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From jhdaugh@mail.msen.com Tue Sep 20 11:57:25 1994
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Date: Tue, 20 Sep 94 07:57 EDT
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From: James Daugherty <jhdaugh@mail.msen.com>
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Reply to: prj@mail.msen.com
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To: prj@mail.msen.com
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Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy
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Subject: (fwd) NAZIS & THE OCCULT- more than a men's club
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Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy
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Path: heifetz.msen.com!spool.mu.edu!agate!darkstar.UCSC.EDU!news.hal.COM!olivea!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!csusac!csus.edu!netcom.com!walter
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From: walter@netcom.com (Walter Alter)
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Subject: NAZIS & THE OCCULT- more than a men's club
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Message-ID: <walterCwC4ps.Bq8@netcom.com>
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Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
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Date: Sun, 18 Sep 1994 17:03:27 GMT
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the unknown hitler: nazi roots in the occult
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on april 6, 1919, in bavaria, left wing socialists and anarchists pro-
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claimed the bavarian soviet republic. the brains of the revolution were a
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group of writers who had little idea of administration. life in munich grew
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chaotic. the counter- revolutionary forces, the whites, composed of various
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groups of decommissioned soldiers known as "frei corps", equipped and
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financed by the mysterious thule society, defeated the bavarian soviet within
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a matter of weeks.
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many other decommissioned soldiers waited out the turbulence in barracks, pfc
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adolph hitler among them. after the bavarian republic had been defeated by
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the whites, in may, hitler's superiors put him to work in the post revolution
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investigating commission. his indictments injected ruthless efficiency into
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the kangaroo courts as he fingered hundreds of noncommissioned officers and
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enlisted men who had sympathized with the communist and anarchists. he was
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subsequently sent to attend special anticommunist training courses and
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seminars at the university which were financed by the reichswehr
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administration and by private donors from the thule society. this led to an
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assignment in the intelligence division of the postwar german army, to
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infiltrate groups that could organize the working classes while the
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communists were weak. on a september evening, 1919, hitler turned up in the
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sternecker beer hall where members and friends of the budding german workers
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party had gathered. he quietly listened to the presentation by engineer
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gottfried feder, a thule society member, who talked about jewish control over
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lending capital. when one of the other group members called for bavaria to
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break away from the rest of germany, hitler sprang into action. the
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astonished audience stood by while his highly aggressive remarks and
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compelling oratory swept through the room. after hitler had finished his
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harangue, party chairman and founder, anton drexler, immediately asked him to
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a meeting of the party's steering committee held a few days later. he was
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asked to join the committee as its seventh member, responsible for
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advertising and propaganda.
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back in 1912, several german occultists with radical anti-semitic inclina-
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tions decided to form a "magic" lodge, which they named the order of teutons.
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the main founders were theodor fritsch, a publisher of an anti-semitic
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journal; philipp stauff, pupil of the racist guido von list, and hermann
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pohl, the order's chancellor. (pohl would drop out three years later to found
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his own bizarre lodge, the walvater teutonic order of the holy grail.) the
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order of teutons was organized along the lines of the free masons or the
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rosicrucians, having differing degrees of initiation, only persons who could
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fully document that they were of pure "aryan" ancestry were allowed to join.
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in 1915, pohl was joined by rudolf blauer, who held a turkish passport and
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practiced sufi meditation. he also dabbled in astrology and was an admirer
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of lanz von liebenfels and guido von list, both pathologically anti- semitic.
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blauer went by the name of rudolf freiherr von seboottendorf. he was very
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wealthy, although the origin of his fortune is unknown. he became the grand
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master of the bavarian order and he founded the thule society, with pohl's
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approval, in 1918.
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after the bavarian communist revolution of 1918, the thule society became a
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center of the counterrevolutionary subculture. an espionage network and arms
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caches were organized. the thule club rooms became a nest of resistance to
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the revolution and the munich soviet republic.
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journalist karl harrer was given the job of founding a political "worker
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circle". he realized that the workers would reject any program that was
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presented to them by a member of the conservative "privileged" class. harrer
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knew that the mechanic anton drexler, who was working for the railroads, was
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a well-known anti-semite, chauvinist and proletarian. with drexler as
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nominal chairman, harrer founded the german workers party in january 1919
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the german workers party was only one of many associations founded and
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controlled by the thule society. the thule was the "mother" to the german
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socialist party, led by julius streicher, and the right-wing radical oberland
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free corps. it published the munich observer, which later became the
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national observer. hitler became the most prominent personality in the
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party. he caused harrer to drop out, and he pushed drexler, the nominal
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chairman, to the sidelines. he filled key positions with his own friends
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from the thule society and the army. during the summer of 1920, upon his
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suggestion, the party was renamed the national socialist german worker party
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(nasdap). the new name was intended to equally attract nationalists and
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proletarians.
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to go along with the new name his mass movement also required a flag with a
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powerful symbol. among many designs under consideration, hitler picked the
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one suggested by thule member dr. krohn: a red cloth with a white circle in
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the middle containing a black swastika.
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hitler wanted to turn the german workers party into a mass-conscious fight-
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ing party, but harrer and drexler were hesitant, due in part to their woeful
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financial situation. the thule society was not yet supplying very much money
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and no one seemed to know how to build up a mass party. hitler arranged two
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public meetings in obscure beer halls, and he drafted leaflets and posters,
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but there was no real breakthrough.
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all of this changed dramatically at the end of the 1919 when hitler met
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dietrich eckart. most biographers have underestimated the influence that
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eckart exerted on hitler. he was the wealthy publisher and editor-in-chief
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of an anti-semitic journal which he called- in plain german. eckart was
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also a committed occultist and a master of magic. as an initiate, eckart
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belonged to the inner circle of the thule society as well as other esoteric
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orders.
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briefly, the creed of the thule society inner circle is as follows: thule was
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a legendary island in the far north, similar to atlantis, supposedly the
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center of a lost, high-level civilization. but not all secrets of that
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civilization had been completely wiped out. those that remained were being
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guarded by ancient, highly intelligent beings (similar to the "masters" of
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theosophy or the white brotherhood). the truly initiated could establish
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contact with these beings by means of magic-mystical rituals. the "mas-
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ters" or "ancients" allegedly would be able to endow the initiated with
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supernatural strength and energy. with the help of these energies the goal
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of the initiated was to create a race of supermen of "aryan" stock who would
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exterminate all "inferior" races.
