The Nazis and the Supernatural by Michael Fitzgerald -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Contents Introduction Chapter One: Dark Initiates

Hitler’s introduction to the occult Lanz and Aryan heroes The cosmic circle of Munich Three men who changed the course of Hitler’s life Dietrich Eckart – Hitler’s spiritual father The Thule Group Otto Weininger: the anti-Semitic Jew Alfred Rosenberg, the Nazi Party ideologist The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion The Myth of the 20th Century Rosenberg and the basis of Nazi law Rosenberg and modern art Gottfried Feder and Nazi economic philosophy

Chapter Two: The Vril Society

The beginnings of the Nazi publishing empire The Society of the Green Dragon Tibetan influences on the Vril Society Lord Lytton and the origins of vril Haushofer founds the Vril Society Hitler joins the Vril Society Agharti and Shamballah The Russian charlatan Badmaev Mongolian initiates Men, Beasts and Gods Nazi attitude to facts Nazi expeditions to Tibet Underground tunnels in Czechoslovakia Ernst Schäfer’s expedition to Tibet What is vril power? The Society’s methods of raising vril power Rocket scientist Willy Ley reveals the secrets of the Vril Society

Chapter Three: A New Religion for Germany

Nazi hostility to Christianity Nazism as a substitute religion Hitler as the saviour of Germany Nazism as religious ritual The concordat with the Vatican Religious divisions in Germany Pagan revivalism and völkisch Christianity The beginning of the German Christian movement The Nazi crusade against the churches The German Evangelical Church Rosenberg and positive Christianity The German Faith Movement Hitler stands apart from the struggle Catholic opposition to the Nazis The Confessional Church resists the Nazis Dietrich Bonhoeffer joins the German Resistance Himmler and neo-paganism Savitri Devi and Hindu influences on neo-paganism

Chapter Four: The New Teutonic Knights

Nazis appropriate the image of the Teutonic Knights Foundation of the SS Himmler turns the SS into an elite corps Principles and training of the SS The Black Hundred The SS as an aristocracy of race The destruction of individuality Physical requirements of SS men Engagement and Marriage Decree Egalitarianism of the SS The SS inner circle The SS and public festivals Baptisms and weddings The Lebensborn Himmler’s attitude to religion

Chapter Five: The Nazi Grail Castle

Early history of Wewelsburg Castle Wewelsburg as the headquarters of Himmler’s knightly order Himmler’s ‘Rasputin’, Karl Maria Wiligut The Externsteine Himmler takes over Wewelsburg Himmler and German heroes Initial plans for Wewelsburg The development of Himmler’s ideology at Wewelsburg Public ceremonies in the castle The elite nature of those who visited the castle Rosenberg and lectures at the castle Himmler announces the Final Solution in Wewelsburg The end of Wewelsburg

Chapter Six: Occult Reich

Importance of occult ideas in the early years of Nazism Hanussen – Hitler’s clairvoyant Hitler and crowds Hitler and personal magnetism Mesmerism Astrology and the Nazis The astrological civil war Elsbeth Ebertin’s horoscope for Hitler Nordic astrology Nazi suppression of astrology Runes The Nazis and ley lines Symbolism The New Man – the next stage in human evolution

Chapter Seven: In Search of Atlantis

The German obsession with establishing an exalted prehistory Völkisch theories of Atlantis Atland Rudolf Steiner and Atlantis Atlantis and Tibet Rosenberg and Atlantis The House of Atlantis Franco favours the Canary Islands The Basques and Atlantis Antarctica, Atlantis and the Nazis Tibet and Atlantis Importance of Atlantis to the Nazis

Chapter Eight: The Real Raiders of the Lost Ark

The Spear of Destiny The Holy Lance in the Hofburg Museum Hitler and the Holy Lance The lost Ark of the Covenant The Nazis try to find the Ark Otto Rahn and the quest for the Holy Grail Rahn looks for the Grail in France Montségur Castle The lost treasure of the Cathars Montserrat Abbey

Chapter Nine: ‘Aryan Science’ in the Third Reich

Race science Settlement archaeology Madison Grant and Nordic fantasies Margaret Sanger and eugenics Geopolitics and Lebensraum German foreign policy Haushofer’s geopolitical predictions Physiognomy and phrenology The World Ice Theory Atlantis and Glacial Cosmogony The hollow earth theory Aryan physics German mathematics The campaign against Jewish scientists Viktor Schauberger and living water

Chapter Ten: Occultism at war

The 1939 assassination attempt on Hitler British black operations and dirty tricks Astrological warfare Crowley’s Book of the Law and Hitler Crowley and British Intelligence Churchill the Druid The magical Battle of Britain The Druids and psychic warfare Ceremonies by British witches Hess flies to Britain Nazi crackdown on occultism Soviet psychic warfare America’s use of hypnotism and remote viewing The Philadelphia Experiment

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