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Part Four: Helena Blavatsky: the woman who inspired the Nazis, and Gwyneth Paltrow

Behind the Bastards

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Thule Society Member - Rudolph Hess

The Thule Society had a shitload of like members who later became massively influential Nazis. Hitler was never a member and he was definitely not a theosophist. Alfred Rosenberg's book The Myth of the 20th Century, which he publishes in 1930, is the second best selling book in Nazi Germany under mine comp. Blavatsky's ideas about the inevitable progression of race also played into Nazi theory.

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