The Nazi Occult War: Hitler's Compact With the Forces of Evil by Michael Fitzgerald

Author:Michael Fitzgerald
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9781782122142
Publisher: Arcturus Publishing Limited
Published: 2013-10-09T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

Occult Reich

It would not be true to describe Nazi Germany as a state primarily governed on occult principles. On the other hand it is equally untrue to ignore, dismiss or downplay the extent to which such ideas did play an important part in some areas of life, sometimes involving key political, social and even military decisions.

Hitler’s favourite clairvoyant Erik Jan Hanussen with client – when times were hard, he ran a sideline in blackmail

IMPORTANCE OF OCCULT IDEAS IN THE EARLY YEARS OF NAZISM

The early twentieth century saw Germany awash with a range of mystical and occult ideas, a tendency that increased sharply after the nation’s defeat in the First World War. Hitler’s involvement with aspects of the occult dated back to his years as a drifter in Vienna and when he joined the German Workers’ Party he was actually becoming part of a magical order. The men he met through the small group that he turned into the Nazi Party were all steeped in occultism – Eckart, Rosenberg, Harrer, Feder and many others. It was the Thule Group leader Sebottendorf who founded what was to become the Party newspaper and who also took over what was to become the Nazi publishing house. Himmler and Hess were involved in almost every conceivable occult activity and seemed to believe virtually anything which was rejected by conventional science. Goering believed that the earth was hollow and that humans lived on the inside of it. Research into Atlantis and mythology attracted large amounts of government money even during the Second World War. Both Hitler and Goebbels were sufficiently skilled in astrology to be able to compare and interpret horoscopes themselves. The German Navy wasted huge sums of money on ‘map dowsers’ to try and identify the position of British ships.

The examples could go on almost indefinitely and what they point to is not a country where occultism ruled as such but one where ‘magical’ thinking permeated every level of the Party and influenced all aspects of life. It may be an exaggeration to suggest that Nazi Germany was dominated by the occult but certainly no nation since at least the eighteenth century had been so receptive to and so influenced by irrational ideas.

It was no accident that Hitler’s appointment as Chancellor led not only to predictable attacks on Jews, Communists, socialists and liberals but also to a perhaps less expected campaign against occultism. There were a variety of reasons for this attack, some personal and others ideological. One was a desire to control every aspect of life within Germany even in such peripheral areas as astrology and the occult. The other was a genuine fear of the supposed power of these fields.

In September 1919 Hitler met a Munich physician called Dr Wilhelm Gutberlet who remained friendly with him until his death. As Schellenberg put it: ‘Hitler availed himself of Gutberlet’s mystic power and had many discussions with him on racial questions.’ Gutberlet believed that through using ‘the sidereal pendulum’ he was able to ‘detect’ Jews or people who simply possessed some Jewish ancestors.

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