Public interest in Adolf Hitler and all aspects of the Third Reich
continues to grow as new generations ponder the moral questions
surrounding Nazi Germany and its historical legacy. One aspect of
Nazism that has not received sufficient attention from historians
of the Third Reich is the doctrine’s origins in the Thule Society
and its covert activities. A Munich occult group with a political
agenda, the Thule Society was led by Rudolf von Sebottendorff, a
German commoner who had been adopted by nobility during a sojourn
in the Ottoman Empire. After returning to Europe, Sebottendorff
embraced a form of theosophy that stressed the racial superiority
of Aryans. The Thule Society attempted to establish an
anti-Semitic, working-class front for disseminating its esoteric
ideas and founded the German Workers’ Party, which Hitler would
later transform into the National Socialist German Workers’
(Nazi) Party. Several of the society’s members eventually assumed
prestigious posts in the Third Reich. David Luhrssen has written
the first comprehensive study of the society’s activities, its
cultural roots, and its postwar ramifications in a
historical-critical context. Both general readers and academics
concerned with European cultural and intellectual history will find
that Hammer of the Gods opens new perspectives on nineteenth- and
twentieth-century Europe.
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