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The Supernatural Imaginary of the Third Reich with Historian Eric Kurlander

American Hysteria

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Hitler's Annotations

Inam sherte, who was a pari psychologist and occultist, sent hitler this book called a magic theory and practice. It's about how you need to get in touch with your inner demon or demon and use that force to manipulate people. Hitler seems to have read it and annotated it theres, i think, 66 passages underlined pencil. The other interesting kind of story that i talk about in my chapter on the weimare public is hans heins avers,. A very famous horror writer in the period from kind of a decade before world were one to the great depression that can of 20 years or so. Even though he was a kind of cosmopolitan

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