Greetings to all, I watched this short clip on
about Hitler's rise to power and the supernatural things that happened to him. He supposedly met an astrologist, and he gifted Hitler an ancient mandrake. That mandrake was a demigod or demon that Hitler summoned and this helped Hitler rise to power. Additionally, six million Jews were sacrificed to that deity for more power, however later on Hitler disobeyed the god and was doomed. That was all I could find about Hitler's rise to power and I want to learn more about the Nazi occult, if you have knowledge about this please share it I would like to learn more!
Because the allies ensured that actual Nazi ideology received limited, very controlled airtime in the West ("we wouldn't want anyone to wonder why one-day, out of nowhere, Germany went berserk for absolutely no reason whatsoever"), an enormous amount of what has been written about Nazi ideology, including its relationship with the occult, is nonsense. The clip you describe seems to fall soundly into that category.
Nicolas Goodrick-Clarke wrote about this in-depth in the last chapter of
The Occult Roots of Nazism (a
must read for anyone interested in this subject) where he describes the "sense" that many people have of there being something magical and occult about the Third Reich. Because the occult dimension of Nazism hasn't been explained properly, the gap has been filled with stories about Antarctic UFOs, the Ark of the Covenant and, now, apparently, shapeshifting ears.
In reality, the esoteric aspects of Nazism were well integrated into the ideology itself. The character of that esoterism is indicated by some of the Nazi Party's earliest interests:
(strong laws by our standards, simply unheard of in the 1930s), (re-)establishing a
and making the legends and folktales of the Brothers Grimm
.
As might be guessed from this, Nazi esoterism conceived of man as a manifestation of a natural world which is, in itself, magical. As in ancient Germanic paganism, the magic which runs through nature like a live current may be tapped through powerful means such as the runes, folk traditions and the veneration of animals, forests, mountains, nature and life itself. Sometimes this state of union with nature was symbolised by that favoured symbol of the Nazis,
. All of this was politically radical and the Nazis were aware of that; they considered modern humanity to have totally lost connection with nature and thought them trapped in ever-abstract, "anti-nature" Jewish ideologies such as psychoanalysis and Marxism. Marxism especially, with, at this time, its obsession with factories, equality and disregard of personal purity, was regarded as the ultimate in anti-nature confusion. For some Nazis, including Himmler, Rosenberg and possibly Hitler, Christianity was also seen in these terms, as a Jewish ideology which weakens Europeans and separates them from their natural instincts.
The remanifestation of ancient Germanic ideas was thought to begin with Paracelsus and his vision of a numinous natural world. The alchemical idea that man has an important role in bringing the physical world to a state of perfection undoubtedly had an influence too. From Paracelsus, the remanifestation passed into the Romantic movement and, from there, into
and the
, the primary source for Nazi esoteric ideas.
I would strongly recommend the following books to get a deeper understanding of what motivated the Third Reich:
Essential:
by C. G. Jung
The Occult Roots of Nazism by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke
Metapolitics by Peter Viereck
Hitler’s Secret Sciences by Nigel Pennick
Recommended:
The Atlantis of the North by Jurgen Spanuth
For Freedom Destined by Franz E. Winkler
In Search of the Indo-Europeans by J.P. Mallory
Teutonic Mythology by Jacob Grimm
The Secret of the Runes by Guido von List (recommended only after you've read Goodrich-Clarke - this is a dangerous book)
The Occult and the Third Reich by Jean-Michel Angebert
Hitler’s Secret Conversations by H. R. Trevor-Roper
The Voice of Destruction by Hermann Rauschning
Heinrich Himmler’s Camelot by Stephen Cook and Stuart Russell
The Myth of the Master Race: Alfred Rosenberg and Nazi Ideology by Robert Cecil
The Myth of the Twentieth Century by Alfred Rosenberg
National Socialism: Its Principles and Philosophy by Carlos Videla
Contextual:
Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler (James Murphy translation only)
The German Legends of the Brothers Grimm by the Brothers Grimm
Children's and Household Tales by the Brothers Grimm (go for Jack Zipes translation of the Grimms first, unsanitised edition)
The Spear of Destiny by Trevor Ravenscroft (take with a pinch of salt)
Read a good off-the-shelf history of the Third Reich and WWII; Ian Kershaw is very readable.