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there can be no doubt that eckart- who had been alerted to hitler by other
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thulists- trained hitler in techniques of self confidence, self projection,
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persuasive oratory, body language and discursive sophistry. with these
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tools, in a short period of time he was able to move the obscure workers
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party from the club and beer hall atmosphere to a mass movement. the emotion
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charged lay speaker became an expert orator, capable of mesmerizing a vast
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audience.
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one should not underestimate occultism's influence on hitler. his subse-
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quent rejection of free masons and esoteric movements, of theosophy, of
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anthrosophy, does not necessarily mean otherwise. occult circles have long
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been known as covers for espionage and influence peddling. hitler's spy
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apparatus under canaris and heydrich were well aware of these conduits,
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particularly from the direction of britain which had within its mi5
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intelligence agency a department known as the occult bureau. that these
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potential sources of trouble were purged from nazi life should not be taken
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to mean that hitler and the nazi secret societies were not influenced by
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mystical and occult writers such as madame blavatsky, houston stewart
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chamberlain, guido von list, lanz von liebenfels, rudolf steiner, george
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gurdjieff, karl haushofer and theodor fritsch. although hitler later
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denounced and ridiculed many of them, he did dedicate his book mein kampf to
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his teacher dietrich eckart.
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a frequent visitor to landsberg prison where hitler was writing mein kampf
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with the help of rudolf hess, was general karl haushofer, a university
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professor and director of the munich institute of geopolitics. haushofer,
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hitler, and hess had long conversations together. hess also kept records of
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these conversations. hitler's demands for german "living space" in the east
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at the expense of the slavic nations were based on the geopolitical theories
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of the learned professor. haushofer was also inclined toward the esoteric.
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as military attache in japan, he had studied zen-buddhism. he had also gone
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through initiations at the hands of tibetan lamas. he became hitler's second
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"esoteric mentor", replacing dietrich eckart. in berlin, haushofer had
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founded the luminous lodge or the vril society. the lodge's objective was to
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explore the origins of the aryan race and to perform exercises in
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concentration to awaken the forces of "vril". haushofer was a student of the
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russian magician and metaphysician gregor ivanovich gurdyev (george
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gurdjieff). both gurdjeiff and haushofer maintained that they had contacts
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with secret tibetan lodges that possessed the secret of the "superman". the
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lodge included hitler, alfred rosenberg, himmler, goring, and hitler's
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subsequent personal physician dr. morell. it is also known that aleister
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crowley and gurdjieff sought contact with hitler. hitler's unusual powers of
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suggestion become more understandable if one keeps in mind that he had access
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to the "secret" psychological techniques of the esoteric lodges. haushofer
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taught him the techniques of gurdjieff which, in turn, were based on the
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teachings of the sufis and the tibetan lamas- and familiarized him with the
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zen teaching of the japanese society of the green dragon.
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from "the unknown hitler" by wulf schwartzwaller, berkeley books, 1990
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the men behind hitler- excerpts from the book by bernard schreiber
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thomas robert malthus (1766-1834) was an english political economist and
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historian who in 1796 published a book called "an essay on the principle of
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population" in which he said that poverty, and thereby vice and misery, are
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unavoidable because population growth always exceeds food production. checks
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on population growth were wars, famine, and diseases.
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malthus's ideas had great impact, only a few asked on what his claims were
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actually based. yet neither malthus nor his later disciples ever managed to
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put forward any scientific proof for his theory. many scientists have
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disproved malthus' theory and the ideology resulting from it.
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however, with the book, malthus created an atmosphere which moved his
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adherents in 1834 to pass a new law providing for the institution of work-
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houses for the poor, in which the sexes were strictly separated to curb the
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otherwise inevitable overbreeding. this kind of philosophy urged the calling
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forth of drastic measures. the full title of charles darwin's famous book is
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not so famous: "the origin of species by means of natural selection or the
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preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life". in it he explains
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the development of life-forms as a struggle for existence. the result of
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this struggle would be a natural selection of those species and races who
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were to triumph over those weaker ones who would perish.
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francis galton (1822-1911) was an english psychologist and a half-cousin of
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darwin. galton extended darwin's theory into a concept of deliberate social
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intervention, which he said was a logical application of evolution to the
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human race. he called his theory "eugenics", the principle of which was that
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by encouraging better human stock to breed and discouraging the reproduction
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of less desirable stock, the whole race could be improved.
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modern racism really began with arthur count de gabon (1816-1882) who
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published his "essay on the inequality of human races". he wrote in of a
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fair-haired aryan race that was superior to all the others whose remnants
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constituted a tiny racial aristocracy decaying under the overwhelming weight
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of inferior races. a revival of his work in germany began ten years after his
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death by the pan-germans, an extremely nationalistic and anti-jewish group.
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in 1899, gabon's disciple, houston stewart chaimberlain (1844-1927), an
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englishman, published "the foundations of the nineteenth century", in
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germany. he upheld the german race to be the purest and damned the inferior
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races, the jews and negroes, as degenerate. from this point on, eugenics,
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social darwinism and racial hygiene fused into a single concept.
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in 1904 the first chairs in eugenics wewe instituted at university college,
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london, followed by the establishment of the galton laboratory for national
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eugenics in 1907. in 1910 the eugenic record office was founded in the
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united states, both institutes used the research results of the galton
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laboratory of national eugenics to propose practical applications. eugenics
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was used an the "scientific" basis upon which racism was fused to politics.
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eugenicists believed that the child of a mentally-ill person and a mentally
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heathy person would be a mentally-ill offspring. this led to a series of
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escalating regimens: separation from society, restraint, separation of the
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sexes in defective's colonies, and sterilizations. in great britain one of
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the leaders of the mental hygiene movement was miss evelyn fox. she had been
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an active member of the eugenics society before the foundation of the
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national council for mental hygiene, of which she was an officer and founder.
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among the board members was sir cyril burt, who later founded mensa, a high
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i.q. group which espoused eugenic principles. the mental hygiene movement
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drew strongly from the eugenic movements of whatever country they were in.
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shortly after the turn of the century eugenic organizations were set up
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throughout the world. while the whole world was being prepared by propaganda
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for the sterilization of the insane, the adherents of mental hygiene and
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eugenics were preparing their next step, euthanasia. in the u.s.a., dr.
