★Mythology, astrology, witchcraft, charlatans, werewolf troops, vampires, miracle weapons... The madness of the Nazis is unimaginable, and the complex relationship between the Third Reich and supernatural ideas is more bizarre than fiction.
★Realistic sources of movies and novels such as "Captain America", "Hellboy", "Raiders of the Lost Ark", "Castle of the Devil" and "Wolfenstein".
★Worth reading for anyone interested in Nazism, modern pseudoscience, and pseudohistory.
"Captain America", "Hellboy", the "Raiders of the Lost Ark" series, "Devil's Castle", "Wolfenstein", "Hydra", the Werewolf Force... The exploration of the relationship between the Nazi Party and mysticism has a long history in popular culture. In fact, Nazi leaders were obsessed with metaphysics. From the founding of the Nazi Party to the seizure of power, the inseparable relationship between Nazi ideology and supernatural imagination can be seen everywhere. The Kriegsmarine, Himmler's SS, and Goebbels' Propaganda Ministry all employed astrologers and pendulum detectors to obtain military intelligence and wage psychological warfare. Hitler, Himmler and others respectively sponsored fanciful theories such as astrology and cosmobiology, and pursued fringe science, encouraging research on the Holy Grail, witchcraft and medieval devil worship. They even pieced together a Nazi "werewolf" unit to fight...
The Gestapo banned professional whistle-blowers from uncovering the secrets behind the "magic", and Goebbels enlisted the famous Weimar-era horror novelist to help with important propaganda tasks. In short, the history of the Third Reich cannot be fully understood without understanding the Nazis' relationship to the supernatural imagination. The Third Reich used ideas and symbols such as astrology, parapsychology, the supernatural, paganism, Aryan mythology, witchcraft, miracle weapons, and the lost kingdom of Atlantis to reimagine German politics and society, reshape German science and religion, and realize its racial utopia and imperial dream by confronting Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union and successfully promoting ethnic cleansing.
In this first comprehensive history of the Nazis' supernatural imagination, Eric Colander reveals the Third Reich's complex relationship with supernatural thought. Even with such a cool, academic treatment of the subject, every page reveals eye-opening truths stranger than fiction.
Reader comments
The writing style of this book is very unique, the content is like revealing a secret archive, and the writing style is fascinating, making people feel like they are in the mysterious and crazy Third Reich. By reading this book, I learned a lot about the relationship between Nazis and supernatural imagination, which was eye-opening! This book is definitely worth reading for anyone who likes to explore history and mysteries.
The writing style of this book is very unique, the content is like revealing a secret archive, and the writing style is fascinating, making people feel like they are in the mysterious and crazy Third Reich. By reading this book, I learned a lot about the relationship between Nazis and supernatural imagination, which was eye-opening! This book is definitely worth reading for anyone who likes to explore history and mysteries.
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