Nearly half a century after the defeat of the Third Reich,
Nazism remains a subject of extensive historical inquiry, general
interest, and, alarmingly, a source of inspiration for resurgent
fascism in Europe. Goodrick-Clarke's powerful and timely book
traces the intellectual roots of Nazism back to a number of
influential occult and millenarian sects in the Habsburg Empire
during its waning years. These sects combined notions of popular
nationalism with an advocacy of Aryan racism and a proclaimed need
for German world-rule.
This book provides the first serious account of the way in which
Nazism was influenced by powerful millenarian and occult sects that
thrived in Germany and Austria almost fifty years before the rise
to power of Adolf Hitler.
These millenarian sects (principally the Ariosophists) espoused
a mixture of popular nationalism, Aryan racism, and occultism to
support their advocacy of German world-rule. Over time their ideas
and symbols, filtered through nationalist-racist groups associated
with the infant Nazi party, came to exert a strong influence on
Himmler's SS.
The fantasies thus fueled were played out with terrifying
consequences in the realities structured into the Third Reich:
Auschwitz, Sobibor, and Treblinka, the hellish museums of Nazi
apocalypse, had psychic roots reaching back to millenial visions of
occult sects. Beyond what the TImes Literary Supplement calls an
intriguing study of apocalyptic fantasies, this bizarre and
fascinating story contains lessons we cannot afford to ignore.
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