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

Behind the Bastards

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The Origins of the Aryan Race

In 1891, Helena Blavatsky began inventing new kinds of anti Semitism. She also raised the specter of a new race to be chosen from among the most select members of the Aryan route race. In July of 1918, as Germany reeled from starvation and disaster on the Western Front, the Thule myth would be adopted by German Theosophist, Baron Rudolf von Sebotendorf. He founded a Bavarian right wing nationalist club and called it the Thule Society.

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