New collection of essays promising to re-energize the debate on Nazism's occult roots and legacies and thus our understanding of German cultural and intellectual history over the past century.

Nazi secrets are weird enough. It is therefore unnecessary to add more fantasies to the genuine historical facts in the field of Nazi occultism, especially when it comes to their expeditions, and their “scientific” researches. The true amateur of sensational and strange stories can still be fully satisfied with Himmler's

A revelatory counterhistory of postwar Germany, not as a reborn democracy but as a nation convulsed by apocalyptic visions, witchcraft trials, and supernatural obsessions In the aftermath of World War II, a succession of mass supernatural events swept through war-torn Germany. A messianic faith healer rose to extraordinary fame, prayer

“A dense and scholarly book about . . . the relationship between the Nazi party and the occult . . . reveals stranger-than-fiction truths on every page.”—Daily Telegraph The Nazi fascination with the occult is legendary, yet today it is often dismissed as Himmler’s personal obsession or wildly overstated for

Main description: Während die politischen und kulturellen Bemühungen der Vertreter der Inneren Emigration und des Exils relativ wirkungslos blieben, ist es den Nationalsozialisten gelungen, mit ihrer ”Kultur“ die Mehrheit der Deutschen von ihren verbrecherischen Fernzielen abzulenken und hinter sich zu vereinigen. Diese Vorgänge anhand aller verfügbaren kulturhistorischen Zeugnisse so prägnant