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The nazis were crazy into the occult. I don’t doubt all sorts of wacko stuff went down because of that.

• chmod775 5y ago
  Hollywood Nazis are crazy into the occult. You can read a more sober look into the matter here: https://aeon.co/ideas/the-nazis-as-occult-masters-its-a-good-story-but-not-history https://aeon.co/ideas/the-nazis-as-occult-masters-its-a-good...
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• 8bitsrule 5y ago
  Pauwels and Bergier 1959 book Morning of the Magicians (Le Matin des Magiciens) goes into detail on much of that part of Nazi charm. Sample: [http://koreshan.mwweb.org/virtual_exhibit/vex3/ac-0130.pdf http://koreshan.mwweb.org/virtual_exhibit/vex3/ac-0130.pdf]
• zxcvbn4038 5y ago
  I don’t think that is quite accurate - the majority of the German people identified as Christian, and while Himmler did want to replace the church he was forbidden by Hitler because Hitler did not want to risk alienating the Christian populace during the war. Alternate ideas that were popular at the time were Nazism as a state religion (which is what they depicted in Man In The High Castle), and “Positive Christianity” which basically removed the Old Testament, gave Jesus an Aryan lineage, and might have included Hitler as a sort of saint or contemporary savior. But that said - the occult stuff has made for some of my favorite movies and video games. If not for the Nazis, Indiana Jones would have ended up battling gangsters and mad scientists with army of zombie Africans and its not the same movie at all. (If anyone knows the name of that 50s adventure series with the mad scientist that used a machine to turn Africans into his zombie army, I can’t remember to save my life.)