"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 cobbled together an army of Nazi "werewolves" to fight... The Gestapo banned professional whistle-blowers from revealing the secrets behind the "magic", and Goebbels asked the famous horror novelist of the Weimar period 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.
This book is the first comprehensive historical work to deal with the Nazi supernatural imagination.
