skip to content
Close Window

Please sign in to WorldCat 

Don't have an account? You can easily create a free account.

Cancel   Forgot your password?
The occult roots of Nazism : secret Aryan cults and their influence on Nazi ideology : the Ariosophists of Austria and Germany, 1890-1935
Preview this item

The occult roots of Nazism : secret Aryan cults and their influence on Nazi ideology : the Ariosophists of Austria and Germany, 1890-1935

Author: Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke
Publisher: New York : New York University Press, 1992.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:

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  Read more...

Rating:

 

Get this item

Borrow or obtain a copy

Finding libraries that hold this item...

Details

Named Person: Guido List; Jörg Lanz-Liebenfels
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke
ISBN: 081473054X 9780814730546 0814730604 9780814730607 1850434956 9781850434955
OCLC Number: 26402982
Description: x, 293 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Contents: The Pan-German vision -- The modern German occult revival, 1880-1910 -- Guido von List -- Wotanism and Germanic theosophy -- The Armanenschaft -- The secret heritage -- The German millennium -- Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels and theozoology -- The Order of the New Templars -- The Germanenorden -- Rudolf von Sebottendorff and the Thule Society -- The holy runes and the Edda Society -- Herbert Reichstein and Ariosophy -- Karl Maria Wiligut, the private magus of Heinrich Himmler -- Ariosophy and Adolf Hitler.
Other Titles: Ariosophists of Austria and Germany, 1890-1935.
Responsibility: Nicolas Goodrick-Clarke ; with a foreword by Rohan Butler.
More information:

Abstract:

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 millennial visions of occult sects.

Reviews

Tags

Be the first.