The Supernatural Imaginary of the Third Reich with Historian Eric Kurlander
American Hysteria
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Hess's Flight to the United Kingdom
There is some evidence that hes consulted his astrologer before committing to this flight. By this point, of course, he'd been marginalized. They immediately blamed his occult proclivities for this. I think gerbles was the first to go to hitler and say, you know why he did this? His astrologer told him to do it. After hesles, there was a crack down in the cult, but the reason it didn't last is because there were too many notses interested in these ideas to arrest, persecute, much less murder all their practitioners. The second big crack down on the occult came when they used astrology as propaganda. And fact, g
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