Hitler's Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich
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The Nazi fascination with the occult is legendary, yet today it is often dismissed as Himmler’s personal obsession or wildly overstated for its novelty. Preposterous though it was, however, supernatural thinking was inextricable from the Nazi project. The regime enlisted astrology and the paranormal, paganism, Indo-Aryan mythology, witchcraft, miracle weapons, and the lost kingdom of Atlantis in reimagining German politics and society and recasting German science and religion. In this eye-opening history, Eric Kurlander reveals how the Third Reich’s relationship to the supernatural was far from straightforward. Even as popul
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Manufacturer: Yale University Press
Release date: 1 May 2018
ISBN-10 : 0300234546 | ISBN-13: 9780300234541
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Release date: 1 May 2018
ISBN-10 : 0300234546 | ISBN-13: 9780300234541
