The Supernatural Imaginary of the Third Reich with Historian Eric Kurlander
American Hysteria
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Did Hitler Have a Friend in the Occult?
We know that hitler did not participate, generally speaking, or hold too much interest in occultic thinking. But he had a lot of people around him that did, especial, very high ranking officials. Could you tell us about what they brought to the movement? Yo, very good questions. So let's say 20, 30 % of german and austrian society,. if you take all the different doctrines that fit into either alternative or pagan religion, in mythology, border science or the occult, they were interested or subscribed to one of them. Hitler's on the fringe of that. He read some of those books. He was familiar with those ideas well before he became a politician
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