Tag: Eric Kurlander
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Himmler’s Witches Library and Eric Kurlander talk Hitler’s Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich
Last year’s Hallows’ Eve special program, “Hitler’s Monsters” explored occult ideas, esoteric sciences, and pagan religions touted by Nazi Germany in the service of power. “The Nazi fascination with the occult is legendary, and in reality the supernatural was an essential part of the Nazi project. The regime enlisted astrology and the paranormal, paganism, Indo-Aryan…
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Eric Kurlander on German and Austrian Occultism, and the Politicization of Populist Folkdom
The National Socialists tried to subvert German Theosophists to support the Reich. “There’s a general trend toward a post-traditional spiritualism or transcendentalism in France and Britain (and there are many good books that look at those movements in parallel to Germany). The difference I think is that it was more privatized and apolitical. The kind…
The American Minervan 