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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.

Occultism --- Paganism --- Superstition --- National socialism and occultism --- Religion and politics --- Political culture --- Popular culture --- Secret societies --- Occultisme --- Paganisme --- Superstitions --- Nazisme et occultisme --- Religion et politique --- Culture politique --- Culture populaire --- Sociétés secrètes --- Political aspects. --- Political aspects --- History. --- History --- Aspect politique --- Histoire --- Hitler, Adolf, --- Germany --- Allemagne --- Politics and government --- Social conditions --- Politique et gouvernement --- Conditions sociales --- the supernatural roots of Nazism --- Ario-Germanic religion --- border science --- the Austro-German Occult Revival --- the Thule Society --- the NSDAP --- the Nazi supernatural imaginary --- Hitler --- Weimar --- the Third Reich --- anti-Occultism --- Hitler's magicians --- Hess --- Ario-Germanic Paganism --- Indo-Aryan spirituality --- the Nazi search for alternative religions --- the supernatural and the Second World War --- folklore --- foreign policy --- propaganda --- military operations --- racial resettlement --- human experiments --- the Holocaust --- miracle weapons --- supernatural partisans --- the collapse of the Third Reich