the situation. These clubs studied Germanic mythology, honored heroes and tales, and attempted to give patriotic meaning to everything from forestry to singalongs. The völkisch societies opposed cosmopolitan influences and valorized the eternal battle of the German people against Latin and Slavic influence as Germany and Austria urbanized and rival nations started to ally against them. They juxtaposed the insecure, filthy reality of Germany's Christian present with the magnificent ideal of that country's pagan past in their publications and poetry. Some hoped to revive paganism's reverence for nature, while others just wanted to rid Germany of all foreign influences.

With the release of his book Carnuntum in 1888, Guido List rose to prominence in Vienna's völkisch milieu. List, who loved taking lengthy nature hikes and was an active sportsman, mostly wrote travel journalism and infused his accounts with folklore from the local area and tales of the pagan past. An inspirational historical fiction about valiant Germans overthrowing the senile Roman state and constructing a paganism paradise, Carnuntum was unique. The best part is that List attested to its veracity since the events were revealed to him in a clairvoyant vision! The pan-German and anti-Semitic publishers Georg von Schönerer and Karl Wolf took notice of the novel's popularity and requested more ferocious works from List. List discussed the aristocratic and holy priesthood of the pre-Christian German religion of Wotanism in his books, poetry, dramas, and lectures from the 1890s. List started reading more extensively about the occult to learn more about this shrouded and forbidden worldview. During this period, he came to theosophy, which profoundly altered his worldview. Theosophy, developed by the Russian explorer Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, combined the Hindu concept of cyclic time with Darwin's idea of contending and shifting root races. Theosophy is a scientific reality represented in terms of religion, according to Blavatsky, who explains this in her works Isis Unveiled and The Secret Doctrine. Now that humanity was ready to understand it, Secret Masters in Tibet had revealed to her the Occult Science, which had been hidden for thousands of