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alexis carrel, a nobel prize winner who had been on the staff of the
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rockefeller institute since its inception, published his book "man the
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unknown" in 1935. in it he suggests the removal of the mentally ill and the
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criminal by small euthanasia institutions equipped with suitable gases.
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in 1933 the nazi party rapidly consolidated its power. in june of that year,
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minister of the interior wilhelm frick put in motion the passage of the "law
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for the prevention of hereditary diseases in posterity"- the sterilization
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law. architect of the law was ernst rudin, professor of psychiatry at the
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munich university, director of the kaiser-wilhelm institute for genealog, and
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of the research institute for psychiatry. a separate legal system was set up
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consisting of "hereditary health courts", which could decree sterilization
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against a person's will. by 1935 the "nuremburg laws" intended to insure the
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racial purity of the nation and was aimed specifically at the jews.
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in 1934 the institute for heredity, biology and racial research was founded
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at frankfurt university by professor ernst rudin's colleague at the kaiser
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wilhelm institute, dr. otmar freiherr von verscheur. von verscheur's
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assistant there was dr. joseph mengele.
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in england, dr. charles killick millard, president of the society of medical
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officers of health, brought up in 1931 the question of voluntary euthanasia
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and proposed a suitable law. later he became fellow founder of the voluntary
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euthanasia legislation society. in 1935 lord moynihan, president of the
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royal college of surgeons, founded the euthanasia society .
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sterilization and euthanasia were not the ideas of the nazis and never had
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been. they were ideas which were supported and promoted throughout the world
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by groups with an interest in the development of mental hygiene. germany,
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however, was the only country in which the political climate allowed
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materialization of the final goal of sterilization and euthanasia.
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there is not a great deal known about "t4" compared to other aspects of nazi
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germany. t4 was the fuhrer chancellery and the initials came from the full
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address which was tiergartenstrasse 4, berlin. "project t4" was fully
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integrated into the organizational structure of the reich and fell under
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section 11b. ("mercy-death") of the chancellery of the fuhrer. four cover
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organizations safeguarded the project t4: the realms work committee in charge
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of collecting information on candidates for euthanasia from questionnaires
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sent to hospitals, the realms committee for scientific approach to severe
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illness due to heredity set up exclusively to apply euthanasia to children,
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the charitable company for the transport of the sick which transported
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patients to the killing centers, and the charitable foundation for
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institutional care, in charge of final disposition of the victims' remains.
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at the time the questionnaires went out a number of mental hospitals were
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being converted for use as killing centers and schools for murder. death
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chambers were built disguised as shower-baths and crematoriums, which were
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identical to those later to be established in the death camps in poland.
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schooling of the personnel at hadamar mental institution produced perfect
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murderers who were used to the smell of burnt flesh, had been taught to trick
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people being led to their death and to steel themselves against the crying
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and pleading of the victims. on arrival, the victims were stripped, dressed
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in paper shirts and forthwith taken to a gas chamber where they were murdered
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with hydrocyanic acid gas, and the bodies moved to crematoriums by conveyer
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belts, six bodies to a furnace. the psychiatrist in charge at hadamar was
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dr. adolf wahlmann, an active member of the german mental hygiene movement.
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after the state had been relieved of the burden of these undesireables, the
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operation, still under the direction of eminent mental health psychiatrists
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in t4, was expanded under the code of 14f13. from being limited to mental
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hospitals and institutions, it now embraced german and austrian inmates and
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jews in concentration camps who were sick or invalid. at dachau at the end
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of 1941 a commission composed of 4 psychiatrists under professor dr. werner
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heyde, ss standartenfuhrer and lecturer in neurology and psychiatry at
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wurzburg university, arrived at the camp and selected hundred of patients
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incapable of work who were transported to the gas chambers and disposed of.
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the extermination camps had followed a separate evolution from the concen-
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tration camps that were opened a few months after the nazi rise to power.
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these death camps had their headquarters, not in himmler's ss organization,
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but in the fuhrer's chancellory (t4). franz stangl (austrian gestapo) said
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at the nuremberg trials that his progression to builder and commander of the
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sobibor extermination camp went through the hartheim and bernberg euthanasia
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centers. the original staff at sobibor was taken from hartheim.
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during the war eugenics became associated with the nazis and afterwards a
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global whitewashing began. the first step was the reconstitution of the many
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national councils of mental hygiene. the first was the british association
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for mental health. lady prescilla norman, wife of montagu norman, governor
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of the bank of england, had been working in the mental hygiene movement since
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the 20's. in 1944 they sponsored a congress held at the ministry of health
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in london where they established the world federation of mental health- wfmh.
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the first elected president of the wfmh was dr. john rawlings rees, a british
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psychiatrist associated with the tavistock institute. in 1948 the wfmh was
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formally inaugurated at the third international congress of mental health. a
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vice-president of the congress was dr. carl g. jung who was described by
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fellow vice-president dr. conti as "representing german psychiatry under the
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nazis". dr. jung had been co-editor of the journal for psychotherapy with
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dr. m. h. goering, the cousin of marshal hermann goering.
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george ivonovitch gurdjieff: proto nazi
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it may be that the real key to the third reich lies buried in the history of
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tibet, for it was here that karl haushofer, the initiate who taught the
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youthful hitler, first met in literal fact the superman of nazi legend.
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origins of the swastika
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by 1945 the thousand year reich had become a smoking ruin. russian soldiers
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pressed through the rubble, fighting from house to house, from street to
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street in order to link up with their british and american allies who also
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pressed in inexorably on the heart of the dying capital. before they overran
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the eastern sector of berlin, these russian troops came across something very
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strange: vast numbers of tibetan corpses. the fact is mentioned by maurice
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bessy and again by pauwels and bergier, who set the actual number of bodies
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at a thousand. they wore german uniform, but without the usual insignia of
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rank.
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the religion of tibet is buddhism, but like the zen of japan, it is a brand
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of buddhism far divorced from the indian original. many scholars prefer the
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term "lamaism" to distinguish between tibetan buddhism and its parent root.
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the religious life of the country is concentrated in a multitude of
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monasteries, many of them built in almost inaccessible mountain regions.
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side by side with the state religion of lamaism, and flourishing particu-
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larly in the rural districts, is tibet's aboriginal religion of bon. the
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bon-pas follow a primitive, animistic creed, full of dark rituals and spells.
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if the holy lamas of the buddhist sects were looked on as personi- fications
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of spiritual wisdom, the priests of bon had a potent reputation with the
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common people as magicians.
