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Title Hitler's monsters : a supernatural history of the Third Reich / Eric Kurlander
Imprint New Haven : Yale University Press, 2017

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Descript 422 pages : ill
Note The Supernatural Roots of Nazism : Ario-Germanic Religion, Border Science, and the Austro-German Occult Revival, 1889-1914 -- From the Thule Society to the NSDAP : Fashioning the Nazi Supernatural Imaginary, 1912-24 -- Exploiting Hitler's Magic : From Weimar's Horrors to Visions of the Third Reich -- The Third Reich's War on the Occult : Anti-Occultism, Hitler's Magicians' Controversy, and the Hess Action -- The Stars Come Down to Frozen Earth : Border Science in the Third Reich -- Lucifer's Court : Ario-Germanic Paganism, Indo-Aryan Spirituality, and the Nazi Search for Alternative Religions -- The Supernatural and the Second World War : Folklore and Border Science in Foreign Policy, Propaganda, and Military Operations -- Monstrous Science : Racial Resettlement, Human Experiments, and the Holocaust -- Nazi Twilight : Miracle Weapons, Supernatural Partisans, and the Collapse of the Third Reich
"The definitive history of the supernatural in Nazi Germany, exploring the occult ideas, esoteric sciences, and pagan religions touted by the Third Reich in the service of power. The Nazi fascination with the occult is legendary, yet today it is often dismissed as Himmler's personal obsession or wildly overstated for its novelty. Preposterous though it was, however, supernatural thinking was inextricable from the Nazi project. The regime enlisted astrology and the paranormal, paganism, Indo-Aryan mythology, witchcraft, miracle weapons, and the lost kingdom of Atlantis in reimagining German politics and society and recasting German science and religion. In this eye-opening history, Eric Kurlander reveals how the Third Reich's relationship to the supernatural was far from straightforward. Even as popular occultism and superstition were intermittently rooted out, suppressed, and outlawed, the Nazis drew upon a wide variety of occult practices and esoteric sciences to gain power, shape propaganda and policy, and pursue their dreams of racial utopia and empire"-- Provided by publisher
Subject 1900-talet
Religion och politik
Ockultism -- politiska aspekter -- historia
Politisk kultur -- historia
Nazism
Tyskland
Supernatural -- Political aspects -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
Occultism -- Political aspects -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
Paganism -- Political aspects -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
Superstition -- Political aspects -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
National socialism and occultism -- History
Religion and politics -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
Political culture -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
Popular culture -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
National socialism
Germany -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945
Germany -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945
Classmark 943.086
Kf
ISBN/ISSN 9780300189452 (hardback)
0300189451 (hardback)
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