Nazi Occultism provides a serious scholarly study of a topic that is often marred by sensationalism and misinformation. The Morning of the Magicians by Pauwels and Bergier (1960) gave rise to the idea that a secret society with wide powers the Thule society was the hidden and ignored centre of Nazism. The influence of this very real small group is however only a fantasy a myth. The author a historian specializing in neo-Nazism looks back on this speculative construction its origins its ideological tinkering and the practices which have succeeded in forming a sort of radical and sulphurous counterculture which has created a fascination with esotericism and Nazism and the SS. To better understand it he also paints a portrait of some of the authors who contributed to this extremist subculture such as the Italian esotericist Julius Evola the Argentine anthropologist Jacques-Marie de Mahieu Chilean neo-Nazi Miguel Serrano and the writer Jean-Paul Bourre. This book will appeal to scholars researchers and activists as well as general readers with an interest in the history of Nazism and the occult. |Nazi Occultism Between the SS and Esotericism | Politics