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the nazi leaders were attracted to tibet by those of its secret doctrines
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which filtered through to the west. they believed, those members of the
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thule group, the luminous lodge, and the various other occult organizations
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which helped shape the third reich, in an esoteric history of mankind. and
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it was in the archives of tibetan monasteries that this history was
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preserved in its purest form.
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already, in the latter half of the previous century, intriguing hints about
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tibetan secret teachings had been carried to the west by helena blavatsky,
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who claimed initiation at the hands of the holy lamas themselves. blavatsky
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taught that her "hidden masters" and "secret chiefs" had their earthly
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residence in the himalayan region. as soon as the nazi movement had
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sufficient funds, it began to organize a number of expeditions to tibet and
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these succeeded one another practically without interruption until 1943. one
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of the most tangible expressions of nazi interest in tibet was the party`s
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adoption of its deepest and most mystical of symbols- the swastika.
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the swastika is one of mankind's oldest symbols, and apart from the cross and
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the circle, probably the most widely distributed. it is shown on pottery
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fragments from greece dating back to the eighth century b.c. it was used in
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ancient egypt, india and china. the navaho indians of north america have a
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traditional swastika pattern. arab-islamic sorcerers used it. in more
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recent times, it was incorporated in the flags of certain baltic states.
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the idea for the use of the swastika by the nazis came from a dentist named
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dr. friedrich krohn who was a member of the secret germanen order. krohn
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produced the design for the actual form in which the nazis came to use the
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symbol, that is reversed, spinning in an anti-clockwise direction. as a
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solar symbol, the swastika is properly thought of as spinning, and the
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buddhists have always believed the symbol attracted luck. the sanskrit
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word "svastika" means good fortune and well being. according to
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cabbalistic lore and occult theory, chaotic force can be evoked by revers-
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ing the symbol. and so the symbol appeared as the flag of nazi germany and
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the insignia of the nazi party, an indication for those who had eyes to
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see, as to the occult nature of the third reich.
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THE CONTROVERSY OF THE OCCULT REICH
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By John Roemer
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This article is transcribed from an issue of Gnosis Magazine.
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One hundred years after Adolf Hitler's birth near Linz in Austria
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on April 20 1889, and decades after his malign empire metastasized
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in Bavaria in Bavaria, the Hitler phenomenon remains to mainstream
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historians largely inexplicable, or at least unexplained. The man
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and his awful work seem to stand outside history looking in.
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Perhaps our human fear of the irrational is so great that we
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instinctively hold Hitler at a great remove in order that we need
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not admit him to our company.
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In light of this it isn't very surprising that an extensive
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literature exists seeking an occult rationale for the otherwise
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baffling catastrophe Hitler represents. As Louis Pauwels and
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Jacques Bergier point out in the MORNING OF THE MAGICIANS (1960),
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the Nazi era simply defies conventional analysis:
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A self taught madman, surrounded by a handful of
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megalomaniacs,rejects Descartes, spurns the whole humanist
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culture, tramples on reason, invokes Lucifer, conquers Europe,
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and nearly conquers the world... The historian begins to feel
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anxious and to wonder whether his art is viable.1
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Pauwels and Bergier were among the first postwar proponents of
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a black magical explanation for the Third Reich.1a About a quarter
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of their book is devoted to a region they call "The Absolute
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Elsewhere," a neverland where Nazi pseudosciences and occult
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methodology held official sway. They quote a Hitlerian
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pronouncement to demonstrate that the Fuhrer's intellectual
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development was on a level wholly different from that understood
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by the Western tradition: "there is a Nordic and National Socialist
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science which is opposed to Jewish-Liberal science".2 Reality was
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defined by politics.
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Nazi "science" has brought hoots of derision from those who hold
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to the Cartesian model. In place of psychology there was an occult
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frappe composed of the mysticism of Gurdijeff, the theosophy of
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Madame Blavatsky and the archetypes of Nordic mythology.3 In place
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of Newtonian physics stood the cosmic force called vril, the
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bizarre geology known as the hollow earth theory, and the frigid
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cosmology of Hans Horbiger's Welteislehre, the doctrine of eternal
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ice.
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Nazi thought excluded psychoanalysis, which has in fact been not
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very helpful in explaining the etiology of great evil, although
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Robert G.L. Waite's effort, quoted above and published in 1977 by
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Basic Books, is good on several provocative subjects: Hitler's
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sadomasochistic sex life; the possibility he had a Jewish
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grandfather; and his Viennese mentors, who are described at greater
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length by the authors about to be mentioned.
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Nazism officially rejected the theory of relativity as "Jewish
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science". Not only Freud but EInstein too was forced to flee
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Hitler's Europe. He and other physicists eventually were able to
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ensure that atomic secrets remained in the hands of the allies
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until they could be used spectacularly to climax the Pacific war.
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Horbiger's physics derived from an intuitive flash he experienced
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late in the nineteenth century. "... As a young engineer," he
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wrote, "I was watching one day some molten steel poured on wet
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ground covered with snow: the ground exploded after some delay and
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with great violence."4
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This conflict of opposites, of fire and ice, is a theme that
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inspired Horbiger and resonated for German nationalists because it
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recurs in the Icelandic Eddas, the sourcebooks of Teutonic
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mythology. It all makes good sense in Iceland, since that island's
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peculiar geology feature numerous volcanic rifts in the permafrost;
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fire and ice are commonly juxtaposed all over the landscape. As
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grounds for a cosmology- the word implies universality- it is at
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best dubious. It would be a hard sell in Hawaii.
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Nevertheless, Nazi science was influential out of all proportion
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to its objective validity. Hoerbiger was immensely influential in
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the Third Reich. His followers numbered in the tens of thousands.
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There were scores of Horbigerian books, hundreds of Welteislehre
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pamphlets, and a monthly magazine called THE KEY TO WORLD EVENTS.
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As one tract put it,
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Our Nordic ancestors grew strong amidst the ice and snow, and
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this is why a belief in a world of ice is the natural heritage
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of Nordic men. It was Austrian, Hitler, who drove out the Jewish
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politicians, and another Austrian, Horbiger, (who) will drive
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out the Jewish scientists. By his own example Hitler has shown
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that an amateur to give us a thorough understanding of the
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Universe.5
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Hitler's fatal confidence in the success of his troops on the
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Russian front during the 1941 - 2 winter is generally believed to
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have been a result of his misplaced faith in Horbiger's weather
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forecasts. Despite such setbacks, the Welteislehre managed to
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thrive even after the war. The popular speculations of Immanuel
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Velikovsky derive in part from Horbiger. In 1953 a survey conducted
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by Martin Gardner showed that more than a million people in
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Germany, England, and the U.S. believed that Horbiger was right6.
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The Horbigerian cosmology posited an early epoch, some fifteen
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million years ago, during which a hugh moon moved across the sky
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very near the earth. Its gravitational attraction gave rise to a
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race of our ancestors, the giants. These giants, which appear in
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the ancient Norse and Icelandic sagas, sleep, yet they are alive.
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To the Nazis, they were Supermen. In one set of myths, contained
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in the Nibelungenlied, they lived beneath Teutonic mountains. In
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another they were prototype Aryans from the East, inhabiting vast
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Tibetan caverns.
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Three other books that investigate hidden influences on Gerald
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Suster's HITLER: THE OCCULT MESSIAH; Jean-Michel Angebert's THE
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OCCULT AND THE THIRD REICH; and Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke's THE
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OCCULT ROOTS OF NAZISM7.
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Suster's book largely rehashes Pauwels and Bergier. Angebert
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(actually a pen name for two French writers) interestingly links
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Hitler to an ancient dualist tradition he traces from Manichaenism
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|
in Persia through the Essenes, Jesus's Palestinian forebears, to
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|
the Cathars in the south of France in the Middle Ages. It's
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philosophy in which, in its Nazi incarnation, solar forces of light
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|
represented by blond, fair-skinned Aryans strive against the evil
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|
forces of darkness, who are of course dark skinned Semites.
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Both books, but especially Suster's are written in prose that
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|
stops just this side of tabloid journalese. This is too bad for two
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|
reasons. One, the authors diminish some important material by this
|
|
kind of presentation. Two, the lessons we have to learn about mass
|
|
psychopathology and about the history of fascism are too important
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|
to be trivalized in this way.
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|
Goodrick-Clark's is a serious and compelling historical look at
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|
ariosophy, a dangerous amalgam of Aryan racism, pan-German
|
|
nationalism, and occultism that flourished in Austria and Germany
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|
from around 1890 well into the era when Himmler's Death's Head SS
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|
was organized. Himmler is said by Pauwels and Bergier to have taken
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|
the Jesuits for his model, and to have installed a regular
|
|
hierarchy ranging from lay brothers to father superior, and to have
|
|
used this Black Order in horrific rites.8
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|
THE OCCULT ROOTS OF NAZISM identifies wide circle of proto-Nazi
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|
philosophers, previously almost unknown, who saw in the chaos that
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|
beset Germany after the Treaty of Versailles the working out of
|
|
ancient Aryan prophecies. Among them was Rudolf John Gorsleben, who
|
|
interesting career Goodrick-Clarke sums up in a sentence: "on the
|
|
basis of the runes, occultism, and the Edda, Gorsleben created an
|
|
original racist mystery-religion which illuminated the priceless
|
|
magical heritage of the Aryans and justified their spiritual and
|
|
political world-supremacy."9
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Gorsleben was active in right-wing politics in Bavaria in the
|
|
years Hitler was forming his political convictions there, and he
|
|
lectured to the Thule Society, a Munich club thought to have
|
|
greatly influenced Nazism in its infancy (see below). He also
|
|
edited a weekly newspaper called German Freedom; in 1927 he changed
|
|
the name to Aryan Freedom.
|
|
He derived the word 'race' from rata, an Old Norse term
|
|
meaning 'root', in order to conclude that God and race were
|
|
identical.... He maintained that racial mixing was always
|
|
detrimental for the racially superior partner, since his purity was
|
|
debased in the progeny, and he repeated the common volkisch
|
|
[folkish] conviction that woman could be 'impregnated' by
|
|
intercourse, even when no conception occurred, so that her
|
|
subsequent offspring bore the characteristics of her first lover.
|
|
Given these overwhelming pressures towards the increasing
|
|
bastardization of the German descendants of the Aryan race, only
|
|
the strict practice of segregation and eugenics could guarantee the
|
|
reversal of racial contamination in the world.10
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|
Another book which hold that Hitler learned many of his occult
|
|
lesson from avatars in Vienna and Munich may well be the best known
|
|
black magical explanation of Nazism to have been put forth so far.
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|
Trevor Ravenscroft's THE SPEAR OF DESTINY was published by that
|
|
famous British house of occultism, the aptly named Neville Spearman
|
|
Ltd,.in 1972, and has since gone through many edition.11
|
|
Ravenscroft is intriguing because instead of reporting historical
|
|
influences on Hitler, he presents secret history in a narrative
|
|
form that purports to be factual and that-if true maybe even if
|
|
only poetically "true"-goes a long way toward finding a convincing
|
|
occult explanation for the Nazi phenomenon.
|
|
Two challenges to Ravenscroft's facts, discussed below, have led
|
|
some readers to conclude his book is more nearly a novel than
|
|
strict history. Nonetheless, its provocative premise and fluent
|
|
synthesis of black magical thematics will keep it on occult
|
|
booklists until a better effort at explaining Hitler comes along.
|
|
Ravenscroft, a British journalist, historian, and World War II
|
|
commando officer, spent four years in Nazi prison camps after he
|
|
was captured attempting to assassinate General Erwin Rommel in
|
|
North Africa in 1941. His personal perspective on the Hitler era
|
|
is based on material he says he got in a state of transcendent
|
|
consciousness while imprisoned. He introduces his methodology by
|
|
speaking of
|
|
my own experience of higher levels of consciousness
|
|
whilst in a Nazi Concentration Camp during the war, and
|
|
how the nature of this transcendent experience had guided
|
|
me to a study of the Spear of Longinus and the legend of
|
|
world destiny which had grown up around it.12
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|
|
|
Later, in London, his intuitive suspicions about certain grail
|
|
relics and their importance in occult Hitlerian history were
|
|
confirmed by a Viennese exile called Dr. Walter Johannes Stein who
|
|
died in 1957.
|
|
Dr. Stein spent much of the war as a British secret agent, but
|
|
before that time he was a scholar who employed white magical means
|
|
to clairvoyantly investigate historical events. It was his book on
|
|
the grail mythos published in Stuttgart in 1928 and titled THE
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|
NINTH CENTURY: WORLD HISTORY IN THE LIGHT OF THE HOLY GRAIL13 that
|
|
attracted Ravenscroft to him.
|
|
THE SPEAR OF DESTINY focuses first on Hitler's lost years in
|
|
Vienna from 1909 to 1913. During that time, Ravenscroft writes, Dr.
|
|
Stein was pursuing his occult researches as a student at the
|
|
University of Vienna and getting to know Hitler, then a dropout
|
|
living in a flophouse.
|
|
Vienna was during Hitler's years there a vortex of modern
|
|
thinking. Freud was in practice at Berggasse 19; Ludwig
|
|
Wittgenstein was in residence pondering avant garde philosophy and
|
|
metaphysics; Gustav Mahler had returned home to die and to name his
|
|
protege, Arnold Schonberg. In contrast there persisted the deep
|
|
anti-Semitic currents that had caused Mahler to convert to
|
|
Catholicism, that forced Freud eventually to flee to London and
|
|
that informed the ancient pan-German folkoric nostalgia espoused
|
|
by Guido von List.
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|
|
|
This old black magician, whose occult lodge Ravenscroft says
|
|
substituted the swastika for the cross in perversion and the
|
|
practice of medieval thaumaturgy, looked like a wizard in floppy
|
|
cap and long white beard. His link to Hitler was allegedly through
|
|
an occult bookseller, Ernst Pretzche, in whose shop the future
|
|
Fuhrer found a second home.
|
|
In the shop Dr. Stein found a copy of Wolfram von Eschenbach's
|
|
PARZIVAL, the medieval grail romance that Dr. Stein was himself
|
|
researching for his work on the ninth century. In the book's
|
|
margins were handwritten annotations; looking them over Dr.Stein
|
|
was fascinated and repelled:
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|
|
|
This was no ordinary commentary but the work of
|
|
somebody who had achieved more than a working
|
|
knowledge of the black arts! The unknown commentator
|
|
had found the key to unveiling many of the deepest
|
|
secrets of the Grail, yet obviously spurned the
|
|
Christian ideals of the Knights and delighted in the
|
|
devious machinations of the Anti-Christ.
|
|
It suddenly dawned on him that he was reading the
|
|
footnotes of Satan!14
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|
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The footnotes, of course, proved to have been Hitler's.
|
|
Soon afterward, Dr.Stein and Hitler saw the Reich's lance
|
|
together in the Imperial Museum at the Hofburg. Dr. Stein had been
|
|
there before and had never failed to be moved by the sight of the
|
|
old relic, supposed to have been moved by the original spear with
|
|
which the Roman centurion, Longinus, pierced the side of Christ
|
|
during the crucifixation. Longinus was a German, and his "spear of
|
|
destiny" was fated to play a magical role in the careers of German
|
|
leaders like Charlemagne, Otto the Great, and Frederick Barbarossa.
|
|
Dr. Stein said the spear inspired in him the emotion expressed in
|
|
the motto of the knights of the holy grail: Durch Mitleid wissen,
|
|
"through compassion to self knowledge."
|
|
Then he glanced at Hitler:
|
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Walter Stein found he was not the only one moved by the sight
|
|
of this historic spearhead. Adolf Hitler stood beside him, like a
|
|
man in a trance, a man over whom some dreadful magic spell had been
|
|
cast... The very space around him seemed enlivened with some subtle
|
|
irradiation, a kind of ghostly ectoplasmic light. His whole
|
|
physiognomy and stance appeared transformed as if some might Spirit
|
|
now inhabited his very soul, creating within and around him a kind
|
|
of evil transfiguration of its own nature and power.15
|
|
Latter Hitler took Dr. Stein up the Danube to visit his mystic
|
|
teacher, a rustic woodcutter and herbalist named Hans Lodz "who
|
|
retained in his peasant's blood the last traces of the atavistic
|
|
clairvoyance of the ancient Germanic tribes" and who "resembled a
|
|
mischievous yet malevolent dwarf from the pages of Grimm's Fairy
|
|
Tales or an illustration from a book on ancient Germanic
|
|
folklore".16 The men took a swim in the river at which Dr. Stein
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|
noticed that Hitler had only one testicle.
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It was Lodz, Dr.Stein learned, who had prepared for Hitler a
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|
peyote concoction that afforded him psychedelic insight into his
|
|
past lives. The peyote itself had come from Pretzche, who had lived
|
|
for a time in the German colony in Mexico. Hitler had hoped that
|
|
his former existences, viewed in his drug trance, would include an
|
|
early incarnation as a powerful Teutonic ruler, but it was not to
|
|
be.
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Instead his psychedelic perception revealed non Eschenbach's
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Parzival to have been prophetic of events that would take place a
|
|
thousand years after it was written, i.e. in the present. And it
|
|
showed Hitler to have been the historical personage behind the evil
|
|
sorcerer Klingsor, the very spirit of the anti-Christ and the
|
|
villain of Parzival.
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|
According to Dr. Stein's work Klingsor was in fact Landulf II
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|
of Capua, the traitorous confidant of the Holy Roman Emperor who
|
|
betrayed Christianity to the Moslem invaders of Italy and Spain.
|
|
Armed with the knowledge of his black spiritual ancestry,
|
|
Ravenscroft writes, Hitler moved to Germany, joined the Bavarian
|
|
Army, survived the hellish trench warfare on the western front, won
|
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the Iron Cross, second class, and got discharged in Munich where
|
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he encountered the men who were to invent National Socialism.
|
|
Virtually every study of Hitler's time in Munich mentions the
|
|
Thule Society as superficially a kind of Elk's Club of German
|
|
mythology which met often and openly at a fancy metropolitan hotel
|
|
and for a time counted Hitler as a member. Behind the scenes,
|
|
however the society seems to have been considerably more sinister.
|
|
Robert Payne whose excellent Hitler biography contains no occult
|
|
explanations, describes the Thule Society as the center of the
|
|
right wing opposition to the brief Bavarian postwar socialist coup
|
|
under the Jewish intellectual Kurt Eisner.
|
|
The reaction set in swiftly, as the extreme right gathered
|
|
its forces. The headquarters of the reaction was the Hotel
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|
Vierjahreszeiten, where several floors were given over to
|
|
the Thule Society, ostensibly a literary club devoted to the
|
|
study of Nordic culture but in fact a secret political
|
|
organization devoted to violent anti-Semitism and rule by
|
|
an aristocratic elite. The name of the organization derived
|
|
from ultima Thule, the unknown northern land believed to
|
|
be the original home of the German race... The symbol of the
|
|
Thule Society was a swastika with a dagger enclosed in
|
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laurel leaves.17
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|
|
Most of the occult historians of the era believe the Thule
|
|
Society operated on a deeper level still, a level headed by a
|
|
mysterious figure called Dietrich Eckart. Goodrick-Clarke calls
|
|
Eckart Hitler's mentor in the early days of the Nazi Party, along
|
|
with Rudolf Hess and Alfred Rosenberg.18
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|
According to Ravenscroft, Eckart, like Hitler, first achieved
|
|
transcendence through psychedelic drugs. Research on peyote by the
|
|
German pharmacologist Ludwig Lewin had been published in 1886,
|
|
leading to widespread popular experimentation. Later a heroin
|
|
|
|
addict, in earlier days Eckart used peyote in the practice on neo-
|
|
pagan magic in Berlin. He came to believe that he, too was the
|
|
reincarnation of ninth century character. In his case it was
|
|
Bernard of Barcelona, a notorious betrayer of Christianity to the
|
|
Arabs and a black magician who used thaumaturgy to hold off
|
|
Carolingian armies in Spain.
|
|
Eckart assertedly organized Kurt EIsner's assassination and
|
|
personally chose Hitler-by then a battle-scarred veteran of the
|
|
horrors of trench warfare and a fervent critic of the armistice-to
|
|
lead the Aryan race back to supremacy.
|
|
Ravenscroft writes that Hitler had been prepared for satanic
|
|
initiation by his experiences in Vienna with peyote and with the
|
|
spear and by his mustard gassing in 1918, which left him blind and
|
|
in a state of enforced trance for several days.
|
|
He also says that the techniques Dietrich Eckart used were in
|
|
part derived from the sexual magic of Aleister Crowley. In 1912
|
|
this famed British magician was named IX British head of a secret
|
|
Berlin lodge called Ordo Templi Orientis which practiced various
|
|
forms of sexual magic.19
|
|
Ravenscroft writes "there can be little doubt" that both Crowley
|
|
and Eckart conducted deep studies of the Arabian astrological magic
|
|
performed by Klingsor's real life counterpart, Landulf II. It was
|
|
to Sicily-then a Moslem stronghold-that Landulf fled after his
|
|
traitorous links to Islam were disclosed. And it was in a dark
|
|
tower in the mountains of the southwest corner of that island that
|
|
his evil soul festered with additional bitterness over his
|
|
castration by the relatives of a noblewoman he had raped. There he
|
|
practiced sadistic satanism of a nature that foreshadowed the
|
|
horrors of Nazi concentration camps.
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|
|
If the legends that have come down from these dark centuries
|
|
of European history are true, these rituals carried out at
|
|
Kalot Enbolot included terrible tortures such as the
|
|
slitting open of the stomach of sacrificial victims and the
|
|
slow drawing open of the stomach of sacrificial victims and
|
|
the slow drawing of their entrails, the driving of stakes
|
|
through the orifices of their bodies before disembowelling
|
|
them, and the invoking of Spirits of Darkness (incubi) to
|
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rape young virgins kidnapped from their families.20
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It was from his studies of the power available to practitioners
|
|
of such perversities that Eckart devised the rituals he used when
|
|
he "opened the centers of Adolf Hitler to give him a vision of and
|
|
a means of communication with the Powers." Ravenscroft concludes,
|
|
though he declines to furnish the full details: "Suffice it to say
|
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that they were indescribably sadistic and ghastly." 21
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Having done his worst, Eckart soon died, proudly advising those
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around him:
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Follow Hitler! he will dance, but it is I who have called
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the tune!
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I have initiated him into the "Secret Doctrine", opened
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his centers of vision and given him the means to
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communicate with the Powers.
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Do not mourn for me: I shall have influenced history more
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than any other German.22
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Not unnaturally the question rises whether any of THE SPEAR OF
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DESTINY is true. It's certainly a great story, one which
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Ravenscroft elaborates with a lengthy investigation of Hitler's sex
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life, in which he makes a case for associating the reports of the
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Fuehrer's missing testis to the perversities resulting from
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Landulf's castration.
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The problem lies with Ravenscroft's primary source, Dr. Walter
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Johannes Stein. And the problem with Dr.Stein is really two
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problems: one his method of historical research: and two, the fact
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that he is dead and unable to speak for himself.
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Given his method, of course, this second problem should not be
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insurmountable. Had we the technique, Dr. Stein could presumably
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verify each of Ravenscroft's assertion for us from beyond the
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grave. For Dr. Stein is alleged to have studied history not in the
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libraries and archives that are the usual haunt of the historian
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but in an arena called the Cosmic Chronicle where, according to
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Ravenscroft, past present and future were united in a higher
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dimension of time.
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What's more Ravenscroft reveals in his introduction, Dr.Stein
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taught the same techniques to him.
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It is, however, undeniably difficult, if not unprecedented, to
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footnote clairvoyance. We have to take on faith that the SPEAR OF
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DESTINY is what Dr.Stein told Ravenscroft. This is not to say that
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all of his information came from the Cosmic Chronicle; Dr. Stein
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as we have seen is purported to have been present in Vienna during
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Hitler's lost years there. Nor did their close association end in
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Austria. Ravenscroft says Dr. Stein "watched at close quarters" the
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founding of the Nazi party and Hitler's association with Eckart and
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other sinister mentors.
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When Reichsfuehrer SS Heinrich Himmler ordered Dr.Stein's
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arrest in Stuttgart in 1933 in order to press him into
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service with the SS Occult Bureau, he escaped from Germany
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and brought with him to Britain the most authoritative
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knowledge of the occultism of the Nazi Party.23
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Nowhere does Ravenscroft made it clear whether he's talking
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about eyewitness knowledge on Dr.Stein's part or about the sort of
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information to be gleaned from the Cosmic Chronicle. But two
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critics of the SPEAR OF DESTINY do cast doubt on several of the
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factual assertions upon the factual assertions upon which
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Ravenscroft's argument is built.
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One is Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, whose book on the occult roots
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of Nazism is quoted above. In an appendix called "THE MODERN
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MYTHOLOGY OF NAZI OCCULTISM", Goodrick-Clarke takes Ravenscroft to
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task for the story about Hitler's relations with the occult
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bookseller in Vienna and for his claim that Guido Von List was
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forced to flee from outraged Viennese Catholics in 1909 after the
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sexual rites of his blood brotherhood were exposed. he writes
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flatly,
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There is not a shred of evidence for such rituals.
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List was never obliged to leave Vienna and he enjoyed the
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patronage of prominent Vienna figures...The fictional
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nature of the whole episode surrounding the annotated copy
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of copy of Parzival is suggested by the similarity of
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Pretzsche's obscure bookshop to the one described by Sir
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Edward Bulwer-Lytton in ZANONI (1842), which probably
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served Ravenscroft as a literary model.24
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Goodrick-Clarke also criticizes Jean Michael Angebert's book, THE
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OCCULT AND THE THIRD REICH, cited above. He brands as imaginary
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Angebert's account of the young Hitler's association with Lanz von
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Lebenfels.
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As noted earlier, Goodrick-Clarke's book is an important and
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serious piece of research on Guido von List and Lanz von
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Lievenfels. But the author seems a little over-sensitive toward
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other writers who invoke his two subjects. Nevertheless, his
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critique of Angebert and Ravenscroft, though brief, does offer a
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glimpse of the misgivings that professional historians feel
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regarding such material.
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More extensive criticisms have been offered by Christoph
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Lindenberg in his review of THE SPEAR OF DESTINY in the German
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journal Die Drie. Lindenberg has done some effective digging at the
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Vienna Records office. Ravenscroft has Hitler sitting high up in
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the cheap seats of the Vienna Opera House in the winter of 1910 -
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1 watching Wagner's Parzifal and sympathizing with Klingsor. This
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proves to have been impossible, because Lindenberg learned that the
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first performance of Wagner's opera took place three years later,
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on January 14,1914.
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Ravenscroft's second mistake was to name the Viennese bookseller
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who introduced Hitler to drugs. "No better name occurred to him
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than Pretsche, popular among English writers of fiction for German
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malefactors," Lindenberg writes scornfully before revealing that
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extensive checks of Vienna city and business directories and police
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records for the years 1892 through 1920 were negative for the name
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in question.25
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Next, Lindenberg takes issue with Ravenscroft's description of
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the Danube trip Hitler and Dr. Stein took in May 1913, to visit the
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mystic woodcutter, Hands Lodz:
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We can overlook Ravenscroft's mistake of speaking of
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"Wachau" as a place and not of the region which really it is.
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But the details do not fit: the snow melting in May, the
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steamer running in spite of the floods, bathing in the river-
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it makes no sense. Certainly wrong is the statement that Hitler
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had only one testicle... all this has been completely refuted
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by [Werner] Maser.26
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Ravenscroft's account of Hitler's circumstances in Vienna also
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come in for some heavy criticism. Dr. Stein reportedly sat in a
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window seat in Demel's Cafe, reading the anonymous marginalia in
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the copy of Parzival he'd found and concluding they were "the
|
|
footnotes of Satan" when he looked through the glass and beheld
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"the most arrogant face and demonical eyes he had ever seen". This
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|
was of course the future Fuehrer in his legendary guise as an
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impoverished pavement artist, selling homemade postcards, dressed
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|
in a big black "sleazy" coat, his toes visible through the cracks
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|
in his shoes. When in August, 1912, he sought Hitler out at the
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"flophouse" he lived in , in Meldemannstrasse, he was told Hitler
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|
was away at Spittal-an-der-Drau collecting a legacy left him by an
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aunt. Thereafter, Hitler dressed well.27
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Hitler did receive a legacy from his aunt, Johanna Poelzl,
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|
Lindenberg reports. But this happens in March, 1911, and the aunt
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lived in Spital-with-one-t, not on the Drau but in southern
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Austria. Furthermore,
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At no time of life did Hitler live in impoverished
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|
conditions, rather he had always sufficient money. In the
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Meldenmannstrasse, a kind of large hotel, Hitler paid a
|
|
rent of 15 Kronen a month. So he could afford a fairly
|
|
expensive room and had no need to sell his pictures, which
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|
in any case were no postcards. So this scene too, that
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impoverished Hitler dressed in an oversized black coat
|
|
selling water colors in front of the Cafe Dehmel does not
|
|
agree with the facts either (cf. the two works by Werner
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|
Maser who with incredible care collected all ascertained
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|
facts of Hitler's youth).28
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In his discussion of the holy lance's power to evoke
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transcendent experience, Ravenscroft has a scene in which the chief
|
|
of the German general staff, Helmut von Moltke, visited the relic
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|
in the company of Conrad von Hoetzendorf, an Austrian general,
|
|
shortly before the outbreak of World War I. The spear's presence
|
|
led von Moltke to have a trance vision of himself incarnated as
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|
Pope Nicolas I, a ninth century pontiff concerned, like von Moltke,
|
|
with the balance of geopolitical power between east and west.29
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Untrue protests Lindenberg. "For Moltke visited Vienna neither
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|
in 1913 nor in 1914. Conrad and Moltke met on May 12, 1914 at
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Karlsbad, from September 7 - 10, 1913, in Silesia, and at Leipzig
|
|
on October 18 at the Centenary of the Battle of Leipzig. They had
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|
no other meeting."30
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Lindenberg has several other criticisms to make, such as the
|
|
assertion that "A number of people who intimately knew Walter
|
|
Johannes Stein in the last years of his life state that Stein never
|
|
met Hitler." Unfortunately Ravenscroft's aversion to footnotes has
|
|
also afflicted his critic, and Lindenberg nowhere names these
|
|
people nor does he document his other assertions.
|
|
Lindenberg doesn't like Ravenscroft's book; he calls it " a
|
|
pollution of our spiritual environment." And it is manifestly
|
|
difficult for him or anyone to rebut research done on the cosmic
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|
level.
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|
What, in the end, was Hitler all about? Perhaps no better
|
|
explanation can be found than W.H. Auden's suggestions, made in his
|
|
poem "September 1,1939" and printed as an epigram to Robert G.L.
|
|
Waite's book. The date is the beginning of Hitler's Blitzkrieg
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against Poland:
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Accurate scholarship can
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Unearth the whole offence
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From Luther until now
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That has driven a culture mad,
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Find what occurred at Linz,
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What huge imago made
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A psychopathic god:
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I and the public know
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What all schoolchildren learn,
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Those to whom evil is done
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Do evil in return.
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