tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22051458365510429622024-03-12T20:07:33.570-07:00The Occult History of the Third ReichPeter Crawfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08185209993829407070noreply@blogger.comBlogger58125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2205145836551042962.post-1264909163768140272018-04-02T08:10:00.004-07:002018-04-02T12:25:22.893-07:00For and Against the Occult<div style="text-align: center;">
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The attitude of the leadership of the Third Reich with regard to religion and the occult is controversial.</div>
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Many historians, authors and researchers have made numerous assumptions - and often even definitive statements, but the facts of the matter are far from clear.</div>
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The 'liberal left' and those espousing 'political correctness' (whatever that may be), like to 'paint' the Third Reich as a vast, monolithic dictatorship - in which <i>all </i>were required to 'tow the party line' - or face the 'concentration camp', or 'firing squad'.<br />
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In truth, however, and perhaps surprisingly, that was far from the case - (although is was, to a great extent, the case in Soviet Russia, and other Communist dictatorships).</div>
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Although the Third Reich, on the surface, espoused '<i>Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Führer</i>', there were, in fact, numerous seething undercurrents in many areas of policy - including religion, the arts, culture and philosophy.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">COVERING UP THE TRACES</span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;">Some would take at face value Hitler's reported disdain, and on occasions open derision with regard to occult practices - but Hitler, from his youth, had been a master at laying false trails. - He was well aware that it was not in his interests, having achieved the position of a major 'world leader' to be seen as a 'dabbler in the occult arts', and so he assiduously laboured to distance himself from anyone who would be able to associate him with such practices.</span></blockquote>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Gustl' Kubizek</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dietrich Eckart</td></tr>
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If you have studied other articles in this blog you will be aware that there is a wealth of information (often ignored or denied) that associates various aspects of Hitler's Weltanschauung with occult beliefs and teachings.</div>
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As August Kubizek has recorded in '<a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.com/2011/08/gustav-kubizek-reminiscences.html">Hitler - Mein Jungenfreund</a>', these occult influences began very early in Hitler's life.</div>
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Some of the most significant influences on Hitler, with regard to occult matters, disappeared along the way.</div>
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In some cases these disappearances were natural - as in the case of <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.com/2011/07/dietrich-eckart-hitlers-mentor.html">Dietrich Eckart</a> (died of a heart attack in Berchtesgaden on 26 December 1923) - probably the most significant of those influences, (who was the dedicatee of '<a href="http://meinkampfvol1.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/on-november-9-1923-at-12.html">Mein Kampf</a>').<br />
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Natural cause also would apply to Rudolf John Gorsleben (died of a chronic heart complaint in 1930) - rarely mentioned, but highly influential.<br />
Some of these influences, such as Rudolf Heß, disappeared under the strangest circumstances.<br />
Others were silenced, (but not 'liquidated' as in Soviet Russia), such as Lanz von Liebenfels (Hitler banned him from publishing his writings and copies of Ostara were removed from circulation in 1938), and Karl Haushoffer, (Haushofer's son Albrecht was arrested on 7 December 1944 and put into the Moabit prison in Berlin) and Haushoffer was disgraced.<br />
At this point it would be tedious to list all the individuals who had connections with Hitler and the occult.<br />
Some, of course, like Rosenberg and <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/08/himmler-ahnenerbe-and-wewelsburg.html" target="_blank">Himmler</a> lasted the distance after Hitler became Chancellor, mainly because Hitler had need of them.<br />
Most, however, disappeared - practically without trace - and there is a reason for this.<br />
Some would take at face value Hitler's seeming disdain, and on occasions open derision with regard to occult practices - but Hitler, from his youth, had been a master at laying false trails.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.com/2012/03/der-mythos-des-zwanzigsten-jahrhunderts.html" target="_blank">Alfred Rosenberg</a></td></tr>
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He was well aware that it was not in his interests, having achieved the position of a major '<i>world leader</i>' to be seen as a '<i>dabbler in the occult arts</i>', and so he assiduously laboured to distance himself from anyone who would be able to associate him with such practices.<br />
<i>However,</i> in unguarded moments, as can be seen in various articles in this blog, he would make statements that no 'normal', politician would make.<br />
Statements that repeatedly entered into areas of the mystical, philosophical and religious and occult.<br />
Equally, if he held such matters in such low repute, it makes little sense that he would continue his long standing connection with, and reliance on such figures as Rudolf Heß, <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/08/himmler-ahnenerbe-and-wewelsburg.html" target="_blank">Heinrich Himmler</a> and <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.com/2012/03/der-mythos-des-zwanzigsten-jahrhunderts.html" target="_blank">Alfred Rosenberg</a> (author of '<a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.com/2012/03/der-mythos-des-zwanzigsten-jahrhunderts.html" target="_blank">Der Mythus des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts</a>') - and continue to publicly venerate the memory of Dietrich Eckart.<br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;">Interestingly, on October 13, 1933, Deputy Führer Rudolf Heß issued a decree stating: "<i>No National Socialist may suffer any detriment on the ground that he does not profess any particular faith or confession or on the ground that he does not make any religious profession at all</i>." However, the regime strongly opposed "<i>Godless Communism</i>" and all of Germany's freethinking (freigeist), atheist, and largely left-wing (but not occult) organizations were banned the same year.</span></blockquote>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/hanns-heinz-ewers.html" target="_blank">Hanns Heinz Ewers</a></td></tr>
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Perhaps the strangest of all of the individuals to influence Hitler with regard to occult matters was <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/hanns-heinz-ewers.html" target="_blank">Hanns Heinz Ewers</a> - an individual who has been almost completely ignored by academics, writers and researches when considering the historical period immediately before and during the Third Reich.<br />
Hitler had very few real friends - which was an intriguing <i>and</i> significant aspect of his psychology.<br />
'Gustl' Kubizek was not a<i> real </i>friend, but rather just a '<i>sounding board</i>' for Hitler's emerging adolescent fantasies.<br />
With Rudolf Heße there was some reciprocal feeling.<br />
Eckart was more of a substitute for the father that Hitler had respected, but also feared.<br />
Speer was undoubtedly a substitute son.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/die-fahne-hoch-wessel-and-ewers.html" target="_blank">Horst Wessel</a></td></tr>
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Ewers, however, was a real - but<i> secret</i> friend - which was not surprising, as Ewers was a known bisexual, a Satanist and an ocultist.<br />
In addition, Ewers was an associate of <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.com/2011/06/ariosophy.html" target="_blank">Guido von List</a>, <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.com/2011/07/lanz-von-liebenfels.html" target="_blank">Lanz von Liebfels</a> <i>and</i> <a href="http://crowleythetruewill.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/aleister-crowley-aleister-crowley-12.html" target="_blank">Aleister Crowley</a> - but Ewers was also a member of the NSDAP, - <i>and </i>also a nudist, a pioneer of sexology, a decadent poet, a film-maker and playwright.<br />
Ewers, who is reliably reported to have been Hitler's favourite author, was later commissioned by Hitler to write the biography of <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/die-fahne-hoch-wessel-and-ewers.html" target="_blank">Horst Wessel</a> ('Einer von vielen' - 'One of many') - later made into a film.<br />
(interestingly Horst Wessel was employed a youthful extra when one of Ewer's stories were turned into the remarkably successful film, 'The Student of Prague' in 1913.)<br />
Ewers died from tuberculosis in 1943.<br />
The strangest aspect of the relationship between Hitler and Ewers is the fact that in 1934 most of his works were banned in Germany, but subsequently Ewers secured the rescission of the ban - presumably on the insistence of Hitler.<br />
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There were two 'major players' in the National Socialist hierarchy who were apparently violently opposed to religious and occult concepts and practices - Martin Bormann and Dr. Joseph Goebbels.<br />
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Martin Bormann (17 June 1900 – 2 May 1945) gained immense power by using his position as Adolf Hitler's private secretary to control the flow of information and access to Hitler.<br />
He succeeded Hitler as Party Minister of the National Socialist German Workers' Party after Hitler's death on 30 April 1945.<br />
Bormann joined a paramilitary Freikorps organisation in 1922 while working as manager of a large estate.<br />
He served nearly a year in prison as an accomplice to his friend Rudolf Höss (later commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp) in the murder of Walther Kadow.<br />
Bormann joined the Nazi Party in 1927, and the Schutzstaffel (SS) in 1937.<br />
He initially worked in the party's insurance service, and transferred in July 1933 to the office of Deputy Führer Rudolf Heß, where he served as chief of staff.<br />
Bormann used his position to create an extensive bureaucracy, and involve himself as much as possible in the decision making.<br />
He gained acceptance into Hitler's inner circle, and accompanied him everywhere, providing briefings and summaries of events and requests.<br />
He began acting as Hitler's personal secretary on 12 August 1935.<br />
Bormann assumed Heß' former duties, with the title of Head of the Parteikanzlei (Party Chancellery), after Heß' solo flight to Britain on 10 May 1941 to seek peace negotiations with the British government.<br />
Bormann had final approval over civil service appointments, reviewed and approved legislation, and by 1943 had de facto control over all domestic matters.<br />
Bormann was one of the leading proponents of the ongoing persecution of the Christian churches and favoured harsh treatment of Jews and Slavs in the areas conquered by Germany during World War II.<br />
With regard to rligion and the occult, Bormann was violently opposed to all such beliefs, and his apparent materialism has given rise to suspicions that he 'left leaning' tendency may be an indication that he was a 'crypto-Marxist'.<br />
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Goebbels was another of Hitler's close followers who tended towards the 'left' in politics.<br />
However, unlike Bormann, who gave every indication of being a socio-path - who was only concerned about benefiting himself at the expense of everyone else, including Hitler, Goebbels appeared to have a true regard for, and belief in Hitler, and National Socialism.<br />
Paul Joseph Goebbels was the Reich Minister of Propaganda of the Third Reich from 1933 to 1945. He was one of Adolf Hitler's closest associates, and one of his most devoted followers, and was known for his skills in public speaking and his deep, virulent anti-Semitism, which was evident in his publicly voiced views.<br />
Goebbels, who aspired to be an author, obtained a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Heidelberg in 1921.<br />
He joined the Nazi Party in 1924, and worked with the 'left wing' Gregor Strasser in their northern branch.<br />
He was appointed as Gauleiter (district leader) for Berlin in 1926, where he began to take an interest in the use of propaganda to promote the party and its programme.<br />
After the seizure of power in 1933, Goebbels' Propaganda Ministry quickly gained and exerted controlling supervision over the news media, arts, and information in Germany.<br />
He was particularly adept at using the relatively new media of radio and film for propaganda purposes.<br />
Topics for party propaganda included anti-Semitism, attacks on the Christian churches, and (after the start of the Second World War) attempting to shape morale.<br />
Goebbels was educated at a Christian Gymnasium, where he completed his Abitur (university entrance examination) in 1917.<br />
He was the top student of his class.<br />
His parents initially hoped that he would become a Catholic priest, and Goebbels seriously considered the option.<br />
He studied literature and history at the universities of Bonn, Würzburg, Freiburg, and Munich, aided by a scholarship from the Albertus Magnus Society.<br />
By this time Goebbels had begun to distance himself from the church.<br />
During and after university, he read avidly and was influenced by the works of Oswald Spengler, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.com/2011/08/houston-stewart-chamberlain.html">Houston Stewart Chamberlain</a>, the British-born German writer whose book 'Die Grundlagen des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts' (The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century - 1899) was one of the standard works of the extreme right in Germany.<br />
He also began to study the 'social question' and 'left wing' and Marxist writings, including works by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Rosa Luxemburg and Gustav Noske.<br />
Diary entries of mid-December 1923 forward show Goebbels was moving towards the völkisch nationalist movement.<br />
Goebbels first took an interest in Adolf Hitler and National Socialism in 1924.<br />
In February 1924, Hitler's trial for treason began in the wake of his failed attempt to seize power in the Beer Hall Putsch of November 8–9, 1923.<br />
The trial attracted widespread press coverage and gave Hitler a platform for propaganda.<br />
Hitler was sentenced to five years prison, but was released on 20 December 1924, after serving just over a year.<br />
Goebbels was drawn to the NSDAP mostly because of Hitler's charisma, and his commitment to his beliefs.<br />
Goebbels joined the NSDAP around this time, becoming member number 8762.<br />
In late 1924, Goebbels offered his services to Karl Kaufmann, who was Gauleiter (NSDAP district leader) for the Rhine-Ruhr District. Kaufmann put him in touch with Gregor Strasser, a leading Nazi organiser in northern Germany, who hired him to work on their weekly newspaper, and to do secretarial work for the regional party offices.<br />
He was also put to work as party speaker and representative for Rhineland-Westphalia.<br />
Members of Strasser's northern branch of the NSDAP, including Goebbels, had a more 'left wing' socialist outlook than the rival group in Munich.<br />
Strasser disagreed with Hitler on many parts of the party platform, and in November 1926 began working on a revision.<br />
In 1926, Goebbels sided with Hitler, and published a pamphlet titled "Nazi-Sozi" which explained how National Socialism differed from Marxism.<br />
By 1930 the violence in Berlin between the Nazis and communists led to local SA troop leader Horst Wessel (see above) being killed by members of the Communist Party of Germany.<br />
Exploiting Wessel's death, Goebbels turned him into a martyr for the Nazi movement, and Goebbels officially declared Wessel's march '<a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/die-fahne-hoch-wessel-and-ewers.html">Die Fahne hoch</a>', renamed as the '<a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/die-fahne-hoch-wessel-and-ewers.html">Horst-Wessel-Lied</a>', to be the NSDAP anthem.<br />
As Minister for Propaganda and Public Enlightenment, Goebbels placed restrictions on public meetings, and Catholic publications faced censorship.<br />
Catholic schools were required to reduce religious instruction and crucifixes were removed from state buildings.<br />
Hitler often vacillated on whether or not the 'Kirchenkampf' (church struggle) should be a priority, but his frequent inflammatory comments on the issue were enough to convince Goebbels to intensify his work on the issue, and in February 1937 he stated he wanted to eliminate the Protestant church.<br />
Goebbels reduced the pressure on the churches during the war, mainly because he had to deal with more pressing and urgent matters.<br />
Throughout his adult life, however, Goebbels had no time for religion, Christian or otherwise, or any form of mysticism or occultism - and in this way considered himself to be thoroughly 'modern'.<br />
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While it is the case that National Socialism had its roots in the reactionary mysticism and occultism occurring at the ending of the nineteenth century, along with Lebensreform and the Völkisch revival, it is hardly surprising that such a movement as the NSDAP, which also embraced an unusual and inovative form of 'modernism' would attract certain individuals for whom the mystical and occult aspects of National socialism would not have any appeal.<br />
It was Bormann's and Goebbels' 'modernistic' materialism - which was undoubtedly the result of their 'left' leaning economic and political beliefs - that caused their rejection of the mystical and the occult aspects of National Socialism.<br />
For Hitler, of course, this was no problem, as he was desperately concerned to keep hidden the true origins of National Socialism, - (and in particular the true occult origins of his anti-Semitism), - and rather it was individuals such as Himmler, Heß and Rosenberg who could be the cause of greater problems, with their flamboyant mysticism.<br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>The Ark of the Covenant - the 'Ark of God' - is the most fascinating religious object ever made.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It was the 'palladium' of the Jewish race, and the 'throne' of the </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">שְׁכִינָה </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(Shekhina - السكينة).</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">That Adolf Hitler would be interested in the ark - and wanted it, is almost certain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Unfortunately, the 'waters' of any understanding of this subject, (along with the '<a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/hitler-and-holy-grail.html" target="_blank">Heilige Gral' - Holy Grail</a>), have been seriously 'muddied' by our old friend 'Indiana Jones'.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Now the 'Indiana Jones' films are truly 'ripping yarns', and highly 'watchable', but we are sorry to say, that they have little connection with any facts, let alone likely theories - they are complete fantasies designed to simply 'entertain'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">INTRODUCTION</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We cannot consider the<i> occult </i>aspects of the Third Reich without considering the religious and occult practices of the Jews.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Hitler, and many in the völkisch movement, considered the Jews to be <i><a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/hitler-and-jews.html" target="_blank">the creation of a 'lesser God'</a>.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This concept of a '<i>lesser God</i>' was derived from ancient mystery cults and the writings of the <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/third-reich-and-gnosticism.html" target="_blank">Gnostic Neo-Platonist philosophers</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The 'lesser God' was known as the 'Demiurge', a ruling 'Archon' that had emanated from the ineffable 'ONE', before the creation of the material planes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Demiurge had subsequently set himself up on the 'earth plane' as the one, almighty 'god', and had, through the miscegenation of primitive humans with non human species had created 'sub-races', from which he demanded worship, (blood) and obedience.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">To communicate with the '<a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/die-okulten-ursprung-der-judischen-rasse.html" target="_blank">chosen race</a>' from among these mongrel races, the <i>Demiurge</i> ordered the creation of a communication device, which was known to the 'chosen people' (the Jews) as the </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">אָרוֹן הַבְּרִית</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> (the Ark of the Covenant).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This 'Ark' guided the 'chosen people', both physically and morally, and was held sacred by them until 70 AD - when it mysteriously disappeared.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Hitler would have been interested in obtaining the ark, and investigating its power as it would possibly hold the key to the nature of the Jews repeated attempts at world domination - and their ability to survive repeated defeats.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">More important, however, was the possibility that the ark could provide a key to an unbelievably potent source of energy - the<i> power of the Demiurge</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">If such immense power could be used <i>against</i> the followers of the 'Demiurge' - the Jews and the other races created by miscegenation, then Hitler believed that he could bring about the final triumph of the Aryan race - and the subsequent <i><a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/the-genisis-of-ubermensch.html" target="_blank">creation of the Übermensch</a> - which for Hitler was the final goal of human history and human evolution.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">THE ORIGINS OF THE ARK</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">According to some traditional interpretations of the Books which Christians call the Books of Exodus, of Numbers, and the Letter to the Hebrews, the Ark contained the stone tablets of the Law, Aaron's rod, a jar of manna, and the first Torah scroll as written by Moses; however, the the book which Christians call the First of the Books of Kings says that at the time of King Solomon, the Ark contained <i>only </i>the two Tablets of the Law.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">According to the Book which Christians call the Book of Exodus, the Ark was built at the command of the 'God' (actually the 'Demiurge', - masquerading as the Jewish </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">'god' </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">יהוה </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Yaweh),</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> in accordance with the instructions given to Moses on Mount Seir.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/die-okulten-ursprung-der-judischen-rasse.html" target="_blank">The Jews originated </a>as Bronze Age Canaanites, but</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> יהוה</span><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> -</span></span><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> '</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Yahweh' was not a Canaanite god. The head of the Canaanite pantheon was 'El'. Yahweh's earliest possible occurrence is as a place-name, "land of Shasu of YHW", in an Egyptian inscription from the time of Amenhotep III (1402–1363 BCE), the Shasu being nomads (Jews) from Midian and Edom in northern Arabia. The Iron Age Yahweh was the national god of the Jewish kingdoms of Israel and Judah. Scholars have drawn the conclusion that infant sacrifice to Yahweh was a part of Israelite/Judahite (Jewish) religion until the reforms of King Josiah in the late 7th century BCE). Sacrifice was presumably complemented by the singing or recital of psalms, but again the details are scant. Yahweh-worship was famously aniconic, meaning that the god was not depicted by a statue or other image - none was needed in the presence of the 'Shekhina'.</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">DESCRIPTION OF THE ARK</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Book which Christians call the Book of Exodus gives detailed instructions on how the Ark was to be constructed.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It was to be 2½ cubits in length, 1½ in breadth, and 1½ in height (approximately 131×79×79 cm or 52×31×31 in).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Then it was to be plated entirely with gold, and a 'crown' or moulding of gold was to be put around it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Four rings of gold were to be attached to its four feet - two on each side - and through these rings staves of shittim-wood overlaid with gold for carrying the Ark were to be inserted; and these were not to be removed (?).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A golden cover, a 'kapporet', adorned with golden cherubim, was to be placed above the Ark.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Ark was finally to be placed behind a veil (Parochet), a full description of which is also given at Exodus v.25.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The 'Demiurge', masquerading as the Jewish 'god' Yaweh, was said to have communicated with Moses "<i>from between the two cherubim</i>" on the 'kapporet' - the Ark's cover.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Thereafter, the gold-plated acacia chest (externally it would have looked like an elaborate and very luxurious and costly Egyptian storage chest) was carried by the Levites some 2,000 cubits in advance of the people, when on the march, or before the Israelite army, the 'host' of fighting men.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">When the Ark was borne by Levites into the bed of the river Jordan, the waters were said to have parted as God had parted the waters of the Red Sea, opening a pathway for the entire 'host' to pass through (Josh. 3:15–16; 4:7–18).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The walls of the city of Jericho were shaken to the ground with no more than a shout from the army after the Ark of the Covenant was paraded round the walls for seven days by Levites, accompanied by seven priests sounding seven trumpets of rams' horns (Josh. 6:4–20).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">When carried, the Ark was always hidden under a large veil made of skins and blue cloth, always carefully concealed, even from the eyes of the priests and the Levites who carried it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Oddly, there are no contemporary extra-biblical references to the Ark.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Ark was infamous for its deadly energy discharges.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Those unqualified to touch, approach, or even look at the Ark would be struck dead: Uzzah was struck dead by a burning flash of energy from the Ark as he reached out his hand to steady it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Ark, at the time, was being transported on an ox cart, and one of the oxen had stumbled.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Another example of the Ark's reputed power was when seventy people from the town of Beth Shemesh were killed when they opened the Ark and looked inside.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Ark was temporarily stationed there on its return from Philistine custody.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Even Aaron’s sons (Aaron was the High Priest) died when, against permission from the 'Demiurge', they attempted to offer incense to the Ark, and a fiery energy sprang forth and consumed them.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Those of the Kohachite branch of the Levites, who were assigned to carry the Ark and associated items, once they were securely wrapped for transport, were instructed never to touch or look at these items directly, or they would die immediately.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In attempting to explain this, it has been noted that the gilded wooden box resembled a <i>capacitor</i>, - something that stores electric charge.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In this case the capacitor is two electrodes of gold sandwiching a wood insulator.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Since the Ark could accumulate and store high voltage electricity, some conclude the Ark was nothing more than a big capacitor.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A large enough capacitor can indeed electrocute a person, but according to some calculations, the capacitance of the Ark was only around 3-5 nF at most, giving barely enough energy to kill one person under ideal conditions, if charged to 300,000 Volts.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">That kind of voltage is very difficult to reach, let alone maintain without <i>flash-over </i>between inner and outer gold layers.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">To throw a spark long enough to hit someone just a few yards away, millions of Volts would be needed.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">There is no way a wood-based capacitor, by itself, can accumulate enough power to kill a crowd, let alone surround itself with a glowing energy field, and perform the more miraculous feats ascribed to it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Ark alone cannot do what the Jewish scripture claim it can, - at least not according to conventional science.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">'High <i>demiurgic</i> technology', however, can explain everything.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Just as in Alchemy, conventional scientific principles may enter into the equation, but are not the only ones involved.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">While the Ark may be a capacitor, that is only a small aspect of its total function, and one has to go beyond regular physics to understand it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It is worth noting that, topologically speaking, the Ark is a 'spherical capacitor', where one electrode is nested inside the other.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">What makes spherical capacitors special is that they can receive, transmit, absorb, and emit <i>gravity waves</i>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It has to do with changes in charge density coupling to changes in the gravitational potential.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Ark was a <i>spark gap radio</i>, intercepting <i>gravity waves</i>, and converting them to electrical arcing between the two winged figures, but this was not its primary function.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Anyone familiar with 'orgonomy' will realize that the Ark was constructed like an '<i>orgone accumulator</i>', which is a box whose walls are made of alternating layers of organic and inorganic substances, and attracts and stores '<i>orgone energy</i>', which is to be a grade of <i>etheric energy</i> closest to the material plane.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Wilhelm Reich also observed a connection between <i>negative ions </i>and <i>orgone energy</i>, although the two are distinct.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Their relation may be like the one between water drops and water vapor; one is a condensation or evaporation of the other. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The electrical effects of the Ark were therefore <i>side-effects</i> of <i>etheric</i> processes.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Since it was a box with a lid, the Ark carried something, and that object was responsible for its purported powers.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Jewish scriptures say that the first item the Ark carried were the stone tablet(s), also known as the 'Covenant' or 'Testimony', that Moses brought out from Mount Seir.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This 'mythological' story has elements of truth, namely that a stone-like object was retrieved, and placed in the Ark, after which it brimmed with energy.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Therefore the Ark served as a container, shield, and/or <i>transceiver</i> for the mysterious object placed inside it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Ark was also called the 'Ark of the Testimony', as it contained an object pertaining to the covenant (agreement) between Hebrews and their Lord - the 'Archon' Demiurge (calling himself Yaweh): a stone artifact called the '<i>Testimony</i>'.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">That the Ark <i>radiated energy</i> is further supported by the detail that, when it was being transported, it was thoroughly wrapped in shielding material, and its carriers were forbidden from touching or looking directly at it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And when encamped, it was kept inside a structure known as the Tabernacle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Tabernacle was a portable tent system designed to safely contain and surround the Ark.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The first tent around the Ark was made of flax linen, the second of woven goat hair, third and fourth of dyed animal skins.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This great redundancy in layer upon layer appears to be additional <i>shielding</i> - and <i>shielding</i> is only necessary if the Ark were putting out an <i>intense energy field</i>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The choice of construction materials is significant.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Flax fibers have a spiral crystalline structure.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Hair and wool strands are non-linear <i>dielectrics</i> because the medulla, sheath, and cortex of the strands have different dielectric constants, which makes them excellent<i> attenuators </i>or reflectors of <i>gravitational/scalar/ longitudinal waves.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Baron von Reichenbach found, through extensive experimentation, that wool had the ability to attenuate <i>etheric </i>energy, the same way metal shielding attenuates electromagnetic waves.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Copper, silver, and gold were the only metals used in constructing the Ark and the Tabernacle.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">They are all <i>non-magnetic</i>, have only one valence electron, and share Group 11 on the periodic table.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">SOLOMON'S TEMPLE</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Even later, in the construction of Solomon’s Temple, supposedly well into the Iron Age, no iron nails were used.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Of course in truth Solomon’s Temple being built around 1520 B.C. means it was still in the Bronze Age, but there’s another reason iron was not used.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Folklore says that supernatural beings have an aversion to iron. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Physically it is merely magnetic, and has two valence electrons, but <i>etherically</i> has undesirable effects upon etheric entities and technologies.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Therefore ferromagnetic materials would interfere with the Ark’s operation, (save iron-containing blood that did play an important role in its function).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Therefore, the Ark’s operation included both etheric and electric elements.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Ark in the Holy of Holies</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Again, the gilded wooden chest, kept in the</span><span style="text-align: left;"> קֹדֶשׁ הַקֳּדָשִׁים</span> - Holy of Holies<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">, in Solomon's temple, was <i>not</i> the source of the Ark’s power, rather the object it contained was that which radiated an intense energy field of an <i>etheric, scalar, - </i>(scalar is usually a physical quantity that only has magnitude and no other characteristics)<i> - </i></span><i style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">and/or electro-gravitational</i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> nature.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">'The Shekinah Above the Ark'</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Holy of Holies was the most sacred site in Judaism, - the inner sanctuary within the Temple in Jerusalem when Solomon's Temple and the Second Temple were standing. The Holy of Holies was located in the westernmost end of the Temple building, being a <i>perfect cube:</i> 20 cubits by 20 cubits by 20 cubits. The inside was in total darkness and contained the Ark of the Covenant, <i>gilded</i> inside and out, in which was placed the the Ark - the throne of the שכינה (Shekinah).</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">. The Shekinah is the material manifestation of the 'Archon Demiurge' - which cannot be supported by any sentient being - the Shekinah brings death to anyone who witnesses its presence.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This energy field produced by the Ark could precipitate electrical effects as well, but these were side effects rather than the primary ones, and this is shown in the construction of the Ark, Tabernacle, and Solomon’s Temple, which incorporate principles of <i>etheric/scalar</i> manipulation and shielding.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">They would be designed differently if mere electrical effects were intended.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Although the Ark had electrical properties, it is insufficient to say its function was merely electrical.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We are dealing with '<i>demiurgic technology'</i>, - <i>not </i>human technology.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">'<i>Demiurgic Energy</i>' is defined as <i>metaphysical</i> energy, encompasses everything from the crudest <i>etheric energy</i> produced by plants, to the most refined <i>astral energy</i> produced via sentient love and suffering. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It appears the Ark of the Covenant was powered, triggered, or catalyzed by externally supplied <i>Demiurgic Energy</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">One example of the Ark of the Covenant being triggered, or catalyzed by externally supplied <i>Demiurgic Energy</i> was the profuse level of animal sacrifices that the Jews performed before the Ark in order to please the 'Demiurge', “<i>sacrificing so many sheep and cattle that they could not be recorded or counted</i>”. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Hebrew scriptures and other writings narrate that the 'Archon Demiurge' commanded the Jews to offer sacrifices (</span><i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">zevah </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">זֶבַח</span></i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">) on various altars, and describes the offering of sacrifices in the Tabernacle, in the Temple in Jerusalem until the First Temple was destroyed.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The practice was resumed with the Second Temple until it was destroyed in 70 CE.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The practice of offerings and animal sacrifices in Judaism mostly ended with the destruction of the Temple, although it was briefly reinstated during the Jewish-Roman Wars of the 2nd century AD, and was continued in certain communities thereafter.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">When sacrifices were offered in ancient times they were offered as a fulfillment of the 613 <i>mitzvot</i>. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In the prophesied Messianic era, the Jewish Messiah would come, and a Third Temple will be built.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Religious Jews now believe that the sacrifices will be re-instituted, but to what extent and for how long is unknown.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The origins of the concept of sacrifice are to be found in Jewish Scripture - in the Book of Genesis. Abraham brought Isaac to Mount Moriah.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Most modern scholars regard the name as a reference to the Amorites, having lost the initial a via aphesis; the name is thus interpreted as meaning land of the Amorites. This agrees with the Septuagint, where, for example, 2 Chronicles 3:1 refers to the location </span>as Ἀμωρία – <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Amoria. This would give it the same etymological root as Hamor, a person's name in the narrative at Genesis 34 which concerns Shechem. Some scholars also identify it with Moreh, the location near Shechem at which Abraham built an altar, according to Genesis 12:6. Hence a number of scholars believe that Moriah refers to a hill near Shechem, supporting the Samaritan belief that the near-sacrifice of Isaac occurred on Mount Gerizim – a location near Shechem.</span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">At God's command, Abraham was to build a sacrificial altar and sacrifice his son Isaac upon it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">After he had bound his son to the altar and drawn his knife to kill him, at the very last moment an angel of God prevented Abraham from proceeding.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Rather, he was directed to sacrifice instead a nearby ram that was stuck in thickets.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">David Dances Before the Ark<br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Another example being King David dancing practically naked before the Ark after its homecoming from Philistine capture.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">David dancing before the Ark may seem strange, but a comparison with Native American rain dances, or the technical dances of the Sufis, or Rudolf Steiner’s Eurythmy, will show that dance is a motional ritual that is <i>highly active</i> on an occult level, and generates specific patterns of energies.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The more intense the dance, the greater the energy output.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“<i>David, wearing a linen ephod, danced before the Lord with all his might</i>”.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Animal sacrifices are also a convenient '<i>Demiurgic Energy'</i> source.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Slaughter liberates <i>astral energies</i> via the <i>emotional experience of dying</i>, while fat and blood provide rich sources of<i> etheric energy</i>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As naturopaths and occultists know, fat and oil are good mediums for storing and transmitting subtle energies, hence the ancient practice of anointing with blessed oil.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As for blood, that it carries life-force is obvious.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Even the Jewish scriptures say as much:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>“For the life of a creature is in the blood” </i>and <i>“But be sure you do not eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat”.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So a distinction was made between blood and meat; the latter could be eaten, while the blood contained the life-force, and had other uses.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Levite priests sprinkled the blood against the Tabernacle altar on all sides, and burned the fatty carcass upon it, which would entice the 'Shekhina' (<i>the essence of the Demiurge</i>) to exit the tent (and later the Holy of Holies in the temple), and consume the remains.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“<i>It is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, an aroma pleasing to the Lord</i>”.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The relationship between the Ark and the 'Shekhina' is reinforced by the recurring motif of clouds. God's presence is frequently seen in the guise of a cloud in the Bible (Ex. 24:16), and the Ark is constantly accompanied by clouds: When God spoke from between the Cherubs, there was a glowing cloud visible there (Ex. 40:35); when the Jews traveled, they were led by the Ark and a pillar of clouds (Num. 10:34); at night, the pillar of clouds was replaced by a pillar of fire, another common descriptor of God's appearance (Ex. 24:17); and when the High Priest entered presence of the Ark on Yom Kippur, he did so only under the cover of a cloud of incense, intended to mask the sight of the Shekhina in all its glory (Lev. 16:13). The Ark, of course, was accessible only once a year, and then, only by one person. On Yom Kippur, the High Priest (Kohen Gadol) could enter the Holy of Holies to ask forgiveness for himself and for all the nation of Israel (Lev. 16:2).</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This practice of sacrificing bulls, ram, and sheep was repeated regularly.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">When the Ark was installed in the first Temple of Solomon, animal sacrifices were prohibited everywhere else in Jerusalem other than the Temple.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This would make sense if sacrifices absolutely had to be done in the Ark’s presence in order to be utilized, further supporting the idea that the Ark was affected or even powered by the '<i>Demiurgic Energy</i>' emitted by a dying animal and its blood.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Jewish practice of ritual slaughter is known as </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">שחיטה</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> - Shekhita, and its t</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">echniques, are used to produce kosher meat.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The practice involves precise cutting of the animal’s throat to ensure a calm but conscious death.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Afterwards, the animal is fully drained of its blood.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In addition, it is worth noting that cows and bulls are by definition the main targets of contemporary '<i>cattle mutilations</i>'.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">They are killed while fully conscious, and later found completely drained of blood.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The '<i>aliens</i>' (?), who are suspected of doing this, leave behind the carcass and only take certain organs, as well as the 5-10 gallons of blood per cow, bull, or horse.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Egyptian word for bull is “Ka” which is identically the Egyptian name for the <i>life-force</i> energy.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This shows that in the ancient Near East the<i> life-force</i> was the primary concept associated with <i>bulls</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The symbol of “Ka” is two upright arms raised in reverence, possibly stemming from a ritual pose conducive to the reception and transmission of etheric energy.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The symbol is also reminiscent of bull horns, the crescent moon, and the <i>two winged figures atop the Ark</i>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Ka is said to determine one’s destiny, habits, and vitality.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It’s clear that Ka translates to '<i>etheric body'</i>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The other subtle parts of a being, what the Egyptians called “Ba” translates to '<i>astral body'</i>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Ba, depicted as a flying stork with a human head, is said to wander around during the night but had to return to the body by morning.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Further, the Ba was said to indulge in pleasures, which fits the emotional and passionate nature of the '<i>astral body'</i>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The final component, “akh” was reached only after death, when the deceased made it to the celestial realms, and this translates in occultism to “spirit.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Hence the Egyptians sacrificed bulls, as early as the Second Dynasty of the Old Kingdom if not earlier.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">These so-called “<i>Apis Bulls</i>” were held as divine, treated with reverence, mourned at their death, and buried with honor.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The bulls would be ritualistically slaughtered at the age of 28, which ties symbolically into the moon cycle, and the meat eaten by the priests and Pharaoh.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">If Apis bulls were once slaughtered for '<i>Demiurgic Energy harvesting</i>', eventually that purpose was forgotten, but the ritual continued anyway.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">During later dynasties, mummified bulls were buried in the stone coffers of the underground 'Serapeum' complex.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">These coffers were exquisitely carved to perfection using advanced technology equaling or surpassing anything we have today, and originating from a much earlier time.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">They were likely built by the same advanced pre-Egyptian civilization that constructed the Great Pyramid.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Either those ancients who created the coffers also sacrificed bulls, or else the coffers were created for more utilitarian reasons, and only later were they re-purposed by the Egyptians to house mummified bulls.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Apis Bull was considered a manifestation of the Egyptian god Ptah, the deity who called creation into existence (the Demiurge), and who was considered a god of craftsmen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">He is said to have <i>spoken</i> creation into existence.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“Ptah” means “opener of the mouth”, and opening the mouth is the first step to saying a word or name.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Much connects here: Demiurge, animal sacrifice, etheric energy, and the Ark of the Covenant.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Bulls supplied <i>etheric energy</i> through their <i>blood</i> to power Demiurgic processes.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">That is the function of the <i>etheric body</i> anyway, to <i>demiurgically</i> ensure the continuation of form in a biological system prone to 'entropic decay'.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This same energy can be re-purposed toward <i>non-biological</i> applications through <i>ritual slaughter</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Those who <i>cannot</i> tap into 'higher energy/intelligence' must resort to the above methods and sources to trigger their desired '<i>demiurgic' effects</i>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">These methods include <i>ritual</i>, <i>dance</i>, <i>sexual energy</i>, <i>animal sacrifice</i>, and <i>human sacrifice</i>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Even today, black magic and voodoo still make use of animal sacrifice.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">There have been tribes and cults throughout history, from Meso-America to the Mid-East to South India, who performed human and animal sacrifices in exchange for power, abundance, security, and prosperity.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In all these cases, '<i>Demiurgic Energy</i>' can bring about desired <i>physical manifestation</i>. When '<i>Demiurgic Energy</i>' cannot be tapped from an infinite source, cruder grades must be harvested from finite sources; the Israelite and Egyptian use of animal sacrifice illustrates this.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">CONCLUSIONS</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So the Ark was like having God's mobile phone number.... (in as much as 'God' was the Demiurgos).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Ark was valued as a 'palladium' for the Jews, (a sacred object that was believed to have the power to preserve a city, state or race possessing it - and much good it did for them......).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Ark was a source of <i>immense power</i> - and that meant that it had to be handled with great care.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Mishandling - or even looking at the Ark - could mean death to those who were too foolish to heed the warnings.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The power of the Ark was derived in part from the 'Archon Demiurge', and in part from the the 'Demiurgic Energy' created by the blood and terror of the endless numbers of animals (and possibly also humans) sacrificed in its presence.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And where is the Ark now ?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Well - it would be nice to think that is was buried in some hidden spot in Egypt, waiting for Harrison Ford to dig it up.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Or perhaps it could be hidden on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, or in the hills of Judea.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Or - most unlikely of all - in a little, ramshackle hut of a chapel in Ethiopia (Abyssinia).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">HITLER AND THE ARK</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Undoubtedly the <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/die-deutsche-ahnenerbe.html" target="_blank">Ahnenerbe</a> studied all the available information relating the the Ark, - its history and its power.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">From ancient sources it is possible - as this article has shown - to come to some <i>startling conclusions</i> about the Ark.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And those possessing insight into <i>occult </i>matters (and there were many in the Ahnenerbe who were skilled occultists) would find little difficultly in extrapolating from such ancient sources the true meaning and power of the Ark.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It would also be a relatively simple task to construct a <i>replica</i> of the Ark - the gold required would have been of no consequence - the Ahnenerbe was well funded, to say the least.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The replica, however, would probably just be a very costly 'spherical capacitor', acting as an 'orgone accumulator' - producing bio-active 'orgone' particles, and 'etheric energy'.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It seems that the 'box' itself was just part of the shielding for whatever it was that lay within.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And what lay within was something that enabled the 'Demiurge' to manifest as the </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">שכינה </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(Shekinah) - an entity of almost <i>unimaginable power</i>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Now it must be obviously clear as to why Hitler was - to say the least - interested in the Ark.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The question is - did the Ahnenerbe find the Ark for Hitler</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> ?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Probably not..... but the slaughter of so many - during the brief period that the Third Reich was in existence - the tide of blood and horror, - the '<i>Demiurgic Energy</i>' that was emitted by dying people, and their torrents of blood - </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">which were the main elements of the sacrifices that were required for the Ark to function and the Demiurge to manifest, should give one pause for thought.......</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And we are still left with the question - where is it now ?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">'<i>I shall have no peace of mind until I have planted a seed of Nordic blood wherever the population stands in need of regeneration</i>.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">At the heart of the Völkisch philosophy that underpinned National Socialism was the concept of '<a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/hitler-and-jews.html" target="_blank">rasse</a>' (<i><a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/hitler-and-jews.html" target="_blank">race</a></i>), and there were two streams of thought that fed this fundamental concept.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://petersracialobserver.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/der-begriff-der-rasse-concept-of-race.html" target="_blank">Der Begriff der Rasse</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">One stream, feeding the concept of 'race' was the occult teachings of individuals such as <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/die-geheimlehre.html" target="_blank">Madame Blavatsky</a>, <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/lanz-von-liebenfels.html" target="_blank">Lanz von Liebenfels</a> and <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/dietrich-eckart-hitlers-mentor.html" target="_blank">Dietrich Eckart</a> (teachings derived from the most ancient of sources), and the other stream was derived from more recent speculation, fed by advances and discoveries in the biological science, and particularly genetics.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">To a certain extent the latter 'stream' (the biological and genetic stream of thought) was not crucial, however, it very thoroughly paved the way for a more willing acceptance of the basically occult teachings on race - and made it far easier for those who took a 'rationalist' stance (mainly members of the 'Bildungsbürgertum' - hangovers of the so-called 'Enlightenment') to to give credence and support to the less well known, and to them, 'doubtful' teachings, derived from ancient wisdom and occult revelation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">And so it was possible for most levels of German society to accept the necessity of eugenics and 'Rassenhygiene' as a means to counteract the effects of '<i>Rassen Entartung</i>' (racial degeneration) and thereby create a strong and healthy Reich.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">What many Germans (and others), in the early days of the Third Reich, had practically no awareness of, however, was the fact that 'Regenerierung' (regeneration), in <i>biological terms</i>, was only the first step to an overarching process.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">This process would not only create a pure race, but also regenerate all aspects of society, culture, and eventually spirituality - for as Adolf Hitler had explained to his closest associates - </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">the process of </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">'Regenerierung' would be</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But that was a hope for the future - and here we must go back to the Second Reich, and the various individuals in the scientific community who gradually became aware of the necessity to impose some form of 'Rassenhygiene' on the Germanic people, in order to prevent the effects of '<i>Rassen Entartung</i>' (dysgenics - see below) destroying the race.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The decline in 'genotypic' intelligence coincided with the dissemination of information about contraception.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">For several centuries prior to 1800, married couples had natural fertility, essentially uninfluenced by efforts to limit it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">During this period, there was a strong taboo against sex outside of marriage, and many people never had children because they were too poor to marry.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Illegitimacy was rare and infant mortality was high, especially among the lower classes. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Harsh though it may have been, natural selection operated to maintain a healthy population, and to keep intelligence gradually increasing.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Then in the early 1800s, several books on contraception were published.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">These ideas naturally affected the reading classes disproportionately.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Goodyear perfected the vulcanization of rubber, making it an ideal material for the mass production of condoms and diaphragms.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">By the middle of the century, it was becoming apparent that educated people were having fewer children than the uneducated.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Charles Darwin worried about the fact that "<i>the scum</i>" of society were so prolific, and expressed deep concern about the future of civilization because natural selection had ceased to operate.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Darwin's cousin, Francis Galton, coined the term '<i>Eugenics</i>', and was its main proponent:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">When one speaks on the subject of 'Eugenics' one must first state a few words on the subject of 'Utilitarianism'.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Within the philosophy of 'Utilitarianism' we find that those things which have utility, i.e. things of practical use, which fulfilling a survival need are given greater importance than things which are purely aesthetics, i.e. things of an emotional, artistic, or abstract nature.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Utilitarianism is most commonly understood in the maxim; 't<i>he needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or the one</i>'.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Simply put, two people in a group of three wish to do one thing when the other wishes to do something else, by default the wishes of the two is of greater importance than the wishes of the one, unless other variables are added to the equation, such as the actions of the two having a negative impact on a group outside of the three.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Hence what must be determined is who the '<i>many</i>' are and who the '<i>few'</i> are.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">If this phrase is applied to humankind in general then the grand scope of utilitarianism is realized, and taken to its logical conclusion the '<i>many</i>' are found to not be those who currently live, but rather all future generations of humankind who may come to exist, and who may come to either benefit or suffer from the decisions or actions of their predecessors.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Hence the philosophy of 'Eugenics' is what is considered to be a 'Utilitarian' philosophy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">'Eugenics' is the 'Utilitarian' philosophy and science concerned with making people better.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The word 'Eugenics' is the combination of two root Greek words '<i>eu</i>' meaning 'good', and '<i>gen</i>' meaning '<i>creation</i>', hence 'Eugenics' means '<i>good creation</i>' or '<i>good genetics</i>'.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Though many believe the philosophy of 'Eugenics' to be relatively new in human history, it is actually one of the oldest philosophies known to humankind, predating even agriculture.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The ancients recognized the self evident truth that offspring are commonly born displaying the traits of their parents.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Ancient civilizations utilized this knowledge in the form of animal husbandry, and also in the circles of aristocratic breeding via arranged marriages.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Put simply the philosophy and science of Eugenics is the selective breeding of certain traits shown to be beneficial to a species, or the production a desired offspring, which displays the traits bred in them by the continual selection of specific traits over generations of controlled breeding practices.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In essence the science and philosophy of 'Eugenics' takes evolutionary selection out of the realm of nature and makes it a <i>consciously</i> directed act.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The theory of evolution is perfect in its simplicity, and describes how all living beings on earth are bound by the principals of <i>mutation</i> and <i>natural selection</i>, i.e. that all species (including humans) respond to <i>environmental conditions,</i> over lengthy periods of time, by <i>adapting </i>to changes in that species environment.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This adaptation occurs via '<i>selection</i>', which is the process of those who are born with a genetic mutation that proves to give them a survival advantage over others of their species, being more likely to pass their mutation to future generations, due to their greater likelihood of <i>surviving</i> to breeding age.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In wild animals this process of natural selection is easily witnessed when the slowest gazelle is overcome by the lion allowing the faster gazelle to pass on its genes to future offspring.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Likewise the faster more cunning lion makes the kill, fending off hunger allowing it to pass on its superior hunting genes on to future generations.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This principal is best expressed in the maxim '<i>survival of the fittest</i>', coined by Herbert Spencer in 1864, and later used as a metaphor for the principal of natural selection by Charles Darwin in the fifth edition of 'Origin of Species'.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">All this appears to be obvious, but what becomes of a species that has reached the pinnacle of the evolutionary clime, becoming the very top of the food chain ?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">What becomes of a species, with such advanced technological understanding and social structures that this species is able to keep the least fit of their species alive to breeding age, when otherwise the least fit would have perished under natural circumstances?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The theory of 'devolution' or more correctly '<i>degeneration'</i> (<i>Entartung</i>) is equally as perfect as the theory of evolution in its simplicity, and states that a species becomes stagnant, and will actually regress and degenerate if it allows those who are the least fit to pass on their genes to future generations.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Common sense dictates that the traits which allow humankind to flourish are the traits of high intellect and physical health, high intellect being of prime importance above physical attributes such as strength and speed, though these are also of importance to an individual’s survival.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Likewise the lack of these attributes and hence the abilities that they bestow take away the survival advantage of the individual.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The modern philosophy of Eugenics was born out of an environment of social collapse and the decadence of the once noble societies of Europe.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It was seized upon by the movement of Völkisch Nationalism, who sought to reestablish the dominance of the noble qualities of the Aryan race.</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Decades of historical, anthropological, and archaeological research led the intellectual elites of Germany to maintain that they were the descendants of a race, which had regressed or <i>devolved </i>from its original status as the '<i>Master Race</i>' - a race which was far more <i>intelligent</i>, <i>taller</i>, and <i>stronger</i> than the average human. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This desire to<i> reclaim</i> the mantle of '<i>Master Race</i>' led to the creation of various esoteric and occult societies in Germany, culminating in the creation of the '<i><a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/thule-gesellschaft.html" target="_blank">Thule Gesellschaft</a>'</i>, and later the NSDAP.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In the early years of the Third Reich, Hitler instituted a policy of 'Eugenics' which encouraged those <i>healthy of intellec</i>t, and of <i>physique</i> to breed en mass, while instituting programs of sterilization for those mentally or physically unfit due to genetic mutations, and euthanasia of those born so hopelessly crippled or mentally handicapped that they could not possibly live any life other than a torturous one.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In modern times, however, mercy killings are considered unethical due to a sense of compassion that would rather see a person suffer than see that suffering alleviated in death.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A further example of the National Socialist policy of Eugenics was the creation of the Schutzstaffel, (translated to defense corps, and abbreviated SS, or with stylized 'Armanen' Sig runes.)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The requirements of membership the SS was first that one had to prove their Aryan ancestry back to the fourth generation, and second that one must pass the mental and physical health standards of the military as well as being a minimum of 5 foot 11 inches tall.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Despite popular myth, not having blonde hair and blue eyes did not disqualify one from becoming a member of the SS, the recessive trait of blonde hair and blue eyes was simply considered a reemergence of traits which were once more common before historical 'miscegenation' occurred with inferior races.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Hitler knew that the generations of '<i>miscegenation</i>', and bad breeding practices within Europe would disqualify large numbers in the population from being considered pure members of the '<i>Master Race</i>', yet he considered White Nordic Europeans (<i>Aryans</i>) to be the closest descendants of the <i>ancient Master Race</i>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It should be borne in mind, however, that the creation of the 'Herrenvolk' (master race) was not the<i> final</i> goal of Hitler's ambitions, and that Eugenics and Racial Hygiene were only tools in the first steps to the<i> ultimate creation</i> - the <i><a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/the-genisis-of-ubermensch.html" target="_blank">Übermensch</a></i> - which went beyond mere biology, and into the realms of the<i> metaphysical</i> and the <i>occult</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">German eugenics cannot be understood without examining the conjunction of circumstances that collectively account for its origin as a movement.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Three contexts stand out as being particularly significant in shaping the early development of race hygiene: the social problems resulting from Germany's rapid and thorough going industrialization; the professional traditions of the German medical community; and the intellectual currency of the 'selectionist' variant of social Darwinism then fashionable among certain German biologists and self-styled social theorists.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">These three contexts will be dealt with in turn.</span><br />
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<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-G0oxUeWLpoc/WE_OmJMTmWI/AAAAAAAAcx0/MBbZu-Vv7hUL25rSQqXJUE3KtKLDYoyjgCLcB/s1600/Germany-1900%2B-%2BDeutschland%2Bund%2Bdie%2BOstmark%2B-%2BPeter%2BCrawford.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="219" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-G0oxUeWLpoc/WE_OmJMTmWI/AAAAAAAAcx0/MBbZu-Vv7hUL25rSQqXJUE3KtKLDYoyjgCLcB/s320/Germany-1900%2B-%2BDeutschland%2Bund%2Bdie%2BOstmark%2B-%2BPeter%2BCrawford.png" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">During the last quarter of the nineteenth century the newly unified German Empire was transformed from an agricultural into an industrial society.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The industrialization and urbanization process, expeditious and thorough as it was, produced profound changes in the social and economic structure of the young Reich, engendering a myriad of serious social tensions and problems.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Had Imperial Germany not possessed a rigidly authoritarian political structure shaped primarily by the self-interest of preindustrial elites and their allies in heavy industry, the social dislocations precipitated by industrialization would not have appeared so threatening to the stability of the state and the social order, but the Kaiser- reich was certainly no democracy, and, given the stranglehold that the landed aristocracy, the military, the barons of industry, and high-ranking members of the bureaucracy had on politics, these tensions and problems could not be effectively remedied.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Foremost among the problems afflicting the Reich as a result of this combination of political immobility and rapid social change was the rise of a radical labor movement.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The growing number of strikes, lockouts, and other forms of labor unrest, coupled with the growing success of the officially Marxist Social Democratic Party at the polls, provoked fear and anxiety among many middle- and upper-class Germans regarding the seemingly hostile, uncontrollable, and ever- increasing industrial proletariat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In addition, there were other social problems that were viewed by Germany's<i> Bildungsburgertum</i> as posing a threat to the proper functioning of the state.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">These included an increase in various types of criminal activity; a rise in prostitution, suicides, alcohol consumption, and alcoholism; and a heightened awareness of the existence of large numbers of<i> insane</i> and <i>feebleminded</i> individuals.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This latter group, the <i>mental defectives</i>, was singled out by both medical and lay observers as an especially g<i>rave social and financial liability</i> for the new Reich.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">These problems were hotly debated by many of Germany's academic social scientists and reform-minded religious leaders under the rubric of the 'soziale Frage' (Social Question) - a term referring to the social and political consequences of unbridled economic liberalism and the industrialization process.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Although those discussing the 'social question' embraced different economic and political ideals, all agreed that some kind of 'Sozialpolitik' (social policy) was necessary to integrate Germany's proletariat (and <i>asocial subproletariat</i>) into the Reich, thereby preventing the collapse of the state. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Like most educated middle-class Germans, the early eugenicists were keenly aware of this debate and were fully cognizant of the serious social problems that plagued the Reich as a result of the industrial revolution.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The increased visibility of a number of <i>asocial, nonproductive</i> types - an important component of the much-debated 'social question'- was the problem they set out to tackle using a new form of Sozialpolitik: <i>'race hygiene</i>'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">That these <i>race hygienists</i> would be inclined to offer a <i>biomedical</i> solution for social and political problems can be attributed to the second major influence that shaped their eugenics: the distinctive social, political, and intellectual traditions of the German medical community.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">All of the movement's important leaders were physicians by training, and had studied medicine before turning their attention to <i>eugenics</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Moreover, fully a third of those affiliated with the 'Deutsche Gesellschaft' during its early years were medically trained.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As physicians, the founders of German eugenics not only shared the prejudices and posture of the <i>Bildungsburgertum </i>as a whole, but were also heir to a well-defined set of assumptions about the <i>hereditary</i> nature of disease, and the role of medical professionals in safeguarding the health of the nation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The medical professionals' perception of themselves as custodians of national health, and hence of national wealth and efficiency, has a long history.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In Germany it dates at least as far back as the mid-nineteenth century, when German physicians demonstrated their responsibility to the state during the so-called 'health reform movement'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Later, during the third quarter of the nineteenth century, the rise of scientific medicine and hygiene bestowed upon academic physicians, and medical professionals in general, an unprecedented level of social esteem and, indirectly, political importance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">At this time many young medical professionals, eager to make a contribution to national health, turned their attention to bacteriology; - others, like some of Germany's future <i>eugenicists</i>, adopted a different approach.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Their exposure to fields of medicine that emphasized the role of <i>heredity</i> in the etiology of disease (e.g., neurology and psychiatry) led them to question the efficacy of concentrating solely on pathogens.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Instead, they were convinced that serious disorders, such as <i>mental illness, feeblemindedness</i>, criminality, epilepsy, hysteria, and the tendency to tuberculosis were often<i> inherited,</i> and could quite frequently be traced back to a '<i>hereditary diseased con- stitution.'</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Many medically trained <i>race hygienists</i> argued that the surest way to improve the general level of national health was to <i>upgrade</i> the bodily constitution of all individuals in society - a task to be accomplished by means of an energetic <i>eugenics</i> program.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In addition to the 'social question', and the German medical tradition, there was a third influence that greatly shaped the early development of the movement: the "<i>selectionist</i>" variety of social Darwinism, popularized by Germany's most outspoken biologist, Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919), and later legitimated by the scientific writings of the Freiburg embryologist August Weismann (1834-1914).</span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel</b> (16 February 1834 – 9 August 1919) was a German biologist, naturalist, philosopher, physician, professor, marine biologist, and artist who discovered, described and named thousands of new species, mapped a genealogical tree relating all life forms, and coined many terms in biology, including anthropogeny, ecology, phylum, phylogeny, stem cell, and Protista. Haeckel promoted and popularised Charles Darwin's work in Germany, and developed the influential recapitulation theory ("ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny") claiming that an individual organism's biological development, or ontogeny, parallels and summarises its species' evolutionary development, or phylogeny. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The published artwork of Haeckel includes over 100 detailed, multi-colour illustrations of animals and sea creatures ('Kunstformen der Natur'). As a philosopher, Ernst Haeckel wrote 'Die Welträtsel' (1895–1899), the genesis for the term "world riddle" (Welträtsel). </span></span><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Haeckel's political beliefs were influenced by his affinity for the German Romantic movement, coupled with his acceptance of a form of Lamarckism. Rather than being a strict Darwinian, Haeckel believed that the characteristics of an organism were acquired through interactions with the environment and that ontogeny reflected phylogeny. He believed the social sciences to be instances of "<i>applied biology"</i>, and that phrase was picked up and used in Volkisch philosophy. In 1905, Haeckel founded a group called the Deutscher Monistenbund to promote his religious and political beliefs. This group lasted until 1933 and included such notable members as Wilhelm Ostwald, Georg von Arco, Helene Stöcker and Walter Arthur Berendsohn. Haeckel believed that human races evolved independently, and in parallel with each other. Haeckel divided human beings into ten races, of which the Caucasian (Aryan) was the highest and the primitives were doomed to extinction.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">August Friedrich Leopold Weismann (17 January 1834 – 5 November 1914) was a German evolutionary biologist. Ernst Mayr ranked him the second most notable evolutionary theorist of the 19th century, after Charles Darwin. Weismann became the Director of the Zoological Institute and the first Professor of Zoology at Freiburg. His main contribution was the germ plasm theory, at one time also known as 'Weismannism', according to which (in a multicellular organism) inheritance only takes place by means of the germ cells - the gametes such as egg cells and sperm cells. Other cells of the body - somatic cells - do not function as agents of heredity</span>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Haeckel went far beyond Darwin in his attempt to flesh out the larger philosophical and social meaning of the evolutionary theory.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Although, like Darwin, he believed in the<i> inheritance</i> of <i>acquired characteristics</i>, Haeckel always stressed Darwin's <i>selection principle</i> as the most important engine of forward directed organic change; indeed, for Haeckel, Darwinism was <i>synonymous</i> with <i>selection</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">His famous mechanism of heredity, '<i>the continuity of the germ plasm</i>', first articulated in 1883, challenged the basic tenets of the more optimistic first-generation social Darwinists who assumed that new characteristics acquired by an organism as a result of environmental change would be transmitted to future generations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">'<i>It was Weismann's teaching regarding the separation of the germ plasm from the soma, the hereditary stuff from the body of the individual, that first allowed us to recognize the importance of Darwin's principle of selection. Only then did we comprehend that it is impossible to improve our progeny's condition by means of physical and mental training. Apart from the direct manipulation of the nucleus, only selection can preserve and improve the race.</i>'</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Indeed, for those who accepted Weismann's views with respect to both heredity and the 'all-supremacy' of <i>selection</i>, eugenics was the only practical strategy to ensure<i> racial progress</i> and avert <i>racial decline</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">If the ideas of Haeckel and Weismann encouraged many contemporaries to view <i>natural selection</i> as the sole agent of all organic and social progress, the writings of the two biologists also emphasized that progress was not inevitable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This 'selectionist' perspective and language provided Germany's future<i> eugenicists</i> with novel tools of analysis that enabled them to come to grips with the 'social question' by transforming it into a scientific problem: the <i>asocial</i> individuals created by industrialization became for them the biologically and medically <i>unfit</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The significance of the three contexts is nowhere more clearly visible than in the intellectual backgrounds and early writings of Alfred Ploetz and Wilhelm Schallmayer.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Alfred Ploetz (August 22, 1860 – March 20, 1940) was a German physician, biologist, eugenicist known for coining the term 'Rassenhygiene' (racial hygiene), and promoting the concept in Germany. 'Rassenhygiene' is a form of eugenics. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Ploetz first proposed the theory of racial hygiene (race-based eugenics) in his "Racial Hygiene Basics" (Grundlinien einer Rassenhygiene) in 1895. In 1904 Ploetz founded the periodical "Archiv für Rassen-und Gesellschaftsbiologie" with Fritz Lenz as chief editor, and in 1905 the German Society for Racial Hygiene (De Berliner Gesellschaft fur Rassenhygiene) with 31 members. page In 1907 the society became the "International Society for Racial Hygiene". In 1930 he became an honorary doctor of the University of Munich. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Ploetz was a supporter of the National Socialist Party, which took power in 1933. Ploetz wrote in April 1933 that he believed Adolf Hitler would bring racial hygiene from its previous marginality into the mainstream. </span></span><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In 1933 Reich Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick established an "expert advisory committee for population and racial policy," which included Ploetz, Fritz Lenz, Ernst Rüdin and Hans F.K. Günther. This expert advisory committee had the task of advising the Reich Government on the implementation and enforcement of legislation regarding racial and eugenic issues. In 1936, Hitler appointed Ploetz to a professorship. In 1937 Ploetz joined the National Socialist Party. Along with many other eugenicists in Europe and America, Ploetz believed in the superiority of the Nordic race, and he favored the global dominance of the Aryan race. His writings were a major influence on Völkisch ideology.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Wilhelm Schallmayer (10 February 1857 in Mindelheim - 4 October 1919 in Krailling ) was a German physician. Along with Alfred Ploetz he was founder of the 'racial hygiene' movement in Germany, and one of the first champions of eugenics. Wilhelm Schallmayer studied jurisprudence and philosophy, but then turned to the study of medicine in Leipzig and Munich. In 1891 he wrote a treatise, 'Über die drohende körperliche Entartung der Kulturmenschheit', although he is best known for the award-winning magazine 'Vererbung und Auslese im Lebenslauf der Völker'. published in 1903.</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Schallmayer's treatises on <i>eugenics</i> defined the significant theoretical and practical problems that would occupy German eugenicists for decades.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Ploetz was born in 1860 into an upper-middle-class family in Swinemiinde on the Baltic Sea.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Although details of his early life remain sketchy, he had become acquainted with the works of Darwin and Haeckel while still at the Gymnasium.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Even before he began to study economics at the University of Breslau in 1884, he developed a strong interest in the 'soziale Frage'.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As he stated in his memoirs, the popular novels of Felix Dahn, professor of early German history, as well as works of other enthusiasts of Germany's Teutonic past, awakened his interest in the Germanic race.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Indeed, Ploetz became so obsessed with the glories of the old Teutonic tribes that he and several friends took an oath under an oak tree to do everything in their power to elevate the Germanic race to the level it had allegedly attained a thousand years earlier.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Felix Ludwig Julius Dahn (9 February 1834 – 3 January 1912) was a German nationalist, lawyer, author and historian. He was also known for writing nationalist poetry. Julius Sophus Felix Dahn was born in Hamburg. Dahn began his studies in law and philosophy in Munich and graduated as Doctor of Law in Berlin. After his habilitation treatise, Dahn became lecturer of German Law in Munich in 1857. In 1863 he became senior lecturer/associate professor in Würzburg, received a professorship in Königsberg (in 1872, and in 1888 he relocated to University of Breslau, again as a full professor, and was elected rector of the university in 1895. He belonged, as an honorary member, to the association "Germania," a nationalistic organisation, and was one of the leaders of the far right of Alldeutscher Verband. Dahn was also honorary doctor in Medicine, and in Philosophy. A month before his 78th birthday, Dahn died in Breslau. He was married to Therese von Droste-Hülshoff (1845-1929). Dahn's writings were extremely influential in forming the conception of the European history unfolding during the first millennium CE which dominated German-speaking countries during the late 19th and early 20th century. His multi-volume 'Prehistory of the Germanic and Roman Peoples', a chronology of the European Völkerwanderung (Migration Period), that first appeared in print in 1883, was so definitive that abbreviated versions were reprinted until the late 1970s. His works contributed to the foundation of National Socialism in Germany, while his book 'Ein Kampf um Rom' encouraged a "völkisch avant-garde" who opposed ethnic mixing.</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Ploetz had recognized the need for a separate discipline, dedicated to the hereditary improvement of the race - a discipline more effective in eliminating disease than the thankless "Sisyphean labor" carried out by modern therapeutic medicine.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Ploetz then published 'Die Tiichtigkeit unsrer Rasse und der Schutz der Schwachen' (The fitness of our race and the protection of the weak) in 1895.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Although initially his book did not generate much public interest, it raised the broad biological, social, and ethical problems that created the need for race hygiene in the first place.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It also revealed the<i> technocratic</i> logic underlying eugenic thought.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The major thrust of Ploetz's argument recalls Darwin's personal dilemma in the 'Descent of Man': How can human beings reconcile the inevitable conflict between the humanitarian ideals and practices of the noblest part of our nature with the interest of the race, whose biological efficiency is allegedly impaired by those very ideals and practices?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Translated into concrete economic and political terms, Ploetz viewed the problem as follows: Should the state continue to expand the 'social net' and regulate various aspects of economic life in order to lessen the hardship of the weak and economically underprivileged, at the risk of undermining the overall biological fitness of its citizens ? Would not health, accident, and old-age insurance invariably lead to an increase in the number of unfit, perhaps at the expense of the fittest members of society ?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As important as preventing 'Entartung' (degeneration) was for him, Ploetz did not believe in ignoring the needs of the present generation; the danger of 'Entartung' was not a signal for Germany to abandon health and welfare legislation, despite its counter selective effects.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Concern about the concept of 'Entartung', (which was accepted as a serious medical term), had been steadily growing in German speaking countries during the 19th Century. The use of the term reflected the views held by many people in Europe, and especially</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> throughout the Austro-Hungarian Empire,</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> at the time, that society was degenerating. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The theory of degeneration found its first detailed presentation in the writings of Bénédict Morel (1809–1873), especially in his 'Traité des dégénérescences physiques, intellectuelles et morales de l'espèce humaine' (Treatise on Degeneration of the Human Species) (1857). This book was published two years before Darwin's Origin of Species. Morel was a highly regarded psychiatrist. One solution to this problem was offered in '<a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/the-doctrine-of-regeneration.html" target="_blank">die Lehre von der Regenerierun</a>', as promulgated from Bayreuth (follow the link for more information)</span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The solution to these pressing conflicts was the substitution of a <i>humane</i> and <i>scientific </i>policy of "<i>rational selection</i>" for the inhumane and inefficient process of natural selection.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Unlike the existing personal hygiene movement, with its concern for the health of the individual, the<i> new hygiene</i> would direct its attention to improving the<i> hereditary fitness </i>of the human race.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Ploetz named it 'Rassenhygiene'.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Considering Ploetz's own enthusiasm for all things Teutonic, and the heated controversy in some quarters that later ensued over the use of the word 'Rassenhygiene' as a synonym for eugenics, it is worth examining what he meant by the term.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">His definition of 'Rasse' (race) is ambiguous and difficult to translate into English.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Roughly speaking, Ploetz seems to view as a 'Rasse' any interbreeding human population that, over the course of generations,continues to demonstrate similar physical and mental traits.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In addition, Ploetz described 'race hygiene' as the measures needed to ensure "<i>the optimal preservation and development of the race"</i>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In later publications Ploetz explained that 'Rassenhygiene' had a much larger scope than the English term 'eugenics', embracing not only those measures designed to<i> improve</i> the hereditary quality of a population, but also those aimed at achieving its <i>optimal size</i>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As an alternative, he could later have used the Germanized form of the word eugenics, 'Eugenik'.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Although Ploetz states that Germanic stock probably represents the best portion of the "Aryan race," he is primarily concerned here with whites in general.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">His views regarding the cultural superiority of Aryan race, however, (see <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/aryanism-and-third-reich.html" target="_blank">Aryanism and Aesthetics</a>) were not fundamentally different from those of Schallmayer, or indeed from those of most European intellectuals of his time.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Although Ploetz discussed the merits of the Aryan race at length, and defined the terms Rasse and Rassenhygiene, the major purpose of his book lay elsewhere.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Above all, Ploetz sought to reconcile the apparent conflict between the Darwinian world view and the humanitarian-socialist ideal through a conscious policy of "<i>control over variation</i>" by the</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> 'utopian' vision of pushing selection back to the </span><i style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">prefertilization</i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> stage - a form of germplasm selection.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">According to this plan, the genetically best germ cells of all breeding couples would be chosen as the hereditary endowment for the next generation.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Although Ploetz's particular solution to the "<i>degeneration problem</i>" was unfeasible, and was never seriously entertained by any of Germany's race hygienists, it embodied the view, shared by Schallmayer and later by other eugenicists, that population was a resource amenable to "<i>rational management</i>."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As such, it was a<i> biomedical solution</i> to <i>socio-political problems</i>: eugenics experts, armed with their knowledge of evolutionary theory and the<i> laws of heredity</i>, would solve the 'social question' with the aid of science.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Although Ploetz's work was the first to employ the term 'Rassenhygiene', it was not the first treatise on 'eugenics' to be published in Germany.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The author of the earliest such tract was the Bavarian physician Wilhelm Schallmayer (see brief biography above).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Schallmayer's intellectual biography and early career closely parallel those of Ploetz. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Schallmayer was born in Mindelheim, Bavaria.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Despite the interest he shared with Ploetz in the 'soziale Frage', Schallmayer's concern was purely theoretical - at least until he realized that a faulty social and economic system could have grave eugenic consequence.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Precisely when Schallmayer became interested in eugenics is unknown.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It seems likely, however, that his work in the psychiatric clinic led him to doubt the value of medicine for improving the health of the race.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A self-proclaimed social Darwinist, and an admirer of Haeckel (see above), he could not have failed to see the connection between his clinical experience and the articulation of the <i>counter selective</i> effects of medicine.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Schallmayer's own experiences working with mental defectives, coupled with his "<i>selectionist</i>" outlook, accounted for his own indictment of therapeutic medicine in his first eugenic treatise, a short work entitled 'Uber die drohende korperliche Entartung der Kulturmenschheit' (Concerning the threatening physical degeneration of civilized humanity).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Published in 1891, and reprinted under a slightly different title in 1895, it was Germany's first eugenic tract.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Although Schallmayer's slim volume attracted even less attention than Ploetz's treatise would four years later, it touched on the social, economic, and political justifications for eugenics, and it offered such practical proposals as the creation of medical genealogies and health passports, and the introduction of marriage restrictions.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Schallmayer's book also stressed the role of physicians and the importance of <i>education </i>and <i>propaganda</i> as the most effective means of achieving eugenic goals - two hallmarks of German race hygiene policy until 1933.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Most important, however, Schallmayer's treatise emphasized the<i> technocratic logic</i> and the <i>cost-benefit analysis</i> that later so influenced the race hygiene movement.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In 1897, after he had acquired sufficient means to give up his lucrative medical practice in Dusseldorf, Schallmayer settled down as 'Privatgelehrter'.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">His newly acquired freedom afforded him the time to compose a second eugenic treatise with the specific intention of submitting it to the 'Krupp Preisausschreiben' (Krupp Writing Prize).</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Friedrich Alfred Krupp<br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Ludwig Noster 1896</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In 1900 Friedrich Krupp, son of Essen's munitions baron Alfred Krupp, set aside 30,000 marks to be used in a contest to answer the question: 'What can we learn from the theory of evolution about internal political development and state legislation ?'</span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Friedrich Alfred Krupp (17 February 1854 – 22 November 1902) was a German steel manufacturer of the company Krupp. He was the son of Alfred Krupp, and inherited the family business when his father died in 1887. Whereas his father had largely supplied iron and steel, Friedrich shifted his company's production back to arms manufacturing. Friedrich greatly expanded Krupp and acquired the 'Germaniawerf' in 1896 which gave him control of warship manufacturing in Germany. He oversaw the development of nickel steel, U-boats, the diesel engine, and much more. He died in 1902 of apparent suicide (possibly because of allegations made against him regarding his sexual liaisons with boys). His daughter Bertha inherited the company.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It seems likely that Krupp, an amateur biologist, greatly resented Social Democratic attempts to use Darwin's theory in support of socialism.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Wishing to remain anonymous, Krupp delegated most of the responsibility for the contest to politically sympathetic scholars, with Ernst Haeckel (see above) brought in as a figurehead.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">On 7 March 1903 the prize committee announced that first prize in the contest was awarded to Schallmayer's 'Vererbung und Auslese im Lebenslauf der Volker' (Heredity and selection in the life process of nations), a dense 381-page treatise representing, in Heinrich Ernst Ziegler's appraisal, a '<i>hygienic-sociological'</i> approach to the question. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Schallmayer certainly saw the practical and political aims of his book as timely.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Whereas the nineteenth century had been concerned with Darwin's evolutionary hypothesis on a purely theoretical level, '<i>the twentieth century,</i>' argued Schallmayer, '<i>is called upon to apply the theory of descent to everyday life</i>.'</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The book's central theme was the rational management of national efficiency.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The real political lesson to be learned from Darwin's theory was that long-term state power depended upon the<i> biological vitality </i>of the nation; - neglect of the hereditary fitness of its population, such as might result from unenlightened laws and customs, was '<i>bad politics'</i> and would inevitably result in the <i>downfall of the state</i>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Hence the wise politician '<i>would recognize that the future of his nation is dependent on the good management of its human resources.</i>'</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In the interest of <i>self-preservation</i>, he argued, it was imperative that Germany take an active part in regulating the overall biological efficiency of its citizens by embarking on a political program that would encourage the <i>biologically best</i> elements in society to reproduce more than those with objectionable hereditary traits.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Eugenics, or 'Vererbungshygiene' (hereditary hygiene), as he still called it, was the perfect tool to ensure a<i> strong and healthy state.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Schallmayer also presented his readers with a series of eugenics reforms, but he was very cautious in the area of negative eugenics.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Although he clearly believed that marriage restrictions for the insane, the feebleminded, the chronic alcoholic, and other defectives were in the best interest of the state, and the race, he refrained from openly supporting state legislation as a means to this end.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Until such time as more exact information regarding the laws of heredity was known, and enough detailed genealogies could be amassed, he felt that eugenicists would have to concentrate on voluntary measures.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">He emphasized positive eugenics: convincing the "fitter" groups in society to increase their fertility rate.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The question of course remained, <i>'which groups were, biologically speaking, the fittest ?</i>' Schallmayer assumed that biology would one day decide the question objectively.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Krupp competition marked a turning point both in Schallmayer's personal career and in the attention paid to eugenics in Germany.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Prior to this time Schallmayer and Ploetz were virtually lone prophets in their eugenics crusade.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Only in the years immediately following the publication of 'Vererbung und Auslese', in 1903, were the first institutional steps undertaken to transform an idea into a movement: the creation of Germany's most respected eugenics journal, and the foundation of a race hygiene society.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The 'Archiv fur Rassen und Gesellschafts-Biologie', the first journal in the world dedicated to eugenics, was founded by Ploetz in 1904.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Although there is no direct evidence linking the creation of the journal with the results of the Krupp contest, it seems likely that the scientific recognition, and public attention given eugenics in the immediate aftermath of the Preisausschreiben at least suggested to Ploetz, and his two assistant editors, the sociologist and economist Anastasius Nordenholz and the zoologist Ludwig Plate, that a more organized and '<i>strictly scientific</i>' manner of discourse on the subject was possible.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Without openly admitting it, the editors of the 'Archiv' sought to establish a more clearly focused, and academically prestigious form of the 'Politisch-anthropologische Revue' - a journal that occasionally carried articles on eugenics-related issues, but was not taken seriously by some professionals because of its unmistakably völkisch tone.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The völkisch movement had its origins in Romantic nationalism, as it was expressed by early Romantics such as Johann Gottlieb Fichte in his 'Reden an die deutsche Nation', 1808 - especially the eighth address, '<i>What is a Volk, in the higher sense of the term, and what is love of the fatherland ?</i>', where he answered his question of what could warrant the noble individual's striving '<i>and his belief in the eternity and the immortality of his work,</i>' by replying that it could only be that '<i>particular spiritual nature of the human environment out of which he himself, with all of his thought and action... has arisen, namely the people from which he is descended and among which he has been formed and grown into that which he is</i>"'. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The movement combined patriotic interest in German folklore, local history and a 'back-to-the-land' anti-urban populism. In part this ideology was a revolt against modernity. The dream was for a self-sufficient life lived with a mystical relation to the land; it was a reaction to the cultural alienation of the Industrial revolution and the 'progressive' liberalism of the later 19th century and its urbane materialist banality. The racial element in </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> völkisch philosophy meant that is was, in its later development, strongly associated with eugenics and racial hygiene.</span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The 'Archiv' sought to attract a wide variety of articles bearing on the 'optimal' preservation and development of the race.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It included entries not only by Germany's prominent race hygienists, but also from individuals who in no sense considered themselves eugenicists.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Most of the articles appearing in the journal during the Wilhelmine period fall into one of five categories: technical articles dealing with genetics and evolution by such leading biologists as Weismann, Plate, Ziegler, Richard Semon, Carl Correns, Hugo de Vries, Erich von Tschermak, and Wilhelm Johannsen; entries concerned with so-called degenerative phe</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">nomena (insanity, alcoholism etc.); articles preoccupied with the dysgenic effects of certain social institutions and practices (medicine, welfare, etc.) and the social and economic costs of 'protecting the weak'; studies pertaining to the need for population increase, and the hazards of neo-Malthusianism; and a number of anthropological contributions, including high-quality entries from the eminent anthropologist Franz Boas.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus FRS (13 February 1766 – 29 December 1834) was an English cleric and scholar, influential in the fields of political economy and demography. Malthus himself used only his middle name Robert. In his book 'An Essay on the Principle of Population', Malthus observed that an increase in a nation's food production improved the wellbeing of the populace, but the improvement was temporary because it led to population growth, which in turn restored the original per capita production level. In other words, mankind had a propensity to utilize abundance for population growth rather than for maintaining a high standard of living, a view that has become known as the 'Malthusian trap' or the 'Malthusian spectre'. Populations had a tendency to grow until the lower class suffered hardship and want and greater susceptibility to famine and disease, a view that is sometimes referred to as a Malthusian catastrophe. Malthus wrote in opposition to the popular view in 18th-century Europe that saw society as improving and in principle as perfectible. He saw population growth as being inevitable whenever conditions improved, thereby precluding real progress towards a utopian society: '<i>The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man</i>'.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Besides publishing rather specialized and lengthy articles, the 'Archiv' also tried to keep its readers abreast of developments in eugenics through its numerous book reviews and announcements.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Its volumes were substantial - the four quarterly issues together often totaled more than six hundred pages.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Its national and international reputation as a highly respected scholarly publication notwithstanding, the journal did little to spread the eugenics gospel in Germany beyond the small group of professionals already committed to the new discipline.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The second institutional development was the formation of the 'Gesellschaft fur Rassenhygiene' (Society for Race Hygiene) - the world's first professional eugenics organization.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Founded in Berlin on 22 June 1905 by Ploetz, Nordenholz, the psychiatrist Ernst Rudin (who was also Ploetz's former brother-in-law), and the ethnologist Richard Thurnwald, the society had as its aim '<i>the study of the relationship of selection and elimination among individuals as well as the inheritance and variability of their physical and mental traits</i>'.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">There is little doubt that Ploetz always intended the society, which had begun with only twenty-four members, to be international.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Since the word Rasse was frequently used by Ploetz as a synonym for 'white race', any race hygiene society worthy of the name had to transcend national boundaries and embrace individuals from all white 'civilized' nations, yet it was not until 1907 that the Gesellschaft was able to attract anyone from other countries, at which time it became the 'Internationale Gesellschaft fur Rassenhygiene'.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Two local groups of the Gesellschaft, in Berlin and Munich, were formed soon after.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Although the total membership remained small, it also grew steadily, and the occupational and class backgrounds of the members of the two societies continued to mirror those of its founders and leaders.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In both the international and the German society 'Bildungsbiirger' (see above) dominated the membership.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In addition, the medical professionals made up the single largest group in both organizations, accounting for approximately one third of those affiliated with the two societies.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It seems likely that the self-image of German physicians as custodians of the nation's health had much to do with the disproportionate number of prominent physicians, hygienists, and professors of medicine in the early movement.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Of the academics from other fields enrolled in the two societies, most were professors of zoology and anthropology.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In addition to Ernst Haeckel (see above) and August Weismann, who as honorary members probably did not participate much in its activities, the Deutsche Gesellschaft included such distinguished biologists as Ludwig Plate, Heinrich Ernst Ziegler, and Erwin Baur.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The writings of Wilhelmine Germany's race hygienists exhibit some common themes and concerns. The primary intellectual preoccupation of the early movement was with collecting and analyzing data on degeneration.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The psychiatrist Ernst Riidin wrote numerous studies dealing with the inheritance of insanity - emphasizing the <i>Mendelian </i>nature of the transmission of various kinds of mental disorders.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Gregor Johann Mendel (20 July 1822 – 6 January 1884) was an Austro-German scientist and Augustinian friar and abbot of St. Thomas' Abbey in Brno who gained posthumous fame as the founder of the modern science of genetics. Though farmers had known for centuries that crossbreeding of animals and plants could favor certain desirable traits, Mendel's pea plant experiments conducted between 1856 and 1863 established many of the rules of heredity, now referred to as the laws of <i>Mendelian inheritance</i>. The profound significance of Mendel's work was not recognized until the turn of the 20th century (more than three decades later) with the independent rediscovery of these laws. Erich von Tschermak, Hugo de Vries, Carl Correns, and William Jasper Spillman independently verified several of Mendel's experimental findings, ushering in the modern age of genetics.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Agnes Bluhm, Germany's only prominent female eugenicist, concentrated on proving the degenerative effects of alcohol on future generations, and studying the decreased ability of German women to breastfeed their infants.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Other eugenicists reported on such topics as the increase in venereal disease in large cities, and its impact on the race, and the need to reform Germany's penal code along eugenic lines.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">By and large the tone of these studies was scientific, not popular; they seem to have been written less to stir people to action than to communicate abstract information.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Like eugenicists in the United States and Britain, the Germans also analyzed the <i>cost</i> of maintaining the army of the unfit.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The word most often used to describe these individuals was '<i>Minderwertigen</i>' - a term that literally means '<i>the less valuable'</i>, and was frequently employed as a synonym for non-productive people.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Certainly the 'Umschau', a popular science journal, used the word in this way when, in 1911, it sponsored a written contest entitled: '<i>What do the inferior elements (Minderwertigen) cost the state and society ?</i>'</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Accepting the premise that '<i>all efforts to improve the environment break down in the face of hereditary sickness and inferiority</i>', the sponsors of the competition suggested to potential contestants that only a reduction in the number of '<i>minus variants'</i> would allow society to continue to preserve the life of all those living.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In his commentary on the cost of the unfit, Ignaz Kaup, professor of hygiene and member of the Deutsche Gesellschaft, reported on the results of a seminar held to discuss the subject.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Since he doubted that the German people were ready to accept American-style sterilization methods as a means of alleviating the problem, some way of physically separating the 'unfit' from the rest of society was necessary.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">False humanitarian considerations were not appropriate, since 'all forward-striving nations had the duty to ease the burden of the cost of the inferior as much as possible.'</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Recognizing that the Minderwertigen were a financial burden to the state who "d<i>espite the expenditure paid out on their behalf are almost never in the position during their working lives to repay the money spent on them</i>," Kaup recommended the creation of work colonies, where they could be prevented from having inferior children and could be made to earn their keep at the same time.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">At this time, however, most German eugenicists would have been satisfied with some form of permanent institutionalization.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As World War I approached, a third emphasis of the Wilhelmine eugenics movement came to the fore: 'Bevolkerungspolitik' (population policy).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">While Germany's eugenicists did, of course, aim at instituting a eugenically healthy qualitative population policy, there was a marked tendency throughout the last years of the Second Reich to view the prevention of a decline in population growth as an important measure in its own right.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As early as 1904 Alfred Grotjahn spoke of the '<i>growth of population quantity</i>' as the '<i>conditio sine qua non of a rational prophylaxis against degeneration'.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Later the issue had become more pressing: as Schallmayer put it in 1915, arresting population decline was nothing short of '<i>a matter of survival for the German nation'</i>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In order to understand why German eugenicists became obsessed with the population question, it is worth briefly considering the pre-war demographic, social, and political changes in Germany that colored their intellectual perspective.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">On the surface there seemed little cause for alarm.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Wilhelmine Germany was the second most populous country in Europe; it had also witnessed a very substantial population increase of twenty-four million people between 1871 and 1910.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Yet this healthy population growth owed far more to the dramatic decline in the death rate, particularly the infant mortality rate, than to a growth in fertility, indeed Germany, like all Western industrialized nations, experienced a steady birth-rate decline during the last third of the nineteenth and first third of the twentieth centuries.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Between 1902 and 1914, for example, the Reich suffered an 8.3 per thousand drop in the number of live births.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This, and the steady decline in the excess of births over deaths after 1902 gave statisticians and eugenicists cause to expect an eventual population standstill, or even a decline.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Many sought to account for Germany's declining birthrate; however much their explanations differed, all investigators agreed on two points: that the actual decline in population growth was less frightening than the prospect that Germany's situation might soon begin to mirror French demographic realities, and that the drop in the birthrate was deliberate, and was directly related to the practice of birth control methods advanced by supporters of neo-Malthusianism (see Malthus - above).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The racial policy of the Third Reich was expressed in a set of policies and laws implemented between 1933–45 based on a specific racial doctrine asserting the superiority of the '<i>Aryan Race</i>', which claimed scientific legitimacy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Racialism and the concept of competition were termed 'Social Darwinism', and were discussed by European scientists, and also in the Vienna press during the 1920s.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">From where Hitler obtained his considerable knowledge and understanding of Eugenics is uncertain, however, t</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">he theory of evolution had been generally accepted in Germany at the time.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In Hitler's 'Zweites Buch' (</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Second Book), which was unpublished during the period of the Third Reich, Hitler praised Sparta, (using ideas perhaps borrowed from Ernst Haeckel), adding that he considered Sparta to be the first truly '<i>Völkisch State</i>'.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">He endorsed what he perceived to be an early eugenics treatment of deformed children:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>'Sparta must be regarded as the first Völkisch State. The exposure of the sick, weak, deformed children, in short, their destruction, was more decent and in truth a thousand times more humane than the wretched insanity of our day which preserves the most pathological subject, and indeed at any price, and yet takes the life of a hundred thousand healthy children in consequence of birth control or through abortions, in order subsequently to breed a race of degenerates burdened with illnesses'</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Adolf Hitler read much about racial hygiene during his imprisonment in Landsberg Prison in 1924.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Hitler believed the nation had become weak, corrupted by 'dysgenics', - the infusion of <i>degenerate</i> elements into its bloodstream.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Dysgenics is the study of factors producing the accumulation and perpetuation of defective or disadvantageous genes and traits in offspring of a particular population or species.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The adjective "dysgenic" is the antonym of "eugenic".</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It was first used c. 1915 by David Starr Jordan, describing the dysgenic effects of World War I.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">David Starr Jordan (January 19, 1851 – September 19, 1931) was an American ichthyologist, educator, and Eugenicist. He was president of Indiana University and was the founding president of Stanford University</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Jordan showed that healthy men were as likely to die in modern warfare as anyone else, and that war killed only the physically healthy men of the populace whilst preserving the disabled at home.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Dysgenic mutations have been studied in animals such as the mouse and the fruit fly.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In the context of human genetics, a 'dysgenic effect' is the observed tendency of a reduction in <i>selection pressures </i>and decreased infant mortality since the Industrial Revolution resulting in the <i>increased</i> propagation of <i>deleterious traits</i> and <i>genetic disorders</i>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Richard Lynn in his 'Dysgenics: Genetic Deterioration in Modern Populations' (1996) identified three main concerns: deterioration in health, in intelligence and in conscientiousness.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br />Richard Lynn (born 1930) is an English professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Ulster, and assistant editor of the journal 'Mankind Quarterly'. Professor Lynn studies intelligence, and is known for his research into the <i>racial differences</i> in intelligence.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Professor Lynn's major thesis in Dysgenics is that scientific evidence has proved the Eugenicists were absolutely right in their concerns about genetic deterioration, and that post war western societies have made a serious mistake by discounting such concerns.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Studies of twins, and adoption studies, have established beyond any doubt the essential role of <i>heredity</i> in determining IQ.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Identical twins, separated at birth, have practically identical IQ's.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">When adopted children grow up, they resemble their <i>biological parents</i> more closely than their adoptive parents in IQ (proving the dominance of <i>nature</i> (<i>inheritance</i>) over nurture (culture).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Just as the Eugenicists assumed, social mobility over centuries has produced a social class gradient for intelligence, and social class is determined partly by innate intelligence.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">One U.S. study found that in families with two or more brothers, the boys with higher IQ's tended to move up the SES ladder when they grew up, whereas those with lower IQ's tended to move down.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Also, the evidence shows that as a society we are <i>deteriorating</i> genetically because the <i>most intelligent </i>people are having the <i>fewest</i> children.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Throughout our evolution, the weak and diseased died <i>young</i> and did not pass on their genes.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Now, because of modern medicine, people with numerous genetic diseases live long enough to reproduce and transmit <i>defective </i>genes to their children. (Examples: cystic fibrosis, hemophilia, diabetes, pyloric stenosis, various heart defects, thalassemia, phenylketonuria, and sickle cell anemia.)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The incidence of many of these disorders is doubling, and in some areas tripling each generation.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As a result our genetic potential for <i>robust good health</i> is <i>declining</i>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Life-long care will require <i>ever-increasing expenditures</i>, furthermore, while sufferers are grateful for medical advances, most would nevertheless be quick to point out that the quality of their lives would be far better if they had never <i>inherited</i> a disease in the first place.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Conscientiousness, traditionally known as '<i>good character',</i> consists of honesty, a strong work ethic, and concern for others.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Since IQ is<i> positively correlated</i> to a number of <i>desirable traits</i> (such as altruism and middle-class values of hard work, thrift, and sacrifice), when IQ declines, so do these traits.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">People with low IQ's are far more likely to become criminals, so the fact that our genetic potential for intelligence is <i>declining </i>means our genetic potential for crime is<i> increasing</i>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In addition, some evidence suggests that, despite lengthy sojourns in jail, criminals still manage to procreate at a <i>faster rate </i>than the majority.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Research on London criminals found they had nearly <i>twice</i> as many offspring as non-criminals, and those figures are almost certainly <i>underestimates</i>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In demographic studies of fertility, the entire category of underclass males is frequently <i>omitted</i> because reliable data on their offspring simply can't be obtained – their sexual behavior is often <i>promiscuous</i>, and their relationships transient.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Since studies of twins, and adoption studies have established that there is a substantial <i>genetic component</i> to <i>criminality</i>, the higher fertility of criminals significantly increases the genetic potential for criminality in the population.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Only recently have such facts been revealed by research as, for a considerable period after 1945 Eugenics was, quite wrongly, a 'no go' area, not only for politicians, but also for legitimate scientific research.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The belief in the superiority of the Aryan Race was combined with a Eugenics program that sought to produce a system of racial hygiene and Eugenics created by the control of 'Untermenschen' ("sub-humans") throughout the Reich and conquered territories.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Third Reich policies labeled residents in German territory who were not ethnic Germans, such as Jews (a Semitic people of Levantine origins), Romanis (also known as Gypsies, a people of Indian Subcontinent origins), as well as European non-Nordic peoples including Slavs (Poles, Serbs, Russians, etc.), and all other persons of color as inferior non-Aryan 'sub-humans' (i.e. non-Nordics) in a racial hierarchy that placed the '<i>Aryan Herrenvolk</i>' ('master race') of the '<i>Volksgemeinschaft</i>' ('people's community') at the top.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Jews were placed near the bottom of the hierarchy, (the lowest levels including Negroid races) and considered 'inhuman' - the '<i>creation of a lesser God</i>', according to völkisch occult philosophy.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The 'Aryan Master Race', as conceived by völkisch Eugenics, graded humans on a scale of pure Aryan to non-Aryan (who were viewed as sub-humans).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">At the top of the scale of pure Aryans were Germans and other Germanic peoples including the Dutch, Scandinavians, and the English, as well as other peoples such as some northern Italians and the French who were said to have a suitable admixture of Germanic blood.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The feeling that Germans were the '<i>Aryan Herrenvolk'</i> (Aryan master race) was widely spread among the German public through propaganda during the Third Reich, and had previously been made popular by periodicals (such as <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/lanz-von-liebenfels.html" target="_blank">Leibenfels</a>' 'Ostara' - and the writings of <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/08/houston-stewart-chamberlain.html" target="_blank">Houston Stewart Chamberlain</a>, and the teachings of <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/die-geheimlehre.html" target="_blank">Madame Blavatsky</a> in the 19th Century).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Slavs were considered as Non-Aryan Untermenschen ('sub-humans') who were to be enslaved and prevented from breeding.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Völkisch theorists believed that Germany's Teutonic ancestors had spread out from Germany throughout Europe.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Of the German tribes that spread through Europe, the theorists identified that the Burgundians, Franks, and Western Goths joined with the Gauls to make France; the Lombards moved south and joined with the Italians; the Jutes made Denmark; the Angles and Saxons made England; the Flemings made Belgium; and other tribes made the Netherlands.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Völkisch</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> racial beliefs of the superiority of an Aryan '<i>master race'</i> arose from earlier proponents of a supremacist conception of race such as Arthur de Gobineau, who published a four-volume work titled 'An Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races '(translated into German in 1897).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Gobineau proposed that the Aryan race was superior, and urged the preservation of its <i>cultural</i> and racial purity.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Gobineau later came to use, and reserve, the term Aryan only for the 'Germanic race', and described the Aryans as 'la race germanique'.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">By doing so he presented a racial theory in which Aryans – that is Germans–were all that was positive.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Houston Stewart Chamberlain's work '</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Die Grundlagen des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts' - 1899 (</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century), was one of the first to combine <i>Social Darwinism</i> with Eugenics, and describes history as a struggle for survival between the <i>Germanic</i> peoples and the <i>Jews, (</i>and Slaves and other inferior races<i>)</i>, whom he characterized as an inferior and dangerous group.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The two-volume book 'Foundations of Human Hereditary Teaching and Racial Hygiene '(1920–21) by Eugen Fischer, Erwin Baur, and Fritz Lenz, used scientific studies to conclude that the Germans were superior to the Jews <i>intellectually</i> and <i>physically</i>, and recommended <i>eugenics</i> as a solution.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Madison Grant's work 'The Passing of the Great Race' (1916) advocated '<i>Nordicism</i>' and proposed using a Eugenic program to <i>preserve</i> the Nordic race.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">After reading the book, Hitler called it '<i>my Bible</i>'.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Hans F. K. Günther who strongly influenced Völkisch ideology, wrote in his book 'Rassenkunde des deutschen Volkes'</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> (Race Lore of German People) about the danger of "<i>Slavic blood of Eastern races</i>" mixing with the German, and combined nationalism with Eugenics and antisemitism.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The July 1933 'Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring' – written by Ernst Rüdin and other theorists of "<i>racial hygiene</i>" – established 'Genetic Health Courts' which decided on compulsory sterilization of 'any person suffering from a hereditary disease.'</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">These included those suffering from 'Congenital Mental Deficiency', schizophrenia, 'Manic-Depressive Insanity', 'Hereditary Epilepsy', 'Hereditary Chorea' (Huntington’s), Hereditary Blindness, Hereditary Deafness, 'any severe hereditary deformity', as well as 'any person suffering from severe alcoholism'.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Further modifications of the law enforced sterilization of children of mixed German and African parentage (resulting from the occupation of the Rhineland by French negro troops at the end of the Great War).</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">'Rhineland bastard' was a derogatory term used in Germany to describe multiracial children with Caucasian, German mothers who had been fathered by Africans serving with French colonial troops during the Occupation of the Rhineland after World War I. The term can be traced back to 1919, just after World War I, when 'Entente' troops, most of them French, occupied the Rhineland. Some German women married soldiers from the occupying forces, while many others had children by them out of wedlock (hence the disparaging label 'bastards'). The resulting children numbered from 160,000 to 180,000. The occupation itself had been regarded as a national disgrace by Germans across the political spectrum, and there was a widespread tendency to consider all forms of collaboration and fraternization with the occupiers as moral (if not legal) treason. In 'Mein Kampf', Hitler described children resulting from any kind of relationship to African occupation soldiers as a contamination of the white race "<i>by Negro blood on the Rhine in the heart of Europe</i>".</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In addition, the government of the Third Reich wanted to increase birthrates of those who were classified as racially elite.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">When the NSDAP gained power in 1933, one of their first actions was to pass the 'Law for the Encouragement of Marriage'.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This law stated that all newly married couples of the Aryan race could receive a government loan.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This loan was not simply paid back, rather a portion of it would be forgiven after the birth of each child.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The purpose of this law was very clear and simple: to encourage newly weds to have as many children as they could, so that the Aryan population would grow.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Between 1935 and 1936, eugenic measures regarding the Jews increased apace while the process of '<i>Gleichschaltung</i>' ('standardisation', the process by which the NSDAP achieved a considerable measure of control over German society) was implemented.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In May 1935, Jews (not surprisingly) were forbidden to join the Wehrmacht (the armed forces).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The 'Nürnberger Gesetze' - (Nuremberg Laws) were passed around the time of the great Reichsparteitag at Nuremberg.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">On September 15, 1935, the 'Gesetz zum Schutz des deutschen Blutes und der Ehre' (the </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Law for the Protection of German Blood and Honor) was passed.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">At first this criminalized sexual relations and marriage only between Germans and Jews, but later the law was extended to Gypsies, Negroes and their bastard offspring and it became punishable by law as '<i>Rassenschande'</i> - (racial disgrace).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">After this, the 'Reich Citizenship Law' was passed, and was reinforced in November by a decree; it included only people of '<i>German or related blood'</i>, which meant that all Jews, even quarter- and half-Jews, were stripped of their citizenship and became 'subjects of the state' rather than citizens (members of the 'volksgemeinschaft' - 'people's community'</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The drafting of the Nuremberg Laws has often been attributed to Hans Globke.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Globke had studied British attempts to 'organize</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">' its empire by creating <i>hierarchical social orders</i>, for example in the organization of '<i>martial races</i>' in the British Indian Empire.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In the territories forming the 'Großdeutsches Reich' (Greater German Reich), between 1943 and 1945, the Nordic science of Anthropometrics (Eugenics and Racial Hygiene) was used to "<i>improve</i>" the racial make-up of the '<i>Germanized</i>' section of the population, by absorbing individuals (mainly children) into the German population who were deemed suitably Nordic. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">German racial ideology regarded the Germanic peoples of Europe as belonging to a racially superior 'Nordic' subset of the larger 'Aryan Race', who were regarded as the only true <i>culture-bearers </i>of civilized society. These peoples were viewed as either "<i>true Germanic peoples</i>" that had "<i>lost their sense of racial pride</i>", or as close racial relatives of the Germans. Hitler's concept of "Germanic" did not simply refer to an ethnic, cultural, or linguistic group, but also to a distinctly biological one, the superior "Germanic blood" that he wanted to salvage from the control of the enemies of the Aryan race. He stated that Germany possessed more of these "Germanic elements" than any other country in the world.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">'Lebensborn' e.V. ("Fount of Life") was under the control of Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt der SS (RuSHA). It was an SS-initiated, state-supported, registered association in the Third Reich, with the goal of raising the birth rate of "<i>Aryan</i>" children via persons classified as "racially pure and healthy", based on Nazi racial hygiene and health ideology. 'Lebensborn' encouraged anonymous births by unmarried women, and mediated adoption of these children by likewise "racially pure and healthy" parents, particularly SS members and their families. Initially set up in Germany in 1935, 'Lebensborn' expanded into several occupied European countries with Germanic populations German expansion. It included the selection of "<i>racially worthy</i>" orphans for adoption, and also care for children born from Aryan women who had been in relationships with SS members.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">NATIONAL SOCIALISM and CHRISTIANITY</span><br />
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<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">"<i>I will crush Christianity under my boot like a poisonous toad."</i></span><br />
<i><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">"Judaism, Christianity, Bolshevism are all bound together. Comrades in agitation,</span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">born tools of decay, they possess the same talent to destroy the natural structure</span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">of society. Bolshevism is the historical and logical continuation of Christianity. It</span></i><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>realizes on a technical level what Christianity has done on a metaphysical level.</i>"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">– Adolf Hitler</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">One of the most significant questions when considering the occult nature of National Socialism and völkisch philosophy is the question of religion in general, and the relationship between National Socialism and Christianity in particular.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">By its very nature, occultism is a religious phenomena.</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Strictly speaking, the term occult (from the Latin word 'occultus' - clandestine, hidden, secret) is "knowledge of the hidden". In common English usage, occult refers to "knowledge of the paranormal", as opposed to "knowledge of the measurable", usually referred to as science. The term is sometimes taken to mean knowledge that "is meant only for certain people", or that "must be kept hidden", but for most practicing occultists it is simply the study of a deeper spiritual reality that extends beyond pure reason and the physical sciences. The terms esoteric and arcane can also be used to describe the occult, in addition to their meanings unrelated to the supernatural. In this rather general sense, many aspects of Christianity could be termed 'occult' - although doubtless most Christians would object.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In more precise terms, occultism is usually considered to be the study of practices, including (but not limited to) magic, alchemy, extra-sensory perception, astrology, spiritualism and divination. Interpretation of occultism and its concepts can be found in the belief structures of philosophies and religions such as Chaos magic, Gnosticism, Hermeticism, Theosophy, Wicca, Thelema and contemporary paganism.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Now while occultism may be a 'religious' phenomena (as seen from the definition above), this is not a view espoused by the Christian churches (or for that matter Judaism or Islam).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">All three religions would like to consider themselves unique, being, in their own view, NOT religions, but the TRUTH.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As such the three 'Mosaic' religions (religions of the Demiurge), when they have (or think they have) untrammeled power, make every effort to violently eradicate all other forms of religion, including occultism.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Christianity, of course, now being in a relatively weak position, while continuing to condemn unreservedly occultism, tries to put a more liberal, 'friendly' gloss on its implacable doctrines.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Islam, on the other hand, believing itself in the ascendancy, swaggers round the world killing and maiming all who would question in any way its supposed 'truth'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Jews, as ever, quietly continue to work away at undermining their enemies, hoping all the time that their destruction of truth and civilization will go unnoticed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">SOURCES</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">One of the problems is researching various aspects relating to the third Reich is the question of the reliability of sources.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Those responsible for the Third Reich, even before it was established, were prolific sources of disinformation (including Adolf Hitler himself).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As the outward political structure of the Reich came to an end, in 1945, this stream of disinformation developed into a flood, as those who had knowledge of the true nature of National Socialism wish to protect their heritage.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It is however, possible, as we have attempted to show in these articles, to establish certain facts, and firm probabilities by carefully assessing the evidence that remains - most of which was never intended for public consumption - and where necessary to read 'between the lines'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Hitler's 'Mein Kampf', of course, is a mine of disinformation, as has been stated before, not only in these article, but also in the '<a href="http://meinkampfvol1.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/on-november-9-1923-at-12.html" target="_blank">Illustrated Mein Kampf</a>', published as a companion to these pieces.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And why should it not be 'economical with the truth' ?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It was, after all, conceived a a piece of carefully crafted propaganda.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">How carefully and cleverly it was written can be seen today by its continuing 'popularity', when almost all other 'propaganda', (or even more serious literature of the period) is neglected and forgotten.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But as a good politician, Hitler was hardly likely to paint himself in a bad light, or reveal views that he knew would be rejected by his readers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In 'Mein Kampf' Hitler gives his readers the impression that his is 'Christian', in a somewhat general sense, and </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">declared himself neutral in sectarian matters, and supportive of separation between church and state, and he criticized political Catholicism.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The book, however, presents a Social Darwinist vision, in which the universe is ordered around principles of struggle between weak and strong, rather than on conventional Christian notions.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In the book, Hitler makes a number of religious allusions, claiming to be "acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator", and to have been chosen by providence.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In 'Mein Kampf', Hitler speaks of the 'creator of the universe' and 'eternal Providence'. He also states his belief that the Aryan race was created by 'God', (but does not go on to explain who, or what, created the other races - a 'lesser god' ?), and that it would be a sin to dilute it through racial intermixing: </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">'The völkisch-minded man, in particular, has the sacred duty, each in his own denomination, of making people stop just talking superficially of God's will, and actually fulfill God's will, and not let God's word be desecrated. For God's will gave men their form, their essence and their abilities. Anyone who destroys His work is declaring war on the Lord's creation, the divine will.'</span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Equally, in some of this early speeches (during the 1920s), Hitler appeared to quite emphatically defend Christianity.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">However, the most persuasive explanation of these statements is that Hitler, as a politician, simply recognized the practical reality of the world he inhabited.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Had Hitler distanced himself, or his movement, too much from Christianity, it is all but impossible to see how he could ever have been successful in a free election.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">While campaigning for office in the early 1930s, Hitler offered moderate public statements on Christianity, promising not to interfere with the churches if given power, and calling Christianity (somewhat ingenuously) 'the foundation of German morality'.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The use of such rhetoric undoubtedly served to placate potential criticism from the Church, but it is likely that Hitler had fully discarded belief in the Judeo-Christian conception of God many years before (after his meeting with Eckart), but continued to use the word "God" in speeches.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Significantly, in '<a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/hitlers-table-talk.html" target="_blank">Hitler's Table Talk'</a> he is reported to have stated that:</span><br />
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In addition, Hiltler saw Christianity as a religion "<i>fit for slaves</i>" and against the natural law of selection and survival of the fittest.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Hitler was born in 1889, in Braunau am Inn, Austria, and was baptized Catholic in the same year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Hitler's father Alois, though nominally a Catholic, was somewhat religiously skeptical and anticlerical, while his mother Klara was a devout practicing Catholic.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Hitler attended several primary schools.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">For six months, the family lived opposite a Benedictine Monastery at <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/occult-biography-of-adolf-hitler.html" target="_blank">Lambach</a>, and Hitler attended the choir school there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The time that Hitler was at Lambach coincided with the time spent there by <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/lanz-von-liebenfels.html">Lanz von Liebenfels</a> - whom Hitler later met in Viena.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Maybe they met at the abbey ?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Liebenfels was a heretical monk, only months away from leaving the Catholic church - so who knows what may have transpired, if the monk and the boy had met ?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Young Hitler was influenced by Pan-Germanism and began to reject the Catholic Church.</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Hitler was confirmed on 22 May 1904.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">He received confirmation only unwillingly, and the 1904 ceremony at Linz Cathedral was highly embarrassing to those accompanying Hitler, as Hitler's confirmation sponsor said he nearly had to "drag the words out of him... almost as though the whole confirmation was repugnant to him".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In 1909, Hitler moved to Vienna.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">After Hitler had left home, he never again attended Mass, or received the sacraments.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">There, in Vienna, his intellectual interests vacillated, and his reading included <a href="http://petesrome.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/the-roman-principate-introduction.html" target="_blank">Ancient Rome</a>, the Eastern religions, Yoga, Occultism, <a href="http://thebooksoffoundation.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/books-of-foundation-gnosticism.html" target="_blank">Gnosticism</a>, Hypnotism, Astrology, - each in turn excited his interest for a moment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Hitler also avidly and regularly read Lanz von Liebenfel's magazine '<a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/lanz-von-liebenfels.html">Ostara</a>'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">He struck many people during this period as 'unbalanced', and he gave rein to his hatreds - against the Jews, the priests, the Social Democrats, the Habsburgs - without restraint.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Anti-Church radicals included Hitler's Personal Secretary Martin Bormann, Minister for Propaganda Joseph Goebbels, Neo-Pagan völkisch Philosopher Alfred Rosenberg, and Neo-Pagan Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Some National Socialists, such as Hans Kerrl, who served as Hitler's Minister for Church Affairs, believed Christianity could be turned into a völkisch form of "Positive Christianity", by renouncing its Jewish origins, the Old Testament and Apostle's Creed, and holding Hitler as a new "Messiah".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The National Soialists wanted to transform the subjective consciousness of the German people - their attitudes, values and mentalities - into a single-minded, obedient "national community".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">They believed they would therefore have to replace class, religious and regional allegiances.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Under the process of Gleichschaltung, Hitler attempted to create a unified Protestant Reich Church from Germany's 28 existing Protestant churches.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The plan failed, and was resisted by the Confessing Church.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Persecution of the Catholic Church in Germany followed the establishment of the Third Reich</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Hitler moved quickly to eliminate Political Catholicism.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Amid harassment of the Church, the Reich concordat treaty with the Vatican was signed in 1933, and promised to respect Church autonomy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Hitler routinely disregarded the Concordat, closing all Catholic institutions whose functions were not strictly religious.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Church accused the regime of "fundamental hostility to Christ and his Church". Smaller religious minorities such as the Jehovah's Witnesses and Bahá'í Faith were banned in Germany, while the eradication of Judaism was attempted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Salvation Army, Christian Saints and Seventh Day Adventist Church all disappeared from Germany while, significantly, astrologers, healers and fortune tellers were banned.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The small pagan Deutsche Glaubensbewegung (German Faith Movement), which worshiped the sun and seasons, supported the National Socialist Government.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The German Faith Movement </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">was a religious movement in the Third Reich (1933–1945), closely associated with University of Tübingen professor Jakob Wilhelm Hauer.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In his 1936 essay "<a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/hitler-and-wotan.html" target="_blank">Wotan</a>" Swiss psychologist <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/hitler-and-wotan.html" target="_blank">Carl Jung </a>speaks of 'Ergriffenheit', explained in the English version as "a state of being seized or possessed", and characterizes Germany as "infected... rolling towards perdition", however, Jung sees the German Faith Movement as "decent and well-meaning people who honestly admit their Ergriffenheit and try to come to terms with this new and undeniable fact." He commends Hauer's book 'Deutsche Gottschau' as an attempt "to build a bridge between the dark forces of life and the shining world of historical ideas".</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The movement sought to move Germany away from Christianity towards a religion based on Germanic paganism and National Socialist völkisch ideals.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The movement had around 200,000 followers at its height.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Following the accession to power of the National Socialist party, it obtained rights of civil tolerance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The development of the German Faith Movement revolved around four main themes:</span><br />
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<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">the replacement of Christian ceremonies by pagan equivalents; the most favoured pagan deity being the sun, as can be seen from the flag of the faith movement</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">the rejection of Christian ethics</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">the cult of Hitler's personality.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Hauer offered a radical celebration of the individual - but only in the context of the Volk, the individual’s biologically determined race and culture.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Through “experience,” every individual could become, as it were, his own god - but only as balanced against “the necessity of death” for the individual as key for the eternal survival of the race.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">For the adherent of German Faith, the state underwent a metamorphosis into the embodiment of an immortal Volk led by an inspired leader.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This form of neo-paganism offered a radical morality, backed up by a “scientific” foundation of social Darwinism.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Hauer often spoke and wrote of the “clash” between “the Indo-Germanic faith world” and “the Near-Eastern Semitic,” by which he meant both Judaism and Christianity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Similar movements have remained active in Germany since 1945 outside mainstream educational and social structures.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Hitler's Propaganda Minister, Joseph Goebbels, saw an "insoluble opposition" between the Christian and Nazi world views.</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Hitler angered the churches by appointing the Baltic German, <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/der-mythos-des-zwanzigsten-jahrhunderts.html" target="_blank">Alfred Rosenberg</a>, an outspoken pagan, and author of '<a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/der-mythos-des-zwanzigsten-jahrhunderts.html" target="_blank">Der Mythus des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts</a>' (The Myth of the 20th Century), as official Nazi ideologist in 1934.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Heinrich Himmler, saw the main task of the Schutzstaffel (SS) organisation to be that of acting as the vanguard in overcoming Christianity, and restoring a 'Germanic' way of living.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Hitler's chosen deputy, Martin Bormann, advised Nazi officials in 1941 that "National Socialism and Christianity are irreconcilable".</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The National Socialist leadership made use of indigenous Germanic pagan imagery, and ancient Roman symbolism in their propaganda, however, the use of pagan symbolism worried some Protestants.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Many of the leadership, including Adolf Hitler, subscribed either to a mixture of scientific theories, particularly Social Darwinism, or to mysticism and occultism, which was especially strong in the SS.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Central to both groupings was the belief in Germanic (white Nordic) racial superiority. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The existence of a Ministry of Church Affairs, instituted in 1935 and headed by Hanns Kerrl, was hardly recognized by ideologists such as Alfred Rosenberg, or by other political decision-makers.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A relative moderate, Kerrl accused dissident churchmen of failing to appreciate the National Socialist doctrine of "Race, blood and soil".</span><br />
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aIrp2bSF12M/VqEgLqpfGtI/AAAAAAAAcs0/DpuBgrDnw3Y/s1600/Dietrich%2BEckart%2B-%2BKarl%2BBauer%2B-%2BOccult%2Bhistory%2BThird%2BReich.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aIrp2bSF12M/VqEgLqpfGtI/AAAAAAAAcs0/DpuBgrDnw3Y/s200/Dietrich%2BEckart%2B-%2BKarl%2BBauer%2B-%2BOccult%2Bhistory%2BThird%2BReich.jpg" width="176" /></a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It should always be remembered that the very origins of National Socialism are to be found in pagan, occult and anti-Christian thinking.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It was the esoteric, occult Thule Society that lent support to the German Workers' Party, which was eventually transformed into the NSDAP in 1920.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Dietrich Eckart, an anti-Christian, Gnostic occultist, and an associate of the Thule society, actually coached Hitler on his public speaking skills and much else.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Significantly, Hitler later on dedicated the second volume of 'Mein Kampf' to Dietrich Eckart.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In addition the racial-occult doctrines of Ariosophy and Theozoology contributed to the atmosphere of the völkisch movement in the Weimar Republic that eventually led to rise of the Third Reich.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Having conceived Roman Catholicism as a threat to Pan-Germanism, and Germanic culture, Hitler's Austrian, origins, and South German predictions made Lutheranism appear alien to him, (despite his well broadcast praise of Luther - given to woo the Lutheran, and particularly North German voters).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So if Hitler was not a Christian, then what was he ?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Well he was undoubtedly not and atheist - his private, and presumably reliable pronouncements make that obvious.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">When attempting to work out how reliable are Hitler's statements, it is usually wise to consider the circumstances in which he makes them, and to whom he is addressing them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Whatever he says to the voters - the crowd - may well be completely unreliable, as is, equally most of what he wrote, including his pseudo auto-biography, and propaganda tract, 'Mein Kampf'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Equally speeches at rallies, or to the Reichstag, or to foreign dignitaries and leaders are generally suspect.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So what of his statements to his friends ?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Hitler, in truth, had very few friends.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">To his women friends - particularly <a href="http://evabraunhitler.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Eva Braun</a> and Geli, he made a virtue of never saying anything of substance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">There was one friend, however, apart from <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/08/gustav-kubizek-reminiscences.html" target="_blank">'Gustl' Kubizek</a>, to who he did speak honestly and openly and it was, surprisingly, a woman called Winifred - Winifred Wagner, wife of the great composer's son, <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/hitler-und-wagner-most-momentous-non.html" target="_blank">Siegfried Wagner</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Winifred Wagner (23 June 1897 - 5 March 1980) was an English-born Welsh woman married to Siegfried Wagner, Richard Wagner's son</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">She was the effective head of the Wagner family from 1930 to 1945, and a close friend of German dictator Adolf Hitler.</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Winifred Williams was born Winifred Marjorie Williams in Hastings, England, the daughter of John Williams, a writer, and his wife, the former Emily Florence Karop. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Winifred lost both her parents before the age of two and was initially raised in a series of homes. Eight years later she was adopted by a distant German relative of her mother, Henrietta Karop, and her husband Karl Klindworth, a musician and a friend of <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/hitler-und-wagner-most-momentous-non.html" target="_blank">Richard Wagner</a>.</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It was arranged that Winifred Klindworth, as she was called at the time, aged 17, would meet Siegfried Wagner, aged 45, at the Bayreuth Festival in 1914. A year later they were married. In 1923, Winifred met Adolf Hitler. Her relationship with Hitler (whom she called 'Wolf') grew so close that, by 1933, there were rumors of impending marriage.</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">'Haus Wahnfried', the Wagner home in Bayreuth, became Hitler's favorite retreat, and he had his own separate accommodation in the grounds of Wahnfried, known as the Führerbau.</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">On visiting Haus Wahnfried, Wagner's home, for the first time, and viewing the master's grave in the garden, Hitler told Winifred - '<i>Out of <a href="http://zcswagner.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/parsifal-und-die-deutsche-seele.html" target="_blank">Parsifal</a> I build my religion !</i>' - and that was probably true.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">One of the other occasions when Hitler opened himself up to a friend was with Kubizek, after seeing the opera 'Rienzi', by <a href="http://zcswagner.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/richard-wagner-der-meister-von-bayreuth.html" target="_blank">Richard Wagner</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">On that occasion, when Hitler was still a teenager, he spoke of his vision for the future of Germany.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">With </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Winifred he spoke about his religion.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But what did Hitler mean by a religion based on <a href="http://zcswagner.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/parsifal-und-die-deutsche-seele.html" target="_blank">Parsifal</a> ?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">He meant '</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>Divine worship in solemn form ... without pretenses of humility ... One can serve God only in the garb of the hero'.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">For Hitler the gnostic themes of the Grail quest and the cosmic struggle between Light and Darkness were perfectly portrayed in Richard Wagner's 'Parsifal'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">'<i>the externals of the story, with its Christian embroidery... the real message was pure, noble blood, in whose protection and glorification the brotherhood of the initiated have come together.</i></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>What is celebrated in Wagner's 'Parsifal' is NOT the Christian religion of compassion, but pure and noble blood, - blood whose purity the brotherhood of initiates has come together to guard. </i></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>The king (Amfortas) then suffers an incurable sickness, caused by his tainted blood. </i></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>Then the unknowing but pure human being (Parsifal) is led into temptation, either to submit to the frenzy and to the delights of a corrupt civilization in Klingsor's magic garden, or to join the select band of knights who guard the secret of life, which is pure blood itself.</i></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>All of us suffer the sickness of miscegenated, corrupted blood.</i></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>Note how the compassion that leads to knowledge applies only to the man who is inwardly corrupt, to the man of contradictions. </i></span><i style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;">And Eternal life, as vouchsafed by the Grail, is only granted to those who are truly pure and noble ! </i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>Only a new nobility can bring about the new culture.</i></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>If we discount everything to do with poetry, it is clear that elitism and renewal exist only in the continuing strain of a lasting struggle.</i></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>A divisive process is taking place in terms of world history. </i></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>The man who sees the meaning of life in conflict will gradually mount the stairs of a new aristocracy. </i></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>He who desires the dependent joys of peace and order will sink back down to the unhistorical mass, no matter what his provenance. </i></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>But the mass is prey to decay and self-disintegration. </i></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>At this turning- point in the world's revolution the mass is the sum of declining culture and its moribund representatives. </i></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>They should be left to die, together with all kings like Amfortas.'</i></span></blockquote>
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Just before his untimely death, <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/dietrich-eckart-hitlers-mentor.html">Dietrich Eckart</a> stated to his close associates that he had initiated Hitler into the 'Secret Doctrine' (Die Geheimlehre).</div>
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That is the same 'Geheimlehre' that strongly influenced the teachings of <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.com/2011/07/lanz-von-liebenfels.html" target="_blank">Lanz von Liebenfels</a> (among others), with regard to the origins and development of the Aryan race.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">'Die Geheimlehre' (known in English as the 'Secret Doctrine') has two distinct meanings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The first refers to a long tradition of occult teaching - stretching far back into possible pre-history, and almost certainly having its origins in the wisdom of the ineffable and 'ever living' Æons - wisdom later passed down to the mystery religions of Ancient Egypt, and the teachings of the </span><a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/third-reich-and-gnosticism.html" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Gnostics</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">, and their later descendants.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The second meaning refers particularly to two pieces of literature that sum up the understanding that had been reached regarding many occult matters in the nineteenth century.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Those two books are 'Isis Unveiled' and 'The Secret Doctrine' ('Die Geheimlehre') - both written by Еле́на Петро́вна Блава́тская (Yelena Petrovna Blavatskaya) - and all Western occult thought, since the latter part of the nineteenth century, has been influenced by these two books.</span></div>
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Еле́на Петро́вна Блава́тская (Yelena Petrovna Blavatskaya) was an oculist, medium, and author who founded the Theosophical Society in 1875.<br />
She gained an international following as the leading theoretician of Theosophy.</div>
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Born into an aristocratic Russian-German family in Yekaterinoslav, Blavatsky traveled widely around the Russian Empire as a child.</div>
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Largely self-educated, she developed an interest in Western occultism during her teenage years.</div>
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In 1849 she embarked on a series of world travels, visiting Europe, the Americas, and India.</div>
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During this period she states that she encountered a group of spiritual adepts, the "<i>Masters of the Ancient Wisdom</i>", who sent her to Shigatse, Tibet, where they trained her to develop her own psychic powers.</div>
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In 1877 she published 'Isis Unveiled', a book outlining her Theosophical world-view. </div>
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Associating it closely with the occult doctrines of <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/third-reich-and-gnosticism.html" target="_blank">Hermeticism</a> and <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/third-reich-and-gnosticism.html" target="_blank">Neoplatonism</a>, Blavatsky described Theosophy as "<i>the synthesis of science, religion and philosophy</i>", proclaiming that it was reviving an "<i>Ancient Wisdom</i>" which underlay all the world's religions.</div>
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She lived simply and refused to accept monetary payment in return for disseminating her teachings and, in ailing health, in 1885 she published 'Die Geheimlehre' - ('The Secret Doctrine'), as well as two further books, 'The Key to Theosophy' and 'The Voice of the Silence'.</div>
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She died of influenza on 8 May 1891.</div>
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Blavatsky was the leading theoretician of the Theosophical Society, responsible for establishing its "doctrinal basis".</div>
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The ideas expounded in her published texts provide the basis from which the Society and wider Theosophical movement emerged.</div>
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Blavatsky's Theosophical ideas were a form of <i>occultism</i>, a current of thought within Western esotericism, which emphasized the idea of an <i>ancient and superior wisdom</i> that had been found in<i> pre-Christian</i> societies, and which was absent from the doctrines of established Christianity.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Fundamentally, the underlying concept behind Blavatsky's Theosophy was that there was an "<i>ancient wisdom religion</i>" which had once been found across the world, and which was known to various ancient figures, such as the Greek philosophers, including <a href="https://www.blogger.com/THE%20BOOKS%20OF%20FOUNDATION:%20BOOK%20I%20-%20ONTOLOGY" target="_blank">Plato</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Blavatsky connected this ancient wisdom religion to <i>Hermetic philosophy</i>, a world-view in which everything in the universe is identified as an emanation from a Godhead.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Blavatsky believed that all of the world's religions developed from this original global faith.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Blavatsky understood her Theosophy to be the<i> heir</i> to the<i> Neoplatonist</i> philosophers of Late Antiquity, who had also embraced Hermetic philosophy. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Neoplatonism is a term used to designate a tradition of philosophy that arose in the 3rd century AD, and persisted until shortly after the closing of the Platonic Academy in Athens in AD 529 by Justinian I. Neoplatonists were heavily influenced by Plato, but also by the Platonic tradition that thrived during the six centuries which separated the first of the Neoplatonists from Plato. The work of Neoplatonic philosophy involved describing the derivation of the whole of reality from a single principle, "the ONE". Neoplatonism posits the existence of a 'Demiurge' - responsible for some, or all aspects of material creation.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><a href="http://thebooksoffoundation.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/book-v-revival-of-ancient-learning.html" target="_blank">Hermeticism</a>, or Hermetic philosophy, is a religious and philosophical/esoteric tradition based primarily upon writings attributed to Hermes Trismegistus ("Thrice Great"). These writings have greatly influenced the Western esoteric tradition. The tradition claims descent from a prisca theologia, a doctrine that affirms the existence of a single, true theology that is present in all religions and that was given by God to man in antiquity. Its philosophy teaches that there is a transcendent God, or Absolute, in which we and the entire universe participate. It also subscribes to the idea that other beings, such as <a href="http://thebooksoffoundation.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/book-vi-incarnation-of-aeons.html" target="_blank">Aeons</a>, angels and elementals, exist within the universe.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Theosophical Society disseminated an elaborate philosophical edifice involving a cosmogony, the macrocosm of the universe, spiritual hierarchies, and intermediary beings, the latter having correspondences with a hierarchical conception of the microcosm of man.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Blavatsky's Theosophy has been described as representing a major factor in the modern revival of Western esotericism, and that practically all modern occultism and esotericism can trace its origins back to her influence to some degree.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Contemporaries of Blavatsky contributed to the development of theosophical thought, producing works that at times sought to elucidate the ideas she presented, and at times to expand upon them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Since its inception, and through doctrinal assimilation or divergence, Theosophy has also given rise to or influenced the development of other mystical, philosophical, and political movements - including the völkische Bewegung.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Blavatsky's published Theosophical ideas, particularly those regarding the 'Root Races', have been cited as an influence on '<a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/06/ariosophy.html" target="_blank">Ariosophy</a>', the esoteric movement established in late 19th and early 20th century Germany and Austria by Guido von List, and also on the writings and thought <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/lanz-von-liebenfels.html" target="_blank">Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels</a>, described as 'Theozoology'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Undoubtedly Blavatsky's Theosophical ideas contributed to National Socialist ideology.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Blavatsky's Theosophical ideas regarding the '<a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/hitler-and-jews.html" target="_blank"><i>Root Races</i>'</a> have also been cited as an influence on Anthroposophy, the esoteric movement developed by Rudolf Steiner in early 20th century Germany, with Steiner's Anthroposophical Society being termed a historical offshoot of the Theosophical Society.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">'Die Geheimlehre</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">', - the 'Synthesis of Science, Religion and Philosophy', is a book originally published as two volumes in 1888, and is Helena Blavatsky's magnum opus.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The first volume is named '<a href="http://thebooksoffoundation.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/foundation.html" target="_blank">Cosmogenesis</a>', the second '<a href="http://thebooksoffoundation.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/book-ii-biogenesis.html" target="_blank">Anthropogenesis</a>'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It was an influential example of the revival of interest in esoteric and occult ideas in the modern age, in particular because of its claim to <i>reconcile</i> ancient wisdom with modern science (which it was able to do within the constraints of the period in which it was written).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Blavatsky claimed that its contents had been revealed to her by 'spiritual beings' who had retained knowledge of humanity's spiritual history, knowledge that it was now possible, in part, to reveal</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Volume One</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> (<a href="http://thebooksoffoundation.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/foundation.html" target="_blank">Cosmogenesis</a>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The first part of the book explains the origin and evolution of the universe itself, in terms of the concept of <i>cyclical </i>development.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The world and everything in it is said to alternate between periods of activity, and periods of passivity.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Each period of activity lasts many millions of years, and consists of a number of eons (the term 'eons' - denoting a vast expanse of time - and Aeons - [also, more correctly, Æons] should not be confused - Æons are sentient emanations deriving from the ineffable ONE).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Blavatsky attempted to demonstrate that the discoveries of '<i>materialist'</i> science had been anticipated in the writings of the ancients, and that materialism would eventually be proven wrong.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In this recapitulation of '</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Die Geheimlehre</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">', Blavatsky gave a summary of the central points of her system of cosmogony.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">These central points are:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Die Geheimlehre</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> represents the '<i>accumulated Wisdom of the Ages'</i>, a system of thought that</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">"<i>is the uninterrupted record covering thousands of generations of the initiated, whose respective experiences were made to test and to verify the traditions passed orally by one early race to another, of the teachings of higher and exalted beings, who watched over the childhood of Humanity</i>."</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This section reiterates the first fundamental proposition (see above), calling the one principle '<i>the fundamental law in that system of <a href="http://thebooksoffoundation.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/foundation.html" target="_blank">cosmogony</a>'</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Here Blavatsky says of this principle that it is</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">"<i>the <a href="http://thebooksoffoundation.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/book-i-ontology.html" target="_blank">One homogeneous divine Substance-Principle</a>, the one radical cause. … It is called 'Substance-Principle', for it becomes 'substance' on the plane of the 'manifested Universe', an illusion, while it remains a 'principle' in the beginning-less and endless abstract, visible and invisible Space. It is the omnipresent Reality: impersonal, because it contains all and everything. Its impersonality is the fundamental conception of the System. It is latent in every atom in the Universe, and is the Universe itself.</i>"</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This section reiterates the second fundamental proposition (see above), impressing once again that</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>"The Universe is the periodical manifestation of this unknown <a href="http://thebooksoffoundation.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/book-i-ontology.html" target="_blank">Absolute Essence</a>.</i>"</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">while also touching upon the complex ideas that ultimate being is beyond all conceptualizations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This concept presents the idea that '<i><a href="http://thebooksoffoundation.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/book-i-ontology.html" target="_blank">the One</a></i>', the unconditioned and absolute principle, is covered over by a <i>veil</i>, so that the spiritual essence is forever covered by the material essence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This section explains that the entire universe is, in reality, an <i>illusion</i>, because everything in it is temporary, i.e. has a beginning and an end, and is therefore <i>unreal</i> in comparison to the eternal unchanging <a href="http://thebooksoffoundation.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/book-i-ontology.html" target="_blank"><i>One</i></a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The next section reiterates the third fundamental proposition (see above), stating that everything in the universe is conscious, in its own way, and on its own plane of perception.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Because of this, <i>Occult Philosophy</i> states that there are no unconscious or blind laws of Nature, that all is governed by consciousness and consciousnesses.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The next section gives a core idea of theosophical philosophy, that "<i>as above, so below</i>". </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This is known as the "<i>law of correspondences</i>", its basic premise being that everything in the universe is worked and manifested from within outwards, or from the higher to the lower, and that thus the lower, the microcosm, is the copy of the higher, the macrocosm. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Just as a human being experiences every action as preceded by an internal impulse of thought, emotion or <i>will</i>, so too the manifested universe is preceded by impulses from divine thought, feeling and <i>will</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">These concepts gives rise to the notion of an '<i>almost endless series of hierarchies of sentient beings'</i>, which itself becomes a central idea of many theosophists.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The law of correspondences also becomes central to the methodology of many theosophists, as they look for <i>analogous correspondence</i> between various aspects of reality, for instance: the correspondence between the seasons of Earth and the process of a single human life, through birth, growth, adulthood and then decline and death.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Volume Two </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(<a href="http://thebooksoffoundation.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/book-ii-biogenesis.html" target="_blank">Anthropogenesis</a>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The second half of 'Die Geheimlehre' describes the origins of humanity through an account of "<i><a href="http://thebooksoffoundation.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/book-ii-biogenesis.html" target="_blank">Root Races</a></i>", said to date back millions of years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The first root race was "ethereal".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The second root had more physical bodies and lived in Hyperborea.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: left;">The third root race, the first to be truly human, is said to have existed on the lost continent of Lemuria, and the fourth root race is said to have developed in<a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/atlantis-und-das-dritte-reich.html" target="_blank"> Atlantis</a>.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The fifth root race is approximately one million years old, overlapping the fourth root race, and the very first beginnings of the fifth root race were approximately in the middle of the fourth root race.</span></div>
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'systems are irreconcilable, except when the latter is divorced from the dogma of 'Natural Selection'. By 'Man' the divine Monad is meant, and not the thinking Entity, much less his physical body. Occultism rejects the idea that Nature developed man from the ape, or even from an ancestor common to both, but traces, on the contrary, some of the most anthropoid species to the Third Race man. In other words, the 'ancestor' of the present anthropoid animal, the ape, is the direct production of the yet mindless Man, who desecrated his human dignity by putting himself physically on the level of an animal.'</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Three Fundamental Propositions</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Blavatsky explained the essential component ideas of her cosmogony with three fundamental propositions, of which she said: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>'Before the reader proceeds … it is absolutely necessary that he should be made acquainted with the few fundamental conceptions which underlie and pervade the entire system of thought to which his attention is invited. These basic ideas are few in number, and on their clear apprehension depends the understanding of all that follows…</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The first proposition is that there is one underlying, unconditioned, indivisible Truth, variously called "the Absolute", "the Unknown Root", "the <i>ONE</i>".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It is causeless and timeless, and therefore unknowable and non-describable: "It is 'Be-ness' rather than Being".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">However, transient states of matter and consciousness are manifested in IT, in an unfolding gradation from the subtlest to the densest, the final of which is physical plane.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">According to this view, manifest existence is a "<i>change of condition</i>", and therefore neither the result of creation nor a random event.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Everything in the universe is informed by the <i>potentialities</i> present in the "ONE" and manifest with different degrees of Life (or energy), Consciousness, and Matter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The second proposition is <i>"the absolute universality of that law of periodicity, of flux and reflux, ebb and flow</i>".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Accordingly, manifest existence is an eternally re-occurring event on a "<i>boundless plane</i>": "'<i>the playground of numberless Universes incessantly manifesting and disappearing</i>,'" each one "<i>standing in the relation of an effect as regards its predecessor, and being a cause as regards its successor</i>", doing so over vast but finite periods of time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Related to the above is the third proposition: "<i>The fundamental identity of all Souls with the ONE... and the obligatory pilgrimage for every Soul - a spark of the former - through the Cycle of Incarnation (or 'Necessity') in accordance with Cyclic law, during the whole term.</i>"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The individual souls are seen as units of consciousness (Monads) that are intrinsic parts of the ONE, just as different sparks are parts of a fire.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">These Monads undergo a process of evolution where consciousness unfolds and matter develops.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This evolution is not random, but informed by intelligence and with a purpose.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Evolution follows distinct paths in accord with certain immutable laws, aspects of which are perceivable on the physical level.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">One such law is the law of periodicity and cyclicity; another is the law of cause and effect.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Theories on Human Evolution and Race</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In the second volume of '</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Die Geheimlehre'</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">, dedicated to 'anthropogenesis', Blavatsky presents a theory of the <i>gradual evolution</i> of physical humanity over a time-span of millions of years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The steps in this evolution are called 'root-races', seven in all.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Earlier root-races exhibited completely different characteristics: physical bodies first appearing in the second root-race, and sexual characteristics in the third.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Some races are clearly less fully human or spiritual than the '<a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/okkulte-ursprunge-der-arischen-rasse.html" style="font-style: italic;" target="_blank">Aryans</a><i>' </i>('the noble ones').</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">For example, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>"Mankind is obviously divided into 'god-informed' men and lower human creatures. The intellectual difference between the Aryan and other civilized nations and such savages as the South Sea Islanders, is inexplicable on any other grounds. No amount of culture, nor generations of training amid civilization, could raise such human specimens as the Bushmen, the Veddhas of Ceylon, and some African Tribes, to the same intellectual level as the Aryans, and the Turanians. The 'sacred spark' is missing in them and it is they who are the only inferior races on the globe, now happily – owing to the wise adjustment of nature which ever works in that direction – fast dying out. Verily mankind is not of the same essence. We are the hot-house, artificially quickened plants in nature, having in us a spark, which in them is latent"</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> (</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Die Geheimlehre</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">, Vol. 2, p 421).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">When discussing "<i>sterility between two human races</i>" as observed by Darwin, Blavatsky notes:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>"Of such semi-animal creatures, (</i></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">Chandals - Untermenschen, as described by Liebemfels</span><i style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">) </i><i style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">the sole remnants known to Ethnology were the Tasmanians, a portion of the Australians and a mountain tribe in China, the men and women of which are entirely covered with hair. They were the last descendants in a direct line of the semi-animal latter-day Lemurians referred to. There are, however, considerable numbers of the mixed Lemuro-Atlantean peoples produced by various crossings with such semi-human stocks – e.g., the inhabitants of Borneo, the Veddhas of Ceylon, most of the remaining Australians, Bushmen, Negos, Andaman Islanders, etc"</i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> (</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Die Geheimlehre</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">, Vol. 2, pp 195–6)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In the '</span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Die Geheimlehre' there is also a </span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">connection between physical race <i>and</i> spiritual attributes:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">"<i>Esoteric history teaches that idols and their worship died out with the Fourth Race, until the survivors of the hybrid races of the latter (Chinese, African negroes, &c.) gradually brought the worship back.</i>"</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(Die Geheimlehre, Vol. 2, p 723)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">According to </span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Die Geheimlehre</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>"The MONADS of the lowest specimens of humanity (the "narrow-brained" savage South-Sea Islander, the African, the Australian) had no Karma to work out when first born as men, as their more favoured brethren in intelligence had"</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Die Geheimlehre</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">, Vol. 2, p 168)</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Die Geheimlehre also</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> prophesies of the destruction of the racial "<i>failures of nature</i>" as the "<i>higher race</i>" ascends:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>"Thus will mankind, race after race, perform its appointed cycle-pilgrimage. Climates will, and have already begun, to change, each tropical year after the other dropping one sub-race, but only to beget another higher race on the ascending cycle; while a series of other less favoured groups – the failures of nature – will, like some individual men, vanish from the human family without even leaving a trace behind"</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; text-align: right;">Die Geheimlehre</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">, Vol. 2, p 446)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; text-align: right;">Die Geheimlehre it is stated</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">: "<i>Verily mankind is not of the <b>same </b>essence</i>." (Vol. 1, p. 255).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Study of </span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Die Geheimlehre</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Blavatsky gave the following instructions regarding the study of </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Die Geheimlehre</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>'Reading the Die Geheimlehre page by page as one reads any other book will only end us in confusion. The first thing to do, even if it takes years, is to get some grasp of the 'Three Fundamental Principles'. Follow that up by study of the Recapitulation – the numbered items in the Summing Up to Vol. I (Part 1.) Then take the Preliminary Notes (Vol. II) and the Conclusion (Vol. II)'</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Writings About "Die Geheimlehre"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Alice Bailey:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">"</span><i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But those of us who really studied it and arrived at some understanding of its inner significance have a basic appreciation of the truth that no other book seems to supply. HPB said that the next interpretation of the Ageless Wisdom would be a psychological approach, and A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, which I published in 1925, is the psychological key to Die Geheimlehre. None of my books would have been possible had I not at one time made a very close study of Die Geheimlehre."</span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">'Blavatsky and </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Die Geheimlehre</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">' by Max Heindel (1933):</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">"</span><i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Die Geheimlehre is one of the most remarkable books in the world... Behind her [H.P.B.] stood the real teachers, the guardians of the Secret Wisdom of the ages, who taught her all the occult lore which she transmitted in her writings.</span></i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">"</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">While not all of the teachings of 'Die Geheimlehre' were accepted by völkisch theorists and philosophers, it strongly influenced their thinking.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Most influential were the chapters dealing with the development of the <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/hitler-and-jews.html" target="_blank">Root-Races</a>, and their relative positions in the hierarchy of race - and in particular the exaltation of the Nordic Aryan race.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In addition the suggestion that the Aryan race would, at some time in the future, become the dominant race, while the other, lesser races would fall into decline was held to be of importance by the</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> völkisch movement.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Also, the <i>rejection</i> of Christianity, along with other <i>Semitic religions (Judaism and Islam)</i>, was very much in keeping with the general mood and feeling in Germany and Austria at the time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It was unfortunate that </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Blavatsky felt it necessary to 'dress up' her revelations in pseudo Vedic (or possibly Hindu) costume, as this was inappropriate, and off-putting for cultured and educated Europeans.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This had the effect of severely limiting the appeal of Theosophy, as a distinct doctrine, in Europe, but it did not prevent the more perceptive from sensing that behind the 'Orientalist' facade there was a profound and significant truth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/dietrich-eckart-hitlers-mentor.html" target="_blank">Dietrich Eckart</a> died of a heart attack in Berchtesgaden on 26 December 1923.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">However, shortly before his death he made a prophetic statement to the inner circle of the <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/thule-gesellschaft.html" target="_blank">Thule Gesellschaft</a>:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">"<i>Hitler will dance, but it is I who have called the tune !</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The concept of regeneration arose, from many sources, but much of the teaching derived initially from some of <a href="http://peterswagner.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/wagner-der-meister-von-bayreuth.html" target="_blank">Richard Wagner</a>'s writings on Art, Race, Philosophy and Religion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">After the death of the master, many of his followers, especially in Bayreuth, took up this concept and developed it into a complex, yet coherent philosophy. </span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></div>
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<a href="http://peterswagner.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/cosima-wagner-lady-of-bayreuth.html" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HAEQBXhD1Bc/VdnYUJBecPI/AAAAAAAAcLU/QjRggol3HLM/s200/Cosima%2Bvon%2BBulow%2BWagner%2B-%2BOccult%2BHistory%2BThird%2BReich%2B-%2BPeter%2BCrawford.jpg" width="133" /></a><span id="goog_271689153"></span><span id="goog_271689154"></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/"></a><span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://peterswagner.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/cosima-wagner-lady-of-bayreuth.html" target="_blank">Cosima Wagner</a> (von Bülow - born Francesca Gaetana Cosima Liszt; 24 December 1837 – 1 April 1930) was the daughter of the Hungarian pianist and composer Franz Liszt. She became the second wife of the German composer Richard Wagner, and with him founded the Bayreuth Festival as a showcase for his stage works; after his death she devoted the rest of her life to the promotion of his music and philosophy. Commentators have recognized Cosima as the principal inspiration for Wagner's later works, particularly '<a href="http://peterswagner.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/parsifal-und-die-deutsche-seele.html" target="_blank">Parsifal</a>'.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Houston Stewart Chamberlain (9 September 1855 – 9 January 1927) was an English-born German author of books on political philosophy, natural science and son-in-law of the German composer Richard Wagner. In December 1908, twenty-five years after Wagner's death, <a href="http://peterswagner.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/wagner-and-houston-stewart-chamberlain.html" target="_blank">Chamberlain</a> married Wagner's stepdaughter,<a href="http://peterswagner.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/wagner-and-houston-stewart-chamberlain.html" target="_blank"> Eva von Bülow</a>. Chamberlain's two-volume book, '<a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/08/houston-stewart-chamberlain.html" target="_blank">Die Grundlagen des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts</a>' (The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century), published in 1899, became one of the many references for the pan-Germanic movement of the early 20th century, and, later, of the völkisch philosophy of the Third Reich.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The concept of Regeneration had a considerable impact on the social, cultural and political development of the German speaking world in the 19th and early 20th centuries. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">While the <a href="http://peterswagner.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/wagner-der-meister-von-bayreuth.html" target="_blank">Wagnerian, </a></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://peterswagner.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/wagner-der-meister-von-bayreuth.html" target="_blank">Bayreuth</a> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">form of Regeneration was very much for the<i> elite</i>, a </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">slightly </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">more accessible form of the basic philosophy filtered down through the various social classes. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This form of Regeneration theory was generally known as Lebensreform ("life reform").</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This included an acceptance of homosexuality - (Siegfried Wagner, Wagner's only son was homosexual) - and lesbianism, alternative medicine, and religious reform, and at the same time often included abstention from drugs, and vaccines. Important Lebensreform proponents were Sebastian Kneipp, Louis Kuhne, Karl Wilhelm </span></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Diefenbach, Fidus (Hugo Höppener), Gusto Graeser, and Adolf Just. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Lebensreform movement in Germany originally was a diverse movement.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Other Lebensreform groups involved in völkisch Romanticism gradually became part of the ideology of the 1930s, known as 'blut und boden' - (blood and soil). </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As early as 1907, Richard Ungewitter published a pamphlet called 'Nacktkeit und Kultur' (Nudity and Culture) (which sold 100,000 copies), arguing that the practices he recommended would be "</span><i style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;">the means by which the German race would regenerate itself and ultimately prevail over its neighbors and the diabolical Jews, who were intent on injecting putrefying agents into the nation's blood and soil</i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">".</span><br />
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Those promoting völkisch Lebensreform ideology eventually became popular among Third Reich officials and their supporters, including <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/heinrich-himmler-ahnenerbe.html" target="_blank">Heinrich Himmler</a> and Rudolph Höss, who belonged to the farming organization known as the 'Artaman League'.<br />The <a href="http://germany19001939.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/deutsch-sozialismus-german-socialism.html" target="_blank">Artamanen-Gesellschaft</a> - <a href="http://germany19001939.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/deutsch-sozialismus-german-socialism.html" target="_blank">Artaman League</a> - was a German agrarian and völkisch movement dedicated to a '<i>Blood and Soil</i>' inspired ruralism. Active during the inter-war period, the League became closely linked to, and eventually absorbed by, the NSDAP (see below). The Artaman League had its roots in the overall Lebensreform movement in late 19th-century and early 20th-century Germany and Austria.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Hitler, of course, like all those who were influential in the </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">völkisch movement, and the NSDAP, was a 'child of his time', and therefore it would have been surprising if he had escaped the all pervasive </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">influence of Lebensreform, which affected so much of German and Austrian society in his youth.</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It is undoubtedly this pervasive influence, both of Lebensreform, and also Regeneration Theory </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">proclaimed from the '</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">grüner Hügel', that now enables us to refer to the '</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">dritte Reich' as </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">the '</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://germany19001939.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/copyright-peter-crawford-2013-copyright.html" target="_blank">grüne Reich</a>'. </span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">These völkisch Lebensreform groups were espoused by German youth, and associated with such groups was the 'Wandervogel' movement, which was a precursor to the</span><a href="http://germany19001939.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/hitlerjugdnd-hitler-youth.html" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;" target="_blank"> Hitlerjugend</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">One of the main aspects that concerned and troubled the supporters of the philosophy Regeneration was the question of race - (Rassenfrage).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It was held that degeneration had occurred as a result of <i>miscegenation</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Miscegenation - (from the Latin 'miscere' 'to mix' and 'genus' "kind") is the mixing of different racial groups through marriage, cohabitation, sexual relations, or procreation. The term miscegenation has been used since the 19th century to refer to interracial marriage and interracial sexual relations, and more generally to the process of genetic admixture. The concept of miscegenation is tied to concepts of racial difference.</span></blockquote>
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tEvjJH5U7kI/VjjlFY6PKoI/AAAAAAAAcS4/wyx6ZgRxshs/s1600/The%2Bresult%2Bof%2Bmiscegenation%2B-%2BDoctrine%2Bof%2BRegeneration%2B-%2BOccult%2BHistory%2Bof%2Bthe%2BThird%2BReich.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="173" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tEvjJH5U7kI/VjjlFY6PKoI/AAAAAAAAcS4/wyx6ZgRxshs/s200/The%2Bresult%2Bof%2Bmiscegenation%2B-%2BDoctrine%2Bof%2BRegeneration%2B-%2BOccult%2BHistory%2Bof%2Bthe%2BThird%2BReich.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Many völkisch occultists maintained that the Aryan race was the creation of the Æons, having descended directly from the heavens.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Other humanoid forms (chimpanzees and other great apes - the creations of a lesser 'god' - the Demiurge), it was held, had crossbred with Aryans in the distant past, giving rise to the various Untermenschen still in existence - or not, as in the case of the Neanderthals - (with the Jews as the most developed, and the Polynesians and Negroes at the lower end of the scale - see <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/lanz-von-liebenfels.html" target="_blank">Lanz von Liebenfells</a>).</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Aryans have one pair fewer chromosomes than other apes, with ape chromosomes 2 and 4 fusing into a large chromosome (which contains remnants of the centromere and telomeres of the ancestral 2 and 4). Having different numbers of chromosomes is<i> not </i>an barrier to hybridization; similar mismatches are relatively common in existing species, a phenomenon known as 'chromosomal polymorphism'. Current research into human evolution tends to confirm that in some cases, interspecies sexual activity may have been a key part of human evolution.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">There had, throughout recorded history been a continuation of miscegenation occurring between the Aryans and the Untermenschen, resulting in the gradual dilution of the purity of the Aryan racial stock.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As a result there were, in the 19th and 20th centuries, practically no pure Aryans.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(This theory is symbolised <a href="http://zcswagner.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/die-komplette-wagner.html" target="_blank">Wagner</a>'s Bühnenweihfestspiel <a href="http://zcswagner.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/parsifal-und-die-deutsche-seele.html" target="_blank">'Parsifal'</a>).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The evidence, for völkisch occultists, was clearly evident in the decline of Western (and particularly German speaking) societies, as reflected in politics, the fine art, music, architecture, public morality and all aspects of 'modern' life.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The German eugenicist <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/racial-hygiene-in-germany.html" target="_blank">Alfred Ploetz</a> introduced the term <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/racial-hygiene-in-germany.html" target="_blank">Rassenhygiene</a> in his 'Grundlinien einer Rassenhygiene', in 1895. Initially Rassenhygiene was concerned more with the declining birthrate in Germany, and the increasing number of mentally ill and disabled people than with the "Jewish question" and "de-Nordification" (Entnordung), which would come to dominate Rassenhygiene in Germany from the 1920s through to the second World War. The blueprint for the attitude of the Third Reich toward other races was written by Erwin Baur, Fritz Lenz and Eugen Fischer and published under the title' Menschliche Erblehre Theorie und <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/racial-hygiene-in-germany.html" target="_blank">Rassenhygiene'</a> (1936). Also, acting on eugenic concerns about the effects of alcohol, tobacco, and syphilis, the Third Reich sponsored research, undertook public education campaigns, and enacted laws that together aimed at eliminating “<i>genetic poisons</i>” linked to birth defects and genetic damage to later generations.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">At its core the Regeneration was conceived as the regeneration of the Aryan race, which would be mainly achieved by the strict implementation of Rassenhygiene (Eugenics).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The goal of <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/racial-hygiene-in-germany.html" target="_blank">Rassenhygiene</a> was for society to return to a healthy, strong and beautiful life, and the Nordic Aryan race would regain its "purity" through selective reproduction in conformity to Darwinian theory.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Rassenhygiene was a theory that certain individuals shoul be allowed to procreate and others not, with the expressed purpose of promoting certain characteristics deemed to be particularly desirable. It was stated that race created culture, and that "<i>impure</i>" miscegenation led to chaos. Racial hygiene was historically tied to traditional notions of public health, but usually with an enhanced emphasis on heredity. Francis Galton began working in 1869 in order to find a statistical science of heredity which he believed could encourage voluntary care in selecting partners, and in 1883 he introduced the term "eugenics" for this subject, but in the early 20th century a eugenics movement adopted ideas of Mendelian genetics, and promoted Rassenhygiene to prevent those who were unsuitable from having offspring.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And yet the knowledge obtained of the causes of this decadence lead to the notion of a possible regeneration.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It is important to note the following: it is that this denial and negation is not metaphysical but empirical, and this affirmation is not primarily mystical, but positive and refers to a possible becoming.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Our decadence is due to material influences, and what is lacking for them are material remedies, or as well the prompt suppression of these harmful influences will be enough to open for us the paradise now lost and then rediscovered in a conscious way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In this practical doctrine of regeneration, philosophy and religion are so important that not to take them into consideration would risk a misrepresentation of the doctrine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">If, alongside the practical doctrine of regeneration, we bring other elements into our line of conduct, then we are in the presence of three doctrines, one practical, another philosophical, the third religious.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And each of these doctrines is dependent on the other two, and sometimes in contradiction with them, even it seems in their fundamental premises.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Take for example the philosophical doctrine of regeneration.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Alongside the simple practical doctrine of a regeneration of mankind, we must consider the philosophy of <a href="http://germany19001939.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/arthur-schopenhauer-philosophy-of-will.html" target="_blank">Schopenhauer</a>, who, in a sense, should serve as the foundation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We know in this philosophy the metaphysical 'new birth' is presented as the 'complete knowledge', the penetration, we might say, of individuality, and as the reversion of the will which is the consequence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Must we devote ourselves to the fulfillment of a regeneration that nowhere, at no time, will ever be known to reach any valid result ?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Can we hope to establish the hope of a history, yet to come on an equally historic past, if any real appearance of the world is just illusion and lies ?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Such indecisions would only have value from the standpoint of a contradiction of pure logic. They have no value for knowledge that nature teaches us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We have already found this same phenomenon expressly stated concerning politics: the coexistence of apparently contradictory terms that actually complement one another. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">These are necessary constituent elements of an intelligence sincere even against itself, an intelligence formed organically and in which systematic lies would have no place.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Then comes a third element: religion.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">If practical regeneration is represented as possible, then it succeeds only if we are 'brave and believing'."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Only on the firm foundation of 'true religion' can the necessary strength develop to reach the aspiration for regeneration.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It is precisely in their relationship that we reconcile these contradictions of the joy of life and relentless painful knowledge, of optimism and pessimism.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But a new difficulty arises; that our religion, as it is now, has also not escaped the universal decadence, so we can not admit its immediate application to regeneration.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">At the end of this work we return to this point, intending to clarify the meaning of this apparent contradiction.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The exposition of the doctrine of regeneration falls into two parts: negation or denial and affirmation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The element of negation is the awareness of decline and this consciousness, once acquired, serves as a basis for faith in a possible regeneration.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Art is, alongside religion, a most potent factor of regeneration, Art cannot reach full bloom in our society, but only in a regenerated society.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">On the other hand, what is absolutely essential for this regeneration is the cooperation of the arts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Those who are nourished by the belief that humanity is on the path of indefinite progress, of which we can discern no end, and it is in this that most do place their faith, will not know how to nor be able to admit the need nor the possibility of a regeneration.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Indeed, this notion of regeneration carries with it the admission of two postulates: the 'original goodness', at least relative, of man in so far as his life and development are in harmony with the laws of both surrounding nature and his own nature, and also the conviction that humanity has historically been wrong and departed ever more from the ways of sound development in accordance with nature.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">That which is for some 'progress' is for others nothing more than 'decadence'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">One could represent decadence as the work of a fatal power, against which all resistance would be futile, as an inevitable decline, similar to the effects of age on individuals.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But it can also be seen as the result of a true deviation, and then one must take a first step, and not the least important one, to regeneration.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Undoubtedly if we scrutinize and uncover its causes, then regeneration will not only appear desirable to us, but possible as well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The admission of a deviation of mankind, as opposed as it appears to the idea of progress, could well be the only basis on which to secure and found our hope.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">For if we can verify this affirmation is due to too powerful external influences, against which prehistoric man, devoid of experience, could not defend himself, then the history of humankind, within the limits accessible to us, appears as the sorrowful period of elaborating his full awareness which will show him the way by which he will be able to use the knowledge thus acquired to protect himself from those evil influences.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Wherever we look in the civilized world we always find a deviation in men and the astonishing moral deformation of our actual social condition.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We shall not recapture faith and courage until we listen to murmurings of history, this eternal source of life, hidden in the rubble of historical civilization, that continues flowing in its original freshness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It is, however, essential to deeply despise this world, where hypocrisy simulates concern for art and culture, while in its veins not a single drop of artistic blood will be found, and it knows not how to produce a single atom of quality, or of truly human beauty.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As it is now, our civilization is wicked and heartless, and not led by anything more than the enhancement of the correct value of calculations of its egotism.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It is a society that is profoundly immoral, a world of organized crime and looting certified by falsehood, lies and hypocrisy, that "transforms men into monsters.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And the modern State lives only on the vices of society.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In addition, ecclesiastical religion has become impotent and is devoid of the true God.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We must, however, look well ahead into the question of knowing where is the true cause of all the misery of our current social condition, and one of the main causes is money.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Money – gold, - the pallid metal to which we are enslaved by a shameful servitude, but behind this product the most rigid and least able to have life in all of nature, there is the very beginning of property.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Property, which has become hereditary, is the principle cause of the decadence of humanity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In the historical organization of the feudal system, in so far as it remained in its primitive purity, we find this principle, at once human and heroic, expressed: the concession of an enjoyment was only given to those who, for some service, could personally claim it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">From the moment the fief became hereditary, the man, his individual activity, his personal merits, lost their value, which were converted into a possession, and had become hereditary.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It was that, and not personal virtue, that created the social importance of inheritance, and thus the gradual and growing depreciation of men, as the value of possessions climbed steadily, and came to incorporate themselves into the most inhuman institutions. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This made property legitimize the man rather than, as before then, the man being he who legitimized property.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In addition, it has become the primordial concern of the modern State to forever fix property, which thereby stops the vivifying fertility of the future.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">From possession converted into property, on which alone one wants to make all order rest, have come all the crimes of myth and history, and it seems certain that from this notion of ownership, that seemed so simple in itself, and with its political sanction, there has entered into the body of mankind such a cruel spear that it makes mankind suffer a painful agony forever.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">However, institutions such as money and the hereditary inheritance of property should, at most, be considered as causes of a secondary order, perhaps as symptoms more than as effective factors of decadence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">RACE</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">For the primary cause we should consider a physical cause for this decadence and decline, and found it in the <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/hitler-and-jews.html" target="_blank">corruption of the blood</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">He was possible that the peoples of Europe were not only victims of a growing deviation, but that they seemed to move farther and farther from their own image, to the point that the various branches of the <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/aryanism-and-third-reich.html" target="_blank">Aryan</a> and Germanic races became increasingly foreign with respect to one another.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And the explanation is to be found in the moral influence of Judaism.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Therefore the main causes for our decadence were a corruption of blood, and the demoralizing influence of Judaism.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The influence of Judaism accelerates and favors the progress of degeneration, pushing modern man into a wild storm that does not leave him time to recognize or raise awareness of this unfortunate decline, nor of the loss of his own identity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The corruption of blood comes above all from abnormal nutrition, but also from the mixture of more noble races (<a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/aryanism-and-third-reich.html" target="_blank">Aryan</a>) with those that are less so.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The issues of nutrition is significant, for on one side there is lack of nutrition, and on the other excess of sensual enjoyments above any limit, and a way of life absolutely contrary to nature.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It is here we have what has led us to a state of degeneration that can be stopped only by a complete renewal of our deformed organism.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Superfluity and deprivation, here are the two mortal enemies of our present humanity. In truth, all our politics, our diplomacy, our thirst for the future, our science and, unfortunately, all our modern art - indeed, all this parasitic vegetation of our present life is undoubtedly greatly influenced by poor nutrition.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The inequality of human races is a second cause of decadence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">If the noble race can quite dominate the inferior race, it can not, by means of mixture, elevate the latter, since all it will achieve is the lowering of its own blood to the level of the inferior.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It is more than obvious we would not have human history without the movements, successes and creations of the white race, and we can find, without a doubt, that universal history is the history of the mixing of this race with the yellow and black, in the sense that these last, less noble, enter into history only to the extent that by mixing they are more or less assimilated to the white race.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The deterioration of these, moreover comes, obviously, from their being infinitely less numerous than the representatives of the inferior races, and seeing themselves obligated to mix with them, by which the white race loses much more in purity than the others could have gained by ennobling their blood to some extent.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Despite its vital importance, however, it has only a secondary importance in the doctrine of regeneration, since it does not clarify the future, but rather the past, and can only be projected into the future in the form of a powerful cataclysm.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">With regard to the racial question, however, ther is also the demoralizing influence of one of those white races over the others, - of the Jewish element over the non-Jewish Aryan peoples.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Here one must consider the irremediable disadvantage in which one finds the German race when faced with the Jew, for the principle of the Jewish religion is egotism.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/hitler-and-jews.html" target="_blank">Jew</a> is indifferent to everything that does not bring him a personal benefit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Hebraic egotism is a deep and unfathomable violence. One thing was clear, Jewish influence over European intellectual life has made itself felt strongly in the sense it distorts and alters our most sublime art and culture that is proper to us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In this it is obvious that the Jews live off the exploitation of the universal decay. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">However, knowledge of the true cause of our decline leads, with equal force, to believe in the possibility of a radical regeneration.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">For example, if meat-eating if the major cause of human decay, the remedy will be, evidently, a strictly vegetarian diet; if miscegenation tends to corrupt the blood, take steps to prevent it at all costs immediately.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Vegetarianism is important, but we must also maintain a strict solidarity that exists between man and nature and, therefore, recognize the all-powerful force of natural necessity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But also the emotional life, the best of the soul, should be directed to that Art, which is conceived as absolutely one with true religion, for material or metaphysical remedies were not enough to reach, by themselves, regeneration, which will never arise other than from the deep core of a true religion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It seems there are therefore three juxtaposed worlds: one material and empirical, another transcendental and metaphysical, and a third mystical and religious; Art is the element that collects and unites them, since its form is material, its content transcendental and its meaning mystical.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">From the material, empirical point of view the main consideration is food. We must abstain from eating meat and drinking alcohol.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">An exclusively vegetarian diet is the central point of the question of regeneration. In the philosophical field nature, and nature alone, can unravel the tangled skein of human destiny, as the civilization based on Christian faith and on the condemnation of human nature, thus denying mankind, has gained an enemy who must soon destroy it, in the sense that man does not find his place, so that this enemy is precisely eternal living nature.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">What is "purely human," what surges from "eternal nature," are not perhaps pure abstractions, but it at least corresponds that these notions are not taken from observation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Nature, and in particular "the true nature of man" is good, and our world is "the desert of a degenerate paradise."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Equally, there is the importance of "the fatal necessity" - which reminds us of the "Will" as found in the works of <a href="http://germany19001939.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/die-welt-als-wille-und-vorstellung.html" target="_blank">Schopenhauer</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Nature engenders and forms by necessity, and in man as well it is the unique pressure of necessity that determines us to create some acts and gestures worthy of being created.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And the logical consequence is clear: life is what is immediate, what determines itself. Regeneration does not find its place in a fatalist conception of nature, however.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This has formed all that it is by necessity, and wisdom consists in wanting the necessary. In Schopenhauer there is no regeneration, since the word "decadence" has no meaning in his system, and he has never pronounced it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">To try to prove progress is, doubtless according to him, to entrust oneself to "an artificial and imaginary construction," but he does not admit the idea of decadence; for him the final residue of history is in the presence of a "being always the same, always equal to itself, immutable, that today does what was done yesterday and forever."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://germany19001939.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/die-welt-als-wille-und-vorstellung.html" target="_blank">Schopenhauer</a>, indeed, affirms the doctrine of the fall, but specifically by way of myth, as existence is sinful in itself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">According to his philosophy the sage, like the Wotan of Wagner, can not "want more than one thing".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It is, however, not Schopenhauer's fault if the quite exact representation of the world he found before him occupied him so much that he was forced to leave to us the charge of exploring those roads .</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The philosophy of <a href="http://germany19001939.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/die-welt-als-wille-und-vorstellung.html" target="_blank">Schopenhauer</a>, though, must be seen as the only that can be recommended to take us to the paths of true hope.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And so the certainty of the victory of the will results from the awareness of decadence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">RELIGION and SPIRITUALITY</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The recognition of the moral significance of the world is the coronation of all knowledge. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This knowledge is also the basis of hope and, thereby, the origin of faith in regeneration. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The only aspiration and strength that enables the fulfillment of the great regeneration must have its origin in the deep core and basis of a religion, for without religion we can not acquire the force necessary for regeneration, nor even feel ourselves transported to her.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Religion is then, as we see, the condition sine qua non on which rests the entire doctrine of regeneration.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">There is a destiny for mankind set beyond space and time in a moral significance of the world – and the whole doctrine of regeneration is rooted in this faith.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It gains nothing from material progress.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">To the idea of progress this doctrine opposes harmony with nature.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Neither the development of machines nor the infinite accumulation of scientific knowledge reduce in any way the ocean of human misery.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Also the meaning of these things is only fleeting and relative, not eternal or absolute.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The thought of regeneration has nothing more in mind than man as a moral being.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">At bottom it cares little about reaching a temporal goal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The doctrine of regeneration, starting from three different points of view, one empiric and historic, another abstract and philosophical, and the third religious, is shown to us under three corresponding forms.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It now remains to consider the element in which the three worlds become conscious of their unity and which plays such a preponderant role in this general vision of things: Art. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">REGENERATION and ART</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The action of Art in each of these three domains is decisive. It is, to a great extent, by the action of art that we shall develop human society in a beautiful and noble human sense.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The future must raise a temple to Apollo, the God of Art. Art, in the regeneration of human society, will play an indispensable role.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It must reveal to men the significance of this pressing unconscious need, and the right way to those who have gone astray.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Art does not exercise an immediate action, but has the magic power to make man known to himself, and to chart the path that will lead to regeneration.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The relationship between art and metaphysics is clearly defined.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Art can never claim to express a metaphysical abstraction, but there is a superior art that distinguishes itself from ordinary artistic production in that the development of its activity is intrinsic, involuntary, and what it comes to represent are the manifestations of this primary transcendental essence of the world: necessity, will or whatever other names we wish to give it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Art frees the intangible thought of sensation, and that is why <a href="http://germany19001939.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/die-welt-als-wille-und-vorstellung.html" target="_blank">Schopenhauer</a> held it in such high esteem and saw, from his exclusively philosophical point of view, "the true goal of Art which opens a path to cosmic ideas."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Here again, Art plays, a key role as intermediary; it is an intermediary in a way that leads to deeper insight into the essence of the world, the way it is, in itself, an indispensable element of the thought of regeneration.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The work of art is the religion that has come to be sensible in a living form.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So, here again, art is the intermediary, the exponent, we could say, in religious matters.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The main purpose of Art, therefore, is to highlight the most sublime meaning, and show the true direction to follow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Art will then introduce us to the true ideal and the symbol of everything that endures, while the pseudo-reality of history sleeps, buried beneath the yellowing papers of a corrupt civilization.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It is also the relationship of Art with religion that is by far the most important, because if Art can raise itself from its lesser role of recreation, of innocent distraction, to the height of a sanctifying and purifying deed, then one understands the significance that Art could have, purifying from the immoral demands that today denature her, in the terrain of a new moral order of things.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">One could say that where religion becomes artificial, it is reserved for Art to save the substantial nucleus, penetrating the mythic symbols, that religion claims are believed as true in the literal sense of the term, according to their symbolic values, in which are recognized, through their ideal representation, the ideal truth that is hidden therein. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Thus, one role of Art is to save the substance of religion, as expressing what is inexpressible to religious philosophy, as in the decay of dogma, true idealistic art intervenes as liberator, as she conserves religious thought in her transformative regenerative purity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The religion which is referred to here is dreamed rather than revealed writings. It can, however, be revealed in artworks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">If the co-operation of Art is indispensable for the restoration of a true religion, then true Art, for her part, must be defined as the emancipation of this religion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A true art can only grow and prosper on the basis of a true morality.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The highest Art could not find the energy necessary for similar revelations if it lacked the foundation of religious symbols and perfect morality, for only thus can such Art be truly understood.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We see, therefore, in what sense, all truly high Art, can rightly be considered religious. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The relationship between <a href="http://music%20in%20the%20third%20reich/" target="_blank">Art and religion</a> is a relation of reciprocity, which conditions both.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">True art can not be born without religion, as this latter can not be revealed without the help of Art.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In this sense Art and religion are not more than a single organism, and it is only in this live form that a profoundly religious Art, revelation of a true religion, can draw out the necessary virtue and force for the fulfillment of regeneration.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; text-align: left;">Charles Robert Darwin, FRS (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist and geologist, best known for his contributions to evolutionary theory. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestors, and in a joint publication with Alfred Russel Wallace introduced his scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection, in which the struggle for existence has a similar effect to the artificial selection involved in selective breeding.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Although there was almost no mention of mankind in Darwin’s treatise, the implications were unavoidable and led to a more radical change in human self-perception than anything before it in recorded history.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In one blow, Darwin had relegated us from divinely-created beings to apes - the culmination of evolution by the impersonal mechanism of natural selection.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But are the scientists right in applying the theory of evolution to the strange two-legged hominid known as ‘<i>man</i>’ ?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Charles Darwin himself was strangely quiet on this point but his co-discoverer, Alfred Wallace, was less reluctant to express his views.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One hundred years of science have failed to prove Alfred Wallace wrong.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Alfred Russel Wallace OM FRS (8 January 1823 – 7 November 1913) was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, and biologist. He is best known for independently conceiving the theory of evolution through natural selection; his paper on the subject was jointly published with some of Charles Darwin's writings in 1858. This prompted Darwin to publish his own ideas in 'On the Origin of Specie's. Wallace did extensive fieldwork, first in the Amazon River basin and then in the Malay Archipelago, where he identified the faunal divide now termed the 'Wallace Line', which separates the Indonesian archipelago into two distinct parts: a western portion in which the animals are largely of Asian origin, and an eastern portion where the fauna reflect Australasia.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Anthropologists have failed miserably to produce fossil evidence of man’s ‘<i>missing link</i>’ with the apes, and there has been a growing recognition of the complexity of organs such as the human brain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Such are the problems with the application of Darwinism to mankind that the evolution of Aryan Man has been described as '<i>an awesome improbability</i>’.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The anthropologist Sir Arthur Keith listed the anatomical characteristics peculiar to each of the primate species, calling them ‘<i>generic characters</i>’ which set each apart from the others.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Sir Arthur Keith FRS (5 February 1866 – 7 January 1955) was a Scottish anatomist and anthropologist, who became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and Hunterian Professor and conservator of the Hunterian Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons in London (not to be confused with the Hunterian Museum Glasgow Scotland).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">His results were as follows: gorilla 75; chimpanzee 109; orang-outang 113; gibbon 116; </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cro-Magnon Man</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> 312.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Keith thus showed scientifically that </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cro-Magnon Man</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> was nearly three times more distinctive than any other ape.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Cro-Magnon is a name that has been used to describe the first modern humans (Homo sapiens sapiens) of the European Upper Paleolithic. The earliest known remains of Cro-Magnon humans are radiocarbon dated to 43,000 years before present. Modern Indigenous Northern Europeans descend from the Cro-Magnon peoples. Cro-Magnons were robustly built and powerful. The body was generally heavy and solid with a strong musculature. The forehead was fairly straight rather than sloping like in Neanderthals (see below), and with only slight brow-ridges. The face was short and wide. The chin was prominent. The brain capacity was about 1,600 cubic centimetres (98 cu in), larger than the average for modern humans, however, recent research suggests that the physical dimensions of so-called "Cro-Magnon" are not sufficiently different from modern humans to warrant a separate designation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The greatest mystery of Cro-Magnon Man is its incredible brain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In addition to the brain’s physical complexity, its performance knows no bounds - mathematics and art, abstract thought and conceptualization and, above all, moral conscience and self-awareness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Whilst many of the human brain’s secrets remain shrouded in mystery, enough has been revealed for it to be described as ’<i>the most complex object in the known universe</i>’.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Evolutionists see the brain as nothing more than a set of algorithms, but they are forced to admit that it is so complex and unique that there is no chance of reverse engineering the evolutionary process that created it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And so we are left with some puzzles regarding the development of the brain:</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Where was the competitor that caused the brain of Cro-Magnon Man to evolve to such an extreme level of size and complexity ? </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>What rival caused intellectual ability to be such an essential survival development for our species ? </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Who were we trying to outsmart ? </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Could inter-species competition be the explanation ? </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>In modern times our most significant achievements - space travel and nuclear weapons for example - have come from superpower competition. </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Did primitive men split into competitive, rival groups ? </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Could Neandertal Man have been a competitive threat to his fellow Homo sapiens ?</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On the contrary, the evidence suggests that Neanderthal Man and Cro-Magnon Man co-existed relatively peacefully - and even interbred, to a limited extent, in the Fertile Crescent</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Furthermore, early hominids continued to use simple stone tools for millions of years up to about 200,000 years ago; there is no sign of any escalation in tool use caused by an inter-species conflict.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So, in the absence of an intellectual rival that fits the time frame, the orthodox evolutionary scenario for the brain seems to be fundamentally implausible...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The appearance of </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cro-Magnon Man (Aryan Man)</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> is more than a baffling puzzle - it is highly improbable, and close to impossible, according to the fundamental principles of Darwinism.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If we use an ape as the starting point, it is widely agreed that a significant number of big evolutionary jumps are necessary to evolve into a man.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is also widely agreed that mutation is the mechanism by which natural selection works.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is the combination of these improbable factors and the relatively short period of six million years allowed for man’s evolution from the apes, which has caused such discomfort.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The great power of Darwinism, according to its proponents such as the <i>much discredited</i> Richard Dawkins, is that, given enough time, natural selection can explain <i>anything </i>and <i>everything</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But when it comes to Cro-Magnon Man, the lack of evolutionary time becomes a major problem.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What are the odds against Cro-Magnon Man benefiting from not one, but several macro-mutations in the course of less than six million years ?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">However, scientists point out that the vast majority of mutations are bad.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They also point out that macro-mutations - mutations which produce big changes - are particularly dangerous to a species and thus unlikely to survive.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Furthermore, they accept that even if a positive mutation does take hold in a species, it will do so only in the right circumstances when a small population becomes isolated.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon Man<br />
Skeletons</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In summary, the mutational mechanism must take a long, long time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The problem can be looked at another way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One of the central principles of Darwinism is that ’<i>nature never over-endows a species beyond the needs of everyday existence</i>’.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So, why was it that, in the complete absence of an intellectual rival, Cro-Magnon Man did acquire a brain which was light years beyond its requirements for everyday existence ?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is a scenario which seems utterly implausible, and flies in the face of our understanding of evolution as a slow and gradual process.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Common sense would suggest at least another million years for </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cro-Magnon Man</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> to develop from stone tools to using other materials, and perhaps a hundred million years to master such trades as mathematics, engineering and astronomy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We shouldn't even be dreaming of space probes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Scientific evidence shows a 98 per cent genetic similarity between man and the chimpanzee, and it must be asked </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">how a 2 per cent difference in DNA can account for the astonishing difference between man and his primate ’cousins’.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After all, a dog shares 98 per cent of its genes with a fox, yet the two animals closely resemble each other.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Somehow we must explain how a mere 2 per cent genetic difference can account for so many ’<i>value added</i>’ features in mankind - the brain, language, modern anatomy and sexuality - to name but a few.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Furthermore, it is a strange fact that Cro-Magnon Man has only <i>46 </i>chromosomes, compared to 48 in other hominids, chimpanzees and gorillas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The theory of natural selection has been unable to suggest how the fusing together of two chromosomes - a major structural change - should have come about in such a short time scale.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The scientific evidence indicates that an<i> unknown hand</i> upgraded Homo Erectus with a series of <i>deliberate, focused </i>improvements to a form we now identify as <i>Cro-Magnon</i>, and subsequently, Modern (Aryan) Man.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was formerly thought by some palaeontologists that Neanderthal somehow morphed into Cro-Magnon, and that Cro-Magnon was the progenitor of human beings as we know them today.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There are, however, serious problems with the assumptions about when modern human types actually appeared on Earth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Even if we take the evolving scientific view of the present day, we find that Cro-Magnon man was something altogether different from other anatomically modern humans.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Over and over again we read in scientific studies that Cro-Magnon man was just an “<i>anatomically modern human</i>”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The experts will say:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“<i>The Cro-Magnons lived in Europe between 35,000 and 10,000 years ago.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>They are virtually identical to modern man, being tall and muscular and slightly more robust than most modern humans.</i>”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Notice how they slip in the statement that </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cro-Magnons were</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> “</span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">slightly more robust</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The fact is, the Cro-Magnon man was, compared to the other “<i>anatomically modern humans</i>” around him, practically a '<i>superman</i>'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They were skilled hunters, toolmakers and artists famous for the cave art at places such as Lascaux, Chauvet, and Altamira.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'the males were as tall as 6 feet'</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They had a high cranium, an upright face, and cranial capacity “<i>about the same as modern humans</i>”, but strangely less than that of Neanderthals.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The males were as tall as 6 feet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They appeared in Europe in the upper Pleistocene, about 40,000 years ago and “t<i>heir geographic origin is still unknown</i>”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Their skeletal remains show a “<i>few small differences from modern humans</i>”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Of course, the “<i>out of Africa</i>” theory advocates suggest that Cro-Magnon came from Sub Saharan Africa, and a temperate climate and that, “<i>they would eventually adapt to all extremes of heat and cold</i>”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In this way, the “<i>slight differences</i>” between Cro-Magnon and other forms of anatomically modern humans can be explained away as an adaptation to cold.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But, as we will see, this idea doesn’t hold water.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cro-Magnon’s tools are described as the 'Aurignacian' technology, characterized by bone and antler tools, such as spear tips (the first) and harpoons.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They also used animal traps, and bow and arrow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They invented shafts and handles for their knives, securing their blades with bitumen, a kind of tar, as long as 40 thousand years ago.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Other improvements included the invention of the 'atlatl', a large bone or piece of wood with a hooked groove used for adding distance and speed to spears.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They also invented more sophisticated spear points, such as those that detach after striking and cause greater damage to prey.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Cro-Magnon type man was also the “<i>originator</i>” of such abstract concepts as “<i>time</i>”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They marked time by lunar phases, recording them with marks on a piece of bone, antler or stone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Some of these “</span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">calendars</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">” contained a record of as many as 24 lunations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the relatively recent past, tool industries diversified.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Gravettian industry (25 to 15 thousand years ago), characterized by ivory tools such as backed blades, is associated with mammoth hunters.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Gravettian toolmaking culture was a specific archaeological industry of the European Upper Paleolithic era prevalent before the last glacial epoch. It is named after the type site of La Gravette in the Dordogne region of France where its characteristic tools were first found and studied. It lasted until 22,000 years ago. Where found, it succeeded the artifacts datable to the Aurignacian culture.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One type of brief industry was Solutrean, occurring from 18 to 15 thousand years ago and limited to South-west France and Spain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is characterized by unique and finely crafted “laurel leaf” blades, made with a pressure technique requiring a great skill.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The industry is associated with horse hunters.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The tool industry of the 'Clovis Culture' in North America (11 to 8 thousand years ago) is notable for its remarkable similarity to Solutrean.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Some suggest that the Solutrean culture migrated to North America around 12,000 thousand years ago.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They were nomadic hunter-gatherers, and had elaborate rituals for hunting, birth and death. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Multiple burials are common in the areas where they were found.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What is most interesting is that from 35 to 10 thousand years ago, there was no differentiation by sex or age in burials.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They included special grave goods, as opposed to everyday, utilitarian objects, suggesting a very increased ritualization of death and burial.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They were the first confirmed to have domesticated animals, starting by about 15 thousand years ago (though ancient sapiens may have domesticated the dog as much as 200 thousand years ago).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They were the first to leave extensive works of art, such as cave paintings and carved figures of animals and pregnant women.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Huge caves lavishly decorated with murals depicting animals of the time were at first rejected as fake for being too sophisticated.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then they were dismissed as being primitive, categorized as hunting, fertility or other types of sympathetic magic.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Re-evaluations have put these great works of art in a more prominent place in art history.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They show evidence of motifs, of following their own stylistic tradition, of “impressionist” like style, perspective, and innovative use of the natural relief in the caves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Also possible, considering the new concepts of time reckoning practised by Cro-Magnon, are abstract representations of the passage of time, such as spring plants in bloom, or pregnant bison that might represent summer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Aside from pregnant women and other Goddess worship iconography, representations of people, “<i>anthropomorphs</i>,” are very few, and never show the accuracy or detail of the other animals.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Humans are represented in simple outlines without features, sometimes with “masks”, often without regard to proportion, being distorted and isolated.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At the 'Grottes des Enfants' in France are found four burials with red ocher, and associated with Aurignacian tools.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At Lascaux, France, are the famous caves of upper Paleolithic cave art, dated to 17 thousand years ago, and even older, in some cases, by many thousands of years!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The modern human types that appeared in the Levant were, however, somewhat different from Cro-Magnon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They were the sub-Saharan type, less developed individuals than the true Cro-Magnon “<i>superman</i>” of Europe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What seems to be the truth of the matter is simply that the modern humans of the Levant were “<i>different</i>” from the Cro-Magnon types that “<i>appeared</i>” in Europe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Try as they would, there is simply was no way to prove that Cro-Magnon evolved in Africa or the Levant, and then moved to Europe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But then, how to explain what happened in any reasonable terms ?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What the archaeological record seems to show is that in Europe, after millennia of almost no progress at all, even in the few areas where modern man has been found, suddenly human culture seems to take off like an explosion with the appearance of Cro-Magnon man.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Not only does culture explode, but also new ways of doing things, new styles and innovations that were utterly unknown in the period immediately preceding them, suddenly appear, only to disappear again like an outdated fad.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">From Spain to the Urals, sites list the developments of sewing needles, barbed projectiles, fish-hooks, ropes, meat drying racks, temperature controlled hearths, and complex dwellings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The most amazing part of all of it is the art.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Art suddenly springs onto the landscape, fully formed, with no period of gradual development; no signs of childish attempts preceding it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A piece of ivory carved 32,000 years ago is as realistic as anything turned out by the most accomplished carver of the present day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Upper Paleolithic signals the most fundamental change in human behaviour that the archaeological record may ever reveal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The only explanation for this tremendous change is that a<i> new </i>kind of human - the Aryan - appeared on the earth stage.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When we consider the difficulties of such an event, in terms of “evolution”, we find that this presents a huge difficulty in our understanding.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">First of all, we still have the problem of a 60,000-year time lag between the appearance of the sub-Saharan modern type man who was on the scene with no “<i>improvements</i>” in his technology for that length of time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If Cro-Magnon evolved in Africa, why isn't there a continuous record of incremental developments ?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">By the same reasoning, if he evolved only after crossing the Mediterranean to Europe, why isn't there a continuous record of incremental developments ?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The most effective and popular way that science deals with this crisis is to ignore it, to deny it, or to seek to twist the facts to fit the theory.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But what seems to have happened is that the new Aryan '<i>culture</i>' exploded in a lot of places at once: from Spain to the Ural mountains in Russia !</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And in fact, the Middle East is the LAST place where art appears.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The earliest known Aurignacian sites are in the Balkans, and they are dated to around 43,000 years ago.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Three thousand years later, the Aurignacian craze is all over Europe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We ought to note that the Neanderthals did <i>not </i>have art.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What’s more, there was essentially no change in their stone tools for 100,000 years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Some people suggest that the impetus for culture was the sudden development of speech.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But that idea doesn't hold much water either.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If we were to look at some of the aboriginal societies of Australia and New Guinea, they are certainly Neanderthal-like in their stone tools.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The origin of Aboriginal peoples in Australia has been the subject of intense speculation since the nineteenth century. Genetic studies had shown the Aboriginal peoples to be related much more closely to each other than to any peoples outside Australia, but scholars had disagreed whether their closest kin outside Australia were certain South Asian groups or African groups. The latter would imply a migration pattern in which their ancestors passed through South Asia to Australia without intermingling genetically with other populations along the way. A 2009 genetic study found similarities among Indian archaic populations and Aboriginal people, indicating a Southern migration route, with expanding populations from Southeast Asia migrating to Indonesia and Australia.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But they think and communicate in languages that are as rich as ours, and they construct myths, stories and cosmologies with these languages.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They just don’t seem to be much interested in <i>technology</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There is another very strange thing about this explosion of '<i>homo intellectualis technologicus</i>': it seems to have sort of <i>“lost its steam</i>” around 12,000 years ago.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We have already noted the pottery making of the Jomon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Even more startling is the fact that twenty-six thousand years ago the residents of Dolni Vestonice were firing ceramics in kilns.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Dolní Věstonice (often without diacritics as Dolni Vestonice) refers to an Upper Paleolithic archaeological site near the village of Dolní Věstonice, in Moravia, dating to approximately 26,000 BP, as supported by radiocarbon dating. The site is unique in that it has been a particularly abundant source of prehistoric artifacts (especially art) dating from the Gravettian period, which spanned roughly 27,000 to 20,000 B.C. In addition to the abundance of art, this site also includes carved representations of men, women, and animals, along with personal ornaments, human burials and enigmatic engravings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the standard teachings, the emergence of ceramics is linked to the functional use of pottery which supposedly did not appear until the agricultural revolution in the Neolithic period some 12,000 years after the kilns at Dolni were last used.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A thousand miles to the east of Dolni Vestonice, there is a cave called Bacho Kiro.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is famous for containing the earliest known Aurignacian tool assemblages.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They are 43,000 years old.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This brings us to another curious thing about Neanderthal man: he never seemed to go anywhere.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Neanderthals are a supposedlyu extinct species of human in the genus Homo. Remains left by Neanderthals include bones and stone tools, which are found in Eurasia, from Western Europe to Central and Northern Asia. The species is named after Neandertal ("Neander Valley"), the location in Germany where it was first discovered. Neanderthals are classified by palaeontologists as the species 'Homo neanderthalensis'. The first humans with proto-Neanderthal traits are believed to have existed in Eurasia as early as 600,000–350,000 years ago. Genetic evidence suggests that Neanderthals contributed to the DNA of anatomically modern humans, probably through interbreeding between 80,000 and 28,000 years ago with a population of anatomically modern humans (Cro-Magnons).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He always made his tools out of what was locally available, and he never seemed to travel at all.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What was made where it was made, stayed there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Nobody traded or shared among the Neanderthal groups.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But it seems that right from the beginning, Cro-Magnon man was travelling and sharing and exchanging not only goods, but technology.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If there was a better form of stone somewhere else, the word seemed to get around, and everybody had some of it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Distinctive flints from southern Poland are found at Dolni Vestonice, a hundred miles to the south.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Slovakian radiolarite of red, yellow and olive is found a hundred miles to the east.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Later in the Upper Paleolithic period, the famous “chocolate flint” of southern Poland is found over a radius of two hundred and fifty miles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Naturally, these rocks didn't walk around on their own.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Human legs carried them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And that leads us to our next little problem with Cro-Magnon man: You see, his legs were too long.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One of the sacred laws of evolutionary biology is called “Allen’s Rule”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This rule posits that legs, arms, ears, and other body extremities should be shorter in mammals that live in cold climates, and longer in mammals of the same period who live where it is hot. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is because having short arms and legs conserves heat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is supposed to explain why Eskimos and Laplanders have short legs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It also is supposed to explain why Bantu people are leaner, and the Maasai are extremely long and lean in their tropical open country.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The only people who seem to be mocking Allen’s rule are Cro-Magnon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They just refused to adapt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They all have much longer legs than they ought to.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Of course, this is pounced upon as proof that they came from Africa.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The only problem with this is that it is hard to imagine people from a warm climate migrating to a cold one by choice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then, on top of that, to remain long-limbed for over a thousand generations ?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Keep in mind that, during that time, the thermometer kept going down and, at the glacial maximum, 18,000 years ago, it was like the North Pole in northern Europe !</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So how come they didn't adapt ?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">By whatever means they arrived in Europe, we ought to take note of the fact that their presence there may be related to the fact that Europe and other nearby locations are literally blanketed with megaliths.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Indeed, it may be so that the megaliths came long after the appearance of Cro-Magnon man, but the connection ought not to be discarded without some consideration.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">A megalith is a large stone that has been used to construct a structure or monument, either alone or together with other stones.</span><span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The word "megalithic" describes structures made of such large stones, utilizing an interlocking system without the use of mortar or cement, as well as representing periods of prehistory characterised by such constructions. For later periods the term monolith, with an overlapping meaning, is more likely to be used. </span><span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The word "megalith" comes from the Ancient Greek "μέγας" (megas) meaning "great" and "λίθος" (lithos) meaning "stone." Megalith also denotes an item consisting of rock(s) hewn in definite shapes for special purposes. It has been used to describe buildings built by people from many parts of the world living in many different periods. A variety of large stones are seen as megaliths, with the most widely known megaliths not being sepulchral. The construction of these structures took place mainly in the Neolithic (though earlier Mesolithic examples are known) and continued into the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We have still another problem here, and it has to do with dating.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Analysing mitochondrial DNA data to reconstruct the demographic prehistory of Homo Sapiens reveals statistical evidence of explosive growth around 50,000 to 60,000 years ago.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Is there a connection between this DNA evidence and the appearance of Cro-Magnon man ?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If so, it would mean that the DNA is dated to twice the age that archaeology confirms.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Instead of assuming that the archaeological dates are correct, perhaps we ought to ask the question: could something be wrong with the dating ?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">From a morphological point of view as well as judging by their industry and art, these highly evolved humans, who <i>coexisted</i> with Neanderthal man, represent a <i>mutation</i> so enormous and sudden as to be absurd in the context of evolutionary theory.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the end, the fundamental problem still remains: a new kind of man appeared on the planet, seemingly from nowhere, and he was intelligent, artistic, and however he got here, he '<i>landed</i>' in a lot of places simultaneously.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Are we suggesting that Cro-Magnon man was an alien ?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Not exactly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What do all of these factors, taken together, suggest?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">While Neanderthals appear to have evolved from less developed hominids, who were in turn evolved from primates, Cro-Magnons appear to have appeared from nowhere, in a form that was far more advanced than was evolution required.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Cro-Magnons were undoubtedly <i>unrelated</i> to any evolutionary process, and were the predecessors of the Aryans.</span><br />
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Peter Crawfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08185209993829407070noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2205145836551042962.post-37171031899448835042014-04-05T15:06:00.002-07:002015-06-14T10:32:00.961-07:00National Socialism and the Occult - Part IV - Heß, Hörbiger and Himmler<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rudolf Heß has been painted by historians as weak and indecisive, characterless, passive, putty in the hands of a stronger man, eager to be rid of his personal identity, to give up his freedom to think and feel for himself to a totalitarian cause - in short, the perfect disciple loyal and obedient to the death.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Like Hitler, Heß had a penchant for occultism, having been steeped in it from his birth in <a href="http://petersegypt.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/egypt.html" target="_blank">Egypt</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Heß</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, the eldest of three children, was born 26 April 1894 in <a href="http://petersegypt.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/egypt.html" target="_blank">Alexandria</a>, Egypt, into the ethnic German family of Fritz Hess, a prosperous merchant from Bavaria, and Clara Hess (née Münch).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">His brother, Alfred, was born in 1897 and his sister, Margarete, was born in 1908.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The family lived in a villa on the Egyptian coast near Alexandria, and visited Germany often from 1900, staying at their summer home in Reicholdsgrün in the Fichtel Mountains.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hess attended a German language Protestant school in Alexandria from 1900 to 1908, when he was sent back to Germany to study at a boarding school in Bad Godesberg.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He demonstrated an aptitude for science and mathematics, but his father wished him to join the family business, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Heß</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> & Co., so he sent him in 1911 to study at the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce in Neuchâtel, Switzerland.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After a year there, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Heß</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> took an apprenticeship at a trading company in Hamburg.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As soon as World War I started, he volunteered, and was placed in the </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1st Company of the 16th Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment, named the List Regiment, after its original commander.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He was an officer in the same regiment as Hitler, who was a dispatch runner, but they never met.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">According to a letter which Hitler wrote to his old Munich landlord, they lost 2,900 men in four days.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While convalescing from his wounds, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Heß</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> had requested that he be allowed to enrol to train as a pilot, so after some Christmas leave with his family, he reported to Munich, where he passed the required tests and underwent aeronautical training.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By 14 October he had been assigned to Jagdstaffel 35b, a Bavarian fighter squadron equipped with Fokker D.VII biplanes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He went back to Munich and joined the Thule Gesellschaft.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He was one of the hundreds of veterans smuggled out of Munich by Sebottendorff, along with money and arms, to join the Friekorps.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Despite his hangdog look, he had a reputation for being a scrappy street fighter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Heß was in the audience when Hitler came to Deutsche Arbeiterpartei meetings to deliver his grandiose plans for the future of the movement, predicting that the day would come '<i>when the banner of our movement will fly over the Reichstag, over the Castle in Berlin, yes, over every German house</i>.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Seeing the small audience and the pale, gesticulating speaker, Heß wondered, as he later reported, '<i>Was this thundering orator foolish or was he the Messiah ?</i>'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Soon, his mind was made up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As a student at the University of Munich, he was eligible to apply for a prize which a wealthy South American had endowed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Competitors were to write a theme that posed the question '<i>How Must the Man Be Constituted Who Will Lead Germany Back to Her Old Heights</i> ?'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Delirious with the Messianic hope of the time, Hess won.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>'Profound knowledge in all areas of political life and history, the capacity to draw the right lessons from this knowledge, belief in the purity of his own cause and in ultimate victory, and enormous power of will give him the power of thrilling oratory which evokes joyful enthusiasm from the masses. Where the salvation of the nation is in question, he does not disdain utilizing the weapons of the adversary, demagogy, slogans, processions, etc. Where all authority has vanished, only a man of the people can establish authority. This was shown in the case of Mussolini. The deeper the dictator was originally rooted in the broad masses, the better he understands how to treat them psychologically, the less the workers will distrust him, the more supporters he will win among these most energetic ranks of the people. He himself has nothing in common with the masses; he is all personality, like every great man.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>If necessity commands it, he does not shrink from shedding blood. Great questions are always decided by blood and iron. And the question at stake is: Shall we rise or be destroyed ? </i></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Parliament may go babbling, or not the man acts. It transpires that despite his many speeches, he knows how to keep silent. Perhaps his own supporters are the most keenly disappointed. ... In order to reach his goal, he is prepared to trample on his closest friends. ... For the sake of the great ultimate goal, he must even be willing temporarily to appear a traitor against the nation in the eyes of the majority. The lawgiver </i></span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">proceeds with terrible hardness. . . . He knows the people and their influential individuals. As the need arises, he can trample them with the boots of a grenadier, or with cautious and sensitive fingers spin threads reaching as far as the Pacific Ocean. ... In either case, the treaties of enslavement will fall. One day we shall have our new, Greater Germany, embracing all those who are of German blood. . . . </i><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thus we have the portrait of the dictator: keen of mind, clear and true, passionate and then again controlled, cold and bold, scrupulous in decision, fearless in rapid execution of his acts, ruthless toward himself and others, mercilessly hard and then again soft in his love for his people, tireless in work, with a steel fist in a velvet glove, capable ultimately of overcoming even himself.</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>We still do not know when he will intervene to save - Dieser Mann - (</i></span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">this man). But millions feel that he is coming.</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By November 8, 1923, '<i>this man</i>' had made his presence known to all Germany.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hitler had already seized control of the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterparte (</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">NSDAP), and now planned to seize control of the Bavarian government as well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hess, intoxicated with his newly discovered Messiah, marched along with Hitler in the Munich Putsch of 1923.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Despite its dramatic effect, the Putsch was a fiasco.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hess escaped across the border into Austria over a mountain pass.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hitler was imprisoned at Festung Landsberg, a prison fortress situated in a town just west of Munich.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The punishment was very mild, lasting less than nine months, and Hitler spoke of it afterwards as a much-needed '<i>vacation</i>'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Heß proved his devotion to Hitler by coming back from Austria, giving himself up, and joining Hitler in prison, in room No. 7.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So steadfast was that devotion, in fact, that Ernst Hanfstaengl hints at an '<i>unnatural</i>' relation- ship:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'<i>It is probably not true to say there was a physical homosexual relationship between the two, but in a passive way the attraction was there. I certainly did not trust the manhood of either</i>.'</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- however, Hanfstaengl had fallen out with Hitler when he wrote this, and his comments are, therefore, far from being unbiased.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Shared prison life served to bind the two men together until a later fiasco severed the bond. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Heß became Hitler's secretary, and helped him with '<a href="http://meinkampfvol1.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/on-november-9-1923-at-12.html" target="_blank">Mein Kampf</a>'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Heß did more than take dictation and type the manuscript.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As the best educated of Hitler's disciples, he was able to provide Hitler with useful information, particularly on a new study which was called 'geopolitics'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He introduced Hitler to the professor (and ex-general) from whom he had learned about geopolitics, and, in fact, the professor was a frequent visitor to Festung Landsberg.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Writing in Current History and Forum in June 1941, Frederic Sondern, Jr., who had personal knowledge of the subject, reported:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'<i><a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/karl-haushofer.html" target="_blank">Dr. Haushofer</a> and his associates dominate Hitler's thinking. That domination began 17 years ago when the World War general flattered the ex-corporal by paying him visits in prison. Haushofer saw possibilities in the hysterical agitator who had launched an unsuccessful beer-hall revolution. The prison visits became frequent; the distinguished soldier- scientist fascinated Hitler, then finally made him a disciple. The ascendancy has grown as Dr. Haushofer again and again has proved the accuracy of his knowledge and the wisdom of his advice</i>.'</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">'Mein Kampf'</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was Haushofer who taught Hitler think in terms of continents and empires.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Haushofer virtually dictated the famous Chapter XVI of 'Mein Kampf' which Hitler's later foreign policy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/karl-haushofer.html" target="_blank">Haushofer's 'Lebensraum'</a> (living space) theory sought to justify Germany's world conquest by claiming that it was necessary to insure the German people room to preserve and expand their racial community.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Haushofer later developed an intelligence gathering organization which became the envy and model for all others.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He was called everything from '<i>Hitler's ideas man'</i> to '<i>the man who will in the end take the Fuhrer's place</i>,' yet he kept a very low profile.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But there is apparently much more to Haushofer than the 'geopolitician'.</span></div>
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War Flag of the Imperial Japanese Army</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A love affair with the Orient began in 1908, when, as a field artillery officer in the Bavarian army, he was sent to Tokyo to study the Japanese army and to advise it as an artillery instructor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The assignment changed the course of his life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He travelled extensively in the Far East, and added the Japanese, Chinese, and Korean languages to his repertoire of English, French, and Russian.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He could not be accused - as other leading National Socialists were - of having a provincial background.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">His four-year sojourn in the Far East also changed the course of German history.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Haushofer was able to make the acquaintance of influential Japanese, and to develop a rapport for the culture which helped account later for the German-Japanese alliance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When he returned to Germany in 1912, he had no reason at all to know that the Chinese proverb of which he was so fond:</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">Arthur Schopenhauer</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'<i>He who rides a tiger cannot get off</i>,' would one day have particular relevance for him.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">Die Geheimlehre</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Haushofer was introduced to Oriental teachings during his stay in the Far East.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He had been a devout student of Schopenhauer, and now he could drink directly from the source.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He became sufficiently conversant in Sanskrit to translate several Hindu and Buddhist texts, and he was an authority on Oriental mysticism and on every aspect of 'Die Geheimlehre</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the' - (Secret Doctrine).</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">George Gurdjieff</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/karl-haushofer.html" target="_blank">Haushofer</a> also belonged to George Gurdjieff's esoteric circle, which was as well versed in the difficult exercises of the Order of Bektashi Dervishes as Sebottendorff was, and that he was also a secret member of the Thule Society.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">List's publishing house made a German translation of Gurdjieff s biography.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gurdjieff traveled extensively through Asia, and possibly met Haushofer there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A former disciple of Gurdjieff, Louis Pauwels, has stated that Haushofer was a member of <i>'one of the most important secret Buddhist societies</i>', and was on a mission to restore the Indo-Germanic race, which he believed had originated in Central Asia, to its former greatness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff was born in 1872 in the Caucasus region of </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Russia, of Russian, Greek, and Armenian ancestry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Like Madame Blavatsky, he claimed to have met members of a Hidden Brotherhood while travelling in Asia, and they imparted to him the occult tradition.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He started a school, first in Moscow and then in France, where disciples could open up higher levels of consciousness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An enigmatic figure, he may have been sent to Tibet as a Russian secret agent.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He is believed by some people to have been known there as Dorjieff, the name of the man who taught the Dalai Lama, and there is a striking similarity in early photographs of both men.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Haushofer, however, had been imbued with the spirit of Gurdjieff's teaching, which held that men are asleep, and that great effort is needed for some of them to awaken and become, in effect, superhuman.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gurdjieff believed in the legend of 'Masters of Wisdom', superhuman intelligences who keep a careful watch over the destiny of mankind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Though this legend is common in Central Asia and the Near East, it is likely that Gurdjieff derived it from the Order of Bektashi Dervishes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As we will see, it recurred in völkisch mythology.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gurdjieff also believed that he himself was a source of higher energy from which his disciples could draw.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He hinted that he was in direct communication with a 'higher source', through which '<i>the work for which he was responsible would be able to spread and gain strength in the world,</i>' and that '<i>an organization of a higher order was being established in the world which would be able to accept only those who had reached such a stage of spiritual development that they were able to generate higher energies</i>.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He believed that his work was <i>evolutionary</i>, because it was '<i>against the stream of life,</i>' that is to say, '<i>against nature and against </i></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>God</i>.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gurdjieff was not bound by traditional ideas of morality.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There was an air of the trickster about him, and he could often play the cruel despot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Haushofer's name has also been linked with another esoteric group, the <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/the-vril.html" target="_blank">'Vril Society</a>,' or 'Luminous Lodge', a secret community of occultists in Weimar Berlin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'<a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/the-vril.html" target="_blank">Vril</a>' derives from the novel 'The Coming Race', which has prophetic overtones.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was written by an English occultist who is better known as the author of 'The Last Days of Pompeii': Baron Edward Bulwer-Lytton.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Written in the nineteenth century, 'The Coming Race' details a superhuman subterranean race of beings living in huge caves in the bowels of the earth, who have developed a kind of psychic energy 'vril', with which they are made the equals of the gods.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They plan, one day, to take control of the earth and bring about a mutation among the existing human elite, subjugating, of course, the rest of slavish humanity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Baron Lytton himself presumably believed that he was a storer of '<a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/the-vril.html" target="_blank">vril</a>'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He practiced ceremonial magic, and was claimed by Madame Blavatsky to be a Theosophist. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Although he had examined mesmerism, he denied that 'vril' had anything to do with animal magnetism.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was electricity whose properties were the same as the '<i>one great fluid'</i> with which all of life was pervaded.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">His 'Vril people' accumulated it through mental and physical exercises resembling yoga.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The uses of Vril in the novel amongst the Vril-ya vary from an agent of destruction to a healing substance. Vril can be changed into the mightiest agency over all types of matter, both animate and inanimate. It can destroy like lightning or replenish life, heal, or cure. It is used to rend ways through solid matter. Its light is said to be steadier, softer and healthier than that from any flammable material. It can also be used as a power source for animating mechanisms. Vril can be harnessed by use of the Vril staff or mental concentration.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">A Vril staff is an object in the shape of a wand or a staff which is used as a channel for Vril. The narrator describes it as hollow with 'stops', 'keys', or 'springs' in which Vril can be altered, modified or directed to either destroy or heal. The staff is about the size of a walking stick but can be lengthened or shortened according to the user's preferences. The appearance and function of the Vril staff differs according to gender, age, etc. Some staves are more potent for destruction, others for healing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The '<a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/the-vril.html" target="_blank">Vril Society</a>' in Berlin apparently sought connection with the supernatural beings in the centre of the world, and practised the techniques which would eventually strengthen their mastery of the divine energy, so that they would have power over others and over events.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They believed that this attempt at mastery was the only thing which gave purpose to existence. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Any other activity was meaningless.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One day, when the world was transformed, the beings in the centre of the earth would emerge and form an alliance with those initiates who had succeeded in adequately preparing themselves.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Helena Blavatsky, the founder of Theosophy, endorsed the concept of the Vril in her book 'Isis Unveiled' (1877) and again in 'Die Geheimlehrehe' (The Secret Doctrine) (1888). In Blavatsky, the Vril power and its attainment by a superhuman elite are worked into a mystical doctrine of race.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Willy Ley was a German rocket engineer published an article in which he mentions the Vril: "The group called itself Wahrheitsgesellschaft - Society for Truth - and which was localised in Berlin, devoted its time studying the Vril."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/the-vril.html" target="_blank">Berlin Vril Society</a> was in close contact with an English group known as the <a href="http://crowleythetruewill.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/aleister-crowley-hermetic-order-of.html" target="_blank">'Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn</a>', which was, for a time, headed by <a href="http://crowleythetruewill.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/aleister-crowley-aleister-crowley-12.html" target="_blank">Aleister Crowley</a>, and counted among its members such illustrious people as the poet William Butler Yeats.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The <a href="http://crowleythetruewill.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/aleister-crowley-hermetic-order-of.html" target="_blank">Golden Dawn</a> created an even more exclusive inner group than its competitors, the Theosophists, with admission by invitation only, rule by secret chiefs who were dis-incarnate spirits existing only in the astral plane.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The <a href="http://crowleythetruewill.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/aleister-crowley-hermetic-order-of.html" target="_blank">Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn</a> was an organization devoted to the study and practice of the occult, metaphysics, and paranormal activities during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Known as a magical order, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn was active in Great Britain and focused its practices on theurgy and spiritual development. Many present-day concepts of ritual and magic that are at the centre of contemporary traditions, such as Wicca and Thelema, were inspired by the Golden Dawn, which became one of the largest single influences on 20th-century Western occultism.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The group also practised ritual magic.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Such elitism made it the prototype of other magical groups throughout the continent.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The swastika was a key symbol to <a href="http://crowleythetruewill.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/aleister-crowley-hermetic-order-of.html" target="_blank">Golden Dawn</a>, as it had been to Madame Blavatsky.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She had incorporated it into a mystical brooch which she wore.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Aleister Crowley had written about it in a tract published in 1910, and he later claimed that the National Socialists had stolen the<a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/the-occult-swastika.html" target="_blank"> sacred swastika</a> from him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Haushofer returned to his native country in 1912, and advanced to the rank of general in World War I.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He developed a reputation for clairvoyance, predicting the hour when the enemy would attack, the places where shells would fall, storms and political changes in countries about which he apparently knew nothing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rudolf Heß was made his aide-de-camp.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was to remain a lasting relationship.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Haushofer the 'geopolitician' is a much more familiar and comprehensible figure than Haushofer the Secret Chief.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With his Roman nose and patrician bearing, he made an imposing professor at war's end.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He had already distinguished himself in formulating ideas which were well received by the nationalists and Pan-Germans.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At the University of Munich, he taught that '<i>war is the father of all things',</i> and that Japan and Germany had a common destiny: to appropriate more 'living space' from other nations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He moved quite easily from military affairs to geopolitical statecraft, making good use of his Far Eastern travels.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Munich, the centre of revolutionary conspiracies, was the perfect intellectual climate for the father of geopolitics.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">His disciples and pupils slavishly followed his theories and style, and evolved a strategy of German world conquest which presently had a unique opportunity of fulfilment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">His most famous disciple was Rudolf Heß.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He followed Haushofer to the University of Munich and sat at his feet, ardently drinking in the Professor's political theories.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He was a frequent visitor to the </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Haushofer home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Frau Haushofer was kind enough to give him English lessons.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But the professor described his pupil with merciless accuracy:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'<i>He was one student among others, not particularly gifted, of slow intellectual grasp, and dull in his work. </i></span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He was very dependent on emotions, and passionately liked to pursue fantastic ideas. </i><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He was only influenced by arguments of no importance at the very limits of human knowledge and superstition; he also believed in the influence of the stars on his personal and political life. I was always disconcerted by the expression of his clear eyes, which had something somnambulistic about it</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Presumably, the professor was able to effect a change in his student, because he later claimed that it was only Hess who really understood his theories.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On Haushofer's visits to Landsberg, his geopolitical theories were eagerly discussed by all three men, and incorporated, probably unwisely, into '<a href="http://meinkampfvol1.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/on-november-9-1923-at-12.html" target="_blank">Mein Kampf</a>'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hess always remained loyal to both masters.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As for Hitler, he was released first, and wailed to Hanfstaengl about Heß, '<i>Ach, mein Rudi, mein Hesserl, ist es nicht erschreckend zu denken, er ist immer noch da</i>'</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> (isn't it appalling to think he's still there ?)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The common experience at Festung Landsberg may have sealed a mystical brotherhood between the two men.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Both Hitler and Heß were practised in occult exercises.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the relatively isolated conditions of their prison room, they could have surrendered to the '<i>Grand Work</i>' of calling forth untapped powers in themselves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hanfstaengl believed that Hitler's mind had become 'impregnated with the limited doctrines of the Heß-Haushofer coterie', and that Hess had contributed to his '<i>gradual divorce from reality with the inception of the Fuhrer cult</i>.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Before the Putsch, <i>'Heil'</i> was just an old Austrian custom which the National Socialists had appropriated as a way of saying '<i>Good day</i>.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After the Putsch, Party people used '<i>Heil Hitler</i>' as a sort of password.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The oral greeting '<i>Heil</i>' became popular in the pan-German movement around 1900. The Hitle-gruß (Hitler salute - literally Hitler Greeting) was a gesture of greeting instituted by the NSDAP. Usually, the person offering the salute would say "Heil Hitler !" (Hail Hitler !), "Heil, mein Führer !" (Hail, my leader !), or "Sieg Heil !" (Hail Victory !). The salute is performed by extending the right arm to at least eye level, and straightening the hand so that it is parallel to the arm. It was adopted in the 1930s by the NSDAP to signal obedience to the party's leader – Adolf Hitler – and to glorify the German nation. The salute was mandatory for civilians but mostly optional for military personnel, where the traditional military salute was retained until 1944.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Heß kept his job as secretary on his return from prison, only now it was secretary of the NSDAP.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After 1933, when the National Socialists came to power, he was made deputy leader, second in command under Hitler.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He controlled the central political organization of the Party, supervised and coordinated policy throughout Germany, and was in charge of at least nineteen departments of the government.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hess was given the rank of Obergruppenführer in the <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/heinrich-himmler-ahnenerbe.html" target="_blank">Schutzstaffel (SS)</a> in 1934, the second-highest SS rank.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He was not popular with the other Party people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kurt Ludecke refers to him as a '<i>notorious</i>' homosexual, and claims he was known as '<i>Fraulein Anna</i>'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He had married at Hitler's suggestion, and according to Goebbels' wife, for years Frau Heß announced that they were about to have a child, because some prophet had foreseen it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They consulted cartomancers, astrologers, and other magicians, who urged on them combinations of drinks and potions, until in the end a son was born.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">His fate was ruled entirely by the stars, by the pronouncements of soothsayers, by animal magnetism, the swings of pendulums, and terrestrial radiations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hanfstaengl says that Heß was considered highly peculiar, and went in for vegetarianism, nature cures and other weird beliefs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It got to the point where he would not go to bed without testing with a divining-rod whether there were any subterranean water- courses which conflicted with the direction of his couch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Himmler's Finnish physiotherapist, Dr. Felix Kersten, recalls finding Hess in bed under a huge magnet swinging over him from the ceiling.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There were twelve other magnets under his bed, to draw harmful substances out of his body and restore his strength.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Still, Hess was a valuable man to the Party, probably because '<i>Heß could be silent and keep secrets</i>.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Meanwhile, Heß's original master, Haushofer the geopolitician, was soon transformed into elder statesman.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He was made president of the 'Deutsch Academy' and of the 'Volkspartei Organisation für Auslandsdeutsche', and became an important member of the 'Akademie für Deutsches Recht' which originated the legislation binding on conquered countries.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Most impressive of all was his job as director of the 'Institut fur Geopolitik' of the University of Munich.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After Hitler came to power, he saw to it that Haushofer received unlimited funds for the expansion of his 'Institut'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">His was the head which conceived of the plan by which Germany was to conquer the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He had long believed that Germany would give birth to a leader who would rule the earth; and astrological predictions had convinced him that this leader would accomplish his mission in an alliance with Japan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He often had premonitions, upon which he acted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He convinced Hitler that the 'Institut' must find out everything about its enemies: strengths, weaknesses, impending famine, religious sensibilities, the personalities and tastes of officials, the morals and corruptibility of even minor bureaucrats, the views of opinion makers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To collate, sift through, and interpret all this material on every country in the world, Haushofer enlisted a staff of more than a thousand students, historians, economists, statisticians, military strategists, psychologists, meteorologists, physicists, geographers, and other specialists, working in Germany and abroad.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The researches apparently paid off.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When, in 1938, the General Staff was worried that France would mobilize if Germany invaded Czechoslovakia, Haushofer assured them that it neither could nor would.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He turned out to be right.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He argued that Poland could be conquered in eighteen days.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The military disagreed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They feared their armoured trucks would bog down in the Polish mud.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Haushofer said it was not likely to rain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It did not.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The General Staff didn't believe Germany should invade Norway.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Haushofer prophesied that it would be easy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The military wanted to invade France when war first started.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Haushofer urged that they wait until German propaganda had made its full impact on the people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He also dictated when the campaigns in Africa and the Balkans would begin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was his idea that the Third Reich make temporary friends with Russia, despite widespread anxiety about collaborating with the Communists.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He wooed Latin America for its usefulness against America.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The National Socialists tried to keep foreign investigators from finding out how elaborate their new geopolitical machine was.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They deliberately led outsiders to believe that they were not themselves taking it seriously, and the deception worked.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some observers believed that Haushofer's thinking dominated Hitler's.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Even American thought was influenced.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Said Hans W. Weigert in Foreign Affairs, July 1942: '<i>The highest eulogy a political writer could earn was to be called 'the American Haushofer' . . . colleges all over the country hurried to organize 'Institutes of Geopolitics.</i>'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He became the geopolitical adviser to Japan, as well, and his house was the meeting-place for Japanese diplomats to come and talk over their alliance with German diplomats.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">His eldest son, Albrecht, was also a geopolitician, and occupied the 'Chair of Political Geography' at the University of Berlin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He worked closely with the Foreign Office, and was made Joachim von Ribbentrop's assistant.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Father and son kept up close contact with British members of the upper class 'Golden Dawn'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The elder Haushofer used his influence with </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;">Heß</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> to try to convince Hitler to make peace with England.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The same mystical thinking which advised the German army to enlarge the living space of the Third Reich <i>'by moving out from a powerful territorial hub and by accomplishing this conquest progressively, step by step, following the accelerating movement of a spiralling dextrogyre</i>' urged </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;">Heß</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> in the spring of 1941, to embark on an adventure which was to make him the most ridiculous figure in the Third Reich.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Haushofers had planned for some time a personal meeting between Hess and the Duke of Hamilton, a good friend of Albrecht's.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The duke had the ear of Prime Minister Winston Churchill and King George VI.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If he could be instrumental in passing on a German peace proposal, it would be worth risking a secret rendezvous.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The elder Haushofer told </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;">Heß</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> that he had two dreams on two separate occasions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In one, Hess flew a plane to an important destination.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In another, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;">Heß</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> walked along the tartan-tapestried halls of a splendid castle (the Duke of Hamilton happened to be Scottish).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Twenty-four years earlier, Haushofer's premonitions had been celebrated for their accuracy.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;">Heß</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> was now ready to fly whenever the stars were propitious.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He took off for Scotland alone on May 10, 1941, in a Messerschmitt bf 110 </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">that had been especially designed for him, with just a few possessions, including visiting cards from each of the Haushofers, an assortment of homoeopathic pills, a small hypodermic syringe, and a letter addressed to the duke.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Heß </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">crash-landed in Scotland, but that was the only part of the trip which went as he and the Haushofers would have expected.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The British government did not leap at his peace offer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The German government had to denounce him as mentally deranged, which caused it quite a bit of embarrassment, since Heß had been in a position of authority, with no one questioning his sanity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hess remained an uncomfortable subject in both countries.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">British cabinet ministers sealed their lips so tightly that one Londoner quipped: '<i>Never has so much been kept from so many by so few</i>.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The British would not allow Heß to go home, warning that he would probably be executed if he did.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Heß sent Professor Haushofer a birthday greeting:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'<i>Do not worry over me. You, less than anyone, need do this. That my present situation is not exactly agreeable goes without saying. But, in time of war, we have to put up with many things that are not agreeable. </i></span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Let the waves like thunder break, Be your very life at stake; May you crash or may you land, E'er as your own pilot stand ! </i><i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That I crashed is not to be denied, and it is equally certain that I was my own pilot ! In this matter I have nothing with which to reproach myself. It was I who took the controls. You know as well as I do that the compass which guides our affairs is influenced by forces that are infallible - even when we know them not. May those forces be favourable to you in the years to come</span></i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> !'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the event, the 'forces' proved no more favourable to Professor Haushofer than to Heß himself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not only were hospitals and streets named 'Heß' ostentatiously changed after his unsuccessful attempt to end the war, but there was a wholesale routing of astrologers, seers, mediums, and nature therapists in the Third Reich.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Heß, meanwhile, grew increasingly paranoid.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He was being hypnotized by the Jews, he complained.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Furthermore, so were Churchill, Secretary of State Anthony Eden, and the king of Italy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Karl and Albrecht Haushofer fell from grace.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A letter from Martin Bormann to Alfred Rosenberg dated June 17, 1942, suggests that the National Socialist Monthly gave the professor too much publicity, and that this should not happen in the future.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Albrecht Haushofer participated in a coup d'etat against Hitler on July 20, 1944.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Fü</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">hrer escaped death.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Karl Haushofer was sent to Dachau, Albrecht to Moabite prison.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Before his execution, Albrecht composed eighty sonnets, entitled 'Moabiter Sonette'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The collection was in his hands when he was shot on a street in Prussia.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sonnet 39 is called 'Guilt':</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'<i>I should have seen my duty sooner and should have dared with louder voice to name as evil the thing my judgment knew as evil but held too long unspoken. ... I deceived my own conscience. I lied to myself and others. I early understood the whole sequence of the misery to come.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>In Father's life, the die is cast. Once it was in the power of his will To push the demon back into his cell. My father held the seal and broke it. He did not sense the breath of evil And out into the world he let the devil</i>.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After the war Haushofer was to testify at the </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nuremberg War Crimes Trials, but he never testified because he committed suicide.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Heß did testify at Nuremberg.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He barely seemed to listen, and often dozed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was as if he were operating on another level of reality.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From 1947, he was Prisoner No. 7 at Spandau in Berlin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He practiced yoga regularly, and though he wrote to his wife and son, he did not want to see them because it would make the rest of his life sentence too unbearable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">His wife kept a room for him in a mountain chalet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'<i>My husband's mouth is closed,</i>' she said. '<i>He cannot utter the final word about his deed</i>.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Though she had not seen him since the day he left for England, they were never apart.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Frau Heß said, '<i>Telepathy, astrology and his letters keep us together. . . . My husband and I are in constant telepathic contact. People frequently turn up here that I have not seen for years, and inevitably in Rudolf's next letter there are questions about these very visitors. My husband and I receive and send to each other in this way</i>.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rudolf Heß died mysteriously on 17 August 1987 at the age of 93 in a summer house that had been set up in the prison garden as a reading room.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Science hasn't yet been able to give us a completely satisfactory answer to the question of how the universe came to be.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Always they have advanced different theories about the origin of the world and of human beings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Many National Socialists favoured the occult cosmology of<a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/volkisch-occult-cosmology.html" target="_blank"> Hanns Hö</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/volkisch-occult-cosmology.html" target="_blank">rbiger</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hanns Hörbiger (29 November 1860, in Atzgersdorf – 11 October 1931, in Mauer) was an Austrian engineer from Vienna with roots in Tyrol.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He took part in the construction of the Budapest subway, and in 1894 invented a new type of valve essential for compressors, still in widespread use today.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Two of Hörbiger's sons, Paul and Attila, were matineé idols in the interwar years, and Paul Hoerbiger's daughter Mavie Hörbiger also went on to become a celebrated actress.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">His two other sons devoted themselves to promoting their father's theory.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Hanns Hörbiger studied engineering at the local Technical College. In 1894 Hörbiger had an idea for a new design of blast furnace blowing engine: he replaced the old and easily-damaged leather flap valves with a steel valve. Opening and closing automatically, and light and frictionless guided, the disk valve eliminated all the drawbacks of previous valve designs. Hörbiger registered a patent for his invention, which smoothed the way for efficient steel production and greater productivity in mining. High-pressure chemistry and the global network of gas exchange – none of these would be possible without the Hörbiger Valve.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">In 1900, Hanns Hörbiger and the engineer Friedrich Wilhelm Rogler founded an engineer’s office in Budapest, which was moved to Vienna in 1903. By 1925 it had developed into the Hörbiger & Co. company. Alfred Hörbiger, one of Hörbiger’s sons, joined the company in 1925 and assumed the management, while Hanns Hörbiger devoted himself to scientific study until his death in 1931. The company developed rapidly under Alfred Hörbiger’s management: a production facility was taken into service in Vienna and an affiliated company was set up in Düsseldorf. Hörbiger expanded into England and concluded numerous licensing agreements with leading manufacturers of piston blowers, compressors and ships’ Diesel engines in Europe and North America. The success was driven by originality and inventive genius. The disk valve became more sophisticated: Hörbiger developed highlift or high-pressure valves, compressor control systems and damper plates. By 1937, 98 percent of production was destined for export. The name Hörbiger had become a dependable trademark in valve and control technology for compressors.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As a boy, he was fond of lying out of doors at night and gazing up at the sky, and the intuition came to him that the moon was an ocean of ice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He extended the vision as a young engineer, in the instant when he saw molten steel poured onto snow and the ground explode violently.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He took this as a microcosm for the kind of cataclysm that might </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">have given birth to the universe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the next two decades, he explored the tension between cosmic ice and fire, which culminated in the publication of a </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">772-page book, 'Glazialkosmogonie', in 1913.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The '<a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/volkisch-occult-cosmology.html" target="_blank">World-ice Theory</a>' (<a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/volkisch-occult-cosmology.html" target="_blank">Welteislehre</a>) is that the universe came into existence when a gigantic chunk of cosmic ice collided with the sun, causing an explosion whose continuing aftermath explains the Great Deluge, the Ice Age, and the differentiation of races.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This glacial cosmology went so far as to offer an entirely new theory about the origin of the moon - one which bears a striking similarity to Gurdjieff's.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The moon, said </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hö</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">rbiger</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, was originally an independent planet, circling the sun in an independent orbit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It eventually trespassed on the earth's orbit, becoming earth's satellite.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The present moon, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hö</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">rbiger</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> continued, was not the first to be captured by the earth; primary, secondary, and tertiary moons had already collided with our planet, and the present moon, captured about thirteen thousand years ago, will eventually crash into the earth too, billions of years hence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hö</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">rbiger</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'s ideas were of interest to occultists, with good reason.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He believed that on the three previous occasions, when the moon had collided with the earth, the catastrophes which resulted were recorded in the legends about the Flood, about the lost continent of Atlantis, and about the 'Twilight of the Gods'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Atlantis has always been one of the favourite places of occultists.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">According to ancient tradition, it was a large island in the Atlantic Ocean.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Plato, in 'Timaeus', described it as larger than Libya and Asia Minor combined.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In 'Critias', he spoke of it glowingly as a powerful nation which later was completely engulfed by the sea.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Whether the continent of Atlantis ever really existed or was the product of </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">human imagination, it has provided ample occasion for speculation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To occultists, it became associated with man's search for hidden wisdom.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Atlanteans, like the 'Vril' people, developed super- normal powers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They were the models upon which esoteric groups patterned themselves, usually according to a blueprint envisioned by their masters in a trance-like state.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Atlantis provided these groups with many </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">hours of lectures and workshops, and thousands of books have been written about it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The latest theory, of course - and this, too, has been rightly disputed - holds that Plato's Atlantis may have been confused with the real Aegean island of </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thera, devastated by a tremendous volcanic explosion in about 1500 B.C.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Enthusiasts have sought Atlantis in all sorts of unlikely places.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The German v</span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ö</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">lkisch occult groups placed it in 'Thule', the northernmost part of the earth, and made it the original home of the Aryan master race.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They were delighted to have </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hö</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">rbiger</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> explain why that home had disappeared.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The glaciers caused by the last falling moon, when they melted, en</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">gulfed the whole Atlantean civilization in a deluge, memories of which exist in the legends of all people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This was the 'fall of man'; - from this period he degenerated.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The occult tradition teaches that some wise and powerful members of the highly developed race saved themselves from the Great Flood.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Disciples of </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hö</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">rbiger</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> were also pleased to point out that the age of </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">giants, set forth in myth and legend, was fully explained by his theory.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When a satellite approaches nearer to the earth, the gravitational pull of the earth becomes greater, tides become stronger and, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">as a second consequence, human beings and creatures in general will become taller, and this is the only possible explanation of the huge species of plants and animals that have existed on earth, and of a race of giant men.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The increase of men's stature, and likewise of their intelligence, is also due, according to this theory, to an increase in the intensity of cosmic rays.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hö</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">rbiger</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> believed that cosmic events recur.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Ice Age, which seemed to him to recur in cycles of six thousand years, was about to come again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Only this time, supermen who had learned to control cosmic fire and ice would have the option to stop the cycle and make their civilization immortal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hö</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">rbiger</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> was not all cosmic ice and fire.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Indeed, his metaphysics also took in the view that there was a world apart from this one, where the </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">laws of cosmic ice were not operable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Judeo-Christian notion of primitive man slowly inching his way up to civilization did not accord well with the v</span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ö</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">lkisch </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hö</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">rbiger</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ians.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To them, it was precisely the other way round: - Moons ago, Aryan men had created a marvellous civilization which had been destroyed by the Ice Age; we had yet to approach their splendour.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Traces of the lost paradise existed, for those who </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">had eyes to see, in ancient giant monuments, statues, and complex mathematical and engineering constructions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hö</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">rbiger</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> was one of many in the scientific community who aligned themselves with the National Socialists.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After World War I, Jewish scientists and scholars were more readily accepted into the universities, since the republic no longer allowed them to be arbitrarily excluded.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The increase in Jewish participation in major universities, along with the anti-Semitic propaganda, accounted for the push among German scholars and scientists to 'purge' the Jews, and thus also advance their own careers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some, of course, were not just opportunistic, but really believed the v</span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ö</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">lkisch arguments.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hans </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hö</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">rbiger</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> was at the height of his fame in 1925 when he issued a declaration to Austrian and German scientists:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>'You must choose, and right now, whether you want to be with us, or against us. While Hitler cleans up politics, Hans Hoerbiger will take care of the false sciences. The doctrine of the eternal ice will herald the regeneration of the German people. Watch out ! Come over to our side before it is too late !'</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At sixty-five, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hö</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">rbiger</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> had pitted himself against orthodox astronomy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">His appeal, obviously, was to emotion rather than reason.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With his white flowing beard, very much like that of his fellow Viennese, Guido von List, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hö</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">rbiger</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> too, played the role of mystical prophet, warning that 'objective' science is a pernicious invention, a totem of decadence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He sought to replace it with an inspired piercing of the mysteries.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Illumination would come intuitively with the development of 'higher consciousness'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the post-World War I period, Albert Einstein was the most famous scientist in Germany. Hostility toward him increased in direct proportion to his </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">growing fame.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">German scientists were made acutely aware that he was a Jew, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a pacifist, and a radical.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">His theories posed a threat to some experimental physicists, who saw in them the eventual ascendancy of theoretical physics.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">His theories were labelled 'meaningless', or 'unverifiable' abstractions, - or else he was accused of not being original.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Men who championed the National </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Socialist cause concentrated on him as their chief scapegoat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hö</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">rbiger</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> was one of these men.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">His success as an engineer had set him up well financially, and he started what amounted to a political campaign, trumpeting his visionary theories like a revolutionary agitator.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He wanted to wean people away from the <i>'</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>uselessness</i>' of mathematics, and to replace it with an enlightened <i>'</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>knowing</i>' (gnosis).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">His propaganda spread through mass media, tracts, posters, meetings, and lectures.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A monthly periodical, 'The Key to World Events', </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">went to German and Austrian </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hö</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">rbigeri</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ans. His organization published many books, articles, and pamphlets.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hö</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">rbiger</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> was greatly helped in disseminating his propaganda by members of the Sturm Abteilung</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dietrich Eckart introduced Hitler to </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hö</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">rbiger</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'s ideas, and it was a meeting of like minds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Both men knew the importance of mythology in the lives of the masses.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Other scientists, at first, stood their ground and attacked </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hö</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">rbiger</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'s theories.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gradually, as Hitler's suporters helped to swell </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hö</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">rbiger</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> s 'science' into a popular movement, they were silenced.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The system meshed well </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">with the temper of the times and was perfectly tailored to National Socialist mythology.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hö</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">rbiger</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> died in 1931, before he could see some of the consequences of his teaching.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hitler Youth were recruited to spread the word.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In 1935, <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/08/himmler-ahnenerbe-and-wewelsburg.html" target="_blank">Heinrich Himmler</a>, an admirer, established the <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/die-deutsche-ahnenerbe.html" target="_blank">Ahnenerbe (Ancestral Research)</a> branch of the SS, for the purpose of subsidizing researches into occult theories of ancestral origins of<a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/aryanism-and-third-reich.html" target="_blank"> Aryanism</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He sent the German </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">playwright Edmund Kiss to Abyssinia, to look for supporting evidence for </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hö</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">rbiger</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> s theories, and made another </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hö</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">rbiger</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> disciple, Dr. Hans Robert Scultetus, head of the<a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/die-deutsche-ahnenerbe.html" target="_blank"> Ahnenerbe</a> branch which was to concentrate on weather forecasts resting on the world-ice cosmology.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Literature about this cosmology was handed out freely to high-ranking members of the NSDAP. A German expedition to Tibet tried to find fossilized remains of <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/aryanism-and-third-reich.html" target="_blank">Aryans</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyone who </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">attacked </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hö</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">rbiger</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> was promptly suppressed by the<a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/die-deutsche-ahnenerbe.html" target="_blank"> Ahnenerbe</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In 1936, despite unsubstantiated rumours that he was a Freemason and a Roman Catholic, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hö</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">rbiger</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> s son, Hans Robert </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hö</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">rbiger</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> was appointed 'Cosmic-Ice Fuhrer' by Himmler, who insisted that if the theory were shorn of its fantastic elements, which might hurt his flawless reputation, it would be </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">scientific enough to constitute an 'Aryan intellectual treasure'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">National Socialist pamphlet announced that cosmic ice stood in the same relation to </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Einstein's theory of relativity as the Edda did to the Talmud.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No one was in a position to do more for </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hö</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">rbiger</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'s cosmology than Hitler.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He promised that when he built his ideal city in Linz, he would dedicate an observatory to </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hö</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">rbiger</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After Hitler came to power, a number of celebrated engineers and scientists too up the cosmic-ice theory.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One tract drew attention to the natural affinity between the two self- made Austrians:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'<i>Our Nordic ancestors grew strong amidst the ice and snow, and this is why a belief in a world of ice is the natural heritage of Nordic men. It was an Austrian, Hitler, who drove out the Jewish politicians, and another Austrian, </i></span><i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hö</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">rbiger</span></i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i> will drive out the Jewish scientists. By his own example Hitler has shown that an amateur is better than a professional; it was left to another amateur to give us a thorough understanding of the Universe</i>.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The few times that these two Messianic leaders met, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hö</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">rbiger</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> actually out-talked Hitler in his harangue against modern science, which not only did not understand the why of anything but had managed to separate man from the spirit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jews like Einstein and Freud distinguished themselves in their fields and at the same time helped to destroy the belief in magic.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They were pacifists in the bargain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Einstein had called World War I '<i>a fateful misunderstanding . . . an incomprehensible deception</i>, and Freud went so far as to claim that all war was a mass regression to a primitive state, writing: '<i>Never has any event been destructive of so much that is valuable in the commonwealth of humanity, nor so debasing to the highest that we know</i>.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hö</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">rbiger</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, on the other hand, Hitler was comfortably in the realm of Wagner and Nietzsche.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The magic of myth would be re-established in Germany, with its giants and dwarfs, masters and slaves, transgressions, sacrifices, and punishments.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hitler took great pride in being the enemy of 'Jewish, liberal' science.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He confessed to Rauschning:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>'I thank my destiny for saving me from the State-granted privilege of acquiring blinkers in the form of a so-called scientific education. I have been able to steer clear of many naive assumptions. Now I am reaping the benefit. I approach everything with a vast, ice-cold freedom from prejudice</i>.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He often expounded on cosmic catastrophe at the dinner table, holding that '<i>we shall never raise the veil between our present world and that which preceded us unless intuition teaches exact science the path to follow.</i>'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hö</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">rbiger</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, said Hitler, ranked with Ptolemy and Copernicus.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hö</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">rbiger</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> was not accepted by the scientific establishment because '<i>the fact is'</i>, said Hitler, '<i>men do not wish to know'.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hitler based some important decisions on </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hö</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">rbiger</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ian premises.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For example, cosmic ice experts caused delays, because they were concerned about the delicate balance between fire and ice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They feared a rocket in </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">space might cause a global disaster.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(The military head of the first German rocket tests, <a href="http://germany19001939.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/deutsch-wunderwaffen.html" target="_blank">Walter Dornberger</a>, also relates that the work was delayed for months at a time because Hitler dreamed that no <a href="http://germany19001939.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/deutsch-wunderwaffen.html" target="_blank">V-2 rocket</a> would reach England. As an occultist, Hitler took his dreams quite literally.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hö</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">rbiger</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'s was not the only occult cosmological theory in which many </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">National Socialists believed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There was also the theory of the 'hollow earth', which received support in Germany after World War I.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A leading proponent, Karl </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Neupert, held that the earth was a spherical bubble, with humanity on the </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">inside, not, as commonly supposed, on the outside.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In World War II, certain German naval circles tried to apply the hollow-earth theory.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They considered it helpful to locate the British fleet, because the curvature of the earth would not obstruct observation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Visual rays were not suitable because of refraction; but infra-red rays had less refraction. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Accordingly a party of about ten men under the scientific leadership of Dr. Heinz Fischer, an infra-red expert, was sent out from Berlin to the isle of Riigen to photograph the British fleet with infra-red equipment at an upward angle of some forty-five degrees.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The experiment did not work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Teutonic mythology speaks of the end of all things, the 'twilight of gods and men', when the world will be consumed in flames because the age of evil has come.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Winter will follow winter, in a world chained in ice, and then a new </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">age will come, with a regenerating race.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The apocalyptic vision within the occult tradition is similar.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Fall, and the accompanying Flood, are punishments for man's transgressions, and will purge him of sin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After the Deluge, a 'Second Coming'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hö</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">rbiger</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and Hitler believed in this mystique.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Modern man, in the twentieth century, had a chance to redeem the species.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hö</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">rbiger</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and Hitler would point the way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This combination of ideas offered a solution of sorts to the difficulty of applying traditional values to existing conditions. ... he could sustain his belief in the superiority of the class from which he came simply by equating the values of his own group with the characteristics of the dominant and moral man.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A searching study of Heinrich Himmler's early years helps us to understand the kind of mentality which yearned for the return of the Atlantean age.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/heinrich-himmler-ahnenerbe.html" target="_blank">Heinrich Luitpold Himmler</a> was born in Munich on 7 October 1900 to a conservative Roman Catholic middle-class family.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">His father was Gebhard Himmler, a teacher, and his mother was Anna Maria Himmler (née Heyder), a devout Roman Catholic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">His older brother, Gebhard Ludwig, was born in July 1898, and his younger brother, Ernst, was born in 1905.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Himmler's first name, Heinrich, was the same as that of his godfather, Prince Heinrich of Bavaria of the royal family of Bavaria, who was tutored by Gebhard Himmler.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He attended a grammar school in Landshut where his father was deputy principal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">His health was poor, with lifelong stomach complaints and other ailments.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He trained daily with weights as a youth, and exercised to become stronger.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fellow students remembered him as studious, and awkward in social situations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At nineteen, he was earnest enough about his religion to have noted in his diary an internal conflict over a common fraternity </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">practice:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'<i>During the sermon I had to endure an inner struggle more serious than any before. The dueling business constantly keeps cropping up. In the evening I prayed. I had, of course, earlier partly overcome it. God will continue to help me to overcome my doubts</i>.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He must have decided that God was not opposed to dueling, because he regularly practiced it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">His diary entries recorded in meticulous detail the exact times of arrival and departure of buses and people, and the number of swims he took, impressions of books he read, pointing to a pedantic, assiduous character, prone to pontificating.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He was a collector of stamps and secrets.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He took it upon himself to spy on his elder brother's fiancée, going so far as to hire a private detective to gather incriminating evidence of her disloyalty and succeeding in ending the betrothal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Once he left the safe haven of his snug middle-class family, his rigid character structure could not bend to the raw winds blowing through Germany.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Never a careful thinker, he anguished over the impossibility of finding a respectable niche in the conventional society which gave him comfort.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In 1915, he began training with the Landshut Cadet Corps.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">His father used his connections with the royal family to get Himmler accepted as an officer candidate, and he enlisted with the reserve battalion of the 11th Bavarian Regiment in December 1917.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">His brother, Gebhard, served on the western front and saw combat; he received the Iron Cross and was eventually promoted to lieutenant.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In November 1918, while Himmler was still in training, the war ended with Germany's defeat, denying him the opportunity to become an officer or see combat. After his discharge on 18 December, he returned to Landshut where </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">there were rumours about attacks on officers in Bavaria by Communist revolutionaries.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Himmler wrote to his parents, urging them to send civilian clothes so that he could travel unmolested.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He also begged them: '<i>Buy all of the coal you can and also all the food, even if you have to buy it by the pound. In 14 days there will be no more coal and no more electric light.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Father, you must join the Bayerisch Volkspartei, it is the only hope</i>.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A postscript, only for his father's eyes, cautioned: '<i>Don't let mother go </i></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>out alone at night. Not without protection. Be careful in your letters. You can't be sure</i>.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In self-defense, Himmler slowly adopted more and more of the ideology of the radical right, to the distress of his moderate family.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sentimental novels extolling the traditional virtues gave way, in his reading, to vitriolic accounts of the origin of World War I.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Like Sebottendorff, they blamed Germany's </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">troubles on a Jewish-Freemasonic world conspiracy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some Catholics had long supported the view that Freemasons and Jews were liberal and potentially dangerous to the old order, but Himmler more and more withdrew from identification with the church which, though </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">conservative, was not fanatical enough.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He read right-wing literature with delight, making terse comments in his diary:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'<i>A book that explains everything and tells us whom we must fight against next time.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>It is true and one has the impression that it is objective, not just hate-filled anti-Semitism. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Because of this it has more effect.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>These terrible Jews.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Even an initiate is shaken when he reads all this with </i></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>understanding. If only some of the eternally blind could have it put before their eyes</i>.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Writers like Fritsch, Chamberlain, and Gobineau helped him to justify his own frustrations, while the whole culture's increasing infatuation with spiritualism made it possible for him to bridge the gap between the death of the old religious faith and his personal longing for evidence of the existence of the supernatural.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The books he read signified a deep involvement with, and leanings toward, spiritualism and the occult.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He labeled occult theories 'unbelievably deep and significant', and particularly enjoyed Karl du Prel's 'Der Spiritismus' (Spiritualism) because it '<i>really lets me believe in spiritualism and introduced me to it correctly for the first time'</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He was impressed by the arguments for transmigration of souls in a book on life after death, and noted that it gave him 'meaningful new grounds' for believing in it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This interest in and sympathy with the occult endured throughout his life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Without it, his role as Reichsfuhrer SS would have been played out quite differently.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As in the case of Lanz and Hitler, his occultism was bound up with </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">eroticism.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To all three, sexuality was decadent, and the loose morality of Western Europe after the war seemed to them to travel like a plague, spread by the 'decadent' people, namely, the Jews. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They believed Jews were bestial in their passions, corrupting pure German womanhood and making all women join the radical cause of feminism.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They also saw the Jews as cunning, practical pimps and pornographers, able to profit materially from prostitution </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and from the growing interest in 'filth.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These were popular v</span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ö</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">lkisch themes, and Himmler accepted them.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After the war, Himmler completed his grammar-school education.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From 1919–1922, he studied agronomy at the Munich Technische Hochschule (now Technical University Munich) following a brief apprenticeship on a farm and a subsequent illness.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He remained a devoted Catholic while a student, and spent most of his leisure time with members of his fencing fraternity, the "League of Apollo", the president of which was Jewish. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Himmler maintained a polite demeanour with him, and with Jewish members of the fraternity, in spite of his growing antisemitism.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">During his second year at university, Himmler redoubled his attempts to pursue a military career.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Although he was not successful, he was able to extend his involvement in the paramilitary scene in Munich.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was at this time that he first met Ernst Röhm, an early member of the Nazi party and co-founder of the Sturmabteilung ("Storm Battalion"; SA).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Himmler admired Röhm because he was a decorated combat soldier, and at his suggestion, Himmler joined his antisemitic nationalist group, the Reichskriegsflagge.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Disappointed by his failure to make a career in the military and his parents' inability to finance his doctoral studies, he was forced to take a low-paying office job after obtaining his agricultural diploma.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He remained in this position until September 1923</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At that time he joined the Friekorps, and he must have enjoyed the sense of participating in a grand design which was to lead Germany back to </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">greatness.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the same year Himmler joined the NSDAP; his Party number was 14,303.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As a member of Röhm's paramilitary unit, Himmler was involved in the Munich Putsch - an unsuccessful attempt by Hitler and the NSDAP to seize power in Munich.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This event would set Himmler on a life of politics.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He was questioned by the police about his role in the putsch, but was not charged because of insufficient evidence.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But he lost his job, was unable to find employment as an agronomist, and had to move in with his parents in Munich.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Frustrated by these failures, he became ever more irritable, aggressive, and opinionated, alienating both friends and family members.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He was welcome into the NSDAP because, as his superior, Gregor Strasser, put it, '<i>the fellow's doubly useful - he's got a motor-bike and he's full of frustrated ambition to be a soldier</i>.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Himmler soon realized that he had a penchant for secret service.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When, in 1925, the SS (Schutzstaffel) was formed as a special bodyguard for Hitler in each district, Himmler was put in charge of his local </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">unit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It brought him little glory at first.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Its petty duties included soliciting for Party newspaper subscriptions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But in 1927, when the SS </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Order was nationalized, Himmler, because of his demonstrated administrative abilities, was made deputy leader, and in 1929, Reichsfuhrer SS.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The nature of the organization changed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It became a central bureaucracy for dispensing terrorism, an elitist political police, giving Himmler powers second only to Hitler.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What fitted Himmler for the job were his skill at pigeon-holing people, and assigning categories to them, and especially, the rigid personality defences he had developed as a student.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The pose of omniscient hardness, which he developed early, made it possible for him to overcome his awkwardness in social encounters, and to impose himself on others, despite his lack of charisma.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">His 'social mask' became a weapon habitually used to make others subordinate to his wishes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thus, despite his colourlessness he was able to compel his Black Guards to go against their own standards of morality and justify their actions as Utopian idealism.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sometimes he saw his Black Guards as an elite cadre of Teutonic warriors, and sometimes as medieval knights protecting their lord, Adolf Hitler.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Himmler's interest in the Germanic past and in the Middle Ages went back to his youth, when he used to spend summer vacations looking for ancient stones and artefacts - a hobby he learned from his father.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">His belief in the transmigration of souls led him to think he was then </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">reincarnation of the tenth-century German king Heinrich I the Fowler, with whom he communicated in his sleep.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In 1937, he had the monarch's bones dug up and placed in the crypt of Quedlinburg Cathedral, after a holy procession.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He chose the town of Quedlinburg, in the Harz Mountains, because it had been founded by the king.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Himmler invited Germans to make a pilgrimage to the tomb to honor Heinrich the Fowler. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yearly, on </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">July 2, the date of the king's death, Himmler held a midnight ritual in the crypt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of the great charms which the medieval monarch had for Himmler was his anti-Slav crusade.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On the thousandth anniversary of Heinrich's death, Himmler stood before Wehrmacht officers and braided and medaled SS dignitaries, and pledged to continue the crusade for German expansion in the east.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was not clear whether he was really talking about </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">himself or about his namesake when he praised him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Like List and Lanz, Himmler was obsessed with the secret medieval society called the 'Order of the Teutonic Knights'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There, a candidate had to prove pure noble German ancestry for eight generations on both sides of the </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">family tree.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Himmler, in creating a secret order suitable for a mass society, naturally dispensed with the idea of social or economic aristocracy and made the whole Aryan race aristocratic, an idea which List and Lanz had popularized before him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He admired the rigid organization of the 'Teutonic Knights', and the strictness of their rules.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But he must have admired their secrecy above everything else, given his personal propensity for secrets.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Even in his brief stint as orderly-room clerk in the army's officer candidates' school, he had collected odd bits of personal information about his fellow cadets, as if in apprenticeship for the job of secret police chief which lay in his future.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A few years later, Gregor Strasser laughed him to scorn when he heard about this, asking: 'Whatever use do you suppose will derive from knowing who did fatigue duties for insubordination in the 119th Bavarian Infantry Regiment in 1919 ?'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To which Himmler replied: 'One never knows.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Himmler was so fanatical a spy that he noted about Party members:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'<i>Schwarz was playing Mendelssohn</i> (a Jewish composer)<i> on his gramophone when I arrived.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>It is as well to know of Semitic sympathies</i>.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'<i>I noticed in Mucke's bookcase a copy of Chamberlain's 'Foundations of the 19th Century'.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>He is </i></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>well chosen for the Fuhrer's personal troop</i>.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And about citizens in general:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>'In the fishmonger's there was a man who mentioned in a low voice to his wife that he suspected treachery in the ranks of the Party. I made it my business to find out his name from the shopkeeper. Such information might be useful in the future</i>.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Himmler knew what a powerful motivation a secret order, with difficult </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">rules and a hierarchical structure, could be; its mere existence held members together in a common bond, subject to the same vows of silence on certain questions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In trying to create a new 'Order of Teutonic Knight's out of his SS, Himmler was also mindful of the power of the Jesuits.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">According to his assistant, Walter Schellenberg, he deliberately built the SS organization on the </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">principles of the 'Society of Jesus', using their statutes and spiritual exercises.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In fact, Himmler was called 'the Black Jesuit' by his enemies, and compared with the order's founder, Ignatius Loyola, by Hitler, who was pleased to have his fanatical devotion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Schellenberg stated that Himmler had </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the best and richest library on the Jesuit Order, whose literature he perused at night for years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thus he built up his SS organization according to Jesuit principles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Its basis was the constitution and the </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">exercises of Ignatius de Loyola: Its supreme law was absolute, blind obedience.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Himmler himself, as SS General, was the Order's General Commander.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In Westphalen, near Paderborn, he kept a medieval castle, the Wevelsburg, which served, so to say, as the SS monastery.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The roots of this attitude undoubtedly go back to his father's education, and his severe Catholic conduct of life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The essential principle which Himmler borrowed from the Jesuits was the oath of absolute blind obedience.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In this, he outdid the Jesuits.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Though he sought to eliminate all competition to his own esoteric order, and officially abominated the Jesuits, they and the SS had a common enemy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This enemy was the Freemason, who, in his resistance to the dogmas of 'Original Sin' and 'Grace', in his tolerance and humanism, became the symbol of the Enlightenment, with its belief in the possibility of human perfectibility on </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">earth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">His was a rival universal superstate, which threatened to replace the less flexible Catholic Church.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was rumored that the Jesuits had destroyed the eighteenth-century 'Order of the Illuminati' by infiltrating the group, a mystical association started by Adam Weishaupt, a former Jesuit student, and diverting it from its original aims.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The same suspicions were circulated about Jesuit intrigue in Masonic lodges.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The introduction of hierarchical '</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">higher degrees' into Freemasonry was scorned by some Masons as evidence of a Catholic spirit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There were Papal Bulls of condemnation against the Freemasons, but their power and political influence continued to increase throughout the Enlightenment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The new spirit, which was actually one of reason and an interest in material well-being, was viewed by the Church as a threat to the Faith.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Jesuits used science in the service of faith, for their aim was never the dispassionate study of astronomy or biology, but the combating of '</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Satan,' from the nineteenth century on, in the guise of materialism.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Germany was the home of the first Jesuit settlement.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In Bavaria, particularly, the order stood firm against Lutheranism and held that section of the country, so much so that Munich was called 'a German Rome.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Counter Reformation in Germany was greatly helped by the erection of numerous schools. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The zeal of the Jesuits filled the Lutherans with fear and trembling, and a vicious battle ensued. It became more and more customary in Germany for men to express the strength of their religious convictions by filthy insults directed against their opponents.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was in Bavaria, too, that the Jesuits introduced their unique system of '</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">spiritual exercises,' reporting to the Pope: '<i>No small benefit has accrued from the Exercises. Some who were falling away are now strengthened, and some who had fallen away are now restored</i>.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The exercises spread widely among the Bavarians, adapted to the working classes, under the directive never to 'lay too heavy a burden on a too little enlightened spirit or a too weak heart.' An 'exercise house' was created in Munich, where an efficient lay apostolate was produced.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The spiritual exercises of the Jesuits are designed to awaken the natural powers of the will, and connect them with the divine will; the penitent is enjoined to undergo a rigorous series of pictorial imaginings lasting four </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">weeks, during which time he comes to see, hear, smell, and feel scenes of Heaven and Hell.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He strives to converse with Jesus, and pictures the 'Incarnation'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In an exercise called '<i>composition: seeing the place</i>,' the imagination is used to clothe ideas with a visible form.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are prayers for a definite desire, and an exercise called 'f<i>ixing of the objects</i>,' and in the end, the penitent's life is changed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These exercises are considered the </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">foundation of the order.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That Himmler practiced visualization is clear from Walter Schellenberg's account in his memoirs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When General Werner von Fritsch was brought to trial on the false accusation of homosexuality, Schellenberg reports:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>'I witnessed for the first time some of the rather strange practices resorted to by Himmler through his inclination toward mysticism. He assembled twelve of the most trusted SS leaders in a room next to the one in which von Fritsch was being questioned and ordered them all to concentrate their minds on exerting a suggestive influence over the General that would induce him to tell the truth. I happened to come into the room by accident, and to see these twelve SS leaders sitting in a circle, all sunk in deep and silent contemplation, was indeed a remarkable sight.</i>'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Himmler had derived his 'Round Table' idea from the court of the twelfth-century Holy Roman emperor Frederick Barbarossa.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Under the influence of knightly thought compulsion, the object of the 'Round Table's' concentration had to submit his will to theirs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The student of occultism will recognize in the projection of Himmler's picture the magical view that, through visualization, we can change reality.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is how the occultist believes he exercises his power, by holding in his mind a mental picture of what he wishes to achieve.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Despite the fact that Himmler's ideas made him a somewhat ridiculous figure to some of his underlings, he ruled over them with an iron hand.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In a quieter time, he would have been a harmless crank, cultivating his herb garden, studying astrology, graphology, antiquity, mesmerism.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Through his decrees to SS men on marriage and procreation, he hoped to create a Herrenrasse.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The image that Himmler apparently had of himself was that of an idealistic man of science.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">fanatical and earnest as he was in the pursuit of his researches, they were convenient rationales for his ideology, as they were for Hitler.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As Himmler stated, '<i>We are only interested in one thing - to project into the dim and distant past the picture of our nation as we envisage it for the future.</i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Every bit of Tacitus, in his Germania, is </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">tendentious stuff. Our teaching of German origins has depended for centuries on falsification. We are entitled to impose one of our own.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Prehistory is the doctrine of the eminence of the Germans at the dawn of civilization</i>.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If his reality was non-ordinary, it was not because he was crazy, but rather, as his masseur, Dr. Felix Kersten, tells us, because he was '<i>extremely superstitious</i>.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He believed in 'good and evil spirits' and was '</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">always afraid of an invisible power' to which he would 'one day have to give an account of himself.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When Dr. Kersten asked him how, with this view, he could do the things he had to do, believing as he did that according to the doctrine of karma his deeds would determine his destiny in his next incarnation, Himmler answered:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'<i>You oughtn't to look at things from such a limited and egotistical point of view; you have to consider the Germanic world as a whole - which also has its Karma.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>A man has to sacrifice himself, even though it is often very hard for him; he oughtn't to think of himself.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Of course it's pleasanter to concern yourself with flower-beds rather than political dust- heaps and refuse-dumps, but flowers themselves won't thrive unless these things are seen to.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>I try to reach a compromise in my own life; I try to help people and do good, relieve the oppressed and remove injustices wherever I can.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Do you think my heart's in all the things which have to be done simply from reasons of state </i>? </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Every cause has its idea of sacrifice, calling on the individual to give up his well-being for the sake of something greater.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Himmler's idea of sacrifice was influenced by Eastern philosophy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He had read the Bhagavad-Gita, the Vedas, the Rig-Vedas, the sayings of Buddha, the Visudi-Magga, and had learned to practice that </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">detachment from his acts which were purifying to the wise.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Karma required only that the individual carry on his unavoidable duties, disregarding the consequences.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As it is written in the Bhagavad-Gita: '<i>One should not give up the activity to which one is born (sahajam karma: the duty incumbent on one through birth, caste, profession), even though this should </i></span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">be attended by evil; for all undertakings are enveloped by evil, as fire by smoke</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The disengagement from the effects of fulfilling one's duties was self- sacrifice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Himmler was particularly fond of the Bhagavad-Gita, and told Dr. Kersten that he '<i>never moved without it</i>.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He prized it for its 'great Aryan </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">qualities.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He was also an avid student of the 'Arthasastra', Hinduism's anticipation of Machiavelli.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This handbook of statecraft reached the West shortly before World War I.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It seemed to Christian scholars to embody pagan wickedness, and though it was no more cynical than Machiavelli, it was not redeemed by his Western spirit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Kautilya Arthasastra was especially cherished by Himmler.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Himmler began more and more to propagate occult ideas among the SS.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When several astronomers were courageous enough to call Hoerbiger's theory an outmoded concept, Himmler answered:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'<i>I advocate unrestricted research of whatever kind and that includes unrestricted research into glacial cosmogony.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>I intend to encourage that research and in so doing I find myself in the best of company . . . as the F</i></span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>ü</i></span></span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">hrer, too, is a convinced supporter of this theory so much abominated by scientific hacks. ... the Ministry . . . must put these opinionated schoolmasters in their place.</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>There are a great many things we should like to see researched, even by non-scientists</i>.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After the war, the democratic regime symbolized, to the völkisch mind, Jewish control.<br />The protest against economic, political, and social difficulties became an 'anti-Jewish revolution'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They remembered the anti-Semitic propaganda they had heard and read before the war.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was reinforced by new propaganda: 'The Jew was the anarchist, the Communist, the one who had caused the defeat and would bring down the world'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In such an atmosphere of terror, the Thule Gesellschaft prospered.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was clear to Sebottendorff that the small room on the Zweigstrasse where the group had been meeting would no longer serve if it was to expand.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now meetings were held every Saturday - the day of Saturn - in the elegant Munich hotel Vier Jahreszeiten ('Four Seasons'), whose proprietor was a member of Thule Gesellschaft. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sebottendorff rented the rooms of a naval officers' club, and adorned them with the Society's arms - a curved swastika pointing right, plus sword and wreath. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'Here,' said Sebottendorff, 'objectives could be attained.' </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sebottendorff bought the newspaper 'Der Munchener Beobachter', because he felt that proselytizing against the enemy could not be done as effectively through the spoken word as through the press.</span></div>
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Though 'Der Munchener Beobachter' was a sports paper, Sebottendorff was attracted to it for several reasons.<br />
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The readership was young; it was impossible to start a new paper because of the paper shortage, and because the government did not allow new papers to appear; and, most important, '<i>The Jew had no interest in sports, if it did not have any monetary advantage, so the Jew would not buy and read the paper. Therefore, a sports paper could make propaganda without being detected</i>.' </div>
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The paper had been established in 1887. </div>
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The former publisher, now deceased, had been a client of the attorney Gaubatz, a Thule member; and Sebottendorff bought the publishing rights from his widow, for five thousand marks. </div>
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The paper had no subscribers and was distributed on the street. </div>
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Sebottendorff himself was the editor.<br />
The first edition was five thousand copies. </div>
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Early issues were given over to the exhortation to '<i>keep your blood pure</i>', and to propaganda about the Jew as '<i>parasitic capitalist</i>', and participants in the black market. </div>
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According to Sebottendorff: '<i>This was something Munich never heard of. . . . In addition to the big questions, we did not forget the details. We were very critical about everything</i>.' </div>
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By November 1, 1918, the Thule Gesellschaft had 1,500 members in all Bavaria, 250 of them in Munich. </div>
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The paid membership journeyed to Berlin to be indoctrinated in further propaganda. </div>
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The meeting on Saturday, November 9, 1918, was a crucial one. </div>
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The war was ending, the monarchy collapsing.<br />
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The Jew, Kurt Eisner, had taken control of the Bavarian government two days earlier. </div>
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A series of revolts had just broken out which promised chaos for the whole country. </div>
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Munich, in fact, was engulfed in revolution. </div>
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The old order had proven itself bankrupt, not only in Germany and Austria, but in Russia. </div>
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The Bolshevism, which had triumphed there, was the big bugbear feared by the middle and upper classes in Germany and Austria. </div>
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The toppled empire in Germany created a vacuum in which revolutionaries of the right and left fought for domination. </div>
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Conspirators were everywhere. </div>
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German radicals looked to Russia for guidance and financial support. </div>
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Munich was one of the key cities for revolutionary activity, and the little anti-Semitic lodges now consolidated into something like a mass movement. </div>
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At the November 9 meeting, Sebottendorff told the members: </div>
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'<i>Yesterday we lived through the whole breakdown of what was good and holy to us. Instead of our blood-related Kaiser, there now reigns Juda. We have to fight the Jew.... He who cannot follow me, despite his oath of loyalty to me - he should get out. I won't be angry about it. He who wants to stay with me, he should know that there is no going back, but only forward. He who wants to stay should remember his oath even until his death. I myself assure you and swear to you by the holy sign, listen to the victorious sun. I also will be loyal to you. Trust in me as you have trusted in me before.</i>' </div>
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He then lapsed into mythological metaphysics, reminding them that their god was Wotan, the All Father, the self-born power and spirit, whose rune was the Aarune (Aryan; fire; sun; eagle; sun-wheel; swastika). </div>
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What did this Norse mythology have to do with the revolution raging outside the Vier Jahreszeiten ? </div>
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<i>It should point to the fact that we may have to go through death to live'</i>. </div>
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With this pep talk, Sebottendorff cursed any member who procrastinated or compromised, who did not join in the eight o'clock consecration the following day, the birthday of Luther and Schiller. </div>
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The Master adjourned the meeting with a poem by Philipp Stauff. </div>
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No one, of course, dared to miss the meeting on November 10. </div>
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The Armistice became official the next day, and the Thule Gesellschaft quietly prepared for counter-revolution. </div>
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Its members could not accept the surrender of the German Army, nor the proclamations of the republican government. </div>
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Conditions after the war were intolerable. </div>
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Food was almost impossible to get, and jobs even scarcer. </div>
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It was not uncommon to see wounded war veterans begging in the streets. </div>
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With production crippled and inflation rampant, the country became a vast starvation camp. </div>
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In five years' time, from 1918 to 1923, the mark had sunk to one-fifth its value, which reduced the middle class to poverty. </div>
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In the harsh winter, people searched everywhere for coal and kindling. </div>
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One observer remarked: '<i>If a store offered dog biscuits a long line formed outside to procure them. People ate whatever they could find. Horsemeat became a delicacy, potato a luxury</i>.' </div>
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Because of governmental suspicion about the possible conspiratorial nature of organizations, many Bunds were thrown out of their meeting rooms. </div>
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The innocent appearing Thule Gesellschaft was left alone, and with its runic obsessions was able to play host to these other Bunds, who shared a similar ideology. </div>
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In the Thule Society everything went well. </div>
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Here was the 'National Liberal Party' under Hans Dahn. </div>
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Here also were the 'All Germans' under editor Julius Lehmann, the 'German School Bund' under Rohmeder, the 'Riding Fellows', the 'Reichhammerbund' (founded by Theodor Fritsch). </div>
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In short, there was not a society in Munich that somehow represented any nationalistic aim which could not be accommodated in the Thule Society. </div>
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All these groups were made up, for the most part, of men who had fought in the war, and had returned to their country stunned to find that the pre-war world had been blasted away. </div>
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In these secret meetings, what they worked for was a world better able to fulfil their longings. </div>
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He was well known in Munich for a unique proposal for ridding the country of all its troubles. </div>
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As an economist, he spoke about the machinations of '<i>Jewish high finance</i>', which undercut German production.<br />
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His slogan became '<i>break the shackles of finance capital</i>,' and the way to do it was by abolishing '<i>interest slavery</i>.' </div>
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He urged the Thule Gesellschaft to try to win over the workers, who were being wooed by the left. </div>
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Anton Daumenlang, whose hobby was genealogy, worked on ancestral research. </div>
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Walter Nauhaus, a sculptor, was in charge of Nordic culture. </div>
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The editor Julius Lehmann argued for a coup d'etat, and brought weapons to store in Thule rooms. </div>
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One night at dinner, Sebottendorff was seized with a premonition that the premises were going to be searched. </div>
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No sooner had he done this when an investigator came. </div>
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In conjunction with plotting counterrevolution, the Thule Gesellschaft was busy fighting other groups, like Rudolf Steiner's Anthroposophs.</div>
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Steiner had been head of Madame Blavatsky's German branch of the Theosophical Society, and had broken with it over a doctrinal dispute, and started his own group. </div>
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Steiner, observed Sebottendorff, 'wanted to become finance minister, and propagate his own system. </div>
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Through his system, he sought to '<i>reform Com-munism</i>' rather than destroy it. </div>
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The influence of this '<i>degenerate man, this swindler and liar</i>,' was all-encompassing. </div>
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He had many disciples in Munich, but was set back, said Sebottendorff, 'd<i>ue to the fact that there were so many suicides and sexually abused women'</i> among them. </div>
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Before the war, he had worked with '<i>a clairvoyant, Lisbeth Seidler, in Berlin</i>'. </div>
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The pair '<i>had connections with General Helmuth Johann Ludwig von Moltke and they were the ones who stopped the new recruits from going into the Marne battle when they were needed. </i></div>
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Sebottendorff did not miss an opportunity to attack them in his newspaper. </div>
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The Thule itself was not without its influence.<br />
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Grafin Heila von Westarp was the Society's attractive young secretary. </div>
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Another aristocratic member was Prince Gustav von Thurn und Taxis, a name prominent throughout Europe. </div>
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Sebottendorff had ingratiated himself into Munich society, and large sums of money were at his disposal, and many of the most influential people in Munich were his disciples. </div>
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This powerful occult circle included adepts, judges, lawyers, professors, leading industrialists, surgeons, scientists, and even former members of the royal entourage of the Wittelsbach kings.</div>
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The Bavarian minister of justice, Franz Gurtner; the police president of Munich, Ernst Pohner; and the assistant police chief, Dr Wilhelm Frick, were active members. </div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Franz Gürtner (26 August 1881 – 29 January 1941) was a German Minister of Justice in Adolf Hitler's cabinet, responsible for coordinating jurisprudence in the Third Reich.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">He was vigorous, right-wing radical. </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">He was closely linked to Gustav von Kahr, who had staged his own putsch in 1920, but who opposed the 1923 Hitler putsch. Pöhner was a central figure in the Hitler putsch being named as Bavaria's prime minister on the night. He was subsequently convicted with Hitler in 1924 for five years, but released three months later dying in a car accident in 1925. He is mentioned in 'Mein Kampf'.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Dr Wilhelm Frick (12 March 1877 – 16 October 1946) was a prominent German politician of the NSDAP, who served as Reich Minister of the Interior in Hitler's Cabinet from 1933 to 1943. </span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">In Munich, Frick witnessed the end of the war and the German Revolution of 1918–1919. He sympathized with Freikorps paramilitary units fighting against the Bavarian government of Premier Kurt Eisner. Chief of Police Ernst Pöhner introduced him to Adolf Hitler, whom he helped willingly with obtaining permissions to hold political rallies and demonstrations.</span></span><br />
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In the beginning of December, Thule members planned to capture Kurt Eisner, the Jewish minister-president of Bavaria, who had led the revolt against the monarchy on November 7. </div>
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To Thulists, Eisner, an ethereal looking intellectual, champion of the 'League of Nations', and conciliator of the Communists, represented everything odious. </div>
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Eisner's hundred-day reign was tinged with Bohemianism. </div>
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Poetry was recited from a roving truck which toured the streets, as if, someone observed, '<i>a picnic and not a revolution were going on.</i>' </div>
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In executive sessions, Eisner expounded on the inner nature of politics, which he thought was as much '<i>of an art as painting pictures or composing string quartets.</i>' </div>
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Sebottendorff threatened that if his members were not granted immunity from arrest, they would <i>'take a Jew, drag him through the streets, and say that he stole a consecrated wafer. Then you will have a pogrom on your hands that will take you out of office at the same time</i>.' </div>
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The main thrust of the Thule Gesellschaft was to<i> consolidate</i> the anti-Semitic organizations into militant action. </div>
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Toward this end, the Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (DAP) was established on January 18, 1919, in the rooms of the hotel, and Karl Harrer, a sports-writer for the 'Munchener Beobachter', was made the first chairman. </div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Karl Harrer (8 October 1890 - 5 September 1926) was a German journalist and politician, one of the founding members of the "Deutsche Arbeiterpartei" (German Workers' Party, DAP) in January 1919, the predecessor to the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (National Socialist German Workers Party – NSDAP). Harrer was "commissioned" by the German Army and the Thule Gesellschaft to politically influence German workers in Munich after the end of World War I. He and fellow Thule member Anton Drexler, and several others formed the Politischer Arbeiterzirkel (Political Workers' Circle) in 1918</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span></span><br />
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A small proportion of Thule members were also members of the DAP. </div>
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Karl Harrer apparently still hankered after the original secret discussion meetings, where one could cultivate feelings of exclusiveness. </div>
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His days as chairman were numbered, and so were Thule's as an officially recognized society. </div>
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The last consecration took place on March 21, 1919. </div>
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The government now insisted that groups had to be incorporated, and the only leaders they would recognize had to be elected. </div>
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'<i>One had to abandon the Führer principle</i>', Sebottendorff wistfully noted. </div>
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Thule members, however, did continue to meet informally. </div>
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After the Eisner assassination, the new minister-president of Bavaria fled northward to the city of Bamberg with his cabinet, to avoid an imminent takeover by the Communists. </div>
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He issued a proclamation that '<i>the regime of the Bavarian Free State has not resigned. It has transferred its seat from Munich. The regime is and will remain the single possessor of power in Bavaria</i>.' </div>
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The Thule Gesellschaft helped to set up a military group of anti-Communists, infiltrated Communist organizations, and was in touch with the legal Bavarian government in Bamberg. </div>
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On April 13, Thule members participated in the Palm Sunday Putsch, which was intended to restore the Bamberg government to power in Munich, and prevent the Communist takeover. </div>
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The Putsch, which was to have driven out the Communists, had the opposite effect. </div>
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It opened the way for a an extreme left-wing, Jewish inspired, <i>dictatorship of the proletariat</i>. </div>
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Virtual anarchy reigned in Munich. </div>
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The Communists seized control on April 14, and began taking hostages in reprisal for the murder of other Communists. </div>
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Twelve days later, they invaded the Thule rooms, arresting the Countess von Westarp, Prince von Thurn und Taxis, a sculptor, a painter, a baron, a railroad official, and an industrial artist. Sebottendorff laid on Knauf the charge of failing to hide the membership lists. </div>
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Sebottendorff himself had journeyed to Bamberg, in the hope of enlisting the help of the Freikorps, a paramilitary band of volunteers under the leadership of former army officers, supported by rich industrialists, and pledged to defend the Bamberg government-in-exile.</div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Freikorps (Free Corps) are German volunteer military or anti-communist paramilitary units. The term was originally applied to voluntary armies formed in German lands from the middle of the 18th century onwards. Between World War I and World War II the term was also used for the paramilitary organizations that arose during the Weimar Republic. An entire series of Freikorps awards also existed, mostly replaced in 1933 by the Honor Cross for World War I veterans.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The men in the </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: start;">Freikorps</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> unfit for civilian life, had a personal stake in the fight.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For them, the war had <i>never ended</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some had come straight out of school into the trenches, where they had learned how to be hard, and how to make <i>sacrifices</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Postwar Germany was <i>despicable</i> to these men, and they were with the Thulists in wanting to <i>restore the past - </i>or at least some aspects of the past<i>.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They were joined by students, who felt superfluous in a society that was falling apart.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Four days after seizing the seven Thule members, the Communist leader in Munich, Rudolf Egelhofer, ordered them shot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He claimed that they were counter-revolutionaries and, after all, accountable to civil law.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thule members had, in fact, been smuggling men and information out of the city.<br />They had become especially gifted at forging documents, assembling caches of weapons, and recruiting men for the Freikorps, whose volunteers were laying plans to defeat the left.<br />While twenty thousand Freikorps men marched on the city, the hostages were taken to Luitpold High School, which the Communists were using as a barracks as well as a jail.<br />They were lined up against the courtyard wall and executed.<br />After the hostage murders, the Communists posted a notice that a 'band of criminals of the so-called upper classes' had been captured, 'arch- reactionaries' who forged official documents to get confiscated goods, agents for the counter-revolution.<br />The executions caused an unprecedented wave of outrage among the citizenry of Munich.<br />The anti-Semitic groups lost no opportunity to make effective propaganda, spreading rumours of fearful atrocities.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The civil strife, which had begun right after the war, came to a horrifying climax over these murders.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Three Jews in the Communist government - Eugen Levine-Nissen, Tobias Axelrod, and Max Levien - were alleged to be responsible for the deaths, as an act of </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">vengeance</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> against their anti-Semitic enemies.</span></div>
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The Freikorps, inflamed by the hostage murders, stormed through Munich, setting fire to a beer hall, and fighting with mortars and hand grenades.</div>
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'Swastika on helmet, Colours black-white-red.'</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">During the civil war which followed, the Communists were defeated, and the nationalists received a great boost.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was, in every way, a rehearsal and a preparation for what was to come later.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As to the Thule Gesellschaft, it seems to have come to an end along with the seven hostages</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Two days after their interment, there was a memorial service at the Thule rooms.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The pulpit was draped with a captured Communist flag, but instead of the hammer and sickle, there was a <i>swastika</i>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The murder of the members had opened new possibilities. Sebottendorff disappeared from Munich.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He eventually returned to Istanbul, and then made his way to Mexico.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He reappeared in Munich in 1933, hoping to revive the Thule Gesellschaft, but by that time the NSDAP he had helped to launch was doing very well without him.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some of the other Thule members were now in a position to implement what they had learned at those meetings on Saturdays at the Vier Jahreszeiten.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'..<i>. a promise of reaching a transcendent reality, that they were the new men the age was waiting for, that they were endowed with a secret energy which would enable them to take over Germany and the world. If they were properly prepared, mysteries would be revealed to them which would give them superhuman powers</i>.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The members and guests of the Thule Society thought of themselves as potential <i>masters of the earth</i>, protected against all dangers.</span></div>
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Their reign would last for a thousand years, until the next Deluge.</div>
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Some of them became key figures in the NSDAP:<br />
Max Ammann, business manager of the party's newspaper and publishing house; <i>Dietrich Eckart</i>, who introduced Hitler to Munich society; Hans Frank, governor general of Poland; Anton Drexler, first chairman of the German Workers' party; Gottfried Feder, economic adviser; Karl Harrer, first chairman of the NSDAP; Rudolf Hess, Hitler's secretary and first adjutant; <i>Adolf Hitler</i>; Dr. Heinz Kurz, SS leader; Friedrich Krohn, dentist who designed Nazi swastika insignia; Ernst Rohm, leader of Storm Troopers; Alfred Rosenberg, commissioner for Eastern Affairs; Julius Streicher, Gauleiter (party district-leader) of Franconia.</div>
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The philosophy behind this cult, <i>never mentioned at the infamous Nuremberg Trials</i>, sheds new light on much that was to come, - on the enthusiastic sanction of them by the German people, and on the <i>Occult Messiah</i> who led them.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sebottendorff's <i>F</i></span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>ü</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>hrerprinzip</i> is basic to esoteric cults.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Führerprinzip - German for "leader principle", prescribed the fundamental basis of political authority in the governmental structures of the Third Reich. This principle can be most succinctly understood to mean that "the Führer's word is above all written law", and that governmental policies, decisions, and offices ought to work towards the realization of this end.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Führerprinzip was not invented by the National Socialists.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hermann Graf Keyserling, a German philosopher, was the first to use the term "Führerprinzip".</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of Keyserling's central claims was that certain '<i>gifted individuals</i>' were "<i>born to rule</i>" on the basis of Social Darwinism.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The ideology of the Führerprinzip sees each organization as a <i>hierarchy of leaders</i>, where every leader (Führer, in German) has <i>absolute responsibility</i> in his <i>own area</i>, demands absolute obedience from those below him, and answers only to his superiors.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The supreme leader, Adolf Hitler, answered to God and the German people.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It has been argued that Hitler saw himself as an incarnation of auctoritas, and as the living law or highest law itself, effectively combining in his persona executive power, judicial power and legislative power.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Auctoritas is a Latin word and is the origin of English "authority." While historically its use in English was restricted to discussions of the political history of Rome, the beginning of phenomenological philosophy in the 20th century expanded the use of the word. In ancient Rome, Auctoritas referred to the general level of prestige a person had in Roman society, and, as a consequence, his clout, influence, and ability to rally support around his will. Auctoritas was not merely political, however; it had a numinous content and symbolized the mysterious "<i>power of command</i>" of heroic Roman figures.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Führerprinzip became the law of the National Socialist German Worker's Party, and the SS, and was later transferred onto the whole German society.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Appointed mayors replaced elected local governments.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Schools lost elected parents councils and faculty advisory boards, with all authority being put in the headmaster's hands.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For example, after the campaign against the alleged Röhm Putsch, Hitler declared: "<i>in this hour, I was responsible for the fate of the German nation and was therefore the supreme judge of the German people !</i>"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is easy to see how the F</span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ü</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">hrerprinzip led, step by step, to the surrender of the will of the people to the will of the F</span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ü</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">hrer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A German did not need to be an occultist in order to long for a Messiah to save him. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As in other difficult periods in history, after World War I the Messiah's coming was believed to be imminent.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A father-figure in a chaotic age, he would surely preserve and protect and make things bloom again in the desert, where men were daily losing their bearings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Still, the poet Heinrich Heine's '<i>man whom the German people await, the man who will bring to them the life and happiness they have so long hoped for in their dreams</i>,' was awaited with particular zeal by the members of the Thule Society.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dietrich Eckart and a small inner core of Thulists had been prepared for the imminent appearance of the German Messiah in a whole series of spiritualistic seances.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All those present were<i> terrified</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The spirit of the executed Prince von Thurn und Taxis had prophesied the coming of a German Messiah.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sebottendorff ran from the room, but Eckart tackled him and knocked him down.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Eckart shared with Hitler a fascination with 'Ostara's' erotic philosophy; had, in fact, been charged with plagiarism by Lanz von Liebenfels himself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After the NSDAP were swept into power, Lanz was to write that his Order of New Templars was</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'<i>the first manifestation of the Movement which now, in accordance with the law of God, is most powerful in history and unrestrainedly sweeping over the world</i>.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Eckart already belonged to the Thule Society when Hitler appeared on the scene.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was Eckart who first promoted Hitler as the long-awaited Messiah.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What do we know of Hitler's life before then ?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With certain important exceptions, only what he <i>wanted </i>us to know: that he was the son of a harsh man, a civil servant, who wanted his son to follow in his footsteps; that he adored his mother, who died a lingering death of cancer while he was struggling in Vienna; that he did not make it as an artist; that knowledge of his true vocation came to him in World War I.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But we can paint a fuller picture than this ?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A picture that rather complicates the popular image of Hitler as a practical realist, though he most certainly was a man who knew how to seize his opportunities.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He was also an <i>occultist</i>.</span></div>
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-CoXThpgCMUI/UlPGTexCo8I/AAAAAAAATjY/f1MSFKIxsQQ/s1600/Adolf+Hitler+-+Ex+Libris+-+Hitler's+Library+-+Occult+History+Third+Reich+-+Peter+Crawford.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-CoXThpgCMUI/UlPGTexCo8I/AAAAAAAATjY/f1MSFKIxsQQ/s200/Adolf+Hitler+-+Ex+Libris+-+Hitler's+Library+-+Occult+History+Third+Reich+-+Peter+Crawford.jpg" width="180" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Library of Congress in Washington contains <i>thousands </i>of books taken from Hitler's personal library after the Allied occupation of Germany.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of them, 'Nationalismus', is by the Indian mystic Rabindranath Tagore.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It bears an inscription dated April 20, 1921, signed by the unfamiliar name B. Steininger:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'<i>An Adolf Hitler, meinem lieben Armanen-bruder</i>' (To Adolf Hitler, my dear Armanen-brother).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Armanen, <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/06/ariosophy.html" target="_blank">Guido von List</a>'s <i>esoteric brotherhood,</i> posited an ancient race of Germanic priests.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Their wisdom was passed on through the centuries, not only through a secret brotherhood of initiates but also through clues which List, the last of the Armanen, was able to divine through intuition and clairvoyance. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sacred meanings were hidden away in words and signs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This, of course, is perfectly understandable to the occultist.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But List apparently reached a wider audience by pioneering in the revival of pagan worship.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">His theories were studied by the '<i>Germanen Orden</i>' and, later, by the SS.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">His books, <i>confiscated</i> by the Allies, bear the SS mark, and are stamped <i><a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/die-deutsche-ahnenerbe.html" target="_blank">Ahnenerbe</a></i>, the Ancestral Research branch, and apparently were used in teaching candidates for the SS.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/die-deutsche-ahnenerbe.html" target="_blank">Ahnenerbe</a> was an SS institute that was to research the archaeological and cultural history of the "Aryan race." Founded on July 1, 1935, by <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/heinrich-himmler-ahnenerbe.html" target="_blank">Heinrich Himmler</a>, <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/die-deutsche-ahnenerbe.html" target="_blank">Herman Wirth</a>, and Richard <a href="http://germany19001939.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/copyright-peter-crawford-2013-copyright.html" target="_blank">Walther Darré,</a> the Ahnenerbe later launched expeditions in an attempt to prove that prehistoric and mythological Nordic populations had once ruled the world. Its name came from an obscure German word, Ahnenerbe, meaning "<i>something inherited from the forefathers</i>." The official mission of the Ahnenerbe was to unearth "new evidence of the accomplishments and deeds of Germanic ancestors using exact scientific methods." Formally, the group was called Studiengesellschaft für Geistesurgeschichte‚ Deutsches Ahnenerbe e.V. ("Study society for primordial intellectual history, German Ancestral Heritage, registered society"), and was renamed in 1937, as Forschungs- und Lehrgemeinschaft das Ahnenerbe e.V. ("Research and Teaching Community of the Ancestral Heritage, registered society").</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hitler's library also contained one of <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/lanz-von-liebenfels.html" target="_blank">Lanz von Liebenfel's </a>books, 'Das Buch der Psalmen Teutsch: Das Gebetbuch der Ariosophen Rassen Mystiker' (The Book the Psalms Teach: The Prayerbook of Ariosophic Race Mystery).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Both List and Lanz were obsessed with blood purity, with the secret significance of the <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/hitler-and-holy-grail.html" target="_blank">Grail Legend</a>, with bringing about a new order.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Both took the swastika for their symbol.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Membership in cults of this type are usually kept secret, so it is not surprising that we have no documentation of Hitler's membership.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He may well have been a member of either the Armanen or the Order of New Templars, or both, however, for it is entirely in keeping with his character as presented by people who knew him in his younger days in Vienna.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Josef Greiner, the former colleague of Hitler, who published his reminiscences in 1947, describes Hitler as an explorer of ancient mysteries and a student of telepathy, knowledgeable about the rituals of the yogis and about fakirs who seem to control their heartbeats.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He was intrigued, according to Greiner, by the occult</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Josef Greiner (Styria, 1886—Unknown (after 1947)) was an Austrian writer. He knew Adolf Hitler during Hitler's time in Vienna and later published two memoirs on this topic. He lived in the Meldemannstraße dormitory from January to April 1910; it was during this period that he first became acquainted with Adolf Hitler, who moved into the dormitory in February 1910 and stayed until 1913. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Reinhold Hanisch, who knew both Hitler and Greiner in this period, credited Greiner with leading Hitler into the occult but it may very well have been the other way around.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Reinhold Hanisch (January 27, 1884, Grünwald an der Neiße (Czech: Mšeno nad Nisou(de)) bei Gablonz/Neiße, northern Bohemia, Imperial & Royal Austria – February 2 ? (death date controversial), 1937, in Vienna, aged 53) was an Austrian migrant worker and sometime business partner of the young Adolf Hitler. Hanisch, who published articles on Hitler, with whom he had lived in 1910, is, next to August Kubizek, one of the few witnesses to Hitler's Vienna years. Hanisch stated that Hitler associated almost exclusively with Jews, and his best friend in Vienna was the Jewish copper cleaner Josef Neumann. Another Jewish friend was a one-eyed locksmith's assistant, Simon Robinsohn, who came from the town of Lisko in Galicia.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hitler had already expressed many of these ideas as a teenager to his young friend <a href="http://meinkampfvol1.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/kubizek-adolf-hitler-mein-jugendfreund_1210.html" target="_blank">August Kubizek</a>, in Linz.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hitler had had visions of remodelling the whole town, and spent hours telling his plans to his patient friend.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kubizek complied with all his dreams:</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'We would go to St. Georgen on the Gusen to find out what relics of that famous battle in the Peasants' War still remained. When we were unsuccessful Adolf had a strange idea. He was convinced that the people who lived there would have some faint memory of that great battle. The following day he went again alone, after a vain attempt to get my father to give me the day off. He spent two days and two nights there, but I don't remember with what result.'</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hitler was more at home in German mythology than in his real world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'<i>From the Edda, a book that was sacred for him, he knew Iceland, the rugged island of the North, where the elements which formed the world meet now, as they did in the days of Creation</i>.'</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The term Edda (Old Norse Edda, plural Eddur) applies to the Old Norse Poetic Edda and Prose Edda, both of which were written down in Iceland during the 13th century in Icelandic, although they contain material from earlier traditional sources, reaching into the Viking Age. The books are the main sources of medieval skaldic tradition in Iceland and Norse mythology.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://meinkampfvol1.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/kubizek-adolf-hitler-mein-jugendfreund_1210.html" target="_blank">Kubizek</a> and Greiner both testify that what especially intrigued Hitler was the power of the human will.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Allies, apparently puzzled by the riddle of Adolf Hitler, who they considered to be a ne'er-do-well of humble origins, unprepossessing looks, and mediocre intellect, rising to such eminence, had secret psychiatric reports drawn up on him while the war was still in progress, which obviously did not help much to clear away the confusion about this complex personality.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They paint a portrait of sexual deviation, of adolescent overcompensation, of an indomitable <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/hitler-and-will.html" target="_blank">will to power</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/hitler-and-will.html" target="_blank"><i>will to power</i> </a>has not been given its proper due.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">His admirers, and even reluctant observers, have testified to his spellbinding, hypnotic effect.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A romantic mystic, a visionary, a charismatic </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">figure he is often acknowledged to be.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But this early will to power betrays the interests of a potential occultist.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The occultist is concerned with <i>transcending everyday reality.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He makes use of <i>myth, symbol,</i> and <i>ritual</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He tries to put himself in touch with forces which he believes to be beyond the reach of the senses, and to <i>awaken higher powers</i> in himself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Work, the Grand Work, is to <i>transform oneself</i> from an ordinary mortal into a <i>superhuman - (<a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/the-genisis-of-ubermensch.html" target="_blank">Übermensch</a>)</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/the-genisis-of-ubermensch.html" target="_blank">Übermensch</a> is a concept originally derived from the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. Nietzsche had his character Zarathustra posit the <i>Übermensch</i> as a <i>goal for humanity</i> to set for itself in his 1883 book 'Also Sprach Zarathustra' ('Thus Spoke Zarathustra'). The term Übermensch was used frequently by Hitler to describe the idea of a spiritually and biologically superior "Aryan"nrace; a form of Nietzsche's <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/the-genisis-of-ubermensch.html" target="_blank">Übermensch </a>became a philosophical foundation for the National Socialist ideas. In order to create the Übermensch, Hitler believed that he required a racial foundation - and that was 'die Herrenrasse' (the Master Race). </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It is very important to note that the 'Übermensch' and 'Herrenrasse' are not identical, and the former must be built on the latter. </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The concept of the 'Herrenrasse' is purely biological, whereas the concept of the 'Übermensch' is occult.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To transform oneself into an <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/the-genisis-of-ubermensch.html" target="_blank">Übermensch</a>,</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> the will must be developed - something the ordinary mortal neither knows nor cares about.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hitler, from the time he was a young boy, was preoccupied with the matter of will, a concern not shared by his family or social milieu.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Though he could not will himself into art school, his childhood friend Kubizek was the recipient of confidences about his inner life which betray <i>Wagnerian </i>fantasies of another sort of strength.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After a performance of Wagner's opera, 'Rienzi - der Letzte der Tribunen</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">', ('Rienzi - the Last Tribune'), </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">both boys stood under the stars, and, says Kubizek:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'<i>I was struck by something strange, which I had never noticed before, even when he had talked to me in moments of the greatest excitement. It was as if another being spoke out of his body, and moved him as much as it did me. It wasn't at all a case of a speaker being carried away by his own words. On the contrary: I rather felt as though he himself listened with astonishment and emotion to what burst forth from him with elementary force. I will not attempt to interpret this phenomenon, but it was a state of complete ecstasy and rapture, in which he transferred the character of Rienzi, without even mentioning him as a model or example, with visionary power to the plane of his own ambitions. But it was more than a cheap adaptation. Indeed, the impact of the opera was rather a sheer external impulse which compelled him to speak. Like flood waters breaking their dykes, his words burst forth from him. He conjured up in grandiose, inspiring pictures his own future and that of his people.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Hitherto I had been convinced that my friend wanted to become an artist, a painter, or perhaps an architect. Now this was no longer the </i><i>case. Now he aspired to something higher, which I could not yet fully </i><i>grasp. It rather surprised me, as I thought that the vocation of the artist was for him the highest, most desirable goal. But now he was talking of a mandate which, one day, he would receive from the people, to lead them out of servitude to the heights of freedom.</i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was an unknown youth who spoke to me in that strange hour. He spoke of a special mission which one day would be entrusted to him'</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hitler later recalled the incident, too, and solemnly said: '<i>In that hour it began</i>.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Typical adolescent dreams ? A flight from harsh reality ? Of course.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But his grandiose plans for the future, unlikely as they were, did come to pass after all, and it is plausible that he should have worked on himself systematically, in obedience to occult teaching.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">'Rienzi, der Letzte der Tribunen' is an early opera by Richard Wagner in five acts, with the libretto written by the composer after Bulwer-Lytton's novel of the same name (1835). The title is commonly shortened to Rienzi. Written between July 1838 and November 1840, it was first performed at the Hofoper, Dresden, on 20 October 1842, and was the composer's first success.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The opera is set in Rome and is based on the life of Cola di Rienzi (1313–1354), a late medieval Italian populist figure who succeeds in outwitting and then defeating the nobles and their followers and in raising the power of the people.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Magnanimous at first, he is forced by events to crush the nobles' rebellion against the people's power, but popular opinion changes and even the Church, which had urged him to assert himself, turns against him. In the end the populace burns the Capitol, in which Rienzi and a few adherents have made a last stand.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The occult tradition, as Madame Blavatsky pointed out, holds that what moves the world is</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'<i>that mysterious and divine power latent in the will of every man, and which, if not called to life, quickened and developed by occult training, remains dormant in </i><i>999,999 men out of a million, and gets atrophied</i>.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From the ancients to the most simplistic modern exponents of the magic power of thought, the doctrine is that one's attention and <i>intense concentration</i> can accomplish <i>any</i> desired end.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If the end is not reached, it is simply because the mind has not sufficiently projected it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In Vienna, Hitler's political thinking had been influenced by Mayor Karl Lueger, who, according to the Anthroposophist, Johannes Tautz, came to the Armanen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lueger was in office from 1897 to 1910, and, in league with the Pan-German groups, found favour with the lower middle class by attacking liberals and Jews.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While List wrote erudite tracts on the esoteric meaning of words, Lueger knew that to gain power he had to win over the largest possible segment of society.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hitler was seen as a 'peculiar' fellow to his World War I compatriots because he would sit listlessly by himself, and let nobody stir him out of his concentration.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He was apt to jump up abruptly, and move around agitatedly, predicting that the Germans would be defeated.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">Adolf Hitler and Comrades - with Foxl</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In October he was blinded in a gas attack at Ypres, and subsequently sent to a military hospital at Pasewalk, a small town north-east of Berlin.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In 'Mein Kampf' Hitler describes, in detail, his physical pain along with the anguish and despair he felt when he learned of Germany's defeat.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--U-Bi53F5Yo/U0Bix49Y0uI/AAAAAAAAY0s/9XNvhBKP-3k/s1600/Pasewalk+Vision+-+Adolf+Hitler+-+Mein+Kampf+-+Peter+Crawford.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--U-Bi53F5Yo/U0Bix49Y0uI/AAAAAAAAY0s/9XNvhBKP-3k/s1600/Pasewalk+Vision+-+Adolf+Hitler+-+Mein+Kampf+-+Peter+Crawford.png" width="76" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While initially the effects of his gassing must have caused him considerable pain, what he fails to tell us in 'Mein Kampf' is that once the physical pain had subsided, he found himself in a prolonged state of <i>sensory deprivation</i>; known to para-psychologists as '<i>the ganzfeld effect</i>'; confined to his bed, unable to see, and in the hushed atmosphere of a hospital ward.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Compared to the living hell of the front, with its screaming shells combining with the screams of the mutilated and dying, and the everlasting thundering of the guns, Hitler's new environment was tailor-made for the <i>psychic experience</i> he sought</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">According to Hitler, he experienced a '<i>vision' </i>from<i> 'another world'</i> while at the hospital.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In that vision, Hitler was told that he would lead Germany back to glory.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On his recovery, in November, he was posted back to Munich.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Writing of this experience in 'Mein Kampf', he said: <i>I resolved that I would take up political work.'</i></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">Adolf Hitler</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When he was discharged, he continued to work for the army, in the Munich branch, as a Bildungs-offizier</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> (instructor) in the Press and News Bureau of the Political Department.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was the Army, at the prompting of Dietrich Eckart and Ernst Röhm, that Hitler joined, and eventually took over the 'Deutsche Arbeiterpartei' (DAP).</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Ernst Julius Günther Röhm (28 November 1887 – 2 July 1934) was a German officer in the Bavarian Army. He was a co-founder of the Sturmabteilung ("Storm Battalion"; SA), the militia of the NSDAP, and later was its commander. In 1934, as part of the Night of the Long Knives, he was executed on Adolf Hitler's orders as a potential rival.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hitler's account of his initial contact with the Deutsche Arbeiterpartei is, like many biographical details in 'Mein Kampf', completely spurious.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">His membership number in the German Workers' party was originally</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Drexler, outraged by distorted official radio 'history' of the party's origin, drafted a long, angry letter to Hitler late in January 1940. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In it he stated:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'<i>No one knows better than you yourself, my Fü</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>hrer, that you were never the seventh member of the party, but at most the seventh member of the committee, which I asked you join as propaganda chief</i>.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In this letter - never sent, since Drexler planned to forward it to Hitler after the war - are also statements about the size of the party in September 1919 and about the 'f<i>orging</i>' of Hitler's party card.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Anton Drexler (13 June 1884 – 24 February 1942) was a German political leader of the 1920s, instrumental in the formation of the anti-communist German Workers' Party (Deutsche Arbeiterpartei - DAP), the antecedent of the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei - NSDAP. Drexler served as mentor to Adolf Hitler during his early days in politics.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is significant that someone, at some point, saw fit to change the number.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Seven, in occult terms, is a much more important number than </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">555.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">List, for instance, expatiates on seven:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'<i>The seven is developed from a triangle - it is the secret of the beginning, the development and the change into the All in all respects and so closes the circle of eternity. That is why all figures in geometry </i><i>can be measured by the triangle and the square. The seven is a glyph (secret word and secret connotation) as well as a numerical value, because it can be arrived at only by symbols of the triangle and the square.</i>'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To the occultists, numbers have curious properties which are <i>not</i> just utilitarian.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They all borrow from Pythagoras, who first gave mathematics a specialized meaning.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The occult properties of numbers form the basis for serious study, and contain the keys to laws of human and cosmic life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Whether through superstition or cognizance of cosmic laws, <i>seven </i>became Hitler's number.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The perfect number, in short, for the membership card of the future '<i>Messiah of Germany</i>'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But how is it that such an apparently unexceptional individual became the Messiah ?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Was he chosen by the group or by a single member - perhaps <i><a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/dietrich-eckart-hitlers-mentor.html" target="_blank">Dietrich Eckart</a></i> - or did he create the role for himself ?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Dietrich Eckart (23 March 1868 – 26 December 1923) was a German journalist and politician who, together with Adolf Hitler, was one of the early key members of the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP), and a participant of the 1923 Munich Putsch</span><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">According to Kurt Ludecke, who knew both Hitler and Eckart in those early years, Eckart</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'<i>was something of a genius, and to a great degree the spiritual father of Hitler and grandfather of the National Socialist movement. Also, he was well-to-do, one of Hitler's first financial blessings</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Kurt Ludecke (Berlin, 5 February 1890 – Prien am Chiemsee, 1960) was an ardent German nationalist and international traveler who joined the NSDAP in the early 1920s and who used his social connections to raise money for the NSDAP. Before attending a rally at which Adolf Hitler was a featured speaker, Ludecke had assumed that Hitler was simply "one more fanatic" but after hearing Hitler speak at a mass demonstration at the Konigsplatz in Munich, he had adopted Hitler as his hero: "His appeal to German manhood was like a call to arms, the gospel he preached a sacred truth." The next day, he spoke to Hitler for four hours and offered himself to Hitler and the National Socialist cause "without reservation"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is more likely that Eckart himself was not so much '<i>well-to-do'</i> as '<i>well connected</i>'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He had contact with rich members of Munich's social circle and was an accomplished fundraiser.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At any rate, it was he who afforded Hitler the entrée into that circle, with the grandiloquent announcement that here, at last, was the <i>'long-promised saviour</i>.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In fact, he is reported to have said to Alfred Rosenberg, after Thule's revolutionary activities: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'<i>Let it happen as it will and must, but I believe in Hitler; above him there hovers a star</i>.'</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Alfred Ernst Rosenberg (12 January 1893 – 16 October 1946) was an early and intellectually influential member of the NSDAP. Rosenberg was first introduced to Adolf Hitler by Dietrich Eckart; he later held several important posts in the government of the Third Reich. He is considered one of the main authors of key National Socialist ideological creeds, including its racial theory, Lebensraum, abrogation of the Treaty of Versailles, and opposition to "degenerate" modern art. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Why Eckart believed particularly in Hitler remains something of a mystery - although is is quite reasonable to assume that Eckart had some occult insight into Hitler's true nature.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On the surface, however, Hitler apparently did have an uncanny knack for persuasive speaking.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">His young friend Kubizek testified to that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This talent initially focused the attention of the group on Hitler.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Its effect is admirably summed up by Dr Paul Joseph Goebbels, who wrote to Hitler after hearing him speak in Munich in June 1922:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'<i>Like a rising star you appeared before our wondering eyes, you performed miracles to clear our minds and, in a world of scepticism and desperation, gave us faith. You towered above the masses, full of faith and certain of the future, and possessed by the will to free those masses with your unlimited love for all those who believe in the new Reich. For the first time we saw with shining eyes a man who tore off the mask from the faces distorted by greed, the faces of mediocre parliamentary busybodies. You expressed more than your own pain. You named the need of a whole generation, searching in confused longing for men and task.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>What you said is the catechism of the new political belief, born out of the despair of a collapsing, Godless world. One day, Germany will thank you</i>.'</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Paul Joseph Goebbels (29 October 1897 – 1 May 1945) was a German politician and Reich Minister of Propaganda for the Third Reich from 1933 to 1945. As one of Adolf Hitler's closest associates and most devout followers, he was known for his zealous orations. Goebbels earned a PhD from Heidelberg University in 1921, writing his doctoral thesis on 19th century romantic drama; he then went on to work as a journalist. He also wrote novels and plays. Goebbels came into contact with the National Socialist German Worker's Party (NSDAP) in 1923 during the French occupation of the Ruhr and became a member in 1924.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Whatever others thought of him, Hitler himself was <i>not </i>so ambitious as to proclaim himself the Messiah right from the outset.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At first, he was just a '<i>drummer</i>', bringing glad tidings of the coming of the '<i>new man</i>'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The metaphor changed after the <a href="http://deutschlandostmark.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/der-munchner-putsch-munich-pustch.html" target="_blank"><i>Putsch</i> of 1923</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When the government was inactive in the face of Communist uprisings, Hitler and his Storm Troopers, on the evening of November 8, planned a coup to depose them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The government met that night in one of Munich's many beer halls, and the National Socialists surrounded the building.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On a signal, they entered the hall and fired a shot at the ceiling, shouting that the national revolution had come and the government was deposed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The <i><a href="http://deutschlandostmark.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/der-munchner-putsch-munich-pustch.html" target="_blank">Putsch</a></i> turned out to be a fiasco, and when it was over, Hitler was imprisoned at Festung Landsberg.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of the major defendants at the Nuremberg Trials, Baldur von Schirach, the leader of the Hitler Youth, dated the change in Hitler's self- image from a later period.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'<i>Before 1934 he was menschlich (human); from 1934 to 1938 he was </i></span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>ü</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>bermenschlich (superhuman).</i>'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But the consensus does not seem to be that Hitler's confinement, and particularly, according to some commentators, his intimate exposure to Rudolf Heß in prison, occasioned the change.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Whatever the relationship between the two men may have been, Hitler did become something of a <i>national idol</i> by the very fact of his imprisonment.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Rudolf Walter Richard Heß, (26 April 1894 – 17 August 1987), was a prominent politician in Germany. Appointed Deputy Führer to Adolf Hitler in 1933, he served in this position until 1941, when he flew solo to Scotland in an attempt to negotiate peace with the United Kingdom during World War II. Hess enlisted in the 7th Bavarian Field Artillery Regiment as an infantryman at the outbreak of World War I. He was wounded several times over the course of the war, and won the Iron Cross, second class, in 1915. In autumn 1919 Hess enrolled in the University of Munich, where he studied geopolitics under Karl Haushofer, a proponent of the concept of Lebensraum ("living space"), which later became one of the pillars of the National Socialist German Workers Party ideology. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He, of course, enjoyed the legend which began to grow up around him, and capitalized on it in every way that he could.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is not uncommon, either, for breakthroughs to come to men as they meditate quietly in prison.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He certainly had lots of time to think in the nine months he was in<a href="http://deutschlandostmark.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/der-munchner-putsch-munich-pustch.html" target="_blank"> Landsberg</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was only after this, according to his intimate acquaintance, 'Putzi' Hanfstaengl, that the Fuhrer cult began in earnest.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Before then, he was '<i>Herr Hitler'</i> to everyone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At Hess's instigation, this now changed, first to '<i>der Chef</i>' and then to '<i>Mein Führer</i>'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hitler seemed to enjoy the transmutation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In prison, he had written 'Mein Kampf', with the help of Heß.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When it was published, his absolute authority over the National Socialist German Workers' party was established.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Whereas before, Kurt Ludecke observes, '<i>people said he would be destroyed for loyalty to friends,</i>' he was now no longer '<i>one of the boys</i>', but increasingly authoritarian.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From here on, Hitler, whatever steps he took, continued to see himself as <i>sent by Providence</i> to <i>save</i> the German people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This message communicated itself with striking power to his subalterns, to the masses, and even to his enemies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/hitlers-table-talk.html" target="_blank">Hermann Rauschning</a>, reports a typical conversation in which Hitler told Bernhard Forster that he ...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'<i>would not reveal his unique mission until later. He permitted glimpses of it only to a few. When the time came, however, Hitler would bring the world a new religion. The blessed consciousness of eternal life in union with the great universal life, and in membership of an immortal people</i>'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That was the message Hitler would impart to the world when the time came.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hitler would be the first to achieve what Christianity was meant to have been, a <i>joyous message </i>that liberated men from the things that burdened their life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We should no longer have any fear of death.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hitler would restore men to the <i>self-confident divinity</i> with which nature had endowed them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They would be able to <i>trust their instincts</i>, would no longer be citizens of two worlds, but would be rooted in the <i>single, eternal life</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While Rauschning may well have taken these ideas as mere<i> reflections of irrationality,</i> they mean something else to the student of occultism.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hitler's new religion was the same brand that Lanz and List had preached: a mixture of <i>paganism, <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/third-reich-and-gnosticism.html" target="_blank">Gnosticism</a>, </i>and <i>magic</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Its true purpose could only be revealed to the <i>initiated</i>, and only at the proper time, because only they would really grasp its import, and only when the way had been prepared.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The time, of course, had also to be auspicious in an astrological sense.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And the initiated, whose consciousness was sufficiently expanded, would be in a position to help usher in the <i>new religion.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Many people have testified to Hitler's <i>medium-like powers</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Much has been made of the fact that he was born in Braunau am Inn in Austria, a town which happens to have produced a disproportionately great number of people who went on to gain reputations as mediums, the most notable being Rudi and Willy Schneider.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Occultists point out that Hitler had shared with the psychic Schneider brothers their wet nurse.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But even commentators who are not receptive to occult beliefs have drawn attention to Hitler's occasional lapses into trance-like states.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ernst Hanfstaengl recalls '<i>his almost medium-like performances on a speaker's platform.</i>'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hermann Rauschning repeats what Bernhard Forster had told him about </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hitler:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'<i>God, or whatever we preferred to call it, life or the universal spirit, spoke to him in solitude. He drew his great power from intercourse with the eternal divine nature.</i>'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Added Forster......</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'<i>I hear those voices when Hitler speaks. Then I feel strong, and know that we shall conquer and live for ever</i>.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stephen H. Roberts, an Australian journalist covering Germany in the thirties, described the two most popular views of Hitler - either......</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'<i>as a mere ranting stump-orator, or as a victim of demoniacal possession, driven hither and thither by some occult force that makes him a power of evil, or the view of his believers that he is a demigod, revealing the path that Germany is to follow by some divine power.'</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He put rehtorical questions to Rauschning:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>An order ? A religious brotherhood of Templars to guard the Holy Grail, the august vessel containing the pure blood ?</i>'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Grail, to the occultist, is a symbol for hidden knowledge.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'<i>is a path leading from unthinking dullness, through doubt, to spiritual awakening,</i>' and there were '<i>ascending grades on the way to the achievement of higher levels of consciousness. There were also various creatures which symbolized the different degrees, the highest being the eagle, emblem of the initiate who had attained the highest powers and faculties of which man was capable, and was at last in a position to assume a world-historic destiny.'</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No one could accuse Hitler of false humility.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stephen H. Roberts, the Australian journalist, describes a painting, which he saw displayed in Munich for a short time in the autumn of 1936: '<i>of Hitler in the actual silver garments of the Knight of the Grail.</i>' </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Roberts believes the picture was withdrawn because '<i>it gave the show away - and was too near the truth of Hitler's mentality.</i>'</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The painting "Der Bannerträger"(ca. 1934), an oil on wood painting by Austrian painter Hubert Lanzinger (1880-1950), is one of nearly 10,000 works of art that were seized by the Americans after the war, supposedly as part of efforts to '<i>de-Nazify</i>' into German society. This and 400 other works of art from the Third Reich period still considered politically "<i>charged</i>" remain under the "<i>custody</i>" of the U.S. military yet. This portrait depicts Hitler as a <i>messianic figure,</i> who provides a better future for Germany with the swastika flag waving behind him. It was first presented at the Great Exhibition of German Art in Munich in 1937.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By then, Hitler's view of the Jew as the '<i>enemy of the light'</i> had bedazzled the whole country.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was the Jew who had to be cleared out of the way before the <i>new man</i> could arise.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Like his teachers, Hitler saw the Jew as the <i>embodiment of all evil,</i> but among the qualities he considered evil were virtues such as excessive intellect, conscience and intelligence. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'<i>We are now at the end of the Age of Reason. The intellect has grown autocratic, and has become a disease of life. Conscience is a Jewish invention. It is a blemish, like circumcision. A new age of a Magical interpretation of the world is coming, an interpretation in terms of the Will and not the intelligence. The new man will be the antithesis of the Jew</i>.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'<i>The new man</i>,' Hitler told Rauschning, '<i>will be a mutation, a different biological species altogether from homo sapiens as we know him</i>.'</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This, Hitler believed, was the <i>real power</i> of National Socialism.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So fierce and terrible would the <i>new men</i> be that ordinary humans would hardly be able to look them in the face; they would be the <i>true aristocracy</i>, and all others would be subjects.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With the coming of the <i>new man</i>, the inequality that exists in human life would be <i>heightened</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This was Hitler's antidote to democracy, - the restoration of insurmountable barriers between two breeds of people, as he presumed to have existed in ancient great civilizations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Only the '<i>new man</i>' would have rights.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hitler had come to free them from '<i>the dirty and degrading chimera called conscience and morality, and from the demands of a freedom and personal independence which only a very few can bear.</i>'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They would be <i>beyond good and evil</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He would liberate them from '<i>the burden of free will</i>.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He opposed '<i>with icy clarity</i>' the significance '<i>of individual and personal responsibility</i>.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Judging from Hitler's popularity, the suffering masses apparently found <i>relief</i> in this message.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here, again, the voice of the occultist may be heard.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since Darwin, esoteric groups have talked in terms of a mutation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To betray the Fuhrer, then, was also to betray the <i>new civilization</i> which he was ushering in, and he managed to convince the people of this.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Over and over again, in mass rallies so carefully staged that they left no one immune, he drove home, with the force of a master magician such as has not been seen before or since, the startling doctrine that he and the people were one.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Through torch-lit night parades, striking military bands, cathedral-like arcs of light, and the patterns and colours of swastika flags, a religious fervour was created among audiences wearied with waiting for hours until he came before them, suddenly, late at night, thundered his oration, and left just as suddenly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So skilled a psychologist was he that he knew that if he invited alienated mass man to '<i>step out of his workshop</i>,' his smallness would disappear in the midst of the exaltation of the masses.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It worked.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Aryan Germans were finally rid of anxiety, would strive together in the name of a <i>greater humanity</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Though we have not yet learned all of the secrets of the SS, (abbreviated</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">with stylized "Armanen" sig runes) </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and may never learn them, we do know some of them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We know that it was undoubtedly an <i>occult society</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In order to make sense of the activities of the SS, it must be seen that its members were motivated, for the most part by </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>sacrifice</i> in a fanatical <i>Utopian cause</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Present-day occult groups have improved our understanding of the human capacity for personality change, and for expanding the boundaries of endurance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They show us how malleable people are.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They give us new insights into how an appeal to <i>idealism</i> and a training for <i>self-sacrifice </i>can </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">prepare people for deeds which <i>transcend</i> individual conscience.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Membership in the SS seemed to present an opportunity to become part of a <i>Utopian society</i>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The National Socialist revolution, in some ways like the <a href="http://petersrussia.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/the-russian-revolution.html" target="_blank">Communist Revolution</a>, aimed to turn things around, but instead of an outmoded class struggle, it was concerned with a<i> <a href="http://petersracialobserver.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/der-begriff-der-rasse-concept-of-race.html" target="_blank">racial struggle</a></i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A <i>new class</i> would be brought to power,<i> not</i> the old aristocracy, but a<i> new aristocracy</i>, based on the </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">inherent nobility of <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/aryanism-and-third-reich.html" target="_blank">Aryan Blood</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The master race, (Herrenrasse), was to be the first step Hitlers goal of a <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/the-genisis-of-ubermensch.html" target="_blank">culmination of a biological evolution</a> - der Übermensch..</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If inferior races prevented these </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">goals, the '<i>master race</i>' would be <i>justified</i>, by the natural law of Darwinism, in doing whatever it needed to survive in the harsh struggle for existence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This had an immediate appeal to many in Germany and Austria</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sons of middle-class men, like Himmler, who could not even hope, in that gray time of the twenties and thirties, to approach the comfortable standard of living of their fathers, now saw an escape route.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was not necessarily outcasts or, for that matter, scoundrels who joined the SS, but <i>ordinary people</i>, members of the <i>lower and middle classes</i>, and later, even <i>members of the aristocracy -</i> who saw in it a chance to participate in a movement with which they could identify.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They were to be the<i> warriors</i> against the enemy - and t</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">hey recognized the enemy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Many of these men had fathers who had read the books of <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/06/ariosophy.html" target="_blank">Guido von List</a>, <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/lanz-von-liebenfels.html" target="_blank">Lanz von Liebenfels</a>, Fritsch, and <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/08/houston-stewart-chamberlain.html" target="_blank">Houston Stewart Chamberlain</a>, and believed in the mystical racism contained in these men's writings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Some of he churches, too, had shown sympathy with the v</span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ö</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">lkisch ideas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In school, the future National Socialists had been taught by people who had been conditioned by the same Zeitgeist.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On joining the SS, then, a man had little to unlearn.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As a bulwark against the horror of the future, in which all the avenues of growth seemed to be closed, the organization promised new options.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>renunciation of personality,</i> which it required of the individual, he gladly assented to.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For the sake of being part of a <i>Utopian society</i> which would usher in a <i>golden age</i>, he was willing to give up personal liberty.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He had been told for some time, anyway, that individual liberty was a <i>fiction.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Often, it was only the liberty to go down the drain.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If, in the process of the SS training, an individual was transformed into a machine, he could justify it with </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the propaganda that he was on the way to becoming '<i>the new man</i>'.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As a member of the SS put it:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'<i>We were told all the time we were the elect, we were to be the F</i></span><i><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ü</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">hrer's and Himmler's special instrument for creating a new Reich.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>They became our conscience, we lost our personal moral self-determination</i>'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There was a feeling that '<i>the Last Days were at hand</i>,' that the </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">subhuman Jew, the creature of the Demiurge, '<i>the creature of another god</i>', had to be prevented, by any means, from taking over the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A <i>crusade of the elect</i>, in absolute obedience to the will of the charismatic Führer', was a '<i>divine mission</i>.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As Himmler told the SS:</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">Heinrich Himmler</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'<i>We shall unremittingly fulfill our task. . . . We shall take care that never more in Germany, the heart of Europe, can the Jewish-Bolshevik revolution of sub-humans be kindled internally, or by emissaries from abroad. Pitilessly we shall be a merciless sword against all </i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>these forces whose existence and doings we know, whether it be today, or in decades, or in centuries</i>'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If Germany, after World War I, was a man-made jungle, the '<i>new man</i>' was the '<i>natural man</i>', very much at home in the economic and psychic swamp.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Encouraged to '<i>think with his blood</i>', and to renounce the bourgeois shackles of humanism, he turned, as Himmler had, from the <i>tender romanticism</i> of knightly deeds and pure fellow-feeling to a <i><a href="http://germany19001939.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/copyright-peter-crawford-2013-copyright.html" target="_blank">savage romanticism</a> - </i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>stählernde Romantik</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In this, he was the<i> archetypal twentieth-century man</i>, daring to destroy the old forms so that the new could be born.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He was a <a href="http://germany19001939.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/german-reactionary-modernism-in.html" target="_blank"><i>modern, yet ancient</i> warrior</a>, accomplished in technology, so that, in a curious way, he came to embody both rationalism and irrationalism.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These were not the only ambiguities.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The SS men were trained to be the first stage in a <i><a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/hitler-and-jews.html" target="_blank">superhuman mutation</a></i>, and already behaved as if they were 'herrenmenschen'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Fearless and hard</i>, they </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">were also capable of subservience to superiors.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What was the nature of the order which could contain such paradoxes ?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was an <i>elite society</i>, with strict conditions for acceptance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Himmler himself scrutinized applicants' photographs for an intuition into their </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">breeding.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They had to prove that only pure Aryan blood had flowed into their veins for three generations. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They had to meet certain requirements of racial appearance, physical condition, and general bearing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Intellectual attainments were not taken into account to a very great extent.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They had to go through innumerable political and physical tests, demonstrate that there were no hereditary imperfections in their families, and be examined for racial purity by a board of </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">doctors, racial specialists, and SS officers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The ratio of height to physique was important.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">No one could be under 1.70 meters [5' 7"], and if he were over 1.80 [5' </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">11"] or 1.85 [6' 1"], although this was in itself gratifying, the height must be balanced by the <i>harmony</i> of the rest of the body - the lower </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">thigh, for example, must be in proportion to the upper.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The hands, the gait, the bearing must be those of the desirable SS man, an ideal physical and psychological type on whose specifications they had been working since 1931, said Himmler.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Even underarm perspiration was made a distinguishing characteristic.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If the applicant met the specifications, he was then made a candidate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">had to swear an oath of loyalty, bravery, and obedience unto death to his superiors, and to Hitler.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">An SS lieutenant general had to swear further that he would not favour his own offspring, or those of other SS men.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the prolongation of examination and testing, Himmler copied the Jesuits, with their two-year-long period of rigorous tests and exercises for novices before they allowed them to take the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Before a candidate was allowed to consider himself an SS man, he </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">had to pass through a year-long course to win his sports badge, a period in the </span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Reichsarbeitsdienst (</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Labour</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Service), and two years in the army.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then, after an intensive course of indoctrination, he had to wait until the following November 9 to become a full member.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At 10:00 P.M. at the National Socialist shrine in Munich, the acolyte attended a special mystical ceremony binding him to his Führer, who was present.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The scene before the Feldherrnhalle was described thus:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'<i>Tears came to my eyes when, by the light of the torches, thousands of voices repeated the oath in chorus.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>It was like a praye</i>r.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Himmler was known as '<i>the Black Jesuit</i>', and created a hierarchical structure with a graded series of privileges, separating the higher orders from the lower orders, with himself as '<i>General of the Order</i>'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He understood well the elitist leanings of his men, and their fear of losing their status.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Naturally, then, despite the conditioning these men were daily receiving that they were the hope of civilization, they lived in constant fear of being discovered to be in some way unworthy of such a high calling.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Yet there was a <i>fierce pride</i> in having been chosen for a <i>superhuman task,</i> and the romanticism persisted:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'<i>And how they drilled us till we howled with rage - over obstacle courses, crawling through pipes; pack drills and long route marches in the heat, with the taps all turned off so that we could not drink. Yet no one would dream of asking for a transfer, such was the comradeship. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>One got so that one lost all criticism; one just lived in this life; one was simply an SS man.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>One lost the thin thread to the parents.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>There was no other thought than </i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>obedience</i>.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This obedience was achieved not just through fear, but through the creation of an almost 'religious' fanaticism, which separated SS members from everyone else.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The SS order was a '<i>state within a state'</i>, <i>not </i>subject to national law, with its own laws, courts, and judges.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A curtain separated Himmler's empire from the outside world; other Germans, no matter how lofty their position, could not penetrate it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">SS men were discouraged from contact with others.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The SS was a <i>secret society,</i> as the journalist Heinz Hohne observed:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.' .<i> . intended to be mysterious, sinister and incomprehensible to the ordinary citizen, like the Order of Jesuits, which the SS officially abominated, but actually imitated down to the smallest detail. The Lords of this black-uniformed secret Order deliberately cultivated the fear evoked by their mere existence. . . . Reinhard Heydrich, chief of the SD, boasted: 'The Gestapo, the Kriminalpolizei (Criminal Police) and the security services are enveloped in the mysterious aura of the political detective story'.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Even as early as 1927, the SS's slogan was: '<i>The aristocracy remains silent</i>.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Members were not allowed to take part in discussions at Party meetings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They were to remain silent, and refrain from smoking or leaving the room.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One of the early orders was:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'<i>Even in the face of unjustified criticism, SS men and SS commanders are strictly forbidden to converse with SA [Sturm Abteilung men and commanders, or with civilian members of the Party other than as necessary for the performance of duty. Should criticism be voiced in a small gathering, members of the SS will immediately and silently leave the room with a curt comment that the SS carries out Adolf Hitler's orders</i>'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As an early memorandum suggested, the SS was organized to be '<i>a secret Order within the Party to hold the movement together in an iron grip.</i>'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">An inner circle of twelve SS officers of top rank met in secret for conference and meditation in a castle known as the Wevelsburg, in Westphalen, which Himmler had refurbished at tremendous expense.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The town was built on the foundations of a burgh that went back to Charlemagne, and Himmler supposedly searched the province for this castle because he had heard that in the next confrontation with the East, a Westphalian castle would be the only stronghold to survive.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the 100-by-145-foot dining room, circling a round oak table, each officer-knight sat on a high-backed pigskin chair, a silver plate engraved with his name hanging from the back.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Each wore his own coat-of-arms, and slept in a room, decorated in period style suitable to a particular German hero.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Himmler, of course, chose King Heinrich I, whose spirit apparently gave him invaluable counsel. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Himmler would say, on occasion: '<i>In this case King Heinrich would have acted as follows</i>.' </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Heinrich I was not the only great spirit of the past with whom Himmler was able to communicate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He believed he had the power to call up others, and hold conferences with them, but only if they had been dead for hundreds of years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the bowels of the castle was a '</span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Trauerhalle' (</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">funeral hall) containing a sunken well and a hollowed-out stone pillar.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When one of the twelve top-ranking </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">officers died, his ashes were placed in a cremation urn by the well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">His <i>wappen</i> (coat of arms) was burned on top of the pillar, and the smoke would rise above the well, because of a cleverly arranged ventilating scheme.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For a week once a year, Himmler and his twelve 'Knights of the Round Table', in an atmosphere of secret confinement, gave themselves over completely to mental and spiritual exercises of visualization.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In schools of instruction (Burgen) at Wevelsburg, and other castles at Sonthofen in Bavaria, Vogelsang in Rhenanie, and Krossinsee in Pomerania, candidates were systematically prepared for the higher levels of the 'Black Order'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Each school had its dormitories, refectories, chapel room, meditation cloister, and private cemetery.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In Wevelsburg, a library of twelve thousand volumes comprising all of the known literature relating to the cult of race was made available.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In each of these schools, men, stripped to the waist and without any defensive weapons, were taught to become hard by such ordeals as fighting off for twelve minutes attack dogs that were unleashed and incited to kill.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Such training was coupled, in the classroom, with racist educational </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">courses designed to separate the SS man further from the outside world, because they were deliberately anti-Christian, and quickly created a climate of neo-paganism.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Christian names were replaced with Teutonic names.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Christmas was brought forward to the winter solstice and celebrated as '<i>Yulefest</i>', which, an SS manual assured, was the '</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>greatest festival of our forebears</i>'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They advanced towards the Yule-night with firebrands to liberate the sun from bondage of wintry death, and thought of it as a young hero come to rouse and free them from their death-like sleep.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On the Yule eve the main ingredients of festive fare must be carp, roast goose and wild boar, dawn respectively from the sphere of water, air and earth, and in view of the fact that this was the greatest clan festival it was became customary to exchange ideas about the success of the steadily deepening research into family genealogies.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Julleuchter ("Yule lantern") was the term for a type of lantern used in the "Julfest" during the German Third Reich. Heinrich Himmler, who placed great interest in Ariosophy, gave the SS Julleuchter as a presentation piece for SS soldiers to celebrate the winter solstice, from approximately 1936 until 1944. Heinrich Himmler originally had the intention to make the Julleuchter a standard gift to all SS members, and there were no criteria attached to its presentation. For reasons which are not entirely clear, by the start of World War II, the Julleuchter had begun to be viewed as an SS decoration, and was entered as such in SS service records once the Julleuchter had been presented, however, as the SS-Julleuchter was considered "non-portable" (much like the Luftwaffe Honor Goblet), there was no outward display on an SS uniform indicating its presentation.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The cult of ancestors, which Himmler fostered to give his men a feeling of being part of a great continuum, also took in the Germanic forebears of the Middle Ages.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Like <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/lanz-von-liebenfels.html" target="_blank">Lanz von Liebenfels'</a> 'New Templars', SS members delved into the occult mysteries of the Grail legends.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">All their mystical rituals, says Joachim Fest,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'<i>not only conferred a special distinction but also placed them under a special obligation.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Over and above this, they were intended to inspire states of rapture.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>But none of this belies the initiatory character of these solemn hours, which amounted to a repeated act of consecration and total commitment to a community opposed to all traditional ties, one that seriously demanded 'unconditional' liberation from the old social world of caste, class and family and proclaimed its own 'law', as springing unconditionally from the mere fact of belonging to the new community</i>'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Since the members of this new community were <i>heirs</i> to the old German nobility, it mattered with whom they mated and begot children.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The future of the German people depended on it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Himmler laid down elaborate rules for marriage.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Future wives had to pass the same rigorous test for Aryanism as SS men.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At christenings, as at deaths, the priest was supplanted by the local SS leader.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Every fourth child born to an SS man received a present of a candlestick with the inscription '<i>You are only a link in the clan's endless chain</i>.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The breeding rules of the order's </span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rasse und Siedlungshauptamt SS (</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Race and Settlement Bureau) read like one of Lanz von Liebenfels' tracts.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">One of its duties was to oversee the marriages of SS personnel in accordance with the Aryan ideology of the NSDAP. The RuSHA would only issue a permit to marry once detailed background investigations into the racial fitness of both prospective parents had been completed. The RuSHA was founded in 1931 by Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler and Richard Walther Darré, who later rose to the rank of SS-Obergruppenführer.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Lebensborn (Fount of Life e.V. - eingetragener Verein or registered association) was an SS-borne, state-supported, registered association in the Third Reich with the intention of raising the birth rate of "Aryan" children from extramarital relations of "<i>racially pure and healthy</i>" parents on the basis of National Socialist racial hygiene and health ideology. </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Lebensborn aimed to do this by encouraging anonymous births, and mediating adoption to likewise "</span><i style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">racially pure and healthy</i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">" parents, particularly families of SS-members. </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Initially set up in Germany in 1935, Lebensborn expanded into several occupied European countries with Germanic population during the Second World War.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The most ambitious researches of the SS were undertaken by the <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/die-deutsche-ahnenerbe.html" target="_blank">Ahnenerbe</a>, which had a group of financiers called the Freundeskreis Reichführer SS, led by Wilhelm Keppler, pay enormous sums for a flight to Tibet to look for traces of a pure Germanic race which might have been able to keep intact the ancient Nordic mysteries.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">An astrologer, Wilhelm Wulff, who was made prisoner of the SS and coerced into working for it, described the Berlin Institute's scientific research centre as being used '<i>to harness, not only natural, but also supernatural, forces. All intellectual, natural, and supernatural sources of power from modern technology to medieval black magic, and from the teachings of Pythagoras to the Faustian pentagram incantations were to be exploited in the interests of final victory</i>.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In March 1942, the astrologer joined the Ahnenerbe, which </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">included '<i>spiritualist mediums and sensitives, pendulum practitioners (dowsers who used a pendulum instead of a dowsing rod), students of Tattwa, astrologers and astronomers, ballistics experts, and mathematicians</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Many writers on the occult have suggested that the SS was actively engaged in black-magic rites designed to contact and enlist the aid of evil and immensely powerful super-human powers, in order to secure the domination of the planet by the Third Reich.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">While most conventional historians disagree, it nevertheless helps to explain <i>tremendous mystery</i> at the heart of National Socialism.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Those who have explored the subject of the occult inspiration behind National Socialism stress that undoubtedly völkisch occultists, such as Guido von List and Lanz von Liebenfels, contributed to the mythological and occult nature of the Third Reich, with its concepts of prehistoric Aryan super-humans inhabiting vanished continents.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One man, in particular, named Karl Maria Wiligut (1866-1946), exerted a profound influence upon Reichsfuhrer-SS Heinrich Himmler.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Throughout his years in the army, he maintained his interest in literature and folklore, writing poetry with a distinctly nationalistic flavour.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 1903, a book of his poems entitled 'Seyfrieds Runen' was published by Friedrich Schalk, who had also published Guido von List.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Although his studies in mythology had led him to join a quasi-Masonic </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">lodge called the Schlarraffia in 1889, Wiligut does not seem to have been active in the </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">völkisch</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> or </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Pan-German nationalist movements at this time.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">During the First World War, Wiligut saw action against the Russians in the Carpathians and was later transferred to the Italian front.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">By the summer of 1917, he had reached the rank of colonel.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Decorated for bravery and highly thought of by his superiors, Wiligut was discharged from the army in January 1919, after nearly 35 years of exemplary service.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At around this time, Viennese occult groups were filled with rumours concerning Wiligut, and his alleged possession of an 'ancestral memory' that allowed him to recall the history of the Teutonic people all the way back to the year 228,000 BC.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">According to Wiligut, his astonishing clairvoyant ability was the result of an uninterrupted family lineage, extending thousands of years into the past.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He claimed to have been initiated into the secrets of his family by his father in 1890.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The source of this information about Wiligut was Theodor Czepl, who knew of Wiligut through his occult connections in Vienna, which included Wiligut's cousin, Willy Thaler, and various members of the Order of the New Templars (ONT).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Czepl paid several visits to Wiligut at his Salzburg home in the winter of 1920.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">According to Wiligut's view of prehistory, the Earth was originally lit by three suns, and was inhabited by various mythological beings, including giants and dwarves.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For many tens of thousands of years, the world was convulsed with warfare until Wiligut's ancestors, the Adler-Wiligoten, brought peace with the foundation of the city of Arual- Joruvallas (Goslar, the chief shrine of ancient Germany) in 78,000 BC.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The following millennia saw yet more conflicts involving various now-lost civilisations.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Wiligut family itself was originally the result of a mating between the gods of air and water, and in later centuries fled from persecution at the hands of Charlemagne, first to the Faroe Islands and then to Russia.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Wiligut claimed that his family line included such heroic Germanic figures as Armin the Cherusker and Wittukind.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It will be evident from this epic account of putative genealogy and family history that Wiligut's pre-historical speculations primarily served as a stage upon which he could project the experiences and importance of his own ancestors.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In Wiligut's view, the victimisation of his family was continuing at the hands of the Catholic Church, the Freemasons and the Jews, all of whom he held responsible for Germany's defeat in the First World War.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Wiligut maintained contact with his colleagues in various occult circles, including the ONT and the Edda Society, and after his move to Munich, he was feted by German occultists as a fount of information on the remote and glorious history of the Germanic people.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Wiligut joined the SS in September 1933, using the name </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Karl Maria Weisthor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He was made head of the Department for Pre-and-Early History in the SS Race and Settlement Main Office in Munich, where he was charged with the task of recording on paper the events he clairvoyantly recalled.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Weisthor introduced Himmler to another occultist, a German historian and List Society member named Gunther Kirchhoff (1892-1975), who believed in the existence of energy lines crossing the face of the Earth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Weisthor took it upon himself to forward a number of Kirchhoff's essays and dissertations on ancient Germanic tradition to Himmler, who gave instructions to the Ahnenerbe (the SS Association for Research and Teaching on Heredity) to study them.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Subsequently, however, the Ahnenerbe rejected</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Kirchhoff's theories.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Weisthor, on the other hand, would make one further important contribution to Himmler's SS.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">While travelling through Westphalia during the Nazi electoral campaign of January 1933, Himmler was profoundly affected by the atmosphere of the region, with its<i> romantic castles</i> and the mist- (and myth-) shrouded Teutoburger Wald.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After deciding to take over a castle for SS use, he returned to Westphalia in November and viewed the Wewelsburg (see above), which he appropriated </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">in August 1934 with the intention of turning it into an ideological-education college for SS officers.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Although at first belonging to the Race and Settlement Main Office, the Wewelsburg was placed under the control of Himmler's Personal Staff in February 1935.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is likely that Himmler's view of the Wewelsburg was influenced by Weisthors assertion that it was destined to become a magical German strong-point in a future conflict between Europe and Asia.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Weisthor's inspiration for this prediction was a Westphalian legend regarding a titanic future battle between East and West.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Himmler found this particularly interesting, in view of his own conviction that a major confrontation between East and West was <i>inevitable </i>- even if it were still a century or more in the future.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In addition, it was Weisthor who influenced the development of SS ritual, and who designed the <i>SS Totenkopfring</i> that symbolised membership of the order.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The ring design was based on a death's head, and included a <i>swastika</i>, the <i>double sig-rune</i> of the SS and a <i>hagall rune</i>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 1935, Weisthor moved to Berlin, where he joined the Reichsfuhrer-SS Personal Staff, and continued to advise Himmler.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Eyewitnesses recollect that this was a period of great activity, during which Weisthor travelled widely, corresponded extensively and oversaw numerous meetings.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Besides his involvement with the Wewelsburg, and his land surveys in the Black Forest and elsewhere, Weisthor continued to produce examples of his family traditions such as the Halgarita mottoes, Germanic mantras designed to stimulate ancestral memor.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In recognition of his work, Weisthor was promoted to SS-Brigadefuhrer (brigadier) in Himmler's Personal Staff in September 1936.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">While in Berlin, Weisthor worked with the author and historian Otto Rahn (1904-1939), who had a profound interest in medieval <i><a href="http://occultreich.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/as-long-as-i-live-i-will-think-of.html" target="_blank">Grail legends</a></i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 1933, Rahn published a romantic historical work entitled Kreuzzug gegen den Gral (Crusade Against the Grail), which was a study of the Albigensian Crusade, a war between the Roman Catholic Church and the Cathars (or Albigensians), an ascetic religious sect that flourished in southern France in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cathars were eventually destroyed by Catholic armies on the orders of Pope Innocent III in the first decade of the thirteenth century.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Catharism held a particular fascination and attraction for Himmler and other leading Nazis.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This may be partly explained by the fact that the very word 'Cathar' means 'pure', and purity -particularly of the <i>blood</i> as the physical embodiment of spirituality - was an issue of prime importance to the SS.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Just as the Cathars had despised the <i>materialism</i> of the Catholic Church, so National Socialists <i>despised</i> Capitalism, which they equated with the '<i>excesses of the Jewish financiers that had brought the nation to ruin during the First World War and the depression that followed</i>'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Cathar belief that the evil god, the Demiurge, who had created the material Universe was none other than Jehovah (Yaweh) provided additional common ground with </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">völkisch</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> anti-Semitism - which maintained that the Jews (and other lesser races) were 't<i>he creatures of a lesser god</i>'.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The thesis of Rahn's book was that the Cathar heresy and Grail legends constituted an ancient Gnostic religion that had been suppressed by the Catholic Church, beginning with the persecution of the Cathars and ending with the destruction of the Knights Templar a century later.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">From 1933, Rahn lived in Berlin and his book and his continued researches into Germanic history came to the attention of Himmler.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In May 1935, Rahn joined Weisthor's staff, joining the SS less than a year later.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In April 1936, he was promoted to the rank of SS-Unterscharfuhrer (NCO).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">His second book, Luzifers Hofgesinde (Lucifer's Servants), which was an account of his research trip to Iceland for the SS, was published in 1937.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It reads quite differently from Rahn's first book, which was an effort to portray a kind of occult underdog group of purists who held the secret of the ages in their hands if only the rest of us would pay attention.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'Lucifer's Servants', on the other hand, is at least partly a genuine SS tract, and several passages make a good case for the <i>worship of Lucifer</i>, if one follows Rahn's exegesis on several ancient sources including<i> Parzival,</i> and the surviving texts of troubadors, Cathars, and even Persian mystics.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Indeed, this idea of Lucifer as a <i>benign or divine being </i>was familiar and congenial to the "<i>white light</i>" Theosophists of the 1920s who, after all, entitled one of their official German publications 'Luzifer'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In February 1939, Rahn resigned from the SS for unknown reasons, and subsequently died from exposure the following month while walking on the mountains in Söll, near Kufstein, Austria.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As with Rahn's resignation from the SS, the reasons for Weisthor leaving the organisation are uncertain.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One possible reason is that his health was badly failing; although he was given powerful drugs intended to maintain his mental faculties, they had serious side effects.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Although Weisthor was supported by the SS during the final years of his life, his influence on the Third Reich was at an end.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He was given a home in </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Aufkirchen, but found it to be too far away from Berlin, and he moved to Goslar in May 1940.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When his accommodation was requisitioned for medical research in 1943, he moved again, this time to a small SS house in Carinthia, where he spent the remainder of the war with his housekeeper, Elsa Baltrusch, a member of Himmler's Personal Staff.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At the end of the war, he was sent by the British occupying forces to a refugee camp, where he suffered a stroke.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After their release, he and Baltrusch went first to his family home at Salzburg, and then to Baltrusch's family home at Arolsen.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On 3 January 1946, his health finally gave out and he died in hospital.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Himmler's father was the son of a police president, and had been a tutor to the princes at the Bavarian court, and thus applied suitably authoritarian principles on his own family. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Himmler was not blessed with a robust physical constitution, and this hampered his family's initial intention that he should become a farmer.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Nevertheless, the ideal of the noble peasant remained with him, and heavily influenced his later ideology and plans for the SS.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After serving very briefly at the end of the First World War, Himmler joined the NSDAP.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 1926 he met Margerete Boden, the daughter of a West Prussian landowning family, and married her two years later.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A fine example of the Germanic type (tall, fair-haired and blue-eyed), she was also seven years older than Himmler, and is said to have inspired his interest in alternative medicine such as herbalism and homoeopathy.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Himmler was appointed head (Reichsfuhrer) of the SS on 6 January 1929.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At that time the organisation had barely 300 members, but such were Himmler's organisational skills that he increased its membership to over 50,000 in the next four years.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 1931 he established a special Security Service (SD) within the SS, which would oversee political intelligence.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was led by the Reinhard Heydrich. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Himmler took control of the party's police functions in April 1934, and then took command of the Gestapo (Geheime Staatspolizei).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The aims of the SS apparatus were comprehensive, and concerned not so much with controlling the state as with <i>becoming a state </i>itself.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The occupants of the chief positions in the SS developed step by step into the holders of power in an authentic 'collateral state', which gradually penetrated existing institutions, undermined them, and finally began to dissolve them.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Fundamentally there was no sphere of public life upon which the SS did not make its competing demands: the economic, ideological, military, scientific and technical spheres, as well as those of agrarian and population policies, legislation and general administration.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It has been said of Himmler that his personality was a curious mixture of rationality and mysticism: that his capacity for rational planning, the following of orders and administrative detail existed alongside an idealist enthusiasm for <i>utopianism, mysticism </i>and the <i>occult.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This combination of the quotidian and the fantastic led to Himmler's conception of the ultimate role of the SS: - that it would provide both the bloodstock of the future Aryan </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">master-race and the ideological elite of an expanding '<a href="http://germany19001939.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/grogermanisches-reich-deutscher-nation.html" target="_blank">Greater Germanic Reich'</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">From 1930, Himmler concentrated on the formulation of his plans for the SS, which included the establishment of the Wewelsburg in 1933.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Two years later, he established the Ahnenerbe with Richard Walther Darre.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Ahnenerbe was the Ancestral Heritage Research and Teaching Society, and was initially an independent institute conducting research into Germanic prehistory, archaeology and occult mysticism. It was subsequently incorporated into the SS in April 1940, with its staff holding SS rank.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The inspiration for the Ahnenerbe came from a number of German intellectuals and occultists who had subscribed to the theories of the volkisch writers of the late nineteenth century, as well as from the adventures of a number of explorers and archaeologists, including the world-famous Swedish explorer Sven Hedin.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Himmler's vision of the SS required its transformation from Hitler's personal bodyguard to an occult religious order with virtually complete autonomy, answerable only to the Führer himself.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xNV_6BZuLl8/U0B5mnsBqHI/AAAAAAAAY1k/6IjSA5-DV8k/s1600/Verein+Lebensborn-+Baptism+of+Child+-+Himmler+SS+-+Occult+History+Third+Reich+-+Peter+Crawford.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="194" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xNV_6BZuLl8/U0B5mnsBqHI/AAAAAAAAY1k/6IjSA5-DV8k/s1600/Verein+Lebensborn-+Baptism+of+Child+-+Himmler+SS+-+Occult+History+Third+Reich+-+Peter+Crawford.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As we have seen, Himmler chose as the headquarters for his order the Wewelsburg, near Paderborn in Westphalen, and close to the stone monument known as the Externsteine where the Teutonic hero Arminius was said to have battled the Romans.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There was no place for Christianity in the SS, and members were actively encouraged to break with the Church.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">New religious ceremonies were developed to take the place of Christian ones; for instance, a winter solstice ceremony was designed to replace Christmas (starting in 1939 the word </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'Christmas' was forbidden to appear in any official SS document), and another ceremony for the summer solstice.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Gifts were to be given at the summer solstice ceremony rather than at the winter solstice ... (A possible, though by no means documented, cause for this switch of gift-giving to the summer solstice is the death of Hitler's mother on the winter solstice, and all the grief and complex emotions this event represented for Hitler.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's understandable that Hitler - as the Fuhrer and at least nominally in charge of the direction the new state religion would take - would have wanted to remove every vestige of Christmas from the pagan winter solstice festival.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As a means of denying his grief ? - Or as an act of defiance against the god whose birth is </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">celebrated on that day, a god who robbed Hitler of his beloved mother ?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's worthwhile to note in this context that for a national 'Day of the German Mother' Hitler chose his own mother's birthday.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hitler described his ideological motives with regard to 'occult physics' in no uncertain terms:</span><br />
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<i><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">"A '<b>new age'</b> of a 'magic interpretation' of the world is coming, - of interpretation in terms of the 'Will' and <b>not </b>the Intelligence."</span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">see: '<a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/hitlers-table-talk.html" target="_blank">Hitler Speaks</a>'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In this, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">statment, Hitler may be seen as referring back to the lingering effects within German culture of the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer's 'Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung' - (The World as Will and Representation).</span><br />
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<a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Ryw8IFzAL_Y/WIJ2UNI7wYI/AAAAAAAAdLo/jTq41JBJcZ0RSsRvGJCiu7Civo28g_hEQCLcB/s1600/Arthur_Schopenhauer_Portrait_by_Ludwig_Sigismund_Ruhl_1815%2B-%2BOccult%2BHistory%2BThird%2BReich%2B-%2BPeter%2BCrawford.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Ryw8IFzAL_Y/WIJ2UNI7wYI/AAAAAAAAdLo/jTq41JBJcZ0RSsRvGJCiu7Civo28g_hEQCLcB/s200/Arthur_Schopenhauer_Portrait_by_Ludwig_Sigismund_Ruhl_1815%2B-%2BOccult%2BHistory%2BThird%2BReich%2B-%2BPeter%2BCrawford.jpg" width="158" /></a><span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The value of this work is much disputed. Some rank Schopenhauer as one of the most original and inspiring of all philosophers, while others see him as inconsistent and too pessimistic. He has had a huge effect on psychoanalysis, and the works of Sigmund Freud. The notion of the subconscious is present in Schopenhauer's 'will' and his theory of madness was consistent with this. Also, his theory on masochism is still now widely proposed by doctors. Friedrich Nietzsche, Carl Jung, Jorge Luis Borges, D. H. Lawrence, Albert Camus, Samuel Beckett, Gustav Mahler and Richard Wagner ('Tristan und Isolde') were all strongly influenced by his work. For Nietzsche, the reading of 'Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung' aroused his interest in philosophy. Although he disagreed with Schopenhauer's ideas on compassion, Nietzsche would admit that Schopenhauer was one of the few thinkers that he respected, lauding him in his essay 'Schopenhauer als Erzieher '(Schopenhauer as Educator 1874), one of his 'Untimely Meditations'. Hitler claimed that he carried a paperback version of 'Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung' in his back-pack all through his time on the Western Front, during the 'Great War'.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The title speaks for itself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It is significant that the mastermind behind Nazi 'geopolitics', and himself a convinced occultist, General Karl Haushofer, was an avid scholar of Schopenhauer.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It is this connection to Will, rather than to intelligence, that points the way to the connection to physics in general, and to quantum mechanics in particular, for it is in this area, where the inverted order of cause and effect seems totally at variance with common sense, that the 'will' itself plays a key role.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And it was Heisenberg himself who of course formulated one of the most basic precepts of quantum mechanics that, looked at in this way, is but a precept or doctrine of 'sovereign will': the 'Uncertainty Principle'.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Briefly put, this scientific law states that, on the scale of the very small sub-atomic particles that form the subject of its investigation, it is impossible to determine, at one and the same time, the position of an electron and its velocity.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">If a measurement is taken of one property, the other will fade from view.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It is this aspect that spelled the death knell for classical <i>Newtonian mechanics,</i> for it resulted in a physics that relied primarily on <i>probability functions</i> as a determinant of the (so called) 'reality' in view, - however, this meant that even the 'probability functions' themselves were predetermined by the <i>attribute</i> the experimenter decided to concentrate upon.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">To that significant extent, the scientist <i>himself</i> predetermined the results of the experiment 'a priori', in an act of '<i>sovereign will'</i>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Therefore, on the level of the very small, the scientist could, in a strange way, '<i>predetermine reality</i>' simply by the way an experiment was configured.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">If this doctrine is taken to its logical implications, then this meant that, at a very fundamental level, physical reality and consciousness - Schopenhauer's 'Will' - were <i>intimately related - </i>and this, of course, lies at the very core of the concept of <i>'occult science'.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">At the level of the very small, gravity, quantum mechanics and 'consciousness' would have appeared to those German physicists - free of the theoretical constraints of (Jewish) relativity - to pursue what must have been obviously apparent to them: the profound link between the geometry of the fabric of space, the physics of the very small, rotation, and gravity, and '<i>consciousness</i>' itself.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And so '</span><i style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">wissenschaft</i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">' (science) had, by the time of the Third Reich, but to await the arrival of someone willing to fund and organize the pursuit of the new 'Deutsch Okkulte Physik'.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Hitler was the 'prophet' of the the new 'Deutsch Okkulte Physik', - its 'theorist'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Himmler, through the '<a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/die-deutsche-ahnenerbe.html" target="_blank">Ahenerbe</a>', was its 'facilitator, who was responsible for the organization and funding, and SS General Kammler was its engineer, who coordinated it all on a day to day basis, and who built the facilities, machines, and weapons for the 'New World Order'.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">These elements combined and contrived, by war's end, to give the war machine of the Third Reich the prototypes and futuristic blueprints of weaponry far excelling even the hydrogen bomb for the destructive power and/or technological sophistication.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">For our purposes, "occult science" is to be understood as contained in various artifacts: ancient mysteries, various esoteric or other 'occult traditions', and actual physical structures, or other types of physical artifacts.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This broad definition requires farther explanation in order for its full-scope to be adequately comprehended:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Occult Science: The "science" component of this term focuses specifically on three general areas: physics, chemistry, and biology.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The primary focus is on physics, with forays into the other two areas as needed.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And so the theory is that there is an 'occult physics', hidden - sometimes <i>deliberately</i> - within various mythological and ancient texts, including tests of the esoteric or occult traditions both of the Orient and of the Occident.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This belief was one of the cornerstones of the secret weapons research of the Third Reich, and it produced astounding failures, as well as grist for the mill of its less well known, but equally astounding successes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This belief formed a major component in the ideological belief structure of the upper echelons of the SS, and its more important and secretive departments, including the <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/die-deutsche-ahnenerbe.html" target="_blank">Ahnenerbe</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">There is every indication that it also formed a major paradigm for the upper echelons of Kammler's secret weapons organization, and was possibly even its very 'raison d'etre'.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">General Dr.-Ing. Hans (Heinz) Friedrich Karl Franz Kammler (born 26 August 1901; date of death unknown) was a German civil engineer and the last Schutzstaffel (SS) officer in Nazi Germany to be appointed to the rank of SS-Obergruppenführer, with date of rank from 1 March 1945. He oversaw SS construction projects and towards the end of World War II was put in charge of the V-2 missile and jet programmes. He is most commonly referred to as Hans Kammler. It has been suggested that Kammler was brought to the United States along with other German scientists as part of 'Operation Paperclip' as a result of his involvement in secret German projects such as 'Die Glocke'.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The occult aspect of the term 'occult science' therefore takes on an extension of meaning beyond what one normally comes to associate with the term 'occult'.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In this case, 'occult science is occult in the sense of: (1) 'hidden' or 'dark', and therefore hidden in the sense of 'black' and 'covert' secret classified projects; (2) 'deliberately encoded science' found in texts or artifacts that are, as the deliberate products of such encoding, subject to the full range of standard typological and analogical interpretive methods conventionally employed to understand such texts, but in this case, they are not understood on a metaphysical basis but rather in a 'proto-scientific' sense, a 'proto-physics' sense; (3) 'non-deliberate corrupt transmission' of that science and its textual and/or physical artifacts by groups or communities not fully cognizant of the extent of the science actually encoded in them; (4) 'esoteric or occult traditions and secret societies' in the conventional sense; (a)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">By 'esoteric or occult traditions' is meant not only standard occult texts and traditions and the various secret societies associated with them, but also traditions or legends that are not generally considered to be esoteric or occult in the stand sense; they remain esoteric or occult only because they are not well-known by the general public; (5) </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">'buried or partially buried' in the mists of pre-history and the mythologies, legends, talismans and physical monuments typically associated with them. (a) By 'ancient mythologies or legends' is meant as legends, texts, scriptures (whether considered to be canonical or apocryphal by any given community), of various cultures.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The cultures chiefly in view are the classical Sumerian, Egyptian, Hindu, Maya, Olmec, Scandinavian-Teutonic, Chinese, and of course the later standard Graeco-Roman European culture. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It will be evident from careful consideration of this outline, that the peculiar blend of logic, reason, and science with the metaphysical and speculative component is a paradigm that is readily adaptable to the peculiarly German turn of mind as it developed from the opening of the nineteenth century to the fall of the final bomb, before the German capitulation in 1945.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It is this type of thought that is the West's real goal to <i>conceal</i>, for more than anything else, Kammler's SS secret weapons, and organizational 'empire' was the first deliberately and consciously organized and orchestrated attempt by a modern nation state to commit massive financial, labor, technological, and most importantly, intellectual capital to 'off-the-books' 'black' projects, involving the recovery and development of lost and exotic technology, by the application of the most 'avant garde' conceptions of the contemporary science.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Against this broad conceptual framework, we may now view significant facts that place his organization very clearly within the orbit of 'occult science' in many of the above senses.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is a common error to imagine that the occult is concerned with the supernatural.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The term 'occult' actually means 'hidden', and in occult science all events and phenomena are natural. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">However, Der deutsche Physik Occult posited a 'new' physics of a strictly 'Aryan' nature.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One aspect of the 'Die Neue Physik' was the Äthertheorie (Æther Theory)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">T</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">he simplest explanation for aether physics is that of the late Dr. Hans A. Nieper titled 'Revolution in Technology, Medicine and Society'.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Aether could be thought of as an energy source emanating from everywhere equally at once.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Aether theories in physics propose the existence of a medium, the aether - a space-filling substance or field, thought to be necessary as a transmission medium for the propagation of electromagnetic or gravitational forces. The assorted aether theories embody the various conceptions of this "medium" and "substance". This early modern aether has little in common with the aether of classical elements from which the name was borrowed. According to the philosophical point of view of Dirac, Bell, Polyakov, Laughlin, de Broglie, Maxwell, Newton and other theorists, there might be a medium with physical properties filling 'empty' space, an Aether, enabling the observed physical processes.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The universe could be considered as "<i>a sea of energy</i>".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It forms a background of energy everywhere, and since it is everywhere all the time, it is difficult make independent measurement of it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This aether energy is in constant motion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">All energy is <i>radiant energy</i>, according to this theory.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This can easily be appreciated as electromagnetic radiation, but it is also true of that very elusive entity called gravity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Newton described the effects of gravity, but he never explained exactly what it was. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">According to Deutsch Occult Physik, gravity is really a push, not a pull.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Gravity is acceleration and is caused by the aether field.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Again, all energy is radiant energy whose fundamental basis is aether radiation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In addition Deutsch Occult Physik established the axiom that all natural accelerations can be attributed to a single unified basic principle, namely, the interception (or braking) of a field energy penetrating from the outside (gravity acceleration, magnetic, electromagnetic, electrostatic and radiesthesic acceleration).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In explaining aether, it might be thought of as an all pervasive 'liquid' occupying all of space.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This 'liquid concept' is useful because a liquid <i>cannot</i> be compressed, but can only transfer the energy attempting to compress it from one location to another.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is how an auto-mobile's brakes work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The driver pushes in the break pedal when he wants to stop.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The plunger of the break pedal attempts to compress fluid in the master cylinder.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The master cylinder is connected by metal tubes full of fluid to each wheel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When force is put on the master cylinder by the driver it is<i> transmitted</i> to each of the four wheel cylinders full of the same fluid which transmit the force, moving the break shoes or stopping the disc which stops the wheels of the car.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Likewise, aether serves to transmit energy through this "<i>non- compressibility</i>" quality.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In a primary electric coil and secondary electric coil, for instance, induction in the secondary does not take place directly from the primary, as is now held by physics, but though and between the two <i>via</i> the aether field</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Using the perspective that all energy is radiation, the<i> braking</i> of aether radiation, - that is the slowing down or stopping of this radiation, - can cause or generate <i>other forms</i> of energy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This word "<i>energy</i>" means the <i>entire </i>electromagnetic spectrum.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This includes electric, magnetic and electrostatic fields.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This also means heat and gravity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Again, gravity is the primary radiation of the aether field.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It radiates from every point in the universe equally.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This concept may seem counter-intuitive, until it is given some thought</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One might ask: '<i>How can gravity be a push ?</i>'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The answer, however, is that the effects we feel and call gravity are due to '<i>gravity shielding</i>'. Aether radiation can be braked, that is slowed down and </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">absorbed by mass.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is then <i>re-radiated</i> or turned into mass.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is<i> re-emitted</i> as<i> slower</i> aether radiation, or even as heat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Some of it can be converted into mass inside a planet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If there is a <i>loss</i> of aether radiation, then there is <i>shielding</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thus, a planet would shield from this radiation in <i>one direction</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That direction is always </span><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">toward its centre, </span></i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">which is the <i>direction of greatest mass,</i> and that is what we describe as "<i>down</i>".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is simply the area which contains the maximum amount of shielding.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In all other directions the aether radiation continues to exert its push on us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The area of minimum shielding is <i>directly opposite</i> the area of maximum shielding, so things fall (or more correctly are <i>accelerated </i>or "<i>pushed</i>") to earth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Therefore, being in deep space is a little like being underwater.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Underwater, all pressure from all points are so similar that we feel weightless.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Equally, we are weightless in </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">deep space because the aether field exerts a push on us from <i>all directions equally</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In space, the nearer one gets to a large body the <i>stronger</i> the push is from the opposite direction, since the body <i>shields </i>or<i> converts</i> the aether radiation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The result of this thinking is a mechanism totally different from "<i>gravity</i>" as we know it, but appearing as <i>exactly the same</i> observed phenomena.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The beauty of this Äthertheorie of gravity is that gravity functions like every other form of radiation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Its underlying cause, <i>aether radiation</i>, can be <i>converted</i> to mass or, in certain circumstances, <i>re-radiated</i> or <i>converted </i>to other forms of energy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>No</i> 'Unified Field Theory' is necessary.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The 'aether field' <i>is</i> the 'unified field'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Further, there is no need to look for something separate called "<i>anti-gravity</i>".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If gravity is a <i>push,</i> then it is all anti-gravity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Physics was hijacked early in the 20th Century by alleged results of the Michelson-Morley experiment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Michelson-Morley experiment assumed "<i>aether</i>" was <i>matter</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There is some confusion here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We know now that particles moving near the speed of light are measured as waves, that is <i>energy</i>, rather than as matter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Nevertheless, Äthertheorie has been discredited among physicists who, in turn, discredit others who raise the subject.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is only through the efforts of "<i>free </i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>energy devices</i>" and <i>free energy researchers</i> that this knowledge is being returned to us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Without this Äthertheorie, the reason these devices work cannot be explained at all.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rejection of Äthertheorie allows these devices to be dismissed as "<i>theoretically impossible</i>", and so fraudulent by simple </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">deduction</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They are marginalized and dismissed as '<i>perpetual motion devices'</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">According to established physics, '<i>perpetual motion devices</i>' violate physical laws of the <i>conservation of energy</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Without an Äthertheorie as an explanation, they do violate laws of the conservation of energy, and so their detractors are able to simply dismiss them out of hand.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The simple fact that some of these '<i>free energy devices</i>' actually work </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">does not seem to bother these scientists in the least.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rather than change the theory to accommodate the observed facts, the facts are ignored and substituted by<i> dogma</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Whether</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> we like it or not, we are living in an energy Dark Age.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Instead of Äther theorie, we have all been led to focus upon Einstein and his 'Theories of Relativity'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Two or three generations of scientists have wasted themselves on trying to prove Einstein right. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This misguided thinking has resulted in stagnation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One need go no further than the many <i>free energy</i> <i>devices</i>' which have arisen to the level of notice, in spite of accepted scientific theory, to see that this statement is true.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Needless to say, German scientists working in the Third Reich laboured under no such illusions.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They never abandoned Ätherphysik.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This was the fundamental reason why<i> field propulsion</i> vehicles were </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">first developed in Germany.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Karl Schappeller (1875-1947) literally went from being born in poor house to owning a castle during his lifetime.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">His economic success was mirrored in his experiments in energy, culminating in the invention of a free-energy device which attracted considerable attention around 1930.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At this time the device was somehow appropriated and further worked upon by a governmental organization of the German Weimar Republic, the Reichsarbeitsgemeinschaft or Reich Works Association (RAG).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At least one aim of the RAG was to make Germany self-sufficient in energy production. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Specifically, they published their intentions to utilize many Schappeller devices in a system of <i>broadcast energy distribution </i>throughout Germany which would result in the entire elimination of the electrical grid.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Government of the Third Reich was also very interested in making Germany independent of foreign sources of energy for strategic reasons.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A political and scientific structure was set up to work on the energy problem, as evidenced later by the synthesizing of gasoline and oil products from coal.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One of these political and scientific structures was contained within the SS, and it is known that Karl Schappeller met with SS Reichsfueher Heinrich Himmler in Vienna in 1933.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Schappeller device is really composed of two separate units, the rotor and the stator.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The stator is constructed as follows:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Its surface is round or ball-shaped, being composed of two half-shells of steel.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These half-shells contain the internal structure and are air tight. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Attached at each "<i>pole</i>" of each half-shell is an iron bar magnet, most of whose structure is internal.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This means that the bulk of the magnet is inside the steel ball, one opposite the other.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There is a space between the two bar magnets at the very centre of the sphere.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Insulation, a ceramic material, is placed on the inside of the steel ball, leaving a hollow central area.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Within this hollow area, and around the space between the magnets are wound two internal coils.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These originate at the bar magnet poles and each terminates at the centre of the sphere with a connection leading out of the sphere to the rotor.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These coils are composed of a hollow copper tube filled with a substance called the "<i>electret</i>". </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Upon leaving the sphere the <i>electret</i> filled copper tubes are replaced by conventional copper wire.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">An electrical connection is made from the outside surface of one pole to one pole of a special type of battery, which is grounded at the other pole or, as an alternative, to a special device called an "<i>Ur-machine</i>" (see details below).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This <i>electret</i> is a <i>permanent magnet</i> within the sphere.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This type of magnetism is <i>not</i> identical with ferro-magnetism or electromagnetism, - it is much more powerful.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Before being set into operation, all the air is pumped from the hollow core of the sphere.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This ball is mounted on a swivel mechanism, so that the poles can be moved from the vertical to the horizontal.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The stator is completely unattached from the rotor.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The stator can function without the rotor, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and the stator is capable of producing electrical energy without the rotor.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The rotor could also be used to generate additional electrical energy.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The rotor consists of: A steel wheel, of special design, fixed on the shaft to be driven, and surrounded on its outer surface by magnets which are attracted and repelled by the force of the stator.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The copper wire attached to the internal copper tubing filled with <i>electret</i> runs through this wheel, and supplies electric power to the magnets.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The magnets are hollow, and filled with the same<i> electret</i>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There are always an odd number of magnets.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A variant of this rotor is the "Ur- Machine".</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This machine is composed of six sphere units as described above, five revolving around a sixth set above or below the plane of the other revolving spheres.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A seventh unit would be employed to rotate the rotating five spheres, and so would be offset, and not attached to the others.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The five rotating spheres would charge the sixth stationary sphere.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The sixth and seventh spheres would function as an <i>anode</i> and <i>cathode,</i> and so <i>ground </i>the unit.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Ur-machine could be used to activate other spheres, instead of a battery-earthing procedure.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As a<i> prime mover</i>, an engine, the rotor would be employed turning a driven shaft.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The stator would be offset, that is, moved off centre in relation to the rotor.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Schappeller worked out various angles of efficiency.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The driven shaft could be used to power <i>any</i> number of machine applications.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Historians tell us that the abbreviation "SS" stands for "Schutzstaffel".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'Schutzstaffel' could be thought of as 'bodyguard' and, in the early days of the National Socialism, members of this organisation dressed in black, and were Hitler's personal bodyguard</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As it developed, this order changed into many things.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Portrayal of the SS in the media has degenerated simply into a <i>negative caricature</i> to which we are all supposed to respond immediately with a <i>politically correct</i>, knee-jerk type of <i>condemnation formula</i>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As far as the media is concerned, this is all the SS was.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Their point is that we now know enough about the SS, and are supposed to <i>drop</i> further inquiry. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But the SS was more than just a 'guard-unit', police force, or political group.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To initiates within the Third Reich, however, the abbreviation '</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">SS' did not stand for 'Schutzstaffel', but for the words 'Schwarze Sonne'.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'Schwarze Sonne' means '<i>Black Sun</i>' in English.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Black Sun, to these initiated individuals, was a physical body, like our visible sun, except that the Black Sun was <i>not </i>visible to the naked eye</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This Black Sun radiated light which was invisible to the human eye.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The concept of the Black Sun seems to have bordered upon the religious.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was said to be located at the center of our galaxy.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The earth along with every other celestial body in the galaxy rotates around this Black Sun.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Black Sun is sometimes represented symbolically as a black sphere, out of which eight arms extend.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Such is its most famous rendition on the mosaic floor at famous <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/08/himmler-ahnenerbe-and-wewelsburg.html" target="_blank">Schloß </a></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/08/himmler-ahnenerbe-and-wewelsburg.html" target="_blank">Wewelsburg</a>, which served as the spiritual home of the SS.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The number of arms are <i>unimportant</i>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There could be eight or six or only <i>four</i>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The more astute reader will recognize at this point that the <i><a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/the-occult-swastika.html" target="_blank">swastika</a></i>, the very icon of the National Socialist Party, which was itself a Black Sun symbol.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The point is that concept of the Black Sun is that it is in reality a cold, collapsing implosive vortex, as described by Viktor Schauberger or Karl Schappeller.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It gathers </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and densities, and yet is as cold as interstellar space.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It does generates unseen radiation in the form of cosmic, gamma and x-ray radiation.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is possible because the Black Sun is very real.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In fact, the Black Sun is the most powerful force yet observed in our universe.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Forty or so years after the demise of the SS, scientists, in this case astronomers, have located the Black Sun at the very centre of our galaxy.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In fact, we are familiar with it by another name.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Today, we call it a "<i>black hole</i>".</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is the centre of great <i>spiral vortex</i> of stars, which draws in matter and energy, and generates the aforementioned radiations near it periphery.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Black Sun is, in reality, a huge <i>system,</i> or perhaps it could even be called a huge <i>machine</i>. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We and our entire galaxy are all part </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">of this machine whirling through space.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">All the matter it contains, the stars, planets, asteroids, comets, meteors and so forth, are all bound in a context of <i>energy</i>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our galaxy, with the Black Sun as its heart, operates as a vast machine using all the matter and energy contained therein, and using every law of physics at once in its operation.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Its counterpart, the centrifugal vortex which remains unseen, may even be a <i>doorway</i> into another <i>dimension,</i> into which this matter and energy from our dimension spew forth like a fountain.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is the same kind of <i>implosive vortex</i> from which the Germans were about to build a "<i>new science</i>" based upon <i>creative, living energy.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It may well have been the same force which was to propel <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/raumflug-and-occult-third-reich.html" target="_blank">German flying discs</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>'Now I am become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds.'</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">('Bhagavad Gita', Chapter 11, verse 32).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A follower of this blog, some time ago, inquired with regard to the possibility of the Third Reich having tested an atomic bomb.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There is very little evidence of this - but there are certain reports and eyewitness accounts.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Perhaps the most persuasive evidence many be found in an event which historians, political scientists and tacticians have been at a loss to explain.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That event is Hitler's declaration of war on the United States of America in December of 1941.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On 11 December 1941, four days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the United States declaration of war against the Japanese Empire, the Third Reich declared war against the United States, in response to what was claimed to be a series of provocations by the United States government when the US was still officially neutral during World War II. The decision to declare war was made by Adolf Hitler, supposedly in an offhand manner, and almost without consultation. Later that day, the United States declared war on Germany. Significantly, Hitler had stated, in his unpublished 'Zweites Buch' (Second Book, 1928), that the United States would be the Third Reich's most serious challenge beyond his intended defeat of the Soviet Union</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In economic, tactical and political terms this event make no sense.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hitler - having risen from considerable poverty to become one of the most powerful figures in the world was obviously no fool (see comment above regarding the statement in the 'Zweites Buch' [Second Book, 1928]).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So why ?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A possible explanation could be that he felt that sufficient progress was being made with the development of 'wunderwaffen' - including the atomic bomb, and possibly other weapons of mass destruction, and their delivery systems, that he felt that the Third Reich would be powerful enough to take such a bold step.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'Delivery systems' are a particular case in point.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Obviously, the only way that Germany could defeat the USA (the land mass being so large) was with the use of nuclear weapons, and that would require long range 'delivery systems'.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Interestingly, such 'delivery systems' were being developed in the Third Reich - aircraft capable of carrying nuclear weapons to America, - in addition to long range, very large rockets.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Such systems included the initially developed Me 264 'Amerikabomber'.</span><br />
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<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MGhaj_SrX0g/WIKDvNWAlmI/AAAAAAAAdMg/XTGNSZXn0CUw59xEN_foaqQdYK9h-L0WACLcB/s1600/Me%2B264%2B-%2BAmerikabombr.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="139" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MGhaj_SrX0g/WIKDvNWAlmI/AAAAAAAAdMg/XTGNSZXn0CUw59xEN_foaqQdYK9h-L0WACLcB/s320/Me%2B264%2B-%2BAmerikabombr.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Messerschmitt Me 264 was a long-range strategic bomber developed during World War II for the German Luftwaffe. It was intended to serve as Germany's main strategic bomber. The design was later selected as Messerschmitt's competitor in the Reichsluftfahrtministerium's (the German Air Ministry) "Amerika Bomber" programme, which intended to develop a strategic bomber capable of attacking New York City from bases in France or the Azores. </span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Later developments included the far more advanced Arado E.555 'Amerika Bomber'.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This was an initiative of the Reichsluftfahrtministerium (Germany Air Ministry), RLM, to obtain a long-range bomber for the Luftwaffe that would be capable of striking the continental United States from Germany. Requests for designs were made to the major German aircraft manufacturers early in World War II, l<i>ong before the US had entered the war</i>. The Arado E 555 was a jet powered, long-range bomber for the Luftwaffe that would be capable of striking the <i>continental United States </i>from Germany. </span></blockquote>
The most futuristic of these design for an aircraft capable of bombing America was the Horten H.XVIII.<br />
In recent years, software modelling has suggested that the 'stealth charactistics' and speed of the Hortens' flying wing jet designs would have made interception, prior to bombing, difficult and unlikely.<br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">Designed by the remarkable Horton brothers, this aircraft had such pioneering features as a flying wing configuration, turbojet engines and stealth characteristics. The H.XVIII represented, in many respects, a scaled-up version of the Horten Ho 229, a prototype jet fighter. The H.XVIII was one of many proposed designs for an Amerika Bomber, and would have carried sufficient fuel for transatlantic flights.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The inference from these remarkably advanced designs (years ahead of anything conceived by British, American or Russian designers), and many others, is that there would be no point in designing such large, sophisticated bombers if there were no bombs for them to carry.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Equally, the huge number of bombers required to attack the US, carrying conventional explosives, would still be incapable of having any significant impact on a country as large as the USA.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It therefore seems logical to assume that a relatively small number of these obviously very expensive bombers would be used to carry atom bombs which would devastate the east coast of the United States - causing the USA to sue for peace.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This, of course presumes the existence of such bombs - and indicates that they may well have existed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In January of 1939, the German chemists Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann published the results of an historic experiment: after bombarding uranium with neutrons (neutrally charged particles) they found barium, an element roughly half the size of uranium.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Their former colleague Lise Meitner, who a few months before had been forced to flee Germany and seek refuge in Sweden, and her nephew Otto Frisch realized that the uranium nucleus had split in two.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These revelations touched off a frenzy of scientific work on fission around the world.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The German 'Uranprojekt' began in earnest shortly after Germany's invasion of Poland in September 1939, when German Army Ordnance established a research program, led by the Army physicist Kurt Diebner, to investigate the military applications of fission.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">By the end of the year the physicist Werner Heisenberg had calculated that nuclear fission chain reactions might be possible.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When slowed down, and controlled, in a 'Uran-Maschine' (nuclear reactor), these chain reactions could generate energy; when uncontrolled, they would create a 'nuclear explosion' many times more powerful than conventional explosives.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Whereas scientists could only use <i>natural uranium</i> in a 'Uran-Maschine', Heisenberg noted that they could use <i>pure uranium 235</i>, a rare isotope, as an explosive.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the summer of 1940, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, a younger colleague of Heisenberg's, drew upon publications by scholars working in abroad to conclude that if a 'Uran-Maschine' could sustain a chain reaction, then some of the more common uranium 238 would be <i>transmuted</i> into "element 94," now called 'plutonium'.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Like uranium 235, element 94 would be an incredibly powerful explosive.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 1941, von Weizsäcker went so far as to submit a patent application for using a Uran-Maschine' to manufacture plutonium.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1941 German scientists started building centrifuges.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These devices use centripetal force to accumulate the heavier isotopes on the outside of the tube, where they can be separated out.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">During the last part of the war, a small group of scientists, with the strong support of the physicist Walther Gerlach, who was by that time head of the uranium project, built and <i>tested</i> a nuclear device.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It has been commonly believed that the Germans had insufficient fissile material available, however, in 1940 the Third Reich seized the Belgian stockpile of high purity uranium ore, mined in the Congo.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In addition, German scientists had developed a chemical enrichment process many times more efficient than the process used by the 'Manhattan Project', with the result that by the end of the war the Germans possessed a <i>large stockpile</i> of 'weapons grade' material.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In consideration of these developments, it is not only <i>possible</i> that the Third Reich was able to test atomic bombs but, in addition, there is speculation that this abundance of weapons grade material, in addition to fast acting fuses, were made available to the Americans (for various favorable agreements between the German and American governments), which enabled the USA to mount its nuclear attack on Japan.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jonastal ('Jonas Valley'), situated in the Ilm-Kreis district in Germany between Crawinkel and Arnstadt, and near to the town of Ohrdruf, was a scene of military construction under the National Socialist regime during the last years of the Second World War.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The exact aim of the operation remains uncertain although it is now believed to have been a center for Wunderwaffe weapon research.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The latter is given some credence by the fact that SS General Hans Kammler (see above) was in overall charge of the construction efforts.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Soviet documents from Russian military intelligence agents speak of <i>two </i>nuclear tests in Thuringia.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“<i>The Germans are in the throes of making and testing a new secret weapon, which has a large destructive force</i>,” said the Soviets.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“<i>The available bomb has a diameter of 1.5 meters </i>(small ?).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>It consists of interlocking hollow balls</i>.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Russian reports stated that: “<i>Communications by our reliable source from Germany: maintains that the Germans have conducted two explosions in Thuringia with great force.”</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Trees in the Jonas Valley were reportedly felled almost two thousand from the epicenter of the blast.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The secret reports also stated that Russian prisoners of war “<i>in the centre of the explosion were killed and often no trace remained of them. Also a strong radioactive effect has been observed.</i>”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It has been suggested that at least one test took place in Thuringia on 4 March 1945.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">An eyewitness - Clare Werner reported:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"<i>Not too far away was the military training base near the town of Ohrdruf. Unexpectedly there was a flash of light. I suddenly saw something ....... it was as bright as hundreds of bolts of lightning, red on the inside and yellow on the outside, so bright you could've read the newspaper. It all happened so quickly, and then we couldn't see anything at all. We just noticed there was a powerful wind ..</i>."</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Measurements carried out later by the U.S. military on the ground test site in Thuringia showed traces of radioactive isotopes.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In particular, soil samples showed the presence of radioactive elements, namely uranium, plutonium, cesium 137 and cobalt 60.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Declassified American intelligence reports showed that America’s supreme commander in Europe, Dwight Eisenhower, ordered reconnaissance flights over the valley but they proved inconclusive.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But the program was unable to find where the weaponised uranium the German scientists would have needed for the bomb came from, and admits many pieces of the Nazi atomic puzzle are still missing.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is an accepted fact that in the 1940s a team of nuclear researchers working with Kurt Diebner and Walther Gerlach maintained a research laboratory in the town of Stadtilm, near the Jonastal, and that nuclear energy was the focus of their work.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At the end of the war, the Soviet Army, which took over the site of the </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jonastal </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">from the Americans, immediately classified it as a restricted zone.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the site was taken over by the German armed forces.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Significantly, Jonastal (the 'Jonas Valley') itself still remains within a military 'training' area, and entry is <i>strictly prohibited</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There is, however, an alternative (or further) claim with regard to the German atom bomb test.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This test was at the island of Rügen, in the Baltic Sea.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This evidence, stemmed primarily from the recently declassified affidavit of Hans Zinsser, who saw and described the explosion, and resulting mushroom cloud, and the testimony of Italian officer Luigi Romersa, who was there, apparently as an observer for Mussolini's Italian Fascist government.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Corroborating evidence of secret wartime British atom bomb alerts, and German telephone outages in Berlin - events concurrent with the time frame of the test - were presented.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But what of Rügen itself ?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Why test a weapon on a sparsely populated island that is so<i> close</i> to the population center of Kiel, and its heavily trafficked sea lanes and canal?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What is it about Rügen that is so significant that the SS would test an atom bomb there?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The answer may come from its possible connection to the SS's special "<i>occult research</i>" department, the<a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/die-deutsche-ahnenerbe.html" target="_blank"> Ahnenerbe</a>, the society personally established by Reichsfuhrer SS Heinrich</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Himmler to investigate all manner of occult and esoteric doctrines.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Among the strange doctrines entertained by Himmler and others at the pinnacle of the SS was a peculiar twist to Peter Bender's "Hollow Earth" theory.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In its even more irrational '<i>Himmler variation</i>', this theory held that the earth was hollow, and that its surface - the surface that we actually live on - was the inside of that 'hollow earth'.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They considered it helpful to locate the British fleet, because the curvature of the earth would not obstruct observation.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Visual rays were not suitable because of refraction; but infrared rays had less refraction.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Accordingly a party of researchers, under the scientific leadership of Dr. Heinz Fischer, an infrared expert, was sent out from Berlin to the isle of Rügen to photograph the British fleet with infrared equipment at an upward angle of some forty-five degrees.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The experiment did not work.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One is left with the impression that this experiment was but another manifestation of the scientific theories espoused by the Ahnenerbe.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But significantly, once again, this rather odd experiment, no matter how irrational, took place on Rügen.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Apparently, the island was home to a number of <i>advanced projects</i>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One should also note carefully the hidden technological implication of the experiment, not withstanding the use to which it was put: the Germans possessed the means of detection of infrared reflections from great distances though atmospheric refraction, the same technology as was developed for use in heat-seeking anti-aircraft missiles and subsequently used with dramatic destructive effectiveness in America's</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> plutonium bomb</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And this affords a clue into the real nature of Kammler's organization: - technology appears to have been developed that could be adapted to a variety of uses, in the various highly classified weapons developments, as well as used in experimentation and testing of the more other aspects of SS and occult beliefs.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There may have been another reason why </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rügen was chosen for thie test.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The answer lies in the '<i>esoteric history</i>' of the island prior to the war, and indeed, prior to World War One !</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When the Second World War ended, Hitler's private library was discovered in a mine near his idyllic mountain home in Berchtesgaden.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Several tomes and volumes of occult literature were contained in it, including a 'collection of <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/lanz-von-liebenfels.html" target="_blank">Lanz Von Liebenfels</a>' occult magazine '<a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/lanz-von-liebenfels.html" target="_blank">Ostara</a>', published in Vienna before the First World War.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is very probable that Hitler actually visited von Liebenfels while both were in Vienna before World War One.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(there is also a suggestion that Hitler - then still a choir boy - met Liebenfels in the monastery at Lambach)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is von Liebenfels and his Order of the New Templars that forms the connection between the SS, "<i>Hollow Earth</i>" experiments, and the far more successful atom bomb test at Rügen.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With the assistance of wealthy patrons who soon flocked to his secret society - a society dedicated to the '<a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/the-doctrine-of-regeneration.html" target="_blank">regeneration</a>' of the German race from its corrupting influences (Jews, Slavs, and anyone not 'Germanic' or 'Aryan') - von Liebenfels was able to purchase and renovate several old castles throughout Austria and Germany, and to transform them into centers for his Order.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Order, in addition to its racial ideology, also dabbled in "astrology, phrenology, homeopathy, and nutrition.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With money pouring into his order from its wealthy supporters, one of the castles he bought and restored as a center for occult research was on the island of <i>Rügen</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is possible that both locations - </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rügen and </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jonastal</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> - </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">were the scenes of nuclear tests...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So the Third Reich may well have succeeded in developing<i> and </i>testing atom bombs prior to the end of World War Two, and may even have used them, or some other weapon of mass destruction on the Eastern Front.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">However, there are indications of something even more sinister.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For example, in Professor Lahner's allegations, the Germans were interested in the atom bomb as </span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">mere fuses</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> for the far more destructive </span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">hydrogen bomb</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Beyond even the hydrogen bomb, there were hints and outlines of something shadowy, vague, and of monstrous destructive power.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This probably relates to '<a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/raumflug-and-occult-third-reich.html" target="_blank">Projekt Kronos</a>' and '<a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/raumflug-and-occult-third-reich.html" target="_blank">Die Glocke</a>' - and also the work of the '<a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/die-deutsche-ahnenerbe.html" target="_blank">Karotechia</a>'</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Kronos is the Greek god of Time - which gives rise to the speculation that 'Projekt Kronos' and 'die Glocke' was designed to test the possibilities of <i>distorting space and time</i> - and it has been suggested that a concave mirror on top of the device provided the ability to see '<i>images from the past'</i> during its operation. 'Die Glocke' represented the very pinnacle of SS General’s Hans Kammler's occult and super-secret SS 'wunderwaffen' empire.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/die-deutsche-ahnenerbe.html" target="_blank">Karotechia</a> was a deeply secret organization of the Third Reich, dedicated to the research and use of occult forces. The roots of the Karotechia are deep and varied. When the unit was officially created within the Ahnenerbe in 1939, it drew its members from within the Ahnenerbe, the disbanded Thule Gesellschaft, and a little known section of Archive Department VII of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt called Sonderkommando-Hexen. Created in 1935 under direct orders from Heinrich Himmler, Sonderkommando-Hexen collected records of the Catholic Inquisition against witchcraft from libraries in Germany and Austria. These records were collated into the Hexenkartothek, a catalog of over 33,000 index cards, each providing the details of a victim of the witch trials. The research of Sonderkommando-Hexen was meant to provide propaganda that would justify an SS crackdown on the Catholic Church, as well as discover the ancient Germanic religion that Himmler believed had been eradicated by the Inquisition. The SS officers that collected the Hexenkartothek came to informally refer to themselves as the “Kartothekia,” and what they discovered were 'arcane formula' and 'necromantic' rituals. </span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">British agents of the time have told of a "<i>fourth</i>" team developing and working in an area of physics that seemed almost magical - '</span><a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/die-deutsche-ahnenerbe.html" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Karotechia</a>'<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hi</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">gh ranking Allied officers, coming forward in the immediate aftermath of the war, made it clear that the war was won - not as an inevitability against a collapsing Reich - but just in the nick of time, - a viewpoint quickly swept away in the</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> triumphalism</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> of the emerging '<i>Allied Legend</i>', and standard histories of the war.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Most of this information was subsequently 'covered up' by the Allies (Allies who were soon to become enemies)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">American teams carrying out 'Operation BIG' raced through Baden-Wurttemburg near war's end in the spring of 1945, uncovering, collecting, and selectively destroying Uranverein elements, including capturing a prototype reactor at Haigerloch and records, heavy water, and uranium ingots at Tailfingen. These were all shipped back to the United States for study and utilization in the U.S. atomic program. Nine of the prominent German scientists who published reports in Kernphysikalische Forschungsberichte as members of the Uranverein were picked up by Operation Alsos and incarcerated in England under 'Operation Epsilon'.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The question is, why ?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Why cover up a successful German atom bomb well into the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries ?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Why indeed, unless that program leads to something else - something whose possession would give extraordinary technology and military power to the nation that successfully continued its development ?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Why indeed, unless that program leads to a </span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">wholly different</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> scientific paradigm, developed in secret, and off the pages of the textbooks of mainstream "science" proffered for public consumption ?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Much of the answer to these questions lies in occult aspects of the Third Reich's ideology, and in the structures of power and bureaucracy it put into place to pursue that ideology.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Much of the answer to these questions lies in the connection of Kammler's work to its parent organization, the SS itself.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The nature of that organization, at its very heart, at the uppermost pinnacle of its power structure, was in every sense of the word occult.</span><br />
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XJR31NbcKsQ/TkT_sIcroGI/AAAAAAAAC3s/j32gYBVED_A/s1600/heinrich-himmler-nazi-germany-+Occult+History+Third+Reich+-+Peter+Crawford.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XJR31NbcKsQ/TkT_sIcroGI/AAAAAAAAC3s/j32gYBVED_A/s200/heinrich-himmler-nazi-germany-+Occult+History+Third+Reich+-+Peter+Crawford.jpg" width="146" /></a>The Ahnenerbe was a scientific institute in the Third Reich dedicated to research the archaeological and cultural history of the Aryan Race.<br />
Founded on July 1, 1935, by Heinrich Himmler, Herman Wirth, and Richard Walther Darré, the Ahnenerbe later conducted experiments and launched expeditions in an attempt to prove that Aryan Nordic populations had once ruled the world.<br />
Its name came from an obscure German word, '<i>Ahnenerbe</i>', meaning "i<i>nherited from the forefathers</i>."<br />
The official mission of the Ahnenerbe was to find new evidence of the racial superiority of the Germanic people through historical, anthropological, and archaeological research.<br />
Formally, the group was called the Studiengesellschaft für Geistesurgeschichte‚ Deutsches Ahnenerbe - 'Study Society for Primordial Intellectual history, German Ancestral Heritage', but it was renamed in 1937 as the Forschungs- und Lehrgemeinschaft das Ahnenerbe - (Research and Teaching Community of the Ancestral Heritage).<br />
Many of their interests extended <i>beyond science</i> into <i>occultism</i>.<br />
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This led to German scientists travelling around the world in search of <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.com/2011/07/thule-gesellschaft.html">Atlantis</a> and the <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.com/2011/07/parsifal.html">Holy Grail</a>, and it is reported that the Ahnenerbe sought "<i>portals</i>" to God.<br />
Growing out of the Ahnenerbe-SS, the Thule Gesellschaft and the general Nazi interest in the occult, was 'Karotechia' (see below) - a secret organization dedicated to the research and use of occult forces for the Third Reich.<br />
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Hermann Wirth (see left) was a Dutch historian obsessed with <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.com/2011/07/thule-gesellschaft.html">Atlantean mythology</a>, and Richard Walter Darré (see right) was the creator of National Socialist 'Blut und Boden' (blood and soil) ideology, and was head of the Race and Settlement Office).<br />
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Blut und Boden refers to an ideology that focuses on ethnicity based on two factors, descent (Blood of a Volk) and Heimat (Homeland - Soil).<br />
It celebrates the relationship of a people to the land they occupy and cultivate, and it places a high value on the virtues of rural living.<br />
The German expression was coined in the late 19th century, in tracts espousing racialism and national romanticism.<br />
It produced a regionalist literature, with some social criticism.<br />
This romantic attachment was widespread prior to the rise of National Socialism.<br />
Ultranationalists, predating National Socialism, often supported 'country living' as more healthy, with the '<i>Artaman League</i>' sending urban children to the countryside to work in part in hopes of transforming them into '<i>Wehrbaueren</i>' (Soldier-farmers).<br />
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Richard Walther Darré popularized the phrase at the time of the rise of National Socialism in Germany; he wrote a book called 'Neuadel aus Blut und Boden' (A New Aristocracy Based On Blood And Soil) in 1930, which proposed a systemic eugenics program, arguing for breeding as a cure-all for all the problems plaguing the state.<br />
Darré was an influential member of the National Socialist party, and a noted race theorist who assisted the party greatly in gaining support among common Germans outside the cities.<br />
Prior to their ascension to power, the National Socialists called for a return from the cities to the countryside.<br />
This agrarian sentiment allowed opposition to both the middle class and the aristocracy, and presented the farmer as a superior figure beside the moral swamp of the city.<br />
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The doctrine not only called for a "<i>back to the land</i>" approach and re-adoption of rural values; it held that German land was bound, perhaps mystically, to German blood.<br />
Peasants were the Völkisch cultural heroes, who held charge of German racial stock and German history -- as when a memorial of a medieval peasant uprising was the occasion for a speech by Darré praising them as force and purifier of German history.<br />
This would also lead them to understand the natural order better, and in the end, only the man who worked the land really possessed it.<br />
It contributed to the National Socialist ideal of a woman: a sturdy peasant, who worked the land and bore strong children, contributing to praise for athletic women tanned by outdoor work.<br />
That country women gave birth to more children than city ones also was a factor in the support.<br />
It was also argued that a people would develop laws appropriate to its "blood and soil" because authenticity required loyalty to the Volk over abstract universals.<br />
The SS and the Ahnenerbe, under Heinrich Himmler, in general supported and encouraged the 'Blut und Boden' ideology.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There is some evidence that the Ahnenerbe existed as early as 1928, when Wirth established the "Hermann Wirth Society" for teaching and spreading his theories.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Another candidate for precursor of the Ahnenerbe was a research institute for "spiritual prehistory" created by the German state of Mecklenburg in 1932, when the state was governed by the NSDAP.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Formally, the group was called 'Studiengesellschaft für Geistesurgeschichte‚ Deutsches Ahnenerbe e.V.' ("Study society for primordial intellectual history, German Ancestral Heritage, registered society"), and was renamed in 1937, as 'Forschungs- und Lehrgemeinschaft das Ahnenerbe e.V.' ("Research and Teaching Community the Ancestral Heritage, registered society").</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The emblem chosen for the Ahnenerbe was the 'Irminsul' (see left below).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Irmin was an aspect, Avatar or epithet of <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/06/yggdrasil-tree-of-life.html" target="_blank">Wodan</a> (Odin).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Irmin might also have been an epithet of the god Ziu (Tyr) in early Germanic times, only later transferred to Odin.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Old Norse form of Irmin is Jörmunr, which just like Yggr was one of the names of <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/06/yggdrasil-tree-of-life.html" target="_blank">Odin</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Yggdrasil ("Yggr's horse") was the yew or ash tree from which Odin sacrificed himself, and which connected the nine worlds. Jakob Grimm connects the name Irmin with Old Norse terms like iörmungrund ("great ground", i.e. the Earth) or iörmungandr ("great snake", i.e. the <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/06/yggdrasil-tree-of-life.html" target="_blank">Midgard</a> serpent).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is thus often conjectured that the Irminsul was a 'World Tree', the equivalent of 'Yggdrasil' among the Saxon tribes of Germany.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The linguistic connection between Irmin- and iörmun/jörmun- is generally accepted, but the terms simply mean "great/mighty" or "rising high".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is easy to see how "The great one" or "The exalted one" could become a by-name of Odin, and become known as "great pillar" instead of "Irmin's pillar" or "Odin's pillar".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Ahnenerbe was created as a registered club as a private and non-profit organization. Funding for the Ahnenerbe primarily came through Darré and his position within the German Ministry of Agriculture, but this association ended around 1936, leaving Himmler in total control of the Ahnenerbe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Ahnenerbe was not incorporated into the SS until April 1940, though even before this, all but one member of the academic staff of the Ahnenerbe were at least honorary members of the SS, and many held significant rank.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Wolfram Sievers was Reichsgeschäftsführer, or Reich Manager, of the Ahnenerbe from 1935, and held the rank of SS-Obersturmführer since 1937, rising to the rank of SS-Standartenführer by the end of the war.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There was an obvious link between the SS and the Ahnenerbe long before it became official in 1940.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Wolfram Sievers (see right) was appointed Reichsgeschäftsführer, or General Secretary, of the Ahnenerbe, by Himmler.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sievers was born in 1905 in Hildesheim in the Province of Hanover (now in Lower Saxony), the son of a Protestant church musician.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He was musically gifted, in that he played the harpsichord, organ, and piano, and loved German baroque music.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He was expelled from school for being active in the 'Deutschvölkischer Schutz und Trutzbund', and went on to study history, philosophy, and religious studies at Stuttgart's Technical University, while working as a salesman.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund - (German Nationalist Protection and Defiance Federation) was the largest, most active, and most influential anti-Semitic federation in Germany after the First World War, and one of the largest and most important organization of the German völkisch movement during the Weimar Republic, whose democratic-parliamentary system it unilaterally rejected. Its publishing arm put out some of the books that greatly influenced the opinions of those who later organized the National Socialist Party, such as Heinrich Himmler, and after it folded many of its members eventually joined the NSDAP. The bund's symbols were a blue cornflower and a swastika, and its motto was '<i>Deutschland den Deutschen</i>' ("<i>Germany for the Germans</i>").</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A member of the Bündische Jugend, he became active in the Artamanen-Gesellschaft ("Artaman League"), a nationalist back-to-the-land movement.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sievers joined the NSDAP in 1929.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 1933 he headed the Externsteine-Stiftung ("Externsteine Foundation"), which had been founded by Heinrich Himmler to study the Externsteine in the Teutoburger Wald.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 1935, having joined the SS that year, Sievers was appointed Reichsgeschäftsführer, or General Secretary, of the Ahnenerbe, by Himmler.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He was the actual director of Ahnenerbe operations, and was to rise to the rank of SS-Standartenführer by the end of the war.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On February 1 of that year, Dr. Walther Wüst (see left) was appointed the president of the Ahnenerbe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Wüst was an expert on India, and a dean at Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, working on the side as a Vertrauensmann for the SS Security Service.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Referred to as “The Orientalist” by Sievers, Wüst had been recruited by him in May 1936 because of his ability to simplify science for the common man.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After being appointed president, Wüst began improving the Ahnenerbe: moving the office to a new headquarters that had cost 300,000 Reichsmark, in the Dahlem neighborhood of Berlin.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Walther Wüst (7 May 1901, Kaiserslautern – 21 March 1993) was a German Indo-Europeanist and Vedicist in the first half of the 20th century who served as Rector of the University of Munich from 1941 to 1945. Wüst was a committed Nazi, joining the SS in 1936 and being appointed President of the Research Institute of the Ahnenerbe SS in 1937. He eventually attained the rank of Oberführer.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He also worked to limit the influence of <i>“those he deemed scholarly upstarts</i>,” which included cutting communication with the RuSHA office of <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/06/ariosophy.html" target="_blank">Karl Maria Wiligut</a> (see left).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The organization was incorporated into the larger SS in January 1939.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Ahnenerbe had several different institutions or sections for its departments of research.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Most of these were archeological but others included the Pflegestätte für Wetterkunde (Meteorology Section) headed by Obersturmführer Dr. Hans Robert Scultetus, founded on the basis that Hans Hörbiger's "Welteislehre" could be used to provide accurate long-range weather forecasts, and a section devoted to </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">musicology, whose aim was to determine "<i>the essence</i>" of German music.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It recorded folk music in expeditions to Finland and the Faroe Islands, from ethnic Germans of the occupied territories, and in South Tyrol.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The section made sound recordings, transcribed manuscripts and songbooks, and photographed and filmed instrument use and folk dances.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The lur, a Bronze Age musical instrument, became central to this research, which concluded that Germanic consonance was in direct conflict to Jewish atonalism.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Ahnenerbe was part of Himmler's greater plan for the systematic creation of a "Germanic" culture that would replace Christianity in the Greater Germany to exist after the war, - a kind of SS-religion that would form the basis of the new world order.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This new culture would be based on the<i> völkisch beliefs</i> of the NSDAP, and it was the role of the Ahnenerbe to marshal scientific research in an interdisciplinary program to support the "<i>development of the Germanic heritage</i>".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Himmler himself served as the "<i>chairman of the Kuratorium</i>" of the Ahnenerbe, and held the real power within the Ahnenerbe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As Reich Manager of the Ahnenerbe, Wolfram Sievers was responsible for all administrative tasks, with day-to-day business matters handled by the deputy "<i>Kurator</i>" Dr. Herrman Reischle.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Professor Walter Wüst joined the Ahnenerbe in 1937 and, as trustee and "<i>Kurato</i>r" of the organization, replaced Hermann Wirth as its intellectual leader.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Wüst had been dean of the University of Munich, and his presence brought a number of reputable academics into the Ahnenerbe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Ahnenerbe was funded by the Ahnenerbe-Stiftung, the German Forschungsgemeinschaft, member fees, and "<i>from funds of the Reich and from contributions of industry</i>" (including a group of financiers called the 'Circle of Friends' led by Wilhelm Keppler).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The budget of the Ahnenerbe was as much as over one million German marks (400,000 American dollars).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Besides financial support, enlistment in the Ahnenerbe was attractive as it placed scholars in the academic elite of Nazi Germany, gaining them the patronage of the Reichsführer-SS himself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A central function of the Ahnenerbe was the publication of materials as part of the effort to investigate and "<i>revive</i>" Germanic traditions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Before the war, the Ahnenerbe set up its own publishing house in the academic suburb Berlin-Dahlem, and went on to produce a monthly magazine ('<i>Germanien</i>'), two journals on genealogy ('<i>Zeitschrift für Namenforschung</i>' and '<i>Das Sippenzeichen</i>'), and countless monographs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Ahnenerbe had<i> fifty </i>different research branches, named "<i>Institutes</i>", which carried out more than one hundred extensive research projects.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Some of the institutes, particularly those responsible for Tibetan research and archaeological expeditions, could be quite large, but most made do with less than a dozen personnel.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Linguistic study was at the forefront of Ahnenerbe activity, and the <span style="text-align: justify;">Ahnenerbe was the </span>first institute to be established to specialize in the study of <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.com/2011/06/ariosophy.html">Norse runes</a> (the symbol of the Ahnenerbe was the life rune).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This institute was under the command of Hermann Wirth (see left) until he left the Ahnenerbe in 1937.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In 1936, Wirth's successor, Professor Wüst, headed up another institute for broader research in linguistics, where great attention was paid to Sanskrit (Wüst's area-of-expertise) and the connection of the language to the Aryans.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Runes are equivalent to the Roman, Greek, Cyrillic, or Hebrew alphabets. But they are much more than an alphabet. <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/08/ahnenerbe.html" target="_blank">“Rune”</a> means “<i>secret</i>”, “<i>mystery</i>”, or “<i>hidden</i>”, and is related to the German raunen, meaning “<i>to whisper”</i>, and the Irish run, meaning “<i>a secret</i>.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Based on the ariosophical beliefs like those that gave rise to the Thule Gesellschaft, the Ahnenerbe saw Iceland as the last surviving connection with Thule, the mystical homeland of the pure Germanic race of prehistory.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Eddas contained secret knowledge for the Ahnenerbe, keys by which they could unlock their ancestral heritage.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Besides study of the Eddas, the Ahnenerbe also wanted to study Icelandic artefacts, and, as they had in Tibet, perform "<i>the recording of human images</i>", using calipers to measure facial dimensions based on ethnological science.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Ahnenerbe succeeded in sending a mission to Iceland in 1938.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">On orders from Himmler himself, the expedition was to search for a hof, a place of worship of Norse gods such as Thor and Odin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Ahnenerbe also had a department to research the <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.com/2011/07/volkisch-occult-cosmology.html">'Welteislehre' (World Ice Theory)</a> of Hans Hörbiger (see right), under the command of Dr. Hans Robert Scultetus.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This theory was based on the Blavatsky thesis that there had been several moons in the past, that the approach of these moons results in a polar shift and a cataclysmic Ice Age, which are responsible for the fall and rise of the various root-races of Theosophy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.com/2011/07/volkisch-occult-cosmology.html">Hörbiger</a> died in 1931, but his theory was adopted by some Theosophists, who used it to prove the existence of Andean civilization with parallels to Atlantis and Thule (this may have been part of the reason behind Ahnenerbe expeditions to South America), and by Himmler and the Ahnenerbe, as "our Nordic ancestors grew strong amidst the ice and snow, and this is why a belief in a world of ice is the natural heritage of Nordic men".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Ahnenerbe were most concerned with practical applications of the 'World Ice Theory' focused on meteorology, vital to military operations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Scultetus sent Edmund Kiß, a German playwright well-known for his novels on <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.com/2011/07/thule-gesellschaft.html">Atlantis</a>, to Abyssinia to find evidence to support the 'World Ice Theory'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He needed archaeology to provide an identity for the SS, but Himmler also believed that archaeology had a certain<i> religious content</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He believed by drawing on the power of prehistory one would achieve success in the present day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Haithabu, which is still recognized by archaeologists as an important site for medieval Norse artifacts, is in an area of northern Germany near the Danish border, and is very close to Detmold and Externsteine, the site of a much-reputed Aryan temple and which some legends connected with <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.com/2011/06/yggdrasil-tree-of-life.html">Yggdrasil, the "World-Ash</a>" (see right) of <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.com/2011/06/yggdrasil-tree-of-life.html">Norse mythology</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Externsteine is also close to Paderborn and Wewelsburg, and the entire sites compromised for the Ahnenerbe a mythological heartland where the Saxons resisted the Romans and their heirs, the Franks of Charlemagne.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The area was also sympathetic to the ideology of the Ahnenerbe, as Detmold was one of the first German states to elect an NSDAP government, and Paderborn and Wewelsburg were strongholds of Prussian beliefs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">During the war, archaeological expeditions were sent to Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Poland, and Rumania with the collaboration of local authorities.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These books told of a race much older than mankind: the 'Ancient Ones'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Geheimnisvolle Korps (Occult Corps) </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">was soon established as the Paranormal Division of SS-Hauptsturmführer Wolfram Sievers' Ancestral Inheritence Office (Ahnenerbe).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Geheimnisvolle Korps incorporated into one organization the Thule Society, the <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/the-vril.html" target="_blank">Vril Society</a> and the German branch of Crowley's OTO.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Despite her possibly Slavic blood, <i>Madame Helena Blavatsky</i>'s granddaughter Marianna Blavatsky was then recruited. (It appears that the Ahnernerbe traced the Blavatsky roots back to the Rhos - Scandanavian [Germanic] Vikings that had come into contact with the Slavs in 860 A.D.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">From Archiv Abteilung 7's stolen texts Marianna learned that violence begot a form of '<i>orgone energy'</i> which, if properly seized, could be forged into magical effects.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Orgone energy is a hypothetical universal life force originally proposed in the 1930s by Wilhelm Reich. In its final conception, Orgone was conceived as the anti-entropic principle of the universe, a creative substratum in all of nature comparable to the Odic force of Carl Reichenbach and Henri Bergson's élan vital. Orgone was seen as a massless, omnipresent substance, similar to <i>luminiferous aether</i>, but more closely associated with <i>living energy</i> than inert matter. It could coalesce to create organization on all scales, from the smallest microscopic units - called bions - to macroscopic structures like organisms, clouds, or even galaxies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Many died to help Marianna and her 'Meta-Psychic' operatives in the Bio-Energie Psi-Erweiterung Abteilung better understand and control the new 'blood magic' they had discovered.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now under the direction of the 'SS Paranormale Abteilung', Sondereinheit H continued to comb German-occupied territories in search of more <i>arcane knowledge</i> and <i>magical artifacts</i>.</span><br />
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DNndbvNpq40/VX1PItYFfgI/AAAAAAAAbdU/znDbOHhmEiQ/s1600/Wewelsburg%2B-%2BSS%2B-%2BHimler%2B-%2BOccult%2BHistory%2BThird%2BReich%2B-%2BPeter%2BCrawford.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DNndbvNpq40/VX1PItYFfgI/AAAAAAAAbdU/znDbOHhmEiQ/s200/Wewelsburg%2B-%2BSS%2B-%2BHimler%2B-%2BOccult%2BHistory%2BThird%2BReich%2B-%2BPeter%2BCrawford.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The <i><a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/the-spear-of-destiny.html" target="_blank">Spear of Destiny</a></i>, the weapon that was allegedly used to pierce the side of Jesus while he was nailed to the cross, was brought from Vienna in 1938, but early attempts to recover the <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/hitler-and-ark-of-covenant.html" target="_blank">Ark of the Covenant</a> in 1936 and the <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/hitler-and-holy-grail.html" target="_blank">Holy Grail</a> in 1938, however, were less successful.<br />The original base of operations for the Occult Corps was the <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/08/himmler-ahnenerbe-and-wewelsburg.html">Wewelsburg </a>in Westphalia, which Himmler bought as a ruin and rebuilt over the next 11 years at a cost of 13 million marks.<br />The central banqueting hall contained a vast round table with throne-like seats to accommodate Himmler and 12 of his favorite officers, making his modern-day 'Orden der Schwarzen Ritter' - a covenant of 13.<br />Beneath the Wewelsburg was the Halle der Toten (Hall of the Dead), where plinths stood around a stone table and the covenant could practice their occult magic in secret.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">When the unit was officially created within the Ahnenerbe in 1939, it drew its members from within the Ahnenerbe, the disbanded Thule Gesellschaft, and a little known section of Archive Department VII of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA, Reich Security Central Office) called Sonderkommando-H.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Occult research had been conducted by various arms of the SS for quite some time before the creation of the Karotechia.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In the Ahnenerbe, the Abteilung zur Überprüfung der Sogenannten Geheimwissenschaften (literally, Department for the Examination of Secret Sciences) had analyzed the occult since 1933.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Also since 1933, Karl Maria Wiligut and his Department for Pre- and Early History had been Himmler’s premier occultist, a position that was undermined soon after the creation of the Karotechia.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Suitable members of these organizations were drawn to the Karotechia, as were former members of the Thule Gesellschaft and scholars from Nazi-allied regimes and occupied countries.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Kabbalists and Gypsy practitioners were even forcibly recruited out of concentration camps, as well as those occultists rounded up through Aktion Hess.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">More so than any other group researching the paranormal for their government during the Second World War, the Karotechia sought to exploit the occult to its fullest.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">With the full backing of the SS and the Government of the Third Reich, they raided the libraries and museums of Europe in an insatiable search for arcane power.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">No avenue of study was left unexplored, no matter how unlikely it might seem to the more established academics of the Ahnenerbe.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Karotechia was shielded from inquiry within and without by direct patronage of Himmler, who passed certain information on to Hitler.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">They were identified by the red 'sonnenrad' rune worn on the lapels of their black Allgemeine-SS uniforms.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">C</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">reated in 1935 under direct orders from Heinrich Himmler, Sonderkommando-H (for Hexen, German for witches) collected records of the Catholic Inquisition against witchcraft from libraries in Germany and Austria.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">These records were collated into the Hexenkartothek, a catalog of over 33,000 index cards, each providing the details of a victim of the witch trials.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">While most of the Hexenkartothek concentrated on witch trials in Germany, Sonderkommando-H researched cases from as far away as India and Mexico.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The research of Sonderkommando-H was meant to provide propaganda that would justify an SS crackdown on the Catholic Church, as well as discover the ancient Germanic religion that Himmler believed had been eradicated by the Inquisition.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The SS officers that collected the Hexenkartothek came to informally refer to themselves as the "Kartothekia," and what they discovered were arcane formulae and necromantic rituals.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Enough was learned by Sonderkommando-H to create what some one hundred and fifty known witches, warlocks, and alchemists termed '<i>the resuscitating of ye vital saylts'.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This formula, it has been claimed, was first successfully put to effect by SS-Hauptscharführer Dieter Scheel when his team resurrected 17th century sorceror Jurgen Tess.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It was this incident that created a new department within the Ahnenerbe to exploit the occult in service to the Reich: the Karotechia (Card filers).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In the Ahnenerbe, the Abteilung zur Überprüfung der Sogenannten Geheimwissenschaften (literally, Department for the Examination of Secret Sciences) had analysed the occult since 1933.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Also since 1933, Karl Maria Wiligut and his 'Department for Pre- and Early History' had been Himmler's premier occultist, a position that was undermined soon after the creation of the Karotechia.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In December 1919 a small circle of persons from the <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.com/2011/07/thule-gesellschaft.html">Thule Gesellschaft</a>, the <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.com/2011/06/occult-history-of-third-reich.html">Vril Society</a> and the DHvSS - Die Herren vom Schwarzen Stein met in a specially rented forester’s lodge near<a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.com/2011/07/dietrich-eckart-hitlers-mentor.html"> Berchtesgaden</a>, close to the home of <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.com/2011/07/dietrich-eckart-hitlers-mentor.html">Dietrich Eckart</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They were accompanied by the medium Maria Orsic and another medium only known as Sigrun. Maria had mediumistically received transmission in a secret Templar script – a language unknown to her – with the technical data for the construction of a flying machine (see right).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">During this early phase of alternative science Dr. W. O. Schumann (see right) of the Technical University in Munich, both a Thule and a Vril member, made a speech, a section of which is reproduced here:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Everything destructive is of Satanic origin, everything creative is divine... Every technology based upon explosion or combustion has thus to be called Satanic. The coming new age will be an age of a new, positive, divine technology...'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To put it simply: implosion instead of explosion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Following the energy paths of the monochord and implosion technology one reaches the realm of antimatter and thus the cancellation of gravity.</span></div>
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A significant amount of Ahnenerbe research involved Tibet, and was carried out by the Sven Hedin Institute for Inner Asian Research.</div>
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The institute was named for the famous Swedish explorer whose memoirs 'My Life As An Explorer' were popular worldwide for their tales of Hedin's travels throughout Tibet.</div>
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Hedin's descriptions of hidden cities deep within the Himalayas were as much a source for Nazi interest in Tibet as Blavatsky's theosophical vision of the East.</div>
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Though never an official member of the Ahnenerbe (the old explorer was in his seventies during the war), Hedin corresponded with the organization and was present when the Institute for Inner Asian Research was formally established in Munich on January 1943.</div>
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Hedin's closest contact in the Ahnenerbe was Ernst Schäfer, who commanded the Institute for Inner Asian Research and was eventually responsible for all scientific projects within the Ahnenerbe.</div>
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Under the influence of Haushofer and the <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.com/2011/07/thule-gesellschaft.html">Thule Society</a>, the Ahnenerbe sent annual expeditions to Tibet from 1926 to 1943.</div>
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Their mission was first to find and then to maintain contact with the Aryan forefathers in Shambhala and Agharti, hidden subterranean cities beneath the Himalayas.</div>
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Adepts there were the guardians of secret occult powers, especially vril, and the missions sought their aid in harnessing those powers for creating an Aryan master race.</div>
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Shambhala, however, refused any assistance, but Agharti agreed.</div>
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Subsequently, from 1929, groups of Tibetans came to Germany and started lodges known as the Society of Green Men.</div>
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In connection with the Green Dragon Society in Japan, through the intermediary of Haushofer, they supposedly helped the Nazi cause with their occult powers. Himmler was attracted to these groups of Tibetan-Agharti adepts and as a result encouraged the study of Eastern Occultism within the SS.</div>
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In 1937, Himmler decided he could increase the Ahnenerbe’s visibility by sending a large scale expedition to Tibet under the leadership of Ernst Schäfer.</div>
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There were rumors of secret tasks that included the SS making overtures to the Reting Regent to lay the groundwork for a German invasion of India through Tibet.</div>
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Tibet expedition was also involved in "geophysical" research to prove the <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.com/2011/07/volkisch-occult-cosmology.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hanns Hörbiger's </span>"World Ice Theory"</a>, which may have included the search for fossilized remains of "giants" as part of the cosmology of the theory.</div>
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The final inventory from the expedition included 20,000 black-and-white photographs, 2,000 colour photographs, 17 head casts and the measurements of 376 people, as well as having sent back specimens of three breeds of Tibetan dogs, rare feline species, wolves, badgers, foxes, animal and bird skins, and the seeds for 1,600 types of barley, 700 varieties of wheat, 700 varieties of oats and hundreds of other types of seeds. In addition, the team had been given a Tibetan mastiff, a gold coin and the robe of a lama (believed by Schäfer to have been worn by the Dalai Lama) to be gifted to Adolf Hitler.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Instrumental in the forging of this link was the classical scholar Friedrich von Schlegel (1772-1829), who attempted to establish a historical and cultural contact between the Indians and the Scandinavians through which the Scandinavian languages could have been influenced by the Indian. Schlegel solved this problem by stating that the ancient Aryans had travelled to the far north, as a result of their veneration for the sacred mountain, Meru, which they believed to constitute the spiritual centre of the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At that point, the word Aryan came to denote the <i>highest, purest </i>and <i>most honourable racial group</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This historical scheme was added to by other thinkers such as Christian Lassen, who stated that the Indo- Germans were inherently biologically superior to the Semites.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In this scheme, Nordic Europeans were of the Aryan Race, an this race had come from the high plateaus of Asia (hence the Ahnenerbe's interest in Tibet - see above).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the desire to rediscover the ultimate mythical and cultural roots of the master race, the Ahnenerbe turned away from the heat of the biblical Mesopotamian Eden, and looked instead to the cool and pristine fastness of the Far North.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">According to Bailly, the ancient cultures of Egypt and Chaldea, and India were actually the heirs of a far older body of knowledge, possessed in the distant past by a long-lost superior culture living in the antediluvian North.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The advent </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">of the Ice Age that <i>scattered</i> the Aryans from their pleasant homeland was just one of a number of global catastrophes that proved the downfall of at least three other ancient civilisations: <i>Atlantis, Lemuria </i>and the culture occupying what is now the Gobi Desert.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">According to Blavatsky, who had consulted a fantastically old document entitled the 'Stanzas of Dzyan' while in Tibet, our remote ancestors occupied a number of lost continents, the first of which she describes as 'The Imperishable Sacred Land', an eternal place unencumbered by the sometimes violent fates reserved for other continents, that was the home of the first human and also of 'the last divine mortals'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>'The land of the Hyperboreans, the country that extended beyond Boreas, the frozen-hearted god of snows and hurricanes, who loved to slumber heavily on the chain of Mount Riphaeus, was neither an ideal country, as surmised by the mythologists, nor yet a land in the neighbourhood of Scythia and the Danube. It was a real continent, a bond-fide land which knew no winter in those early days, nor have its remains more than one night and day during the year, even now. The nocturnal shadows never fall upon it, said the Greeks; for it is the land of the Gods, the favourite abode of Apollo, the god of light, and its inhabitants are his beloved priests and servants. This may be regarded as poetised fiction now; but it was poetised truth then.'</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'<i>It would be the first historical land, were the traditions of the ancients to receive more attention than they have hitherto. The famous island of Plato of that name was but a fragment of this great Continent.</i>'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This has led Orientalists to speculate that the White Island and </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mount Meru are situated in another dimension occupying that same apparent space as Earth, and which is visible (and reachable) to beings possessing a sufficiently advanced spirituality.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Along with the later Atlantean civilisation,</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Hyperborea was the origin of all religious and spiritual tradition in our own modern world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is easy to see how the central tenets of Theosophy - the ancient civilisations, the origins of the Aryan race, and that race's position of high nobility - were attractive to the German occultists and nationalists, who so hated the modern world of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Modernism in general was seen as being largely an<i> urban</i>, sophisticated, Jewish phenomenon, and this included certain aspects of science, technology, the Industrial Revolution, and of course capitalism.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The doctrines of the Theosophists successfully fused science and mysticism, taking Darwin's theories regarding </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">natural selection, and the survival of the fittest, and applying them to the concept of a spiritual </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">struggle between the races of Earth (resulting in the Aryan race), which was a necessary component in the <i>evolution of the spirit</i>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It should be remembered that Blavatsky's works appear to be the result of prodigious scholarship and were extremely convincing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The rationale behind many later vö</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">lkisch projects can be traced back - through the writings of <i>von List, von Sebottendorff, </i>and <i>von Liebenfels</i> - to ideas first popularized by Blavatsky.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A caste system of races, the importance of ancient alphabets (notably the<i> runes</i>), the superiority of the Aryans (a white race with its origins in the Himalayas), an version of astrology and astronomy, the cosmic truths coded within pagan myths ... all of these and more can be found both in Blavatsky and in National Socialism itself, specifically in the ideology of the SS and the Ahnenerbe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was, after all, Blavatsky who pointed out the supreme occult significance of the Hakenkreuz (</span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">swastika)</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is a matter of historical record that the Ahenerbe mounted expeditions to Iceland, Antarctica and Tibet (for Tibet see above).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The völkisch concept of Thule can be traced to <i>Guido von List, Jorg Lanz von Liebenfels</i> and <i>Rudolf von Sebottendorff</i>, who conceived of it as the ancient homeland of the Aryan race.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The völkisch fascination with the Scandinavian Eddas led von Sebottendorff to conclude that the supposedly long-vanished land of Thule was actually<i> Iceland</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This link with the lost Aryan homeland prompted an intense interest in the possibility of discovering further clues to their remote history, indeed, to their very origin, among the caves and prehistoric monuments of the island. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">An organisation called the '<i>Nordic Society'</i> was established at Lubeck by Alfred Rosenberg (1893-1945), the völkisch mystic, philosopher, and editor of the 'Volkischer Beobachter'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The society counted among its members representatives from Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Iceland, who were drawn together in order to defend the Nordic nations against the Soviet, Jewish and </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Masonic threat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rosenberg explained his Thulean mythology in his book 'Der Mythus des 20. Jahrhunderts' (The Myth of the Twentieth Century), published in 1930, which was a massive best-seller in Germany.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the first chapter of the book, Rosenberg explains the basis of his belief in an ancient Aryan homeland in the north:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'<i>The geologists show us a continent between North America and Europe, whose remains we can see today in Greenland and Iceland. They tell us that islands on the other side of the Far North (Novaia Zemlya) display former tide marks over 100 metres higher than today's; they make it probable that the North Pole has wandered, and that a much milder climate once reigned in the present Arctic. All this allows the ancient legend of Atlantis to appear in a new light. It seems not impossible that where the waves of the Atlantic Ocean now crash and pull off giant icebergs, </i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>once a blooming continent rose out of the water, on which a creative race raised a mighty, wide- ranging culture, and sent its children out into the world as seafarers and warriors. But even if this Atlantean hypothesis is not thought tenable, one has to assume that there was a prehistoric northern center of culture</i>.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Less than 60 years later, the Swiss explorer Wilhelm Filchner, who had already led an expedition to Tibet in 1903-05, planned to lead two expeditions to Antarctica with the intention of determining if the continent was a single piece of land.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This plan, however, proved too expensive, and so a single ship, the 'Deutschland', was used. The 'Deutschland' was a Norwegian ship specifically designed for work in polar regions, and was acquired with the help of Ernest Shackleton, Otto Nordenskjold and Fridtjof Nansen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Prior to World War II German scientists were obsessed with Antarctica.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Germans also got interested in Queen Maud land (or "Neuschwabenland" as referred to by the Germans - Germany was called "Schwabenland" before it was called Germany - so Neuschwabenland means "New Germany"</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Neuschwabenland is dominated by the giant shelf of ice, flowing slowly from King Haakon VII - plateau over the South Pole, down to the ocean.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This area is called "Fenriskjeften" after the mouth of the giant Devil-wolf in Norse mythology. According to this mythology Fenris' (the wolf) teeth were very sharp, and they would kill all people on Earth during Ragnarok - the end of the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The use of wolf symbology is interesting as it touches upon a theme in völkisch </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">symbology which used the wolf as a totem of the hunter: Hitler's retreat in Berchtesgaden, Bavaria was nicknamed "Wolf's Lair", and the tactic used by German U-Boats to defeat convoys during the War was called "Wolfpack."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The 'Schwabenland', which had been prepared for the expedition in the Hamburg shipyards at a cost of one million Reichsmarks, was equipped with two Dornier seaplanes, the 'Passat' and the 'Boreas', which were launched from its flight deck by steam catapults and which made fifteen flights over the territory which Norwegian explorers had named 'Queen Maud Land'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Altogether they flew over hundreds of thousands of square kilometres, and took more than 16,000 aerial photographs, some of which were published after the war by Ritscher.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On its return trip to Germany the expedition made oceanographic studies near Bouvet Island and Fernando de Noronha, arriving back in Hamburg on 11 April 1939.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There is evidence that throughout the war, the Third Reich sent ships, (an in particular large, cargo carrying submarines), and aircraft to 'Neu Schwabenland' with </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">enough equipment and manpower to build massive complexes under the ice, or in well-hidden ice-free areas, and at the close of the war selected scientists and SS troops left Europe and went to Antarctica.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"<i>Germany's submarine fleet is proud that it created an unassailable fortress for the Führer on the other end of the world</i>."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rumours began to circulate that, whilst Germany had been defeated, a selection of military personnel, Hitler Youth and scientists had left the fatherland, as allied troops swept across mainland Europe, and had established themselves at a secret base on the Antarctic continent, from where they continued to develop their advanced aircraft technology.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Furthermore, it is interesting to note that at the end of the war, the allies determined that there were<i> 250,000</i> Germans <i>unaccounted for</i> - even taking into account casualties and deaths.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In addition, until today more than 100 submarines of the German fleet are missing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A 'trip' to the base without recognition becomes more than possible with this technology.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The brackish water of the warm (30 degrees) lakes virtually confirmed that all had an outlet to the sea and would thus have been a haven for U-boats. The two ice-free mountain ranges in Neu Schwabenland presented no worse an underground tunneling project for Organization Todt than anything they had encountered and overcome in Norway, and th</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">e Germans were the world's experts at building and inhabiting underground metropolis.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At the end of the war the United States gave anything concerning Ohrdruf a top secret classification for 100 years upwards. The fact that there had been substantial underground workings there, and Ohrdruf was the location of the last Redoubt, was concealed absolutely. Fortunately for researchers, in 1962 the DDR had taken sworn depositions from all local residents during an investigation into wartime Ohrdruf, and upon the reunification of the two Germanys in 1989, these documents became available to all and sundry at Arnstadt municipal archive.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">From the Arnstadt documents it is clear that the Charite Anlage unit operated in a three-story underground bunker with floors 70 by 20 meters.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When working, the device emitted some kind of energy field which shut down all electrical equipment and non-diesel engines within a range of about eight miles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For this reason, even though Ohrdruf was crawling with SS, it was never photographed from the air nor bombed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Declassified USAF documents dated early 1945 admit the existence of an unknown energy field over Frankfurt/Main "<i>and other locations</i>" which were able to "<i>interfere with our aircraft engines at 30,000 feet</i>."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ohrdruf, rebuilt below Neu Schwabenland during the last two years of the war, would not have been difficult, and since Charite Anlage had the highest priority of anything in the Third Reich, it seems likely that it must have been.</span></div>
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<li style="text-align: justify;">Indogermanisch-germanische Sprach- und Kullturwissenschaft (Indogermanic-Germanic Language and Cultural Studies)</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Germanische Kulturwissenschaft und Landschaftskunde (Germanic Cultural Studies and Landscape Science)</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Germanische Sprachwissenschaft und Landschaftskunde (Germanic Linguistics and Landscape Science)</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Indogermanische Glaubensgeschichte (Indogermanic Faith history)</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Indogermanische Rechtsgeschichte (Indogermanic Historical jurisprudence)</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Indogermanisch-deutsche Musik (Indogermanic-German Music)</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Germanisch-deutsche Volkskunde (Germanic-German Folklore)</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Deutsche Volksforschung und Volkskunde (German Ethnic Research and Folklore)</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Volkserzählung, Märchen und Sagenkunde (Folktales, Fairytales and Myths)</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Runen, Schrift und Sinnbildkunde (Runes, Alphabets, and Symbols)</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Hausmarken und Sippenzeichen (House Brands and Family Marks)</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Ortung und Landschaftssinnbilder (Location and Landscape symbols)</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Ausgrabungen (Excavations)</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Germanisches Bauwesen (Germanic Architecture)</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Wurtenforschung (Dwelling Mound Research)</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Urgeschichte (Prehistory)</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Keltische Volksforschung (Celtic ethnic research)</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Indogermanisch-finnische Kulturbeziehungen (Indogermanic-Finnish cultural relations)</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Klassische Archäologie (Classic Archaeology)</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Klassische Altertumswissenschaft (Classical Antiquity)</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Alte Geschichte (Ancient History)</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Mittlere und Neuere Geschichte (Middle and Modern History)</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Griechische Philologie (Greek Philology)</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Lateinische Philologie (Latin Philology)</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Mittellatein (Medieval Latin)</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Innerasien und Expeditionen (Inner Asia and Expeditions)</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Vorderer Orient (Near East)</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Ostasien-Institut (East Asian Institute)</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Orientalistische Indologie (Oriental Indology)</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Nordwestafrikanische Kulturwissenschaft (Northwest African Cultural Studies</li>
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<li style="text-align: justify;">Gesamte Naturwissenschaft ("Natural Science")</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Darstellende und angewandte Naturkunde ("Descriptive and Applied Natural History")</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Biologie ("Biology")</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Entomologie ("Entomology")</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Astronomie ("Astronomy")</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Pferdezucht ("Horse Breeding")</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Botanik ("Botany")</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Pflanzengenetik ("Plant Genetics")</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Karst- und Höhlenkunde ("Speleology")</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Naturwissenschaftliche Vorgeschichte ("Scientific History")</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Tiergeographie und Tiergeschichte ("Zoogeography and Animal History")</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Angewandte Geologie ("Applied Geology")</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Geologische Zeitmessung ("Geochronology")</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Geophysik ("Geophysics")</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Kernphysik ("Nuclear Physics")</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Volksmedizin ("Folk Medicine")</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Osteologie ("Osteology")</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Überprüfung der sogenannten Geheimwissenschaften ("Survey of the so-called occult sciences")</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Wehrwissenschaftliche Zweckforschung ("Military Scientific Research")</li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the years preceding World War I, German anti-Semitism was fed by an underground stream of secret cults, both in Vienna and other cultural centers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hitler dipped into this stream.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He was twenty when he came to Vienna in 1909, rejected for admission to the Academy of Fine Arts, and according to eyewitness accounts, lonely, shy with women, moody, given to violent outbursts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He later wrote in 'Mein Kampf ' of this period that it gave him the foundations of a knowledge which sustained him for the rest of his life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'<i>In this period there took shape within me a world picture and a philosophy which became the granite foundation of all my acts. In addition to what I then created, I have had to learn little; and I have had to alter nothing</i>.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(This, of course, like so much in 'Mein Kampf', was not entirely true - Thule and Eckart were, in many ways, the true foundations of Hitler' weltanschauung'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hitler spent much of his time studying Eastern religions, yoga, occultism, hypnotism, astrology, telepathy, graphology, phrenology, and similar subjects which often appeal to pursuers of magical powers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">His penchant for the occult led him to a tobacconist's shop near his lodging, where he came upon a magazine, 'Ostara'.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">'Ostara' was a German nationalist magazine founded in 1905 by the occultist Lanz von Liebenfels in Vienna, Austria. Lanz derived the name of the publication from the Old High German goddess name Ôstarâ.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Lanz claimed that the Ostrogoths and the nation of Austria (German: Österreich) were matronymically named after this goddess. According to von Liebenfels, the magazine had a peak circulation of 100,000 and appeared in three series; the first series included 100 issues between 1905 and 1917, the second series had only one issue, and the third series included 20 issues published between 1927 and 1930.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This publication was produced by the mystical, völkisch theorist, Lanz von Liebenfels, who wrote under the acronyn PONT (Prior of the Order of the New Templars).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Vienna, in those days one of the fastest-growing cities in Europe, was hospitable to the formation of occult groups which sprang up with religious fervor, symptomatic of the irrational atmosphere of the time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Vienna's population went up 259 percent between 1860 and 1900, and the flood of new arrivals sought relief from the frustrations of an overcrowded and expensive existence.<br />The city was deluged by mediums, necromancers, and astrologers who claimed to b</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">e occupied with a futuristic science which the scientific establishment was as yet unable to appreciate, since experiments were as yet unverified. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lanz von Liebenfels, a one-time Cistercian monk, started his group, the 'Order of the New Templars', in 1900.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">His friend, Guido von List, a somewhat different sort of völkisch ideologue, started his group, the Armanen, in 1908.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Historians are divided on the question of whether Hitler was actually ever a member of either the Temple of the New Order or the Armanen, but it is certain that he was a reader of Ostara and met Lanz von Liebenfels several times in that period he later alluded to as providing him with '<i>the foundations of a </i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>knowledge</i>' which was to become so important to him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is also possible that Hitler, as a boy, met Liebenfels when they were both at the Abbey at Lambach.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">While Hitler was a student at the abbey, Adolf Joseph Lanz made a stay at Lambach-am-Traum. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He stayed for several weeks, shut up in the monastery, thoroughly researching and studying Abbot Theodorich Hagen's personal papers.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The monks affirm that during his mysterious research he evidenced the signs of great agitation, like of a person who had made a great discovery.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After his visit to Abbey, Lanz returned to Vienna, where the following year (1900) he founded the Order of the New Templars.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">A monastery was founded in Lambach in about 1040 by Count Arnold II of Lambach-Wels. His son, Bishop Adalbero of Würzburg (later canonised), changed the monastery into a Benedictine abbey in 1056. During the 17th and 18th centuries a great deal of work in the Baroque style was carried out. Lambach escaped the dissolution of the monasteries of Emperor Joseph II in the 1780s. It was however dissolved by the National Socialists in 1941, in the Operation Klostersturm, and the premises were used for the accommodation of a Nazi school and training institution.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">(In der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus beschlagnahmten staatliche Stellen sowie die nationalsozialistische Partei weit über 200 Klöster. Der nationalsozialistische Raubzug gegen die katholischen Ordensgemeinschaften in Deutschland startete aufgrund eines Geheimerlasses des NSDAP-Reichsleiters Martin Bormann vom 13. Januar 1941.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Writing in an oracular, anthropological manner, Liebenfels took mankind from the beginning of time and divided the species into the Herrenrasse and the ape-men, the first being white, blue-eyed, blond, and responsible for everything heroic in mankind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The second group was the repository of everything vile.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">According to this theory, the heroes - called variously Heldinge, or Arioheroiker were superior by reason of <i>breeding </i>and <i>blood</i>, whereas the inferiors Afflinge, (apelings) </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Waninge, chandale always threatened to contaminate through interbreeding.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ostara's theories were calculated to explain history as a struggle to the death between the pure Aryan and the subhuman.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This racial struggle, described in mystical prose, was the essence of human existence.</span><br />
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Arno Breker</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The lower races must not pollute, through inter- breeding, the rich blood of the higher races.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Since, sexually, the lower races are more potent, this presents a considerable challenge to the hero.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lanz was writing in the tradition of a völkisch revival of the conservative Germanic ideal of woman as the keeper of the hearth, in contrast with the modern suffragette who was just then demanding her rights and asserting her own sexual needs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Race and blood, combined with ancient German occultism spells, number mysticism.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is all too clear what one regular reader, Hitler, became, though the direct influence of Ostara.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Order of the New Templars enrolled blond, blue-eyed members, and only if they promised to marry </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">women with the same attributes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lanz von Liebenfels, a teacher's son, was born in Vienna in 1874.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As a child, his wish had been to become a Knight Templar and to own Templar chateaux or, at least, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to reconstruct them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">His strongest impression as a youth had been an opera, 'The Templar and the Jewess', which transported him into ecstasy. (Occultists have always argued that the Templars, a medieval religious and military order, were a Gnostic sect working to purify the world of evil.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 1893, at the age of nineteen, he entered the Stift Heiligenkreuz (</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cistercian monastery Holy Cross), which had an important place in Austrian history.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Heiligenkreuz Abbey (Stift Heiligenkreuz) is a Cistercian monastery in the village of Heiligenkreuz in the southern part of the Vienna woods, c. 13 km north-west of Baden in Lower Austria. It is the oldest continuously occupied Cistercian monastery in the world. Heiligenkreuz abbots were often noted for their piety and learning. Heiligenkreuz was spared dissolution under Emperor Joseph II. Although the National Socialists planned its dissolution in the Third Reich, this plan was not carried out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The following year, he issued a work about a discovery which held secret meaning for him: a monument from the period of the Crusades, of a manly figure treading barefoot on an animal-like human being.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In this relief sculpture Lanz saw the triumph of the higher races over the lesser races, and it became the symbol of his ideology.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 1900, a year after he left the monastery, started his order, taking over the name and rituals from his beloved Templars.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">His sign was the swastika.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This studious-looking, bespectacled young man, preached a fall from a race-pure paradise that came about when the Arioheroiker interbred with the Dark Races.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He called his theory Ariosophy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lanz quickly found people who were willing to believe, and some of the believers were wealthy men, ready to help Lanz make his wildest dreams come true.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With their help, he bought Burg Werfenstein in Lower Austria, in 1907.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Other castles, in Marienkamp near Ulm and on the island of Rugen in the Baltic, were also converted into temples where the order conducted elaborate Grail ceremonies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The carefully screened initiates, awesome in white hooded robes, performed celebrations written by Lanz.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Using his monastic training, he also composed his own voluminous variations of liturgical texts: a two-volumed 'New Templars' Breviary', 'The Psalms in German', and a secret Bible for the initiated, which ran to ten volumes, as well as prayer books and the like.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The race struggle was his major concern, but the order also dabbled in astrology, phrenology, homoeopathy, and nutrition.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After reconstructing the Werfenstein castle, fitting it out with Templar symbols of ritual magic, and raising up a swastika flag, never before seen in modern days, he made plans for world salvation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To ensure the extirpation of the animal-man and the propagation of the higher new man, he called for a radical program: genetic selection, sterilization, deportations to the ape jungle. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He advocated the establishment of special breeding colonies for the production of more Aryans.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He called his major work 'Theozoologie oder die Kunde von den Sodoms-Affligen und dem Gotter-Elektron' - (Theozoology, or the Lore of the Sodom-Apelings </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and the Electron of the Gods.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He believed Aryan heroes, 'Masterpieces of the Gods', to be possessed of splendid electromagnetic- radiological organs which gave them special powers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">By following his eugenic measures, they would revitalize their lost faculties.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Exactly what had Hitler to do with Lanz ?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In Mein Kampf the only possible reference to Ostara may be this one: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'<i>For the first time in my life I bought myself some anti-Semitic pamphlets for a few heller</i>'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">His friend from childhood, August Kubizek, mentions that during this period Hitler joined an anti-Semitic lodge.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But according to Lanz's biographer, Wilfried Daim, not only was Hitler a <i>regular </i>reader of 'Ostara', but, because he had missed several issues, he looked up Lanz himself in 1909, who was happy to supply him with back copies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In fact, says Daim, he saw Lanz a few times and 'left an impression of youth, pallor, and modesty.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Fifteen months later, through three changes of residence, the copies were still in Hitler's possession.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lanz claimed him as one of his disciples, writing to an occultist in 1932, just before Hitler came to power: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'<i>Hitler is one of our pupils. You will one day experience that he, and through him we, will one day be victorious and develop a movement that makes the world tremble</i>.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hitler attempted to bury all his earlier influences and his origins, and he spent a great deal of energy hiding them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lanz was forbidden to publish after the Anschluß, when the Ostmark was re-united with the Reich</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> in 1938.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Der Anschluß - German for "connection" or union, political annexation, - also known as the Anschluss Österreichs, was the occupation and annexation of Austria into the Third Reich in 1938. This was in contrast with the Anschluss movement (Austria and Germany united as one country), which had been attempted since as early as 1918 when the Republic of German-Austria attempted union with Germany but was forbidden by the Treaty of Saint Germain and Treaty of Versailles peace treaties.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But the influence of Lanz's Ariosophy is evident in passages like these from 'Mein Kampf':</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'<i>By defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the handiwork of the Lord.... This Jewification of our spiritual life and mammonization of our mating instinct will sooner or later destroy our entire offspring....</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Though we may never have certain knowledge as to whether or not Hitler was a member of the New Templars, there is ample reason to suppose that Lanz's s völkisch philosophy helped to create the Third Reich.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The other Viennese occultist who attracted Lanz's disciples, Guido von List, presented a somewhat different variation of the occultist-racist package.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">List was born in 1848 to a rich Viennese merchant.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At fourteen, in the catacombs of St. Stefan's Cathedral in Vienna, he vowed before a dilapidated altar that when he became adult he would build a temple to the pagan</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">His life's work settled, he became first a merchant and then secretary of the Austrian Alp Society.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Members used the '<i>Heil'</i> greeting, harking back to paganism.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">List thought of himself as the link with an ancient race of Germanic priests and wise men called the Armanen.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Their holiest emblem had been the swastika.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Taking the same symbol, which had been in widespread use by many ancient peoples, he started his own secret society, the Armanen, in 1908.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To the Germanic peoples, the swastika was an occult symbol for the sun, which represented life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">German racists believed that one of the proofs of the inequality of races was that some had a more positive attitude toward the sun than others, and sun worship became a pagan ritual among volkisch groups.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">List became a pioneer in reviving Teutonic folklore and mythology.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This helped to prepare the climate for nationalism.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Armanen succeeded in attracting such people as Vienna's mayor, Karl Lueger, and the well-known Theosophist Franz Hartmann.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">List claimed that his group was the inner circle, hence, the leaders of the Aryo-Germanic race, with power to unlock the secrets of the universe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They had the call. They were similar to God.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">List apparently never lacked for rich supporters to finance his undertakings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">His major undertaking was his plan to lead the master race, having been in communication with ancients possessing esoteric wisdom.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He looked like an ancient prophet with his long, flowing white beard.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He taught his members runic occultism.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Wotan was said to have invented the runes, the ancient alphabet, as part of his secret science. (The Gothic runa means 'secret', 'secret decision'.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The early Finnish runo, taken from the Germanic, has to do with magic songs.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Edgar Polome points out in his essay 'Approaches to Germanic Mythology', in Myth in Indo-European Antiquity:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'<i>What Wotan originally acquired by hanging on the tree for nine days, starving and thirsting as in a shamanic initiation rite, was a powerful secret lore, of which the runes later on became merely the tool'</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The idea that the runes have occult significance was mentioned as early as</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A.D. 98 by Tacitus, who described the Germanic peoples as making marks on wood branches in order to practice augury and divination.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Old Norse literature speaks of runes carved on wood, over which incantations or charms were spoken.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">List wrote a book about runes in 1908.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Like other German occult groups, he was preoccupied with the magical power contained in the old alphabet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The historian Reginald H. Phelps, although he does not touch on the occult practices of Lanz and List, points out in his article 'Before Hitler Came': Thule Society and Germanen Orden', in 'The Journal of Modern History', that they propagated their theories '<i>with varying success among intelligentsia and aristocrats</i>'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">About 1912, disciples of Lanz and List started the 'Germanen Orden' under the leadership of a member of List's Armanen, a journalist named Philipp Stauff, and several others.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Theodor Fritsch, one of the founders, had great organizational ability.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Originally a technician for windmills, he then published a trade journal for millers, the 'Deutscher Muller', which provided him with the funds to pursue his real passion, scientific anti-Semitism.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">From the 1880's on he had been a leader in the Pan-German movement.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 1902, he began to publish the 'Hammer', a völkisch magazine which aimed at eliminating all foreign participation from German cultural life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He tried to spread the word to the workers as well as to the elite, calling for a racist-nationalist organization that would combine the smaller groups into one 'above the parties'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was to be impeccably Aryan and was to bring 'enlightenment' to the Germanic peoples.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He was joined by a sealer of weights and measures from Magdeburg, Hermann Pohl, and also by Stauff, who brought with him several other List disciples.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The organization was to be a secret 'Bund' (group) for the purpose of combating what they believed to be the secret Jewish group, that was plotting world conspiracy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One could only become a member by proving German origin to the third generation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Race science was to be taught, provable in the same way for human beings as the principles of scientific breeding had been established for plants and animals.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The origin of most sickness was the result of the mixing of races, they held.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The principles of Pan-Germanism were to be disseminated not only among Germans, but among all blood-related peoples.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The fight was against all un-German thinking, which included Judaism and internationalism.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">While the 'Germanen Orden' violently opposed Freemasonry as international and Jew-ridden, it used Freemason terminology and organization - this was because Pohl believed that this would guarantee secrecy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Their symbols were runes and the swastika with curved arms.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Stauff and Pohl were the only open members.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Closet cultists have always enjoyed the high degree of secrecy surrounding the meetings of</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rites are rarely, if ever, committed to paper.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is as if there is a recognition that power tends to evaporate and mysteries to become cheapened with exposure.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At any rate, the initiation and other rites must have been similar to those of Lanz's and List's groups.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As with those other groups, there were inner and outer circles, with the latter yearning to be admitted into the ranks of the former.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The mysteries were revealed through signs and symbols which only the properly initiated could interpret, and only when deemed worthy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The typical occultist saw symbolism everywhere, and hermetic significance in everything.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Groups also borrowed heavily from each other, so that if one saw wisdom in the ancient rune symbols, chances were that another would adopt it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Stauff and List wrote books on runic wisdom.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Meetings of the 'Germanen Orden' taught the same.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Before World War I, despite countless leaflets distributed and propaganda spewed out, growth of the Germanen Orden was slow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Fritsch issued a call to action. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The time for counter-revolution was at hand. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For decades the Germanic peoples had been sabotaged by the 'chandale', Lanz's term for the </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">lower races.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'<i>A few hundred courageous men can accomplish the work</i>,' said Fritsch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">November 1914, the finances were bad, and nearly half the brethren were with the military.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Between 1914 and 1918 the Orden was inactive, because most of its members were at the front.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Of the known members, only Theodor Fritsch, the grand old man of German anti-Semitism, achieved lasting recognition.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">His 'Antisemitische Katechismus' - (Anti-Semitical Catechism), written in 1887, had more than twenty editions and sold almost a hundred thousand copies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">His 'Handbuch der Judenfrage' - (Handbook of the Jewish Question), a 1919 update of the 'Katechismus', reached 145,000 readers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Some years ago, in a suburb of Berlin, a monument was erected to his name.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">During the 'Ersten Weltkrieg' (First World War), all the secret cults were dormant.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Pohl was reduced to selling bronze rings inscribed with runic characters.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Not until 1933 did the connection between the Thule Gesellschaft and the prehistory of National Socialism come to light, when a book was published, in Munich, with the intriguing title 'Bevor Hitler Kam' (Before Hitler Came).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It must have enjoyed a vogue, because there was a second printing in 1934.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The author, who called himself Baron Rudolf von Sebottendorff, had been Grand Master of a small lodge which called itself the 'Thule Society', and he stated right at the outset: 'T</span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">hule people are the ones to whom Hitler first came</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sebottendorff himself acknowledges his debt to 'a man whom Juda [Jewdom] could not get rid of - Theodor Fritsch - and to three Austrians who started the fight against Juda: Guido von List, Jorg Lanz von Liebenfels, and List's disciple, Philipp Stauff.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There was one other, a Baron Wittgenberg, who, Sebottendorff claimed, 'chose to kill himself' in </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1920 because his wife and daughter were caught under the influence of a </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jewish banker. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This unfortunate man's compendiums, published in 1914 (An Index of Jewish Titled People, An Index of Titled People and Their </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Connection with Jews, and Jews of Industry, Science, Authors and Artists), </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">had been snatched up by Jews, said Sebottendorff, and there were no more copies available.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sebottendorff prepared a brochure for the initiates coming home, and started a </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">publication called 'Runen' to bring in new members.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The first three members of the reconstituted circle were Dr. George Gaubatz, a bald-headed Red Cross worker, and member of the Audubon Society, who looked like Erich von Stroheim, and wore a key chain across his waistcoat, from which dangled the swastika, emblem of the Thule Society; Wilhelm Rohmeder, an educator and member of a German education society; and Johannes </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hering, who had already distinguished himself in Pan-German circles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Erich von Stroheim (September 22, 1885 – May 12, 1957) was an Austrian director, actor and producer, most notable as being a film star of the silent era, subsequently noted as an auteur for his directorial work.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sebottendorff was an authority on astrology, alchemy, divining rods, and rune symbolism, and was happy to expatiate on these subjects.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Johannes Hering's diary entry for August 17, 1918, shows great vexation with Sebottendorff for delivering a talk to the group on divining rods.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hering feared '<i>such occult </i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>nonsense lost them good will.</i>'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sebottendorff was nostalgic for the Middle Ages, when the Jews in Germany had been openly persecuted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Nowadays, he said, they exerted an influence not only on the Catholic Church, but, through Freemasonry, even on the Protestants.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In fact, the Jews were always the machers in the Masonic lodges, and plotted an international conspiracy, under the guise of </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">liberty, fraternity, and equality.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Pan-Germans pledged themselves to combat the 'world conspiracy' being led by Freemasons and international Jewry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">However, Sebottendorff had a love-hate relationship with the Freema</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">sons.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They were the prototype for most secret organizations. '<i>The old </i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Freemasonry</i>,' he said, '<i>had been a keeper of secrets which they had </i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>learned from the Aryan wisdom and from the alchemists, and which concerned itself with the building of cathedrals</i>.'</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Naturally, he supposed, when the cathedrals were all built, the Masonic guilds had died out, and with them, the Aryan wisdom.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Like other occultists, Sebottendorff accepted the view that the medieval master builder knew more than just the secrets of his trade.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Many of the European cathedrals, four hundred years in construction, exemplified, in esoteric circles, the occult symbolism.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Everywhere was the mystic number. The Trinity was proclaimed by the nave and the aisle (multiplied sometimes to the other sacred number, seven), the three richly ornamented recesses of the portal, the three towers. The rose over the west was the Unity, the whole building was a Cross. The altar with its decorations announced the real perpetual Presence. The solemn crypt below represented the underworld, the soul of man in darkness and the shadow of death, the body awaiting the resurrection.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Even the uninitiated could feel the power of the symbolism underlying the great cathedrals.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sebottendorff recognized that for the Mason himself, the work of building cathedrals was symbolic of and important to the soul's journey, as all work was.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'<i>But'</i>, he said, '<i>after the Thirty Years' War, Juda started Freemasonry </i></span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">again,'</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> with a difference. An article in the July 21, 1918, edition of 'Runen' gives Sebottendorff's views on the antithesis between modern Freemasonry and the Aryan wisdom:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'<i>We look at our world as a product of the people. The Freemason looks at it as a product of conditions. </i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>We don't acknowledge the brotherhood of people, only blood brotherhood. We want the freedom, not of herds, but of duty. We hate the propaganda of equality. Struggle is the father of all things. Equality is death</i>.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For Sebottendorff, the modern Freemason, like the Jew, was a parasite, unbending, incapable of change.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">All the same, he borrowed liberally from the Freemasons, as </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">well as from Madame Blavatsky, perhaps influenced by her boldness as much as by her Theosophy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sebottendorff, born with the less glamorous name of Adam Rudolf </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Glauer to a Silesian locomotive conductor in Hoyerswerda, on November 9, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1875, the same year that Countess Blavatsky was launching her </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Theosophical Society in America, became first a merchant seaman.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At twenty-six, he transplanted himself to Turkey, and became a Turkish </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">citizen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 1909, he had the good fortune to be adopted by an Austrian </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">baron named Heinrich von Sebottendorff, in Istanbul, according to Turkish law.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rudolf was badly wounded in the Balkan War and came back to Breslau in 1913.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The adoption was contested in Germany, and in 1920 the last remaining members of the Sebottendorff family readopted him in </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Baden-Baden.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">During his sojourn in Turkey, with his sinecure as engineer-cum-supervisor of a substantial estate, he had been able to spend time reading Oriental philosophy and Theosophical writings, as well as engaging in Sufi meditation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He acknowledged that he had been a Knight of the Masonic Order of </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Constantine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Turkish Freemasonry, it seemed, had kept the ancient Aryan wisdom intact.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'<i>It must be shown,</i>' said Sebottendorff, '<i>that Oriental </i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Freemasonry still retains faithfully even today the ancient teachings of </i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>wisdom forgotten by modern Freemasonry, whose Constitution of 1717 was a departure from the true way</i>.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">By 1918 he had formed his own lodge, the 'Thule Gesellschaft', and elevated himself to the rank of Grand Master.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One of his first acts was to place an advertisement in the local paper, inviting men to a meeting. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Those who responded were sent a letter, predicting the imminent collapse of Germany if racial intermarriage were not halted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Each prospective member was to be on probation for one year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The initiation fee was twenty marks; the quarterly Ardensnacht, ten marks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The applicant was required to fill out a form declaring that, to the </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">best of his knowledge, not a drop of Jewish or Negro blood flowed through his or his wife's veins.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On returning this, he was sent a questionnaire and asked for a photograph.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A most thorough questionnaire, inquiring into such intimacies as the amount of hair on various parts of the body and asking, if possible, for an imprint of the sole of the foot on a separate piece of paper.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'<i>We then tested for race purity</i>,' says Sebottendorff, '<i>and started </i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>an inquiry.</i>'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The one-year probationary period was only the first </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">level in the member's initiation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He had to take a ritualistic vow of absolute obedience and loyalty to the Master of the lodge. '<i>Symbolically</i>,' said Sebottendorff, '<i>it was the return of the lost Aryan to the German Halgedom</i>.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sebottendorff did not need to invent anything.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Inspired by Blavatsky's '<a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/die-geheimlehre.html" target="_blank">Geheimlehre</a>' - (Secret Doctrine), he re-spun the age-old myth of Atlantis, calling it 'Thule'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Like Atlantis, 'Thule' was believed by occultists to have been the magic centre of a vanished civilization.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/die-geheimlehre.html" target="_blank">Madame Blavatsky</a> speculated that it had been swept away in the first Deluge, 850,000 years ago.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Compared with it, the much more recent Noah's Flood had been a puddle, and mythical,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">besides.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here, Madame Blavatsky believed, were the relics of the giants of the Fourth Race; only this Atlantean being deserved to be called 'Man', for only he was completely human.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After him, the Fall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Among other things, the Fall cost him his invaluable third eye, which gave him spiritual </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">insight.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What had caused the Fall ?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tucked away in 'Geheimlehre' is the answer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Atlanteans had mated with semi-human beings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Anticipating the argument that this was contrary to nature, she argued:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'<i>Esoteric science replies to this that it was in the very beginnings of physical man. Since then, Nature has changed her ways, and sterility is the only result of the crime of man's bestiality</i>.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the chaos and distress of Germany after World War I, with the occultist boom, the German racist groups seized upon mystical ideas of this sort, and wove them into a myth of the 'Herrenrasse</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">' - (master race - not to be confused with the </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Übermensch</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sebottendorff transposed Blavatsky's cosmology, by which she had sought to confound the evolutionists.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In place of her sub-races who had extinguished the '<i>Flames</i>' by '<i>long generations of bestiality</i>,' ruining it for the Aryans, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">he taught members of Thule that the purity of their blood had been defiled by the Jews.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thus, as his predecessors, List and Lanz, had done, Sebottendorff gave status to the lower and middle classes, who must have fantasized wistfully of having aristocratic blood - the only sure way to amount to something in that time and place.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Not only did this mystical doctrine elevate them to potential Aryan 'höheren Menschen' (the dormant occult powers would </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">reawaken in the Aryan people in the twentieth century, with the appearance of </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'höheren Menschen' who would restore the German volk to their ancient glory and lead them in conquering the world), but it released them </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">from the binding strictures of the Judeo-Christian morality, which had been, after all, inspired by the enemy, and calculated to rob the pagan heroes of their vitality.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With the old order going down to destruction, people felt threatened on all sides by the spectre of 'progress' - the frighteningly rapid growth of alien populations in the cities, and the advent of mass production and modern technology - and, above all, the feeling that an imminent revolution would come to turn everything upside-down.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sebottendorff owed a considerable part of his success to these fears.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He was an accomplished astrologer and magus.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">His mission, as he saw it, was to reveal certain basic esoteric secrets, to counteract a vast network of alchemists and Freemasons and Jews who had hatched a plot of monstrous dimensions to undermine the civilized world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The existing religious institutions had apparently grown too weak to make any unified effort to</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There was only one way to avoid the chaos that would throw everything into the abyss, and that was the intervention of the spiritual chiefs in the West.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The ideology of purity of the blood was founded on the esoteric alchemical theory of the Grand Work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was necessary for Sebottendorff to prepare suitable Aryan candidates for their proper place in a mystical hierarchy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Therefore, he taught them certain mystico-magical exercises which the </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">French occult scholar Rene Alleau defines as:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>'A mysticism, founded on the repetition of certain syllables during periods determined by the synodic revolution of the moon, and in association with signs of the hand and passes that had for a goal capturing the most subtle radiations of the original force for the purpose of integrating them into the human body, in order to spiritualize matter into universal energy</i>.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is reminiscent of the conjurations and incantations which occultists have always used in the practice of the magical arts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Alleau points out:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'<i>These movements of the hand are held at various parts of the body - neck, chest, stomach</i>.' One concentrates mentally on these gestures </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and the repeated syllables until, little by little, according to Alleau, an abnormal heat increases progressively, and is conducted to different points in the body.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At the same time, changes in the senses of taste and smell are observed, and ultimately '<i>the disciple will see a black shadow that marks the end of the first part of the work</i>.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When that happens, '<i>the day is celebrated like the beginning of a new life, and the disciple receives his lodge name</i>.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The initiate perceives colours changing, which signifies his subtle trans-mutation from one phase to the next.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'<i>The black of the shadow changes itself to blue, to light red, and to pale green. When the tint has become a luminous green this period is finished</i>.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Next, in conjunction with passes of the chest, comes a glaring white.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Alleau says:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'<i>After the ventral posture, these mystico-magical exercises end in the elaboration of a shadow of a pomegranate red. The Oriental Mason has become the perfect master. The cubic stone is entirely shaped. The Oriental initiates . . . name these tasks of the spiritual work - the </i></span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Science of the Key - and name themselves the - Sons of the Key</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That there is a coloured light-field around human bodies and that the colours change with changing spiritual development is an old esoteric belief.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These colours or auras, are visible to occultists and sensitives.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The colours while presumably present for these people, are also symbolic, and there are varying interpretations as to the significance of each.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">All of Sebottendorff's rituals had as their aim one effect, the same as that of other esoteric groups: dissolving the 'small self' so that the 'divine self' could become manifest.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The teaching holds that there is a world beyond the senses, which can be reached with proper preparation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This world is not material.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The occultist believes he can ascend to it in various stages, each of which has its own particular pitfalls. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>This ascending is referred to as 'Rising on the Planes'. </i><i>The practice of Rising on the Planes is of such importance that special attention must be paid to it. It is part of the essential technique of Magick.</i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> - </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Aleister Crowley</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is certainly not for everyone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A great effort of will is necessary.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So is courage. It is not possible to get anywhere by moving haphazardly from one stage to the next.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One must observe the strictest protocol and techniques.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For this, of course, the services of a master are absolutely indispensable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Negative forces lie in wait everywhere, and the journey is most perilous.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sebottendorff taught:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'<i>Once come to the end of our training, we sense our terrestrial body becoming more and more a stranger to us. We cross beyond it. We see </i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>distinctly that it has become dust and ashes. It is the lowest point that can be attained, that where the shadows of death and their terrors involve us. It is for this reason that the ancient Oriental Freemasons received into their community nothing but courageous men because the tests reserved for the neophyte were very harsh. Courage and endurance were the two principal virtues that were necessary</i>.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To this end, Sebottendorff exacted from his disciples the cry '<i>Sieg Heil'</i> (Victory Hail !), which symbolizes the kind of blind obedience the formula speaks of when it exhorts the initiate:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'<i>Be between the hands of your master, like a cadaver in the hands of him who washes him.</i>'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The master, in esoteric teaching, is God's emissary.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The relationship between disciple and master is particularly meaningful in the occult tradition. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The neophyte must place himself completely in the teacher's hands and obey even his most eccentric commands, whether or not those commands do violence to his own individual conscience.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There are at least two reasons for this:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">First, the master is the repository of ancient and secret wisdom which the disciple presumably cannot acquire in any other way, and second, the master seeks deliberately to create an atmosphere in which the disciple's consciousness will be changed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Toward that end, the master is prepared - in fact, it is necessary - to go beyond rational thought and behaviour.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For this, extremely harsh discipline may be called for.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">History provides a number of examples of irrational cults by powerless people who fell under the domination of a powerful master and accomplished his will.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Assassins, a secret politico-religious order of eleventh-century</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Islam, made the murder of its enemies a religious duty.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">An absolute ruler presided over three deputy masters.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Under them were the initiated, and then the students, who were only partially acquainted with the secrets of the order.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The students in time graduated into the ranks of the initiated.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Below the students came the active members of the order, 'the devoted ones,' young men who were kept in absolute ignorance of the teaching of the sect, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">but from whom complete obedience was expected.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They were the blind instruments in the work of secret political assassination planned by the leaders.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The terrorism they spread for two centuries was disproportionately greater than their actual numbers, and the name 'Assassin' became associated with dread in the Middle East.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They struck down generals, statesmen, and caliphs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They were even hired by contending political </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">factions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The secret of their power lay primarily in the peculiar manner of </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">their training.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Before they were assigned to their tasks, the disciples were stupefied by means of hashish. 'Assassin' is just the English analogue of the Arabic 'hashshashin', (one who is addicted to hashish), and, while in an ecstatic state, plunged into sensual pleasure, as a foretaste of the bliss which would be theirs in paradise if they faithfully followed the orders of their overlords. The training was so marvellously effective that the young men were indifferent to the threat of death, which gave them a considerable edge over their opponents.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Thugs of India were comparable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A religious fraternity of Hindu origin, they were known to commit murders in honor of the goddess Kali as </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">early as 1290, and lived chiefly on plunder.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(Thug=conceal, hence a cheat in Sanskrit.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They were highly organized gangs travelling about India for more than three hundred years. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They had a jargon and signs, and the character of their assassinations conformed to certain ancient religious rites, pointing back to the destructive power of nature.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Through spies, they would learn of wealthy people undertaking a journey and strangle them with a cloth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Another class of Thugs murdered people in charge of children, and then sold the children into slavery.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They really formed a caste, hereditary for the most part, although a few recruits were admitted from outside.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A number of Muslims joined.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But no washer-men sweepers, musicians, poets, blacksmiths, carpenters, oil vendors, cripples, or lepers could become Thugs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After each murder, there would be a special ritual in honour of Kali, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the feminine aspect of nature's demonic power.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In addition to all the other dangers, then, the disciple of an esoteric group runs the real danger of falling victim to a domination which may indeed leave him little more than a living cadaver.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Like all other such groups, the Thule Gesellschaft had an inner circle and an outer circle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Both were involved in raising their consciousness to an awareness of super-</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">human intelligences in the universe, and in trying to achieve means of communicating with these intelligences.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Some writers have speculated that the inner circle were Satanists, who practised black magic. Satanism is, of course, not unknown in esoteric circles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is simply the crooked path to self-transcendence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There is even a philosophical rationale, Gnostic in origin:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Since the world's ways are illusory and evil, the creation of Satan, all </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">worldly behaviour is equally sinful. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The occultist, therefore, has two choices open to him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He can either become an ascetic, and renounce the world or, since he recognizes the non-materiality of the divine nature, he may feel morally free to defy convention and indulge his passions to the full.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Whether Thule members chose the 'l<i>eft-hand path</i>' or not, it is certain </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">that, like other occult groups, they copied certain aspects of Freemasonry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One reason why secret societies like the Thule Gesellschaft imitated the earlier prototype, despite their enmity toward it, was that it had a history of guarding ancient secrets.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In a series of pamphlets published in Germany in the early seventeenth century, at a time when the upheavals of the Renaissance and Reformation had called into question many verities, this mysterious fraternity announced that it possessed spiritual knowledge of supernatural truths which could be revealed only to specially prepared initiates.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It became fashionable for wise men to belong to the Freemasons, and their rituals and techniques were widely copied by other groups.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Thule Gesellschaft gave its members a set of symbols, and a place to voice their alienation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In exchange for obedience, it promised protection.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the face of the unstable economic and social conditions, the initiate received assurance that there were forces which, through magic, he could make work for him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">More important and immediately satisfying, the elaborate hierarchy in which the initiate advanced only if he did as he was told meant that one could at least control other people and assert his superiority over them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Membership in the Thule Gesellschaft set one apart from non-members - inferior beings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The advantage that accrued to Thule members more than made up for the totalitarian aspects: Without having to make independent decisions, they could become an elite cadre whose task was nothing less than saving the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To deal with that task, the the Thule Gesellschaft became the active political branch of the 'Germanen Orden' after the war.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Without undue modesty, Sebottendorff observed of his branch: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'<i>This decision was important, for Bavaria has thereby become the cradle of the National Socialist movement</i>.'</span><br />
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<i style="color: #bf9000; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">'The Jew is the anti-man, the creature of another god.</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Völkisch and subsequent National Socialist teachings on r</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ace initially stemmed from</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/06/introduction.html" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Madame Blavastsky</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'s Theosophical speculations on the Root races, as expressed in '</span><a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/06/introduction.html" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Die Geheimlehre</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">' (The Secret Doctrine - 1888).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Blavatsky's model was developed by later Theosophists, most notably William Scott-Elliot in 'The Story of Atlantis' (1896) and 'The Lost Lemuria' (1904), although German Occultists favoured Thule (see right) - hence the Thule Gesselschaft' (see left below).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/third-reich-and-gnosticism.html" target="_blank">Gnostics</a> held that, in addition to the primal source of being there was a hierarchy of spiritual beings, often referred to as the <a href="http://thebooksoffoundation.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/book-i-ontology.html" target="_blank">Æons</a> (from the archaic </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">αἰϝών), and </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Archons (</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">ἄρχοντες </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Greek for Rulers or Lords).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The greatest of the Archons was the<a href="http://thebooksoffoundation.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/book-ix-chosen-people-of-demiurge.html" target="_blank"> δημιουργός - dēmiourgos </a>- whom the Jews knew as </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">יהוה</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> - YHWH - also El Shaddai or El Elyon - the God of the Old Testament.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">While the Aryan race evolved as part of the plan created by the primal source of being, (the One through - the emanations of the Æons), this Demiurge created the <span style="color: #0000ee;"><u>Semitic</u></span><a href="http://thebooksoffoundation.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/book-ix-chosen-people-of-demiurge.html" target="_blank"> race</a> as a later act, to be his servants in the material creation he had brought about - and so the Jews were the 'creation of a lesser god'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Although a fashioner, the demiurge is not necessarily thought of as being the same as the creator figure in the familiar monotheistic sense, because both the demiurge itself, plus the material from which the demiurge fashions the universe, are considered either uncreated and eternal, or the product of some other being, depending on the system.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The word "demiurge" is an English word from a Latinized form of the Greek </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">δημιουργός</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, dēmiourgos, literally "public worker", and which was originally a common noun meaning "craftsman" or "artisan", but gradually it came to mean "producer" and eventually "creator".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The philosophical usage and the proper noun derive from Plato's Timaeus, written c. 360 BC, in which the demiurge is presented as the creator of the universe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the various branches of the Neoplatonic school (third century onwards), the demiurge is the fashioner of the real, perceptible world after the model of the '<i>Ideas</i>' or '<i>Forms</i>', but (in most Neoplatonic systems) is still not itself "<i>the One</i>".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Accordingly, the demiurge is malevolent, as linked to the material world.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For many <a href="http://thebooksoffoundation.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/books-of-foundation-gnosticism.html" target="_blank">Gnostic</a> thinkers the Demiurge is identified with the Jewish god</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> יהוה</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> (</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Yaweh.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The logical conclusion then follows that as the Jews worship Jaweh they are worshipping an evil entity, and therefore the Jews themselves are evil - and it is from these conclusions that anti-Semitism had its origins in Classical culture, and was later transmitted to the Christian culture of Europe.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The 'chosen people' of the demiurge were hybrids (mixed-race) - the result of miscegenation - </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">interbreeding -between the Cro-Magnons and the Neanderthals and less evolved primates.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These new races, in which the Neanderthal traits dominated, were 'lower hybrid races' - the non-Aryan races - and were designated as '<i>the creation of a lesser god</i>' - the lesser '<i>god</i>' being the Archon Demiourgós.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Archon Demiourgós (</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">δημιουργός</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">), on the completion of his work of imitation ('mimesis' - making poor copies of the ineffable 'Forms') became blinded by arrogance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He announced to </span><i style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">his </i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">sentient creatures, the miscegenated hybrids - his 'chosen race' - '<i>Thou shalt worship no other god; for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God</i>' (Exod. 34:14).</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Miscegenation (Latin miscere "to mix" + genus "kind") is the mixing of different racial groups through marriage, cohabitation, sexual relations, and procreation.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The term miscegenation has been used since the 19th century to refer to interracial marriage and interracial sexual relations, and more generally to the process of racial admixture, which has taken place since ancient history. Historically, the term has been used in the context of laws banning interracial marriage and sex, known as anti-miscegenation laws.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The most developed (in the sense of '<i>cunning</i>') of these miscegenated</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> lower races were the Semitic peoples, and it was this group that the Archon Demiurge chose in order to set </span><i style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">his</i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> will over his new '</span><i style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">creation</i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">' - and therefore they became known to themselves, and other races, as the '</span><i style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">chosen people</i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The true 'chosen people', of course, were the Aryan people - the '<i>true blood</i>' descendants of the </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cro-Magnons - who were the physical, sentient descendants of the great Æons.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #a2c4c9; line-height: 19px;">DNA results indicate that the Jews have had a high percentage of marriage within their community; in contrast to a low percentage of interfaith marriages (as low as 0.5% per generation).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The peoples of the Demiourgós </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">were organized in clans, under tribal chieftains, and were described by those around them as</span><i style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> lawless brigands,</i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> active from the Jezreel Valley to Ashkelon and the Sinai</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Shasu is an Egyptian word for these semitic-speaking pastoral cattle nomads, who lived in the Levant from what was known as the late 'Bronze Age' to the 'Early Iron Age' or 'Third Intermediate Period' of Egyptian history.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The name evolved from a transliteration of the Egyptian word š3sw, meaning "<i>those who move on foot"</i>, into the term for Bedouin-type Semitic wanderers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The term first originated in an ancient list of peoples in Transjordan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is used in a list of <i>enemies</i> of Egypt inscribed on column bases at the temple of Soleb built by the Pharaoh Amenhotep III.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Copied later by either </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Pharaoh</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Seti I and </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Pharaoh</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Ramesses II at Amarah-West, the list mentions <i>six</i> groups of Shashu: the Shasu of S'rr, the Shasu of Lbn, the Shasu of Sm't, the Shasu of Wrbr, the Shasu of Yhw, and the Shasu of Pysps.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Regarding the "Shasu of Yhw," the hieroglyphic rendering corresponds very precisely to the Hebrew 'Tetragrammaton' </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">יהוה (YHWH)</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, or Yahweh, and antedates the hitherto oldest occurrence of that name - on the Moabite Stone - by over five hundred years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The demonym 'Israel', recorded on the Merneptah Stele, refers to a Shasu enclave, since later Jewish tradition portrays Yahweh "<i>coming forth from Se'ir</i>" (where there is a Semetic Edomite '<i>High Place</i>').</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Shasu, originally from Moab and northern Edom, went on to form a major element in the amalgam that was to constitute the the racial entity '<i>Israel</i>', as opposed to Judah, which was protected and guided by the Archon Demiurge.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was this racial group which later established the Kingdom of Israel.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">T</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">he Merneptah Stele - also known as the 'Israel Stele' or 'Victory Stele of Merneptah' - is an inscription by the Ancient Egyptian king Merneptah (reign:1213 to 1203 BC) discovered by Flinders Petrie in 1896 at Thebes, and now housed in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. The text is largely an account of Merneptah's victory over the Libyans and their allies, but the last few lines deal with a separate campaign in Canaan, then part of Egypt's imperial possessions, and include the first probable instance of the name "Israel" in the historical record.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">עברים or עבריים</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, - </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hebrews</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> ʿIḇrîm, ʿIḇriyyîm - is an ethnonym used in the Tanakh.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is synonymous with the <i>Semitic Israelites</i>, especially in the pre-monarchic period when they were still nomadic, but may also be used in a wider sense, referring to the group known as 'Shasu of Yhw' (see above).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'Habiru' or 'Apiru' (identified with the Shasu of Yhw) </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">was the name given by various Sumerian, Egyptian, Akkadian, Hittite, Mitanni, and Ugaritic sources (dated, roughly, between 1800 BC and 1100 BC) to a racial group living as nomadic</span><i style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> invaders</i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> in areas of the Fertile Crescent, from </span><i style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">North-eastern Mesopotamia and Iran</i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> to the borders of Egypt in Canaan.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These people can be identified by the wall-paintings and reliefs, depicting them as racially <i>Semitic</i>, and the name 'Habiru' is obviously taken from the word which the Hebrews used to describe themselves.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Significantly, these 'Habiru' are variously described as nomadic or semi-nomadic, <i>rebels, outlaws, raiders</i>, servants, slaves, migrant labourers, etc.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The names 'Habiru' and 'Apiru' are also used in Akkadian cuneiform texts.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The corresponding name in the Egyptian script appears to be ʕpr.w, pronounced 'Apiru' (W,or u-vowel "quail-chick" being used as the Egyptian plural suffix).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In <i>Mesopotamian</i> records they are also identified by the Sumerian logogram SA.GAZ.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The name 'Habiru' was also found in the 'Amarna Letters', which again include many names of Canaanite peoples written in Akkadian.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Amarna letters (sometimes Amarna correspondence or Amarna tablets) archive, on clay tablets, mostly diplomatic correspondence between the Egyptian administration and its representatives in Canaan and Amurru during the New Kingdom. The letters were found in Upper Egypt at Amarna, the modern name for the Egyptian capital of Akhetaten (el-Amarna), founded by Pharaoh Akhenaten (1350s – 1330s BC) during the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt. The Amarna letters are unusual in Egyptological research, because they are mostly written in Akkadian cuneiform, the writing system of ancient Mesopotamia, rather than in hieroglyphic, hieratic or demotic</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> script normally used in ancient Egypt. The correspondence spans a period of at most thirty years.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Amarna letters were written to Egyptian pharaohs in the 14th century BC, and document a time of unrest in Canaan that goes back before the battle of Kadesh, to the time of </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Pharaoh</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Thutmose I.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A number of what are known as the 'Amarna letters' - sent to Pharaohs Amenhotep III, Akhenaten (Amenhotep IV) and, briefly, his two successors, from vassal kings in Canaan and Syria in the 14th century BC - mention the "<i>Habiru</i>".</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These letters, written by Canaanite scribes in the cuneiform-based Akkadian language, complain about <i>attacks</i> by armed groups who were willing to fight and<i> plunder </i>on any side of the local wars in exchange for equipment, provisions, and quarters.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These people are the </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"<i>Habiru</i>".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Archon Demiurge taught his '<i>chosen people</i>' to trace their origin to 'Abraham', who supposedly established the belief among certain Semitic groups that there was only one God, the supposed creator of the universe - who was referred to as El.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">ʾĒl (written aleph-lamed, e.g. Ugaritic: Hebrew: אל, Arabic: إل or إله, cognate to Akkadian: ilu) is a Northwest Semitic word meaning "deity" or god.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">In the Canaanite religion, or Levantine religion as a whole, El or Il was a god also known as the 'Father of Humankind', and all of creatures, and in some traditions, the husband of the Goddess Asherah, as recorded in the clay tablets of Ugarit. The bull was symbolic to El. He may have been a desert god at some point.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">In the תַּנַ"ךְ (Tanakh - the canon of the Hebrew Bible - also known as the Masoretic Text or Miqra), אֱלֹהִ֔ים (’elōhîm) is the normal word for a God. </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The theological position of the Tanakh is that the names Ēl and ’Ĕlōhîm, when used in the singular to mean the supreme and active 'God', refer to the same being as does the name, Yahweh. All three refer to the one supreme God who is the God of Israel, beside whom other Gods are supposed to be either non-existent or insignificant. Whether this was a longstanding belief or a relatively new one has long been the subject of inconclusive scholarly debate about the prehistory of the sources of the Tanakh and about the prehistory of Israelite religion. YHVH says in Exodus 6:2–3:</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>'I revealed myself to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as Ēl Shaddāi, but was not known to them by my name, Yahweh.'</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Abraham, his son </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">יִצְחָק</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> (</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Yitshak - Isaac), and grandson </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> יַעֲקֹב (</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jacob - Israel), were held to be the patriarchs of the Israelites.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">All three patriarchs were said to have lived in the Land of Canaan, that later came to be known as the Land of Israel.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They, and their wives, were buried in the </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> מערת המכפלה</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> (Me'arat ha-Machpela), the 'Tomb of the Patriarchs', in Hebron</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">According to the Hebrew Bible </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">אַבְרָהָם</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> (</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Abraham) was born in the Sumerian city of Ur Kaśdim in </span><i style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Mesopotamia</b></i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, and migrated to Canaan (commonly known as the Land of Israel) with his family.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">אַבְרָהָם Abraham (אַבְרָהָם Arabic: إبراهيمʾIbrāhīm), originally Abram, is the first of the three Patriarchs of Israel whose story is told in chapters 11–25 of the Book of Genesis.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Abram was called by God to leave his father Terah's house and <i>native land </i>of<b> Mesopotamia,</b> in return for a new land, family, and inheritance in Canaan, the so-called 'promised land'. Threats to the covenant arose – difficulties in producing an heir, the threat of bondage in Egypt, of lack of fear of God – but all were overcome and the covenant was established. After the death, and burial of his wife, Sarah, in the grave that he purchased in Hebron, Abraham arranged for the marriage of Isaac to a woman from his own people. Abraham later married a woman called Keturah and had six more sons, before he died at the recorded age of 175 (?), and was buried by his sons Isaac and Ishmael. ( Genesis 25:1–10)</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Bible's internal chronology places Abraham around 2000 BCE, but the stories in Genesis cannot be definitively related to the known history of that time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">According to this fantasy, </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">יַעֲקֹב </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(Yaʿakov - Jacob) and his sons are forced by famine to go down into Egypt.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When they arrive they and their families are 70 in number, but within four generations they have increased to 600,000 men of fighting age, and the Pharaoh of Egypt, alarmed, first enslaves them and then orders the death of all male Hebrew children.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The 'God of Israel' (the Archon Demiurge calling himself</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> יהוה </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Yaweh</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">) </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">revealed his name to</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> מֹשֶׁה</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, (Moshe - </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Moses), (who is described as a Hebrew of the tribe of Levi).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Moses leads the Israelites out of slavery, and into the desert, where </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">יהוה (</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Yaweh)</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> gives them their laws and, in return for Yaweh's guidance and protection, the Israelites agree to become '<i>his people</i>'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This story is, of course, an invention of the Archon Demiurge.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The sons of Jacob were <i>never</i> slaves in Egypt - rather they were <i>marauding invaders</i> (</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">semi-nomadic, rebels, outlaws, raiders - see above), whom the Egyptians referred to as the Hyksos.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Hyksos (Egyptian heqa khasewet, "foreign rulers or desert princes"; Greek Ὑκσώς, Ὑξώς, Arabic: الملوك الرعاة, shepherd kings) were a mixed-race <i>Semitic</i> people who took over the eastern Nile Delta, ending the thirteenth dynasty, and initiating the 'Second Intermediate Period' of ancient Egypt.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Hyksos first appeared in Egypt c.1800 BC, during the eleventh dynasty, began their climb to power in the thirteenth dynasty, and came out of the second intermediate period in control of Avaris and the Egyptian Delta.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">By the fifteenth dynasty, they ruled Lower Egypt, and at the end of the seventeenth dynasty, they were expelled (c.1560 BC) - reflected in the legend of the Exodus..</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The historian Josephus states correctly that the Hyksos were in fact the '<i>Children of Jacob</i>' (Jews) who joined his son Joseph to escape the famine in the land of Canaan in the book of Exodus.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Interestingly, the Hyksos included<i> Negro</i> soldiers (Nubians) in their armies when fighting the native Egyptians.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The origin of the term "Hyksos" derives from the Egyptian expression heka khasewet ("rulers of foreign lands"), used in Egyptian texts such as the 'Turin King List' to describe the rulers of neighboring lands.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This expression begins to appear as early as the late Old Kingdom in Egypt, referring to various Nubian (<i>Negroid</i>) chieftains, and as early as the Middle Kingdom, referring to the <i>Semitic</i> chieftains of Mesopotamia and Canaan.</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Kamose, the last </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Pharaoh of the Theban 17th Dynasty, refers to 'Apophis', leader of the Hyksos, as a "Chieftain of Retjenu (i.e., Canaan)" in a stela that implies a <i>Semitic</i> Canaanite background for this Hyksos king.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Hyksos kingdom was centered in the eastern Nile Delta and Middle Egypt, and was limited in size, never extending south into Upper Egypt, which was under the control of Theban-based rulers.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hyksos relations with the south seem, to have been mainly of a commercial nature, although Theban princes appear to have recognized the Hyksos rulers, and may possibly have provided them with tribute for a period.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Hyksos Fifteenth Dynasty rulers established their capital and seat of government at Avaris in the area that was referred to in the</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> תַּנַ"ךְ </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(Tanakh - the canon of the Hebrew Bible - also known as the Masoretic Text or Miqra), as 'Goshen'.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">אֶ</span><span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">רֶץ גֹּשֶׁ</span><span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">ן or ארץ גושן (The Land of Goshen (Hebrew: Eretz Gošen) is named in the Bible as the place in Egypt given to the Hebrews by the Pharaoh of Joseph (Genesis 45:9 - 10), and the land from which they later left Egypt at the time of the Exodus. It was located in the eastern Delta. Goshen has been identified as the 20th Nome (Province) of Egypt, located in the eastern Delta, and known as "Gesem" or "Kesem" during the Twenty-sixth dynasty of Egypt (672-525 BC). It covered the western end of the Wadi Tumilat, the eastern end being the district of Succoth, which had Avaris as its main town, extended north as far as Piramesse (the "land of Rameses"), and included both crop land and grazing land.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The rule of these kings overlaps with that of the native Egyptian Pharaohs of the 16th and 17th dynasties of Egypt, better known as the 'Second Intermediate Period'.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The first Pharaoh of the 18th dynasty, Ahmose I, finally expelled the Hyksos from their last holdout at Sharuhen in Gaza by the 16th year of his reign.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Because they had <i>no advanced social traditions </i>of their own, the Hyksos used Egyptian titles associated with traditional Egyptian kingship, and took the Egyptian god <i>Seth </i>to represent their own deity</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> יהוה </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(YHWH)</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The meaning of the name Seth is unknown, thought to have been originally pronounced *Sūtaḫ based on the occurrence of his name in Egyptian hieroglyphs (swtḫ), and his later mention in the Coptic documents with the name Sēt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">His purpose was to<i> disrupt</i> the work of the Aeons.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Ancient Egyptians, not understanding the differentiation between the Aeons and the Archon Demiurge, believed the Archon to be a '<i>god</i>' (neter) of the desert, storms, and foreigners.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In later myths he was also the '<i>god</i>' of darkness, and chaos.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In Ancient Greek, the 'god's' name was given as Seth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For the Egyptians, Set, who was worshiped exclusively, represented a manifestation of evil.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">During the Second Intermediate Period, the Hyksos chose Set, originally Upper Egypt's chief god, the god of foreigners and the god they found most similar to their own chief god, as their patron.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Hyksos King Apophis is recorded as worshiping Set in a<i> monolatric</i> way:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'<i>He chose for his Lord the god Seth. He didn't worship any other deity in the whole land except Seth</i>.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- Papyrus Sallier 1 (Apophis and Sekenenre), 1.2-3, ed. Gardiner 1932</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In spite of the prosperity that the stable political situation brought to the land, the native Egyptians continued to view the Hyksos as non-Egyptian "<i>invaders</i>."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When the <i>Semitic Hyksos</i> were eventually driven out of Egypt, all traces of their occupation were erased.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">No accounts survive recording the history of the period from the Hyksos perspective except the legend that they were enslaved by the Egyptians, and freed by the combined actions of Moses, and his '<i>god</i>' Yaweh.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There are, however, detailed accounts from the native Egyptians who evicted the occupiers, in this case the rulers of the Eighteenth Dynasty, who were the direct successor of the Theban Seventeenth Dynasty.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The historian Manetho wrote that -</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'<i>By main force they overpowered the rulers of the land. They then burned our cities ruthlessly, razed to the ground the temples of gods… Finally, they appointed as king one of their number. He had his seat at Memphis, levying tribute from Upper and Lower Egypt and leaving garrisons behind in the most advantageous positions.'</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Most significantly the Hyksos had <i>no culture</i> of their own and, like <i>parasites</i>, derived their social structures, art, architecture, and all aspects of civilized life from their host country.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is a phenomena that was repeated in every country which the descendants of the Semitic Hykos either over-ran or settled.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: left;">In order to set his '<i>chosen people</i>' apart from the other hybrid, <i>mixed-race groups</i>, and to instill in them a sense of separation and discipline, the Archon Demiurge gave them <i>not</i> culture, but <i>law,</i> in the form of detailed regulations affecting every aspect of their lives.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: left;">Using the alphabets which had been taught to the higher races by the </span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 19px; text-align: left;">Æons,</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: left;"> these laws and regulations were woven into a narrative which described how the Semites had been '<i>created</i>' by the Archon Demiurge - who now called himself 'Yaweh'.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: left;">In order to maintain contact with his '<i>chosen people</i>' the Archon Demiurge gave the Jewish priesthood a device which was contained in a specially constructed container.</span><br />
<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This device was called in Jewish scriptures the</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/hitler-and-ark-of-covenant.html" target="_blank">אָרוֹן הַבְּרִית</a></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/hitler-and-ark-of-covenant.html" target="_blank"> </a></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/hitler-and-ark-of-covenant.html" target="_blank">(the Ark of the Covenant</a> - covenant here meaning the link between Yaweh and his 'chosen people').</span></span><br />
<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">However, because the 'chosen people' had <i>no </i>culture, and <i>no </i>art, the design of this device was based on Egyptian models.</span></span><br />
<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; text-align: left;">The 'god' </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">יהוה</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> (</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; text-align: left;">Yahweh), prior to taking on wholly monotheistic attributes in the 6th century BCE, was a part of the Canaanite pantheon in the pre-Babylonian captivity period.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Archaeological</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> evidence reveals that during this time period the Israelites were a group of Semetic Canaanite people.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; text-align: left;">Yahweh was seen as a war god, and equated with El. Asherah, who was often seen as El's consort, has been described as a consort of Yahweh in numerous inscriptions.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; text-align: left;">The name Yahwi may be found in some male Amorite names.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; text-align: left;">Yahu may be found in a place name.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The earliest known occurrence of the name "Yahu" is its inclusion of the name "the land of Shasu-y/iw" in a list of Egyptian place names found in the temple of Amon at Soleb, from the time of </span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; text-align: left;">Pharaoh</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; text-align: left;"> Amenhotep III (1402-1363 BCE).</span></span><br />
<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The place name appears to be associated with Asiatic nomads in the 14th to 13th centuries BCE.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">A later mention from the era of Pharaoh Ramesses II (c. 1303 BCE – 1213 BCE) associates Yahu with Mount Seir. From this, it is generally supposed that this Yahu refers to a place in the area of Moab and Edom. </span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; text-align: left;">Whether the god was named after the place, or the place named after the god, is undecided.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Early worship of 'Yahweh' likely originated in southern Canaan during the Late Bronze Age.</span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; text-align: left;">It is probable that Yahu or 'Yahweh' was worshipped in southern Canaan (Edom, Moab, Midian) from the 14th century BC, and that this cult was transmitted northwards due to the Kenites.</span></span><br />
<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">It is assumed that Moses was a historical Midianite who brought the cult of 'Yahweh' north to Israel.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">This idea is based on an old tradition (recorded in Judges 1:16, 4:11) that Moses' father-in-law was a Midianite priest of 'Yahweh', as it were preserving a memory of the Midianite origin of the god. </span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; text-align: left;">The oldest West Semitic attestation of the name (outside of biblical evidence) is the inscription of the victory stela erected by Mesha, king of Moab, in the 9th century BC.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">In this inscription, 'Yahweh' is not presented as a Moabite deity. </span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; text-align: left;">Mesha rather records how he defeated Israel, and plundered the temple of 'Yahweh', presenting the spoils to his own god, Chemosh. </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; text-align: left;">The direct competition of 'Yahweh' with Baal is depicted in the narrative of Elijah in the 'Books of Kings'. </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; text-align: left;">Baʿal (Biblical Hebrew בעל, usually spelled Baal in English) is a Northwest Semitic title, and honorific, meaning "master" or "lord" that is used for various gods who were patrons of cities in the Levant and Asia Minor, cognate to Akkadian Bēlu. </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; text-align: left;">Baʿal can refer to any god and even to human officials. In some texts it is used for Hadad, a god of the rain, thunder, fertility and agriculture, and the lord of Heaven. Since only priests were allowed to utter his divine name, Hadad, Ba‛al was commonly used. Nevertheless, few if any Biblical uses of "Baʿal" refer to Hadad, the lord over the assembly of gods on the holy mount of Heaven, but rather refer to any number of local spirit-deities worshipped as cult images, each called baʿal and regarded in the Hebrew Bible in that context as a "false god". </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; text-align: left;">At first the name Baʿal was used by the Jews for their 'god' without discrimination, but as the struggle between the two religions developed, the name Baʿal was given up in Judaism </span></span><br />
<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">'Yahweh' or Yahu appears in many Hebrew Bible theophoric names, including Elijah itself, which translates to "my god is Yahu", besides other names such as Yesha'yahu "Yahu saved", Yeshua (Jesus) "Yahweh's Salvation", or Yahu-haz "Yahu held", and others found in the early Jewish Elephantine papyri.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thus saith the Archon Demiurge (through - the probably mythic - Moses) - in <i>all </i>his arrogance - </span></div>
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<i><i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day ?'</span></i></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Having <i>destroyed</i> all the 'first-born' of Egypt - innocent or guilty, the so called '<i>chosen people</i>' of the Archon Demiurge set out to '<i>acquire</i>' a homeland.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It would be a 'homeland' which the evil Demiurge would give to them - <i>regardless of the rights</i> of the original inhabitants.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Carrying their palladium, the <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/hitler-and-ark-of-covenant.html" target="_blank">Egyptian 'Ark'</a> before them, this mob of '<i>nomadic rebels, outlaws, raiders, slaves, migrant laborers</i>' made their way across the Sinai to Jebel esh-Shera' (</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/hitler-and-ark-of-covenant.html" target="_blank">Se'ir</a>), where the Archon Demiurge would give them the 'Law (his Law)', and make with them a binding contract - so that they would<i> serve him</i>, and he would protect them from their enemies, - (something that, in the end, he quite obviously failed to do).</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/hitler-and-ark-of-covenant.html" target="_blank">אָרוֹן הַבְּרִית ʾĀrôn Habbərît (Ark of the Covenant)</a>, also known as the 'Ark of the Testimony', is a chest described in the Jewish 'Book of Exodus' as containing the 'Tablets of Stone' on which the 'Ten Commandments' were inscribed.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">According to some traditional interpretations of the 'Book of Exodus', 'Book of Numbers', and the Christian 'Letter to the Hebrews', the Ark also contained Aaron's rod, a jar of manna and the first Torah scroll as supposedly written by Moses; however, the first of the 'Books of Kings' says that at the time of King Solomon, the Ark contained only the two 'Tablets of the Law'.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">According to the 'Book of Exodus', the Ark was built at the command of God, in accordance with the instructions given to Moses on Mount Sinai.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">God was said to have communicated with Moses "<i>from between the two cherubim</i>" on the Ark's cover.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The biblical account relates that about a year after the Israelites' exodus from Egypt, the Ark was created according to the pattern given to Moses by God when Israel was encamped at the foot of Mount Sinai.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Thereafter the gold plated, acacia chest was carried by the Levites some 2,000 cubits in advance of the people when on the march or before the Israelite army, the host of fighting men.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">When the Ark was borne by Levites into the bed of the Jordan, the waters parted as God had parted the waters of the Red Sea, opening a pathway for the entire host to pass through (Josh. 3:15–16; 4:7–18).</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The walls of the city of Jericho were shaken to the ground with no more than a shout from the army after the Ark of the Covenant was paraded round them for seven days by Levites.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Seven priests sounding seven trumpets of rams' horns (Josh. 6:4–20).</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">When carried, the Ark was always hidden under a large veil made of skins and blue cloth, always carefully concealed, even from the eyes of the priests and the Levites who carried it. There are no contemporary extra-biblical references to the Ark.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The history of the </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Habiru,</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> and their neighbors is mainly that of the area called the 'Fertile Crescent', and east coast of the Mediterranean Sea.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It begins among those people who occupied the area lying between the Nile, Tigris and the Euphrates rivers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Surrounded by ancient seats of </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Æon inspired </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">culture in Aryan Egypt and Babylonia, by the deserts of Arabia, and by the highlands of Asia Minor, the land of Canaan was a meeting place of civilizations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The land was traversed by old-established trade routes and possessed important harbors on the Gulf of Aqaba and on the Mediterranean coast, the latter exposing it to the influence of other cultures of the Fertile Crescent.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">According to the Jewish sacred writings, the writers of which were inspired by the 'Archon Demiurge', the Jews are supposedly descended from the ancient people of Israel who settled in the land of Canaan, located between the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="text-align: left;">אַבְרָהָם (</span>Abraham - Arabic: إبراهيمʾIbrāhīm), originally Abram, is the first of the three Patriarchs of Israel whose story is told in chapters 11–25 of the Book of Genesis. According to these chapters, Abram was called by 'God' to leave his father Terah's house and <i>native land</i> of <i><b>Mesopotamia</b></i> in return for a <i>new land</i>, the so-called 'promised land'. Threats to the covenant arose – difficulties in producing an heir, the threat of bondage in Egypt, of lack of fear of God – but all were overcome and the covenant was established. After the death, and burial of his wife, Sarah, in the grave that he purchased in Hebron, Abraham arranged for the marriage of Isaac to a woman from his own people. Abraham later married a woman called Keturah and had six more sons, before he died at the recorded age of 175 (?), and was buried by his sons Isaac and Ishmael. ( Genesis 25:1–10)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Abraham's son Isaac, and Isaac's son Jacob, were identified as </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Habiru (</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hebrews), whose nomadic travels centred around Hebron somewhere between 1991 and 1706 BCE.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">While in Egypt the Demiurge asserted that the descendants were enslaved by the Egyptian government led by the Pharaoh.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After 400 years of slavery, YHWH, the God of Israel (in fact the Archon Demiurge - known at that time as Set), sent the </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Habiru </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> prophet Moses, a man supposedly from the tribe of Levi, to release the 'chosen people' from Egyptian 'bondage'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Canaan and the Canaanites are mentioned some 160 times in </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Habiru scripture</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, mostly in the 'Pentateuch' and the books of 'Joshua' and 'Judges'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">According to the scriptures inspired by the Archon Demiurge, Canaan first appears as one of Noah's grandsons, cursed with perpetual slavery because his father Ham had "looked upon" the drunk and naked Noah.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The curse upon Canaan was imposed by the biblical patriarch Noah. The relevant narrative occurs in the 'Book of Genesis' and concerns Noah's drunkenness and the accompanying shameful act perpetrated by his son Ham the father of Canaan (Gen. 9:20–27). The controversies raised by this story regarding the nature of Ham's transgression, and the question of why Noah cursed Canaan when Ham had sinned, have been debated for over two thousand years. The story's objective was to justify the subjection of the Canaanites to the Israelites. The curse on Canaan, invoked in response to an act of moral depravity, is the first intimation of the theme of the corruption of the Canaanites, which is given as the justification for their being dispossessed of their land, and for the transfer of that land to the descendants of Abraham.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The term "Canaanites" in the Hebrew language is applied especially to the inhabitants of the lower regions, along the sea coast and on the shores of Jordan, as opposed to the inhabitants of the mountainous regions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">According to the Book of Jubilees, the </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Habiru</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> conquest of Canaan, and the 'curse', are attributed to Canaan's steadfast refusal to join his elder brothers in Ham's allotment beyond the Nile, and instead "squatting" on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean, within the inheritance delineated for Shem.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One of the 613 mitzvot (precisely n. 596) prescribes that <i>no </i>inhabitants of the cities of six Canaanite nations, the same as mentioned in 7:1, minus the Girgashites, were to be left alive !</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">These principles of Biblical law are sometimes called commandments (mitzvot), and referred to collectively as the "Law of Moses" (Torat Mosheh, תורת משה), "Mosaic Law," "Sinaitic Law," or simply "the Law". The word mitzvot is plural; singular is mitzvah.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Many books have been written about Hitler and many reasons suggested to account for him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It is said that Germany in the 1930's was economically and spiritually bankrupt, that Hitler and his followers were simple opportunists or petty bureaucrats.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Perhaps.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But one explanation tends to contradict another, and when all are combined, they merge into a solution so general that nothing is explained. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Understandably, then, many people are still not satisfied that the events of the Third Reich have been adequately dealt with by historians.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In all this complicated story, there is one question which cries out for an answer: How is it that the theorists have missed a vital element, even when they themselves provide important clues ?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Many historians have alluded to the National Socialist Party's origins in an occult sect, to the occult leanings of leading National Socialist officials, to the mystical rites of the Schutzstaffel - SS - and the Hitlerjugend (</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hitler Youth), to the establishment of a bureau devoted exclusively to the occult during World War II.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Hitlerjugend - abbreviated HJ) was a paramilitary organization of the Nazi Party. It existed from 1922 to 1945. The HJ was the second oldest paramilitary Nazi group, founded one year after its adult counterpart, the Sturmabteilung (SA). It was made up of: the Hitlerjugend proper, for male youth aged 14 to 18; the younger boys' section, Deutsches Jungvolk (German Youth), for those aged 10 to 14; and the girls' section, the Bund Deutscher Mädel (the League of German Girls).</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Schutzstaffel was a major paramilitary organization under Adolf Hitler and the NSDAP. It began at the end of 1920 as a small, permanent guard unit known as the "Saal-Schutz" (Hall-Protection) made up of NSDAP volunteers to provide security for Nazi Party meetings in Munich. Later in 1925, Heinrich Himmler joined the unit which had by then been reformed and renamed the "Schutz-Staffel". Under Himmler's leadership (1929–45), it grew from a small paramilitary formation to one of the largest and most powerful organizations in the Third Reich.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It now seems puzzling that they should not also have given as much consideration to the underlying basis for these odd phenomena as they gave to economic and social factors.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">That they did not is, of course, evidence of their own dismissal - quite reasonably - of a what they considered to be pseudo-science </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But this has led, inevitably, to selective blindness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In order not to be accused of giving credence to irrational beliefs, they have failed to see those beliefs in their proper historical perspective.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Since early studies always influence later ones, the interpretation of the origins of the Third Reich has tended to remain much the same for the past two decades.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">All the same, people do seem to have a subliminal awareness that the National Socilaists were involved in occultism.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Some scholars, of course, have been thrown off the scent because Hitler went to great pains to eradicate occultism from Germany almost as soon as he came to power, and on that account, he has been mistakenly identified as an enemy of irrational faith.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">On the contrary.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As will be borne out in later chapters, the occult was purged, not because it was abhorrent, but because the National Socilaists took it seriously - so seriously, indeed, that it posed a potential threat.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Heinrich Himmler</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The astrologer Wilhelm Wulff, who was put to work by the SS casting horoscopes of nations, groups, and movements, describes, in 'Der Tierkreis und die Swastika' (Zodiac and Swastika), Heinrich Himmler's confession of his own interest in and practice of occultism and his explanation of the purge:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">'<i>For us politics means the elimination of all forces except those serving the one constructive idea. In the Third Reich we have to forbid astrology. We cannot permit any astrologers to follow their calling except those who are working for us. In the National Socialist state astrology must remain a privilegium singulorum. It is not for the broad masses</i>'.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Wilhelm Theodor H. Wulff (27 March 1892 - 9 June 1979) was an German-Austrian astrologer and writer. He is best known for the 1973 book 'Der Tierkreis und die Swastika'. The book tells about his time as an astrologer in the Third Reich near the end of World War II. He was Heinrich Himmler's astrologer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Third Reich appeared in a new light when compared to modern esoteric cults making claims to paranormal knowledge.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rudolf Steiner</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">These cults, from those connected with George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff, Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, and Rudolf Steiner shared certain features: an authoritarian obedience to a charismatic and Messianic leader; secrecy; loyalty to the group above all other ties; a belief in supernatural possibilities open to the members only; a belief in reincarnation; initiation into superhuman sources of power; literal acceptance of the myth of ancient 'giants' or 'supermen', who handed down an oral tradition to a chosen people and who were guiding us now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Turning back to that history and its antecedents, we can see unmistakable evidence of a direct relationship between the National Socialism and occultism.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In fact, it is hard not to see it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here is the missing link in our understanding of the 'so-called' beasts who proclaimed themselves gods.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dr. Felix Kersten and<br />
Heinrich Himmler</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Konrad Heiden</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If it seems too fantastic to believe that one of the most civilized countries in the world should have embraced occultism, here is a highly respected German historian, an exiled former staff member of the liberal newspaper Frankfurter Zeitung, Konrad Heiden, observing, in his introduction to 'Die Memoiren von Dr. Felix Kersten' - (The Memoirs of Dr. Felix Kersten), Heinrich Himmler's masseur, that among the Germans</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">'<i>the best of them found refuge from the despair of their daily life in a perverse fanaticism called 'the mysticism of a political movement.'</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Germany was the perfect place for this development.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>In almost no other country were so many miracles performed, so many ghosts conjured, so many illnesses cured by magnetism, so many horoscopes read, between the two World Wars.</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Felix Kersten (30 September 1898 Yuryev (Dorpat), Imperial Russia now Tartu, Estonia – 16 April 1960, Stockholm, Sweden) was before and during World War II the personal masseur of Heinrich Himmler.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Heinrich Luitpold Himmler (7 October 1900 – 23 May 1945) was Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel (SS), a military commander, and a leading member of the NSDAP of Nazi Germany. Adolf Hitler later appointed him Commander of the Replacement (Home) Army and General Plenipotentiary for the entire Reich's administration </span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Konrad Heiden (7 August 1901 – 18 June 1966) was an influential Jewish journalist and historian of the Weimar Republic and Third Reich, most noted for the first influential biographies of German dictator Adolf Hitler. Often, he wrote under the pseudonym "Klaus Bredow."</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Heiden was born in Munich, Germany, on 7 August 1901, and graduated from the University of Munich in 1923. At the university, he organized a republican and democratic student body and became a member of the Social Democratic Party.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>A veritable mania of superstition had seized the country, and all those who made a living by exploiting human stupidity thought the millennium had come.</i> <i>General Erich Ludendorff, who had commanded the German armies in World War I, tried to make gold with the assistance of a swindler boasting the appropriate name of Tausend (meaning 'thousand').</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>There was scarcely a folly in natural or world history to which the great general did not lend credence; when the German Republic, which he hated so intensely, had the barriers of the railway crossings painted red and white for better visibility, Ludendorff declared that the Jews in the government were doing this because Moses had led the Jews through the desert under these colors.</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Erich Friedrich Wilhelm Ludendorff (sometimes referred to as von Ludendorff) (9 April 1865 – 20 December 1937) was a German general, victor of Liège and of the Battle of Tannenberg. From August 1916 his appointment as Quartermaster general made him joint head (with Paul von Hindenburg), and chief engineer behind the management of Germany's effort in World War I until his resignation in October 1918.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Another high-ranking general was convinced that he possessed the secret of the death ray and that he could halt air-planes in their flight, and stop tanks in their tracks.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>A steamship company dismissed its managing director because his handwriting had displeased a graphologist.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Motorists avoided a certain road between Hamburg and Bremen because, it was rumored, from milestone number 113 there emanated certain mysterious 'terrestrial rays', which provoked one accident after another.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>A miracle worker, who had the faculty of making the dead Bismarck appear during his mass meetings and who healed the sick by application of white cheese, had enough followers to establish a city; another crackpot was almost elected to the Reichstag; and still a third, who also barely missed election, promised to perform the greatest miracle of all, by undoing the German inflation that had depreciated the mark to the value of one trillion paper marks for one gold mark.</i></span></div>
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<i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Among Hitler's intimates (</i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Erik Jan Hanussen) </i></span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">was a man on whose visiting card appeared the word 'magician' to indicate his profession - and he meant it in all seriousness.</i><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Erik Jan Hanussen, born Hermann Steinschneider (2 June 1889, Vienna – 25 March 1933, Berlin), was an Austrian clairvoyant performer. Acclaimed in his lifetime as a hypnotist, mentalist, occultist, and astrologer, Hanussen was active in Weimar Republic Germany and also at the beginning of the Third Reich. He is said to have instructed Adolf Hitler in performance and the achievement of dramatic effect.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Many were convinced that the course of world history was the sinister result of the ministrations of ancient secret societies - as such they considered not only the Free Masons, but also Jews and the Jesuits.'</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Other historians have corroborated that Germany between the two world wars was particularly ripe for these states of mind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It was a time of alienation and impotence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">World War I had turned everything inside out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Apart from the physical devastations, the three bugbears of taxation, inflation, and confiscation sapped the strength of the middle class.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The war itself was but a symptom of growing inner turbulence in Europe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The trouble had, of course, begun much earlier.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In Germany particularly, the <i>gap</i> between an advancing technology and an outmoded social order was great.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In the years preceding World War I, the German Jews were in an especially vulnerable position.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The full emancipation of the German Jews, which had come in 1871, brought large numbers of Eastern European Jews to Germany.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">They settled in the cities, taking a prominent part in commercial, cultural, and political life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Likewise, the period from 1857 to 1910 saw a rise in the Jewish population of Vienna of more than <i>400</i> percent.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Because of the high value the Jews placed on learning, a disproportionately large number went into the medical and legal professions, trying in that way to gain a modicum of social acceptance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Some Germans, of course, mistook these professionals for the average Jew. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Slowly, a new religion evolved for those Germans who felt somehow cheated - a <i><a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/die-okulten-ursprung-der-judischen-rasse.html" target="_blank">cult of race</a></i>, based on the <i>supremacy of the Aryans,</i> and the vilification of the Jews.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It was called the völkisch movement, and it enjoyed great popular appeal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It began a virulent campaign against the 'foreign element'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A racial theory of history was developed, and it heralded the coming of a new Messiah.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The mystical concepts of <i>Reich</i> and <i>Volk</i> went along with an awakening interest in <i>occultism</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Secret cults sprang up, anti-Semitic and nationalistic.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Two Austrian occultists, <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/lanz-von-liebenfels.html" target="_blank">Jorg Lanz von Liebenfels</a> and <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/06/ariosophy.html" target="_blank">Guido von List</a>, presented a völkisch, anthropological package which attracted a number of wealthy backers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Lanz's <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/lanz-von-liebenfels.html" target="_blank">Order of New Templars</a> and List's <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/06/ariosophy.html" target="_blank">Armanen</a> boasted many influential members.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In 1909, young Adolf Hitler, came across Lanz's magazine, <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/lanz-von-liebenfels.html" target="_blank">Ostara</a>, and made contact with the occultist - (although there is some evidence that he may have made contact with Liebenfels when he was a boy-chorister in Lambech Abbey).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The occult language and racist theories of this magazine were remarkably similar to Hitler's later utterances.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When, in 1912, a new secret cult, the 'Germanen Orden', was born, disciples of both Lanz and List joined.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The 'Germanen Orden' was like the other occult-nationalist groups, but with a difference.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It called for 'courageous men' to 'accomplish the work' of combating the Social Democrats, who had gained ground in the elections of 1912.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Courageous men did not leap forth imediately to join the 'Germanen Orden', but after World War I prospects became brighter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">People were in a state of shock over the German defeat, which had brought with it the collapse of Kaiser Wilhelm II's regime.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Power was suddenly thrust into the hands of a provisional democratic government whose unenviable task it was to accept the consequences of a lost war, reluctantly surrender, and sign a peace treaty.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Extremists of the left and right blamed everything on this government: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Germany's humiliation, as well as the loss of territory and the the reparations which bore heavily, financially and psychologically, on the people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It was the end of an era.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Germans had gone into the war with such high hopes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The war was to have been a release from care, a cleansing of mounting economic and social problems, a <i>purging</i> and <i>purification</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When the war began, said one German, '<i>it was as if a nightmare had vanished, as if a door had opened, and an old yearning had been satisfied</i>.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The idea of war itself had become beautiful.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It was to give people back their lives.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">'<i>Peace</i>', as someone pointed out, '<i>had become insupportable</i>'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hitler embodied the alienated man with no family or occupation, to whom the outbreak of World War I was a godsend.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">'<i>For me, as for every German, there now began the greatest and most unforgettable time of my earthly existence.</i>'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When the Germans signed the peace treaty, the army released almost a quarter of a million men to add their numbers to the growing ranks of the unemployed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Many soldiers were dazed to come home to a fatherland on the edge of anarchy, hungry, and undisciplined.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The new Russian Revolution threatened to spill over into Germany.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In Munich, particularly, Communists stalked the streets, threatening civil war. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Conservatives and liberals alike were anxious to do anything to stave off communism.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The 'Germanen Orden' was happy to merge its destiny with a Munich group called the 'Thule Gesellschaft', which was meeting regularly to study the occult meaning of the ancient <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/thule-gesellschaft.html" target="_blank">Germanic Runes</a>, and its symbolism.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It was led by an occultist called <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/thule-gesellschaft.html" target="_blank">Baron Rudolf von Sebottendorff</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The '<a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/thule-gesellschaft.html" target="_blank">Thule Gesellschaft</a>' soon became the political arm of the 'Germanen Orden', and quietly set about preparing for a counter-revolution against the communist government of Bavaria.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It formed an umbrella for many of the nationalist groups, and enlisted men against the government, which, it said, had betrayed the German people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In addition to being anti-Semitism, it preached the coming of a Führer who would do away with hated democracy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It began to collect weapons, bought a newspaper (Völkisch Beobachter)</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">, instigated terrorist activity and stirred up race hatred against the Jews, all the while keeping up the front of being a study group for Germanic antiquity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Thule members who were to play key roles in the formation of the NSDAP (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei) were <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/der-mythos-des-zwanzigsten-jahrhunderts.html" target="_blank">Alfred Rosenberg</a>, Rudolf Hess, Gottfried Feder, Karl Harrer, and Dietrich Eckart.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Not until they found their Führer, Adolf Hitler, were they able to carry out the programs of Lanz, List, and Sebottendorff.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But all the essential ingredients - the ideology, the rituals, the symbols, the attitudes - of the coming National Socialist Revolution were already present in the 'Germanen Orden' and the 'Thule Gesellschaft', as well as the 'Order of the New Templars' and the 'Armanen'.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">These German occult groups did not appear out of nowhere.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">They had historical antecedents.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The new Aryan hero trumpeted by List and Lanz owed his birth to the unholy marriage of early ideas of racial purity and Darwin's concept of evolution, which was consummated in the nineteenth-century Europe where German romantics, in particular, were fascinated with racial theories.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The nineteenth century was remarkable for great change.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In Germany the change was more drastic than in the rest of Europe.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Its people had been more </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">completely under the sway of the past; the Middle Ages had still been dominant in agriculture and industry.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Thirty Years' War, which began in </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1618, had consolidated land holdings into fewer and fewer hands, and the land reforms which followed only served to crush the people lower down on the social scale.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The industrial revolution happened more rapidly in Germany than anywhere else.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Mass migrations of people from country to city severed traditional ties. Scientific discovery brought a sharp decline in religious faith, and there </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">was a search for new values with which to identify.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The state, assuming more and more control, seemed bent on crushing individuality.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The European romantics, wincing at the bitter fruits of modern 'prog</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ress', delighted in the exoticisms of the East.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">European rule in the Orient, travel, and translations of the Oriental classics helped lift the veils from the faces of the ancient Eastern civilizations.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What the Europeans caught a </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">glimpse of was a kind of serenity which had disappeared from the West and which was very much desired.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So great was the Eastern influence that Victor Hugo observed in 1829: '<i>In the age of Louis XIV, all the world was Hellenist; now it is orientalist</i>.'</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Napoleon's army, entering Egypt in 1798, found the Rosetta Stone, which scholars labored to decipher.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When Champollion solved the riddle, the </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">long-lost tongue of that ancient civilization was loosened and the way opened for the great achievements of the modern science of Egyptology.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">German archaeologists went along with the Prussian king's expedition in </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1842 and further refined the study.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Germans also made important contributions to understanding the real nature of Islamic literature and thought.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Persian love poems, called ghazals, </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">had the greatest effect on German poets. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The most brilliant of the Persian poems were Sufi.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In the Sufi tradition, the poems were interpreted as allegorical and mystical revelations of the divine.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">German poet-scholars made use of them to such an extent that Heinrich Heine admonished: '<i>These poor poets eat too freely of the fruit they steal from the garden groves of Shiraz, and then they vomit ghazals</i>'.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The philosopher Johann Gottfried von Herder read Indian philosophy with enthusiasm and managed to inspire the German romantics.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Herder cautioned them not to be frightened by super-natural elements such as gods moving among men or nature personified.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A French version of the 'Upanishads' awakened <a href="http://germany19001939.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/arthur-schopenhauer-philosophy-of-will.html" target="_blank">Arthur Schopenhauer</a> to the wisdom of the East.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">His pessimistic view of a demonic 'will', blind, and insatiable, compelling all things to share in its own futile unrest, had a tremendous influence on German thought, falling in with the disappointed mood of the age. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Schopenhauer's negation of life was soon imitated by like minds.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The cessation of activity, for the sake of eventual <i>purification</i>, had a definite appeal for tired, hopeless people who could now enjoy <i>renunciation.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">These German writers began to glorify the Middle Ages as a period of dialogue with God, when men, art, and religion had been unified.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">To restore the lost<i> innocence</i> became their aim.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In the mid </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1800's, German philologists had theorized that their noble Aryan forebears in India had the same mystical symbols and gods as the ancient Germans.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A French diplomat and Orientalist, <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/hitler-and-jews.html" target="_blank">Arthur de Gobineau</a>, made race the determining characteristic in the rise and fall of civilizations.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Gobineau's </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">theory was that the racially pure Aryans were bastardized by alien racial elements, producing, by the process of civilization, a decadent people. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It was the Semites, he said, hybridized by blacks, who were responsible for the Fall.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Gobineau's work not only gave respectability to the budding anti-Semitism in Germany, it provided a convenient rationale for the </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">economic and social fall of the nobleman.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Even the caste system in India, he claimed, had not been sufficiently stringent to protect the ruling elite from the defiling blood of the dark-skinned races they had subjugated.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">His ideas penetrated throughout Germany.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The German romantics could now view themselves as a natural aristocracy replacing the older, </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">outmoded feudal aristocracy, which no longer accorded well with the idea of progress.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After all, the Teutons, whom Gobineau equated with the Aryans, were the superior race.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This idea was eagerly seized on and was buttressed by the growing resentment against the Jews.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In the early nineteenth century, the Jews had begun to move toward </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">equality and citizenship in Germany.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Before then, the mass of them lived in ghettos behind walls, were taxed heavily, and were barred from any work but peddling and petty trade except for a select few, and even then under prohibitions which gave them a bare subsistence.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Even the more fortunate, like the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn, at the height of his fame in 1776, reported that to enter Dresden he was forced to pay 'head tax' equivalent to that set for 'a Polish cow'.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After the German emancipation of the Jews, which took several decades to complete, there was a huge influx of Jews from the Eastern European countries.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Life in Germany was more hospitable to them.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But in time, the majority of Germans, scratching out a bare living themselves, began to resent them. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Gobineau became the prophet for all these 'poor Germans' and provided them with a philosophy which preached the nobility of the Aryan by simple virtue of his birth.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">From this eminent source they learned that contamination of race would lead to the certain decline of Germany.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The growing vö</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">lkisch movement began an active battle against the Jews, the defilers of their blood, reinforced by a scholarly writer who satisfied their desire for academic respectability.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Rightist Pan-German groups also bolstered their ideology by citing the philosophical, </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">historical, and scientific analyses laid out by <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/08/houston-stewart-chamberlain.html" target="_blank">Houston Stewart Chamberlain</a>, an Englishman in love with German culture.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">His two-volume '<a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/08/houston-stewart-chamberlain.html" target="_blank">Die Grundlagen des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts</a>', 1899 had a strong appeal.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">He told a mass society, at the mercy of the impersonal forces which were crushing it, that the Teutons were indomitable master builders, that in mysticism was freedom, </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">that '<i>every Mystic is, whether he will or not, a born Anti-Semite</i>', and that Darwin's theory of natural selection justifies the stricture against mingling of the races.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Even before Chamberlain, völkisch thinkers had woven together lessons from history, proving the heroism of the ancient Germanic past.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Many of them were also admirers of the Theosophical Society, which combined</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">for the first time certain elements into a cohesive system considered by some people to be the beginning of modern occultism.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Theosophical Society was organized in New York City in 1875 by Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, a Russian expatriate countess.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Convinced that she had mediumistic powers, and versed in many languages, she wandered about Europe and the East, and decided at age forty to come to New York to investigate spiritualism.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Her mission, a Society historian observed, was 'to explain its phenomena, expose its frauds, to enlarge its spiritual scope, and to give it the dignity in the world of science which was its due'.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Depleted of</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">financial resources, if not of energy, she delivered up a syncretic philosophy of Hinduism, Gnosticism, and science, which had a tremendous impact on the intelligentsia of the West.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Her ideas dealt with ancient lost races with secret knowledge of the ultimate nature of reality, the immortal soul perfecting itself through endless rebirths, and </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">mastery of superhuman powers, which could unlock the secrets of the universe. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Darwin's 'Origin of Species', published in 1859, had widened the chasm between science and religion.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky leaped across that chasm with a </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>spiritual </i>concept of evolution.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Men could become divine, she said, by </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">advancing in an evolutionary process which was part of an elaborate cosmology affecting whole races.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Like most occultists, she believed in the old <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/third-reich-and-gnosticism.html" target="_blank">Gnostic doctrine</a> that there were two worlds, one good </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and one evil.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In Gnostic thinking, spirit and matter were opposed to each other, matter being an interruption of the order of the cosmos - a fall, and therefore evil. The Gnostics posited three classes: spiritual, or pneumatic, men; animal, or psychic, men; and carnal, or physical, men.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The last were said to be wholly material and could not be saved, their nature being evil; they had not a </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">single spark of the divine in them.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Some aspects of matter, according to the Gnostics, was not the creation of the supreme god but of a <i><a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/die-okulten-ursprung-der-judischen-rasse.html" target="_blank">demiurge</a></i>, an <i>inferior divinity</i>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Within Gnosticism, then, existed the idea that the Jewish god was </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">really responsible for all the evil in the world, and </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/06/occult-history-of-third-reich.html" target="_blank">Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky</a></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> repeated this Gnostic thinking in her book '</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/06/occult-history-of-third-reich.html" target="_blank">Die Geheimlehre</a></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">' (The Secret Doctrine).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>'With the Semite, that stooping man meant the fall of Spirit into matter, and that fall and degradation were apotheosized by him with the result of dragging Deity down to the level of man.... The Aryan views of the symbolism were those of the whole Pagan world; the Semite interpreta- tions emanated from and were pre-eminently those of a small tribe, thus marking its national features and the idiosyncratic defects that charac- terize many of the Jews to this day—gross realism, selfishness, and sensuality.'</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">She talked of a race of giants that existed in ancient days and argued that the occasional appearance of giants in modern times proved that species </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">tend to revert to the original type.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">She held that since the days of the giants, whose descendants the Aryans were, there had been an unbroken succession of semi-immortal 'adepts'.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Because of the flamboyance of her personality, Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky became the model for other aspiring occultist leaders.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">She had somehow managed to make magic, alchemy and the occult respectable.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">With the </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">support of many educated people, her ideas spread.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">She brought to the last decades of the nineteenth century a universal palliative for the materialism from which it was suffering.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The völkisch writers made much use of both Theosophy and Darwinism.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Darwin's book had been hailed in Germany with an acclamation in startling contrast to the storm of protest which greeted it elsewhere.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In place of a </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">dogmatic Christian theology preaching a millennium, there came a conviction that human society was moving blindly toward some ideal goal. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The struggle for existence, palpable to every German, justified itself in this evolutionary scheme of nature.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">'Origin of Species' sold briskly in Germany.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It was said that although Darwin was English, </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Darwinism really came into its own in Germany.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As one German scientist pointed out:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">'<i>You are still discussing in England whether or not the theory of Darwin can be true.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>We have got a long way beyond that stage here.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>His theory is now our common starting point'.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">To a growing body of anthropological concepts was now fused the idea that the karma of the Aryans was to engage in a race struggle for supremacy.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Germans, the fittest to survive, were destined to become the <i>saviours </i>or <i>redeemers</i> of the human race.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For this, Guido von List preached, they would need 'ein starker Mann von oben</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">' (a strong man from above).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">List's study of the origins of Jewish mysticism had taught him the importance of imbuing a people with a Messianic hope.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When the world is changing, and the old knowledge becomes suspect, it is</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">necessary to herald the coming of a Messiah so that the traditional verities may be adapted to new conditions.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">List gave the Germans, in effect, an opportunity to become the competitors of the Jews for the honour of being a 'chosen people'.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">His secular <i>Messianic nationalism</i> was taken seriously by many.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The German people were to take their place at the head of all nations, act as their leader, and move them toward civilization.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">They were </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the 'chosen people', and soon a F</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ü</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">hrer would arise among them who, in turn, would lead the Messianic nation.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Just before World War I, then, side by side with an awakening interest in occultism went an interest in racist-nationalism.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Germany's supremacy was 'proved' by the ideas and events of the distant past, when the Teutons lived <i>close to nature,</i> and far from modern artificiality. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The call of the <i>elemental</i>, the breath of the woodland, the simple poetry of Wanderlust, of joyous roving, asserted themselves.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The folk-tales and folk songs issuing from the lips of peasants became sacred. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Primitive German institutions and folklore were eagerly studied.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Whereas, for primitive peoples, nature often represented primordial chaos, and therefore the enemy, these neo-primitives <i>idealized</i> nature and anathematized the city as <i>profane</i>, an aberrant discovery of modern man in his wickedness.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Imagination, feeling, and 'will' attributed to Natural Man, were placed <i>above </i>reason, which was held responsible for the psychic disorders of civilized man. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The irrational was recognized as a source of <i>illumination</i>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">List and his Theosophical friends had a 'secret science' by which they could intuit the past and divine its meaning.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Through extrasensory powers, they could communicate with the 'Geister' (</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">spirits) which hovered around ancient soil.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Innocent and pastoral at first, this movement back to nature and simplicity gradually grew more and more patriotic, more and more 'German', to the exclusion of other races, and more and more anti-Semitic.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Both the occult and the racist-nationalist movements were <i>hostile</i> to many aspects of modernity.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Both promised a <i>millennium </i>(das Tausendjährige Reich)</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">They saw in the Jew the exemplar of the </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">modern man: urban, <i>alienated</i> from the soil, <i>materialistic</i>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Occult and the racist-nationalist movements</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> were essentially conservative, in that they harked back to a <i>golden age</i>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The groups often intertwined.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Under the influence of List and Lanz, whose works they studied, völkisch youth groups pressed for the expulsion of Jews from their organizations, from university life, and from the government.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Admirers and disciples of both men (List and Liebenfels) became agitators for a </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">final solution to the Jewish problem.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Both also hailed the Middle Ages with uncritical admiration.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Whereas the rest of Europe tended to brand that period as an era of darkness from which it had been happy to emerge, and to hold up the Renaissance as worthy of adoration, Germans idealized the Middle Ages as the most illustrious </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">period of their history.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The hierarchic structure of medieval society appealed to their longing for political security.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Their worship of the twelfth-century German Crusaders, the Order of Teutonic </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Knights, for instance, was based on its mystical hierarchical structure, its secrecy, and its supernatural claims to world domination. Indeed, according to some people, the 'thousand-year conspiracy' of conquest which the Teutonic Knights had threatened did persist into the twentieth century.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The marriage of occultism and nationalism is not as uneasy as it might appear on the surface.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Each represents a <i>nostalgia</i> for a lost paradisical state, and a commitment to restoring that state in some millennial time.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It is natural for people who feel uncertain about the future to look back senti- mentally to a glorified past which they will try to relive.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It is not at all unusual to find such feelings of Weltschmerz (world-weariness)</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> in those periods when reason seems to have failed us, and death and disorder wait to swallow us up.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">At such times, an interest in the occult gains ground steadily and tries to reintegrate the shattered cosmos.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This was the climate in Germany before <a href="http://germany19001939.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/deutschland-und-der-erste-weltkrieg.html" target="_blank">World War I</a>, and the war intensified it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hanns Heinz Ewers was an important figure in the occult development of </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> v</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ölkisch ideology.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Suprisingly, perhaps, he was flamboyantly and openly bisexual</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The son of a pair of public figures - h</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">is father was the artist, Heinz Ewers, and his mother was a well known translator of French and English works, including the children’s stories of Alexander Dumas, and a number of works of French decadents.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A literary late bloomer, he acquired a Doctorate of Jurisprudence from either the University of Bonn or Leipzig, a fashionable scar on his cheek from his duelling fraternity, and an illegitimate daughter (whom he left in a Red Cross orphanage) before he began publishing in his late 20s. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hanns Heinz Ewers (3 November 1871 in Düsseldorf – 12 June 1943 in Berlin - see right)) was a German actor, poet, philosopher, and writer of short stories, novels and screenplays.</span><br />
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-33F2hqsKogA/Tf6S1o72xrI/AAAAAAAABQM/PoWv98XxhBg/s1600/Guido+von+List+-+Occult+History+of+the+Third+Reich+-+Peter+Crawford.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-33F2hqsKogA/Tf6S1o72xrI/AAAAAAAABQM/PoWv98XxhBg/s200/Guido+von+List+-+Occult+History+of+the+Third+Reich+-+Peter+Crawford.jpg" width="144" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He was an associate of <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/06/ariosophy.html" target="_blank">Guido von List</a> (see left), <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/lanz-von-liebenfels.html" target="_blank">Lanz von Liebfels</a> (see right), and <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/06/introduction.html" target="_blank">Aleister Crowley</a> (see below,) and later a member of the NSDAP, - but also a nudist, pioneer of sexology and decadent poet, film-maker and playwright.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Guido Karl Anton List, better known as Guido von List (October 5, 1848 – May 17, 1919) was an Austrian/German (Viennese) poet, journalist, writer, mountaineer, hiker, dramatist, and playwright, but was most notable as an occultist and völkisch author who is seen as one of the most important figures in Germanic revivalism, Germanic mysticism, Runic Revivalism and Runosophy in the late 19th century and early 20th century, and continues to be so today. </span><span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">He is the author of 'Das Geheimnis der Runen' (The Secret of the Runes), which is a detailed study of the Armanen Futharkh, his intellectual world-view (as realised in the years between 1902 and 1908), an introduction to the rest of his work and is widely regarded as the pioneering work of Runology in modern occultism.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Adolf Josef Lanz - who called himself Lanz von Liebenfels (July 19, 1874 – April 22, 1954), was an Austrian publicist and journalist. He was a former monk and the founder of the magazine 'Ostara', in which he published völkisch theories</span><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 19.1875px;">.</span></span><span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> He founded his own esoteric organisation, the Ordo Novi Templi (Order of the New Templars) in 1907. Liebenfels was reportedly the first völkisch ideologue to use the swastika (Hakenkreuz) as the emblem of the Aryan race.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">While he wrote on a wide range of subjects, he is now known mainly for his works of horror, particularly his trilogy of novels about the adventures of Frank Braun, a character modelled on himself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ewers's literary career began with a volume of satiric verse, entitled 'A Book of Fables', published during 1901.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That same year he collaborated with Ernst von Wolzogen in forming a literary vaudeville theatre before forming his own such company, which toured Central and Eastern Europe before the operating expenses and constant interference from censors caused him to abandon the enterprise.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Ernst von Wolzogen (April 23, 1855 - August 30, 1934 was a cultural critic, a writer and a founder of Cabaret in Germany.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Wolzogen came from a noble Austrian family; he studied Literature, Philosophy, and the history of art in Strasbourg and Leipzig. In 1882, he went to Berlin where he worked as an editor at a publishing house and later became an independent writer. From 1892 to 1899, he lived in Munich where he founded the 'Freie Literarische Gesellschaft', a literary society. In 1899, he returned in Berlin where he established the 'Cabaret Überbrettl', a play on Nietzsche's term 'Übermensch'. After its closure in 1905, he returned to Darmstadt.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Wolzogen produced a great many works of humorous fiction. Some of his works include Die Kinder der Exzellenz (1890); Das Lumpengesindel (1892); Ein unbeschriebenes Blatt (1896); Der Kraft-Mayr, 2 vols.(1897); Das dritte Geschlecht, 2 vols. (1899). Although primarily a humorist, he also wrote on serious topics. Works such as Fahnenflucht (1894), Das Wunderbare (1898), and Die arme Sünderin (1901) are examples of his more serious side as an author. Wolzogen work is known for its wit and elegance.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A world traveller, Ewers was in South America when the First World War broke out, and unable to return to Germany, he relocated to New York.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ewers had been romantically involved with Ludwig Lewisohn’s cousin, Adele Guggenheimer-Lewisohn, at least as early as 1909 and likely met </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">George Sylvester Viereck</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> through this tie.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">George Sylvester Viereck (December 31, 1884, Munich, Germany – died March 18, 1962, Holyoke, Massachusetts) was a German-American poet, writer, and propagandist. Viereck founded two publications, 'The International' and 'The Fatherland', which argued the German cause during World War I. Viereck became a well-known German apologist. His interview with Adolf Hitler in 1923 had offered hints of what was to come. In 1933 Viereck again met with Hitler, now Germany's Führer, in Berlin, and in 1934 he gave a speech to twenty thousand "Friends of the New Germany" at New York's Madison Square Garden.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Adele and Ewers renewed their affair during his stay in the United States, and established a fruitful literary collaboration; Ludwig translated Ewers’ novel, 'The Sorcerer’s Apprentice', into English. (Kugel, 243).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ewers' reputation as a successful German author and performer made him a natural speaker for the Imperial German cause to keep the United States from joining the war as an ally of Britain.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ewers toured cities with large ethnic German communities, and raised funds for the German Red Cross.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After the United States joined the war he was arrested during 1918 as an “active propagandist,” as the US government, as well as British and French intelligence agencies asserted that Ewers was a German agent.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They evidenced his travels to Spain during 1915 and 1916, both with an alias using a falsified Swiss passport.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Later, a travel report in the archives of the German Foreign Office was discovered indicating that he may have been travelling to Mexico; maybe to encourage Pancho Villa to hamper the U.S. military by an attack on the United States.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ewers is associated with the pro-German George Sylvester Viereck, son of the German immigrant and reported illegitimate Hohenzollern offspring Louis Sylvester Viereck (a Social Democrat famous for sharing a prison cell with August Bebel), who was a member of the same Berlin student Corps (fraternity) as Ewers.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ewers' activities as an "Enemy Alien" in New York were documented by J. Christoph Amberger in the German historical journal 'Einst & Jetzt' (1991).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Amberger indicates arrival records which demonstrate that Ewers entered the United States in the company of a "Grethe Ewers," who is identified as his wife.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Enemy Alien Office records refer to a recent divorce.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The identity of this otherwise undocumented wife has never been established and is missing from most biographies.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As a German national he was sent to the internment camp at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ewers was never tried as a German agent in the United States.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ewers's first novel, 'Der Zauberlehrling' (The Sorcerer's Apprentice) (see left), was published during 1910, with an English translation appearing in America during 1927.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It introduces the character of Frank Braun, who, like Ewers, is a writer, historian, philosopher, and world traveller with a decidedly <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/06/nietzsche.html" target="_blank">Nietzschean</a> morality.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philologist, philosopher, cultural critic, poet and composer. He wrote several critical texts on religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy and science, displaying a fondness for metaphor, irony and aphorism.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This was followed during 1911 by 'Alraune', a reworking of the Frankenstein myth.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The novel was filmed several times, most recently by Erich von Stroheim during 1952.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The third novel of the sequence, 'Vampyr', written during 1921, concerns Braun's own eventual transformation into one of these blood-drinking creatures.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ewers also published several plays, poems, fairy tales, opera librettos, and critical essays.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These included 'Die Ameisen', translated into English as 'The Ant People', 'Indien und ich', a travelogue of his time in India, and a 1916 critical essay on Edgar Allan Poe, to whom he has often been compared.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Students of the occult are also attracted to his works, due to his longtime friendship and correspondence with <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/06/introduction.html" target="_blank">Aleister Crowley</a> (see right).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Crowley was so inspired by Ewers that he hoped for a translation of his 'Gnostic Mass' into German by Ewers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Aleister Crowley wrote 'The Gnostic Mass' - technically called Liber XV or "Book 15" - in 1913 while travelling in Moscow, Russia. In many ways it is similar in structure to the Mass of the Eastern Orthodox Church and Roman Catholic Church. However, the comparison ends there, as Liber XV is a celebration of the principles of Thelema. It is the central rite of 'Ordo Templi Orientis'. The ritual culminates in the consummation of the eucharist, consisting of a goblet of wine and a Cake of Light, after which the congregant proclaims “T<i>here is no part of me that is not of the gods !</i>” Its first public performance was March 19, 1933, (the year that Hitler came to power) by Wilfred T. Smith and Regina Kahl in Hollywood, California at the first Agape Lodge</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One outstanding question relates to Crowley's avatar, Aiwass - and Hitler's visionary being at Passewalk, and the 'Unbekannte Übermensch' (unknown superman) of which he was '<i>not permitted to speak</i>'.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Were these the same entities - and did Hitler communicate with Crowley, through Ewers, with regard to this crucial matter ?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">While it has been suggested that Hitler was possessed from an early age by a Lupine entity - possibly identified as the Æon 'Upuat', - it is not suggested that this entity was identical to the visionary being encountered by Hitler at Passewalk, or the entity which Hitler occasionally saw after he became</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Führer, and which has been identified with the 'Unbekannte Übermensch'.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Of course occult entities identify themselves in various ways, and there is often little significance in such given identities.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The identities of such beings are, by their very nature '<i>occult</i>' - 'hidden'.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Occult organisations such as Crowley's are frequently seen to hold right wing ideas; not least because of Aleister Crowley’s distinction between “<i>ordinary</i>” humans, who are compared to<i> dogs</i>, and who <i>serve</i> - and a superior class of '<i>human gods</i>', (Übermensch) </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">who rule the '<b>dogs</b>' ['Liber AL' - The Book of the Law].</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Crowley's 1937 idea of the commercial utilization of the Swastika on porcelain cups, and his suggestion to discuss Thelema “<i>as the basis for the National Socialist new order</i>” [diary entry dated 5th May 1936] indicate the assumption of a <i>totalitarian </i>conviction by Crowley.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ewers also edited the eight-volume 'Galerie der Phantasten' anthologies of horror and fantasy literature, featuring work by Poe, E. T. A. Hoffman, Oskar Panizza, Honoré de Balzac, Alfred Kubin, Ewers' friend Karl Hans Strobl, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer and Ewers himself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ewers was one of the first critics to recognize cinema as a <i>legitimate art form</i>, and wrote the scripts for numerous early examples of the medium, most notably '<i>The Student of Prague'</i> (1913), a reworking of the Faust legend, which also included the first portrayal of a double role by an actor on the screen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">During the last years of the Weimar Republic, Ewers became involved with the burgeoning NSDAP, attracted to its Nationalism, its <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/06/nietzsche.html" target="_blank">Nietzschean</a> (see right) moral philosophy, and its occult involvement with Teutonic culture.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ewers, who is reliably reported to have been Hitler's favorite author, was later commissioned by Hitler to write a biography of <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/die-fahne-hoch-wessel-and-ewers.html" target="_blank">Horst Wessel </a>('Einer von vielen' - 'One of many').</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This biography was later made into the film, 'Hans Westmar - Einer von vielen' (One of Many) (see left).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Originally, the film, based on Hanns Heinz Ewers's novelistic biography, was named '<a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/die-fahne-hoch-wessel-and-ewers.html" target="_blank">Horst Wessel</a>'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Interestingly, the music for the film was provided by Ernst Hanfstaengl (see right), a close, early associate of Adolf Hitler, and also a friend of Ewers</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hanns-Heinz Ewers' last book, 'Die schönsten Hände der Welt' - (The most beautiful hands in the world), was published by the Zinnen Verlag (Munich, Vienna, Leipzig) in 1943.</span><br />
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<a href="http://deutschlandostmark.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/jung-liberal-dreamer-or-aryan.html" target="_blank">Carl Gustav Jung</a> (26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961) was a Swiss psychologist and psychiatrist who founded analytical psychology.</div>
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Jung proposed and developed the concepts of the 'extroverted' and the 'introverted' personality, 'archetypes', and the 'collective unconscious'.</div>
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His work has been influential in psychiatry and in the study of religion, literature, and related fields.</div>
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Individuation is the central concept of analytical psychology.</div>
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Jung considered 'individuation', the psychological process of integrating the opposites, including the conscious with the unconscious while still maintaining their relative autonomy, to be the central process of human development.</div>
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Jung created some of the best known psychological concepts, including the 'archetype', the 'collective unconscious', the 'complex', and 'synchronicity'.</div>
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Jung saw the human psyche as "by nature religious", and made this religiosity the focus of his explorations.</div>
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Jung is one of the best known contemporary contributors to dream analysis and symbolization.</div>
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Though he was a practising clinician and considered himself to be a scientist, much of his life's work was spent exploring tangential areas, including Eastern and Western philosophy, alchemy, astrology, and sociology, as well as literature and the arts.</div>
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His interest in philosophy and the occult led many to view him as a mystic.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The electrifying power of the swastika; Albert Speer’s dazzling lighting effects at the Nuremberg rallies; Hitler’s “demonic” oratory and his own '<i>deification'</i> as the Führer; the romantic vision of a bucolic Germany rooted in “blood and soil,” as opposed to an urban, mechanical modernity - all were part of the myth of National Socialism.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Like the French syndicalist George Sorel and the political philosopher Leo Strauss, Hitler knew that in politics, myth is often more important than the “<i>truth,</i>” a difficult commodity to pin down at any time. Reason and rationality are boring and demand effort.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Leo Strauss (September 20, 1899 – October 18, 1973) was a German–American political philosopher and classicist who specialized in classical political philosophy. He was born in Germany, and later emigrated to the United States. He spent most of his career as a professor of political science at the University of Chicago, where he taught several generations of students and published fifteen books.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Myth bypasses the inhibitions of the critical mind, and reaches down to the vital, occult forces below.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is what makes a myth exciting and enlivening.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is also what makes it dangerous.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Yet many at the time were willing to risk the danger and embrace myth over reason.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One was the Swiss psychologist C. G. Jung, perhaps more than anyone else, the single most important figure in the <i>reawakening</i> of spiritual thought in modern times.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Although for much of his career Jung obscured his interest in the occult, in his later years his writings on 'Gnosticism', alchemy, the paranormal, spiritualism, and even flying saucers brought these otherwise marginal areas into the field of respectable research.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Predictably, Jung’s occult inclinations led to criticisms of irrationalism.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Like Ludwig Klages, Jung has been seen by many on the left as an exponent of völkisch ideas.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Ludwig Klages (10 December 1872 – 29 July 1956) was a prominent German philosopher associated with the intellectual movement known as ‘vitalism’ (Biozentrismus). He created a complete theory of graphology and will be long associated with the concepts of form level, rhythm and bi-polar interpretation. He is important because together with Nietzsche and Bergson he anticipated existential phenomenology. He also coined the term logocentrism in the 1920s.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The neo-Marxist philosopher Ernst Bloch, himself no stranger to Rosicrucianesque utopias, once described Jung as a “<i>fascistically frothing psychoanalyst</i>.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Other neo-Marxist philosophers, like Theodor Adorno, likewise branded Jung a <i>National Socialist</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The tag was perhaps first made seriously by the German-Jewish cultural philosopher Walter Benjamin, who, unlike Adorno, had some interest in occult ideas, specifically the '<i>Kabbalah</i>' and graphology, a discipline he shared, ironically, with the Klages.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(Benjamin was also a close friend of the'Kabbalist' scholar Gershom Scholem, who, as mentioned, was an associate of Jung at the Eranos lectures.)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">קַבָּלָה, literally "receiving/tradition"; also Romanised Cabala, Qabbālâ, etc. - is an esoteric method, discipline, and school of thought. A traditional Kabbalist in Judaism is called a Mekubal (Hebrew: מְקוּבָל).</span><span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Kabbalah's definition varies according to the tradition and aims of those following it, from its religious origin as an integral part of Judaism, to its later Christian, New Age, or Occultist syncretic adaptations. Kabbalah is a set of esoteric teachings meant to explain the relationship between an unchanging, eternal, and mysterious Ein Sof (the ONE) and the mortal and finite universe (God's creation). While it is heavily used by some denominations, it is not a religious denomination in itself. It forms the foundations of mystical religious interpretation. Kabbalah seeks to define the nature of the universe and the human being, the nature and purpose of existence, and various other ontological questions. It also presents methods to aid understanding of these concepts and thereby attain spiritual realisation.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Adorno, Bloch, and others saw Jung’s psychology as a simple <i>celebration of the unconscious</i>, a <i>rejection</i> of the rational, critical mind, in the same vein as the work of the more straightforward irrationalist Klages, whose ideas about </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Seele</i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> (</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">soul</span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">)</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> in opposition to<i> </i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Geist</i> (</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">spirit)</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, they argue, helped prime the German psyche for Hitler.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is a fact that Jung, like many others, at first believed that the creative potential of Germany might find<i> fruitful expression</i> through Hitler.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">According to Jung’s psychology, the “<i>shadow</i>” side of the psyche, though associated with “<i>evil</i>,” can often be the source of “<i>good</i>,” of <i>new life</i> and <i>transformation</i>, and Jung reportedly spoke of the National Socialists as “<i>a chaotic precondition for the birth of a new world</i>,” a nod to Nietzsche’s remark that “<i>One must have chaos within oneself to give birth to a dancing star</i>.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">More recently, in his controversial work 'The Jung Cult', Richard Noll makes similar charges against Jung, arguing that in his early career the <i>heir apparent</i> to the throne of Freud immersed himself in the <i>Aryan occult milieu</i> of Munich and Ascona, as a devotee of <i>völkisch</i> beliefs who envisioned himself a kind of national savior.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Other works suggest that in his later career Jung was, while not a full-fledged party member, at least a kind of “<i>fellow traveler</i>”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the words of the novelist Thomas Mann, Jung was “<i>always a half-Nazi</i>.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Pronouncements on the “<i>old</i>” Jewish psyche and the “<i>youthfu</i>l” German one were bound to be misread in the dark days of the 1930s.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Likewise, Jung’s remark that the Jews seem “<i>never to have created a cultural form of their own</i>,” but require a “<i>host nation</i>,” would have been read in 1934 (when it was made) in one way only, that the Jew was a parasite, feeding off its Aryan host.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jung accepted the presidency of the General Society for Psychotherapy and editorship of its journal, the Zentralblatt für Psychotherapie - both based in Germany - at a time when they were moving inexorably toward being <i>gleichgeschaltet</i>, “conformed,” to National Socialist ideologies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">During Jung’s editorship of the Zentralblatt, Dr. M. H. Göring - a cousin of Reichmarshal Hermann Göring - who had been made president of the German Section of the Society, inserted a pro-Nazi statement of principles in an issue in 1933, recommending 'Mein Kampf' as a basic text for all psychotherapists, and urging all members to declare their loyalty to National Socialism.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But in a sense, Jung’s encounter with National Socialism is a red herring.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Whether he was inclined toward the NSDAP or not, like <a href="http://schwallerdelubicz.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/schwaller-de-lubicz-introduction.html" target="_blank">Schwaller de Lubicz</a>, Jung was in many ways a 'man of the right, and like René Guénon, he had little love for the modern </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">world.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">René Guénon (November 15, 1886 – January 7, 1951), was a French author and intellectual who remains an influential figure in the domain of metaphysics, having written on topics ranging from metaphysics, "<i>sacred science</i>" and traditional studies to symbolism and initiation. </span><span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">In his writings, he proposes either "</span><i style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif;">to expose directly some aspects of Eastern metaphysical doctrines</i><span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">", these doctrines being defined by him as of "</span><i style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif;">universal character</i><span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">", or "</span><i style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif;">to adapt these same doctrines for Western readers while keeping strictly faithful to their spirit</i><span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">"; he only endorsed the act of "</span><i style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif;">handing down</i><span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">" these Eastern doctrines, while reiterating their "</span><i style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif;">non-individual character</i><span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">".</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">He built his famous tower, Bollingen, on the shores of Lake Zurich so he could escape from modern banality, and immerse himself in older, mythic forms of consciousness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">He was notoriously <i>disparaging</i> of modern culture, and saw works like James Joyce’s Ulysses and Picasso’s paintings as indications of a <i>psychic deterioration</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">There was also an <i>authoritarian</i> streak in Jung which made him partial to individuals like Spain’s <a href="http://petersspain.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Francisco Franco</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Like Joseph de Maistre and Saint-Yves d’Alveydre, Jung believed that anarchy must be avoided at all costs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Writing in 1936, Jung argued that “<i>the loss of any firm authority is gradually leading to an intellectual, political, and social anarchy, which is repugnant to the soul of European man, accustomed as he is to patriarchal order</i>.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Like Ouspensky, Jung believed that the state was “<i>intellectually and ethically far below the level of most of the individuals in it,</i>” yet he felt that modern man was increasingly moving toward some absorption in the mass.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">One agent of this was the welfare state, which Jung saw as a “<i>doubtful blessing</i>” that “<i>robs people of their individual responsibility and turns them into infants and sheep</i>” and produces a collectivist society in which “<i>the capable will simply be exploited by the irresponsible</i>,” an argument often made by conservative politicians and right-wing thinkers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">More disturbing was “<i>the accumulation of urban, industrialized masses - of people torn from the soil, engaged in one-sided employment, and lacking every healthy instinct, even that of self-preservation</i>,” an observation that could easily have been made by <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/baron-julius-cesare-andrea-evola.html" target="_blank">Julius Evola</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Against these trends, Jung offered his concept of individuation, the psychological process through which, in Nietzsche’s phrase, “<i>one becomes what one is</i>,” and which Jung saw as Western man’s only hope to avoid being absorbed in some homogeneous social mass, the “<i>mass man</i>” of modern times.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As Noll argues in his challenging work, it’s easy to see this as Jung’s own call for an <i>elite</i>; by Jung’s admission, individuation, while theoretically possible for everyone, is really embraced only by the few, although there is nothing to stop others from doing so, except inclination.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The echoes of Guénon and Schwaller are obvious, yet Jung’s individuation, like the psychologist Abraham Maslow’s self-actualizing, doesn’t call for some primordial tradition or temple knowledge, but for us to take on the responsibility of realizing our own personality and potential, which Jung called “<i>an act of the greatest courage in the face of life</i>.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Jung's ideas had "official approval" in the Third Reich, and, as a result, "German psychotherapists did all they could to link Jung's name with their own activities". </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Jung's work was in fact cited by German racial theoreticians and appeared in official German bibliographies of the period.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In an interview on Radio Berlin in 1933, Jung stated:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And in his paper, 'Der Zustand der Psychotherapie heute' ( 1934), Jung wrote:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In the same paper, which clarifies the somewhat cryptic language above, Jung asserted (about Jews):</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>"The 'Aryan' unconscious has a higher potential than the Jewish. The Jew who is something of a nomad has never yet created a cultural form of his own and as far as we can see never will, since all his instincts and talents require a more or less civilized nation to act as host for their development. The Jews have this peculiarity with women; being physically weaker, they have to aim at the chinks in the armour of their adversary." </i></span></blockquote>
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Jung also warned against <i>"applying Jewish categories indiscriminately to Germanic and Slavic Christendom"</i>.</div>
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A similar observation occurs in a footnote to the 'Zwei Aufsätze auf Analytische Psychologie', first published in 1928. and republished in 1935: "<i>It is a quite unpardonable mistake to accept the conclusions of a Jewish psychology as generally valid</i>".</div>
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In Zentralblatt editorial he wrote that "<i>the differences which actually do exist between Germanic and Jewish psychology and which have been long known to every intelligent person are no longer to be glossed over.</i>"</div>
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In a letter to his pupil Dr Kranefeldt in 1934, Jung wrote:</div>
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<i>"As is known, one cannot do anything against stupidity, but in this instance the Aryan people can point out that, with Freud and Adler, specifically Jewish points of view are publicly preached, and as can be proved likewise, points of view that have an essentially corrosive character."</i></blockquote>
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Earlier, in 1918, Jung had written that the Jew..</div>
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<i>"is badly at a loss for that quality in man which roots him to the earth and draws new strength from below. This chthonic quality is to be found in the German peoples.... The Jew has too little of this quality - where has he his own earth underfoot."</i></blockquote>
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However, in the "Erwiderung auf Dr. Bally", Jung says: <i>"I must confess my total inability to understand why it should be a crime to speak of Jewish psychology."</i></div>
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Jung also asserts that "<i>psychological differences obtained between all nations and races.</i>"<br />
Hitler regarded all history as consisting of struggles between competing nations for living space and, eventually, for world domination.</div>
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The Jews, according to Hitler, are a nation and participate in these struggles, but their goal, quite directly and in the first instance, is world domination.</div>
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This is because the Jews do not start off with possession of living space, of an identifiable, geographical locality; it has to be the world or nothing.</div>
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In fact, for Hitler, the nationalism of the Jews is really "<i>de- nationalism, the bastardization of other nations</i>".</div>
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The Jewish nation achieves its goal of world domination by denationalizing existing states from within, and imposing a homogeneous "<i>Jewish</i>" character on them by its inter-national capitalism, and its equally inter-national communism.</div>
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So, in Hitler's thinking, there is a struggle between wholesome nationhood and its corrupting; enemy, the Jews.</div>
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Jung, too, was interested in the idea of the nation, and he makes innumerable references to "<i>the psychology of the nation</i>" and to the influence of a person's national background.</div>
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He says that "<i>the soil of every country holds a mystery.... There is a relationship of body to earth.</i>"</div>
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For example in 1918, Jung asserted that the skull and pelvis measurements of second-generation American immigrants were becoming "<i>indianized</i>".</div>
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It can be seen, however, that Jung was not thinking along purely racial lines, for the immigrants from Europe and the indigenous Indians come from different races.</div>
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No, living in America, living on American soil, being part of the American nation, these are what exert profound physiological and psychological effects. "<i>The foreign land.. has assimilated the conqueror,</i>" says Jung, and his argument is not based simply on race, but on earth and culture, as the matrix from which we evolve.</div>
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Earth plus culture equals nation.</div>
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In C.G. Jung, nationalism found its psychologist.</div>
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But in his role as a psychologist of nationhood, his role as a psychologist who lends his authority to nationalism, Jung's pan-psychism (Jung's phrase) developed considerably.</div>
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This development refers to the tendency to see all outer events in terms of inner dynamics, and it led Jung to claim that the nation is a personified concept that corresponds in reality only to a specific nuance of the individual psyche. The nation is nothing but an inborn character.</div>
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It should be noted that there is no hard evidence that Jung's approach to the concept of nation is fundamentally metaphorical or "<i>mythological</i>".</div>
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To sum up - first, a crucial aspect of Hitler's thinking is that the Jews represent a threat to the inevitable and healthy struggle of different nations for world domination.</div>
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Second, - Jung's view is that each nation has a different, and identifiable national psychology that is, in some manner, an innate factor.</div>
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At first sight, juxtaposing these two points of view might seem innocuous, or pointless. </div>
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But if we go on to explore the place of the Jews in Jung's mental ecology, to find out where they are situated in his view of the world, then the juxtaposition of the two points of view takes on a far more profound significance.</div>
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The ideas of nation, and of national difference form a fulcrum between the Hitlers thought, and Jung's analytical psychology.</div>
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For, as a psychologist of nations, Jung too would feel threatened by the Jews, this strange so-called nation without a land.</div>
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Jung, too, would feel threatened by the Jews, this strange nation without cultural forms - that is, without national cultural forms - of its own, and hence, in Jung's words of 1933, requiring a "<i>host nation</i>".</div>
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There is 'Jewish psychology', meaning the psychological characteristics, prejudices and assumptions of a "<i>typica</i>l" Jewish person.</div>
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Jung argues that everybody is affected by their background and this leads to all kinds of prejudices and assumptions - "<i>every child knows that differences exist</i>" .</div>
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There is, however, a second use by Jung of this term "<i>Jewish psychology</i>".</div>
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Here, he is referring to systems of psychology developed by Jews such as Freud and Adler, systems that claim universal applicability and truth.</div>
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Such a psychology is a "<i>leveling psychology</i>" (Jung's words), in that it undermines the idea that there are psychological differences between groups of peoples, such as nations.</div>
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Such a psychology is<i> wrong</i> to apply "<i>Jewish categories . . . indiscriminately</i>" and, Jung goes on to note, one should not make the "<i>unpardonable mistake of accepting the conclusion of a Jewish psychology as generally valid</i>".</div>
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Jung is saying that Jewish psychoanalysis attacks the idea of psychological differences between nations.</div>
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Jewish psychoanalysis therefore occupies a place in Jung's mind analogous to the place occupied in Hitler's mind by Jewish international capitalism, and Jewish international atheistic and materialist Communism.</div>
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The great fears are,respectively, "<i>leveling</i>" and "<i>denationalizing</i>".</div>
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Jung and Hitler do not say <i>exactly</i> the same things about the Jews, of course, but the leveling aim of Jewish psychology, and the denationalizing aim of Jewish political and economic activity, represents a similar kind of threat to each of them.</div>
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So each develops a similar kind of concern.</div>
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For Hitler, this takes the form of a concern with a Jewish "<i>spirit</i>", functioning as a '<i>pestilential bacillus</i>', undermining the very idea of nation.</div>
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For Jung, this takes the form of an concern with a Jewish psychology, capable of being <i>imposed</i> on all other ethnic and national psychologies, bringing them all <i>down</i> to the same level.<br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">When we look back to the time before 1914, we find ourselves living in a world of events which would have been inconceivable before the war.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">We were even beginning to regard war between civilized nations as a fable, thinking that such an absurdity would become less and less possible in our rational, internationally organized world.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">And what came after the war was a veritable witches’ Sabbath.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">Everywhere fantastic revolutions, violent alterations of the map, reversions in politics to medieval or even antique prototypes, totalitarian states that engulf their neighbours and outdo all previous theocracies in their absolutist claims, persecutions of Christians and Jews, wholesale political murder, and finally we have witnessed a light-hearted piratical raid on a peaceful, half-civilized people.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">With such goings on in the wide world it is not in the least surprising that there should be equally curious manifestations on a smaller scale in other spheres.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">In the realm of philosophy we shall have to wait some time before anyone is able to assess the kind of age that we are living in.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">But in the sphere of religion we can see at once that some very significant things have been happening.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">We need feel no surprise that in Russia the colourful splendours of the Eastern Orthodox Church have been superseded by the 'Movement of the Godless' – indeed, one breathed a sigh of relief oneself when one emerged from the haze of an Orthodox church with its multitude of lamps and entered an honest mosque, where the sublime and invisible omnipresence of God was not crowded out by a superfluity of sacred paraphernalia.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">Tasteless and pitiably unintelligent as it is, and however deplorable the low spiritual level of the “Scientific” reaction, it was inevitable that nineteenth-century “scientific” enlightenment should one day dawn in Russia.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">But what is more than curious – indeed, piquant to a degree – is that an ancient God of storm and frenzy, the long quiescent Wotan, should awake, like an extinct volcano, to new activity.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">We have seen him come to life in the 'German Youth Movement', and right at the beginning the blood of several sheep was shed in honour of his resurrection.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">Armed with rucksack and lute, blond youths, and sometimes girls as well, were to be seen as restless wanderers on every road from North Cape to Sicily, faithful votaries of the roving god.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">By 1933 they wandered no longer, but marched in their hundreds of thousands.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">He could be seen, looking rather shamefaced, in the meeting-house of a sect of simple folk in North Germany, disguised as Christ sitting on a white horse.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">He was soon changed by Christianity into the devil, and only lived on in fading local traditions as a ghostly hunter who was seen with his retinue, flickering like a will o’ the wisp through the stormy night.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">They were anticipated by Nietzsche, Schuler, Stefan George, and Ludwig Klages.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">The literary tradition of the Rhineland and the country south of the Main has a classical stamp that cannot easily be got rid of; every interpretation of intoxication and exuberance is apt to be taken back to classical models, to Dionysus, to the peur aeternus and the cosmogonic Eros.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">He is the god of the storm and frenzy, the unleasher of passions and the lust of battle; moreover he is superlative magician and artist in illusion who is versed in all secrets of an occult nature. Nietzsche’s case is certainly a peculiar one.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">He had no knowledge of Germanic literature; he discovered the “cultural Philistine”; and the announcement that “God is dead” led to Zarathustra’s meeting with an unknown god in unexpected form, who approached him sometimes as an enemy and sometimes disguised as Zarathustra himself.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;"> '<i>And like a wind shall I come to blow among them, and with my spirit shall take away the breath of their spirit; thus my future wills it. Truly, a strong wind is Zarathustra to all that are low; and this counsel gives he to his enemies and to all that spit and spew: “Beware of spitting against the wind.” And when Zarathustra dreamed that he was guardian of the graves in the “lone mountain forest of death,” and was making a mighty effort to open the gates, suddenly a roaring wind tore the gates asunder; whistling, shrieking, and keening, it cast a black coffin before me. And amid the roaring and whistling and shrieking the coffin burst open and spouted a thousand peals of laughter. The disciple who interpreted the dream said to Zarathustra: Are you not yourself the wind with shrill whistling, which bursts open the gates of the fortress of death? Are you not yourself the coffin filled with life’s gay malice and angel-grimaces ?</i>'</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">'<i>To the Unknown God', Nietzsche had written: 'I shall and will know thee, Unknown One, Who searchest out the depths of my soul, And blowest through my life like a storm, Ungraspable, and yet my kinsman! I shall and will know thee, and serve thee. Twenty years later, in his Mistral Song, he wrote: Mistral wind, chaser of clouds, Killer of gloom, sweeper of the skies, Raging storm-wind, how I love thee! Are we not both the first-fruits Of the same womb, forever predestined To the same fate ?</i>'</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">'<i>Stretched out, shuddering, Like a half-dead thing whose feet are warmed, Shaken by unknown fevers, Shivering with piercing icy frost arrows Hunted by thee, O thought, Unutterable! Veiled! Horrible one! Thou huntsman behind the cloud. Struck down by thy lightening bolt, Thou mocking eye that stares at me from the dark! Thus I lie. Writhing, twisted, tormented With all eternal tortures. Smitten By thee, cruel huntsman, Thou unknown – God !</i>'</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">This remarkable image of the 'hunter-god' is not a mere dithyrambic figure of speech but is based on an experience which Nietzsche had when he was fifteen years old, at Pforta.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">It is described in a book by Nietzsche’s sister, Elizabeth Foerster-Nietzsche.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">As he was wandering in a gloomy wood at night, he was terrified by a “<i>blood-curdling shriek from a neighbouring lunatic asylum</i>,” and soon afterwards he came face to face with a huntsman whose “features were wild and uncanny.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">Setting his whistle to his lips “<i>in a valley surrounded by wild scrub</i>,” the huntsman “<i>blew such as a shrill blast</i>” that Nietzsche lost consciousness – but woke up again in Pforta.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">It is significant that in his dream Nietzsche, who in reality intended to go to Eisleben, Luther’s town, discussed with the huntsman the question of going instead to “Teutschenthal” (Valley of the Germans).</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">Was it really only the classical philologist in Nietzsche that led to the god being called Dionysus instead of Wotan – or was it perhaps due to his fateful meeting with Wagner ?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">In his 'Reich ohne Raum', which was first published in 1919, Bruno Goetz saw the secret of coