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Tag: German Mythology

  • Kirsten Flagstad – Brünnhilde’s battle cry: “Ho jo to ho!”

    Kirsten Flagstad – Brünnhilde’s battle cry: “Ho jo to ho!”

    Kirsten Flagstad having fun singing Hojotoho battlecry of Wagner’s Valkyrie! This scene is extracted from “The Big Broadcast of 1938” which is a Paramount film featuring W.C. Fields and Bob Hope. Directed by Mitchell Leisen, the film is the last in a series of Big Broadcast movies that were variety show anthologies. Act TwoPrelude and…

  • Himmler’s Witches Library and Eric Kurlander talk Hitler’s Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich

    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…