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- 8 de Ene, 2025
My (admittedly limited) understanding is that the occult subgroups in the NSDAP were emphasized/exaggerated after the fact. Primarily in America, and primarily because America was still at the time mostly White Christian. With the supposed intent of circulating rumors of Nazi occultism alongside Holocaust stories and Christian Zionism, in order to harden the white Christian population against Nazism, and thus make the Holocaust mythos and Zionism more interesting/appealing to an American Christian audience.Yeah, there was a strain of German intellectual life going back to the late 19th century that mixed occultism/paganism, anti-Semitism, and voelkisch nationalism. Some Nazis dabbled in that milieu. But the occult part specifically didn't have much of a practical influence on Nazism. The Thule-Gesellschaft matters historically because one of their guys founded the DAP, which turned out to be a perfect vehicle for Hitler. But that doesn't mean Thule mattered much ideologically. The influence of occultism on Nazism is often overstated because it makes for a cool story. A more sober take: Stephen E. Flowers - The Occult in National Socialism (2001).
Not saying that any supposed occultism wasn't favored among the inner NSDAP, just saying that the extent/scale of it was likely exaggerated for the aforementioned reasons.
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