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Hitler’s Monsters

A Supernatural History of the Third Reich

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Hitler’s Monsters

By: Eric Kurlander
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
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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.

©2017 Eric Kurlander (P)2017 Blackstone Audio, Inc. 20th Century Europe Germany Military Modern Paranormal Fantasy War Magic Imperialism Middle Ages Witchcraft Socialism Social justice Holocaust Mythology Utopian
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Amazingly well researched book with deep insight in the occult and supernatural in Nazi Germany.

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