TY - BOOK ID - 133349493 TI - Hitler's monsters : a supernatural history of the Third Reich PY - 2017 SN - 9780300189452 PB - Yale : Yale university press, DB - UniCat KW - Occultism KW - Paganism KW - Superstition KW - National socialism and occultism KW - Religion and politics KW - Political culture KW - Popular culture KW - Secret societies KW - Occultisme KW - Paganisme KW - Superstitions KW - Nazisme et occultisme KW - Religion et politique KW - Culture politique KW - Culture populaire KW - Sociétés secrètes KW - Political aspects. KW - Political aspects KW - History. KW - History KW - Aspect politique KW - Histoire KW - Hitler, Adolf, KW - Germany KW - Allemagne KW - Politics and government KW - Social conditions KW - Politique et gouvernement KW - Conditions sociales KW - the supernatural roots of Nazism KW - Ario-Germanic religion KW - border science KW - the Austro-German Occult Revival KW - the Thule Society KW - the NSDAP KW - the Nazi supernatural imaginary KW - Hitler KW - Weimar KW - the Third Reich KW - anti-Occultism KW - Hitler's magicians KW - Hess KW - Ario-Germanic Paganism KW - Indo-Aryan spirituality KW - the Nazi search for alternative religions KW - the supernatural and the Second World War KW - folklore KW - foreign policy KW - propaganda KW - military operations KW - racial resettlement KW - human experiments KW - the Holocaust KW - miracle weapons KW - supernatural partisans KW - the collapse of the Third Reich UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:133349493 AB - The Nazi fascination with the occult is legendary, yet today it is often dismissed as Himmler?s personal obsession or wildly overstated for its novelty. Preposterous though it was, however, supernatural thinking was inextricable from the Nazi project. The regime enlisted astrology and the paranormal, paganism, Indo-Aryan mythology, witchcraft, miracle weapons, and the lost kingdom of Atlantis in reimagining German politics and society and recasting German science and religion. In this eye-opening history, Eric Kurlander reveals how the Third Reich?s relationship to the supernatural was far from straightforward. Even as popular occultism and superstition were intermittently rooted out, suppressed, and outlawed, the Nazis drew upon a wide variety of occult practices and esoteric sciences to gain power, shape propaganda and policy, and pursue their dreams of racial utopia and empire. ER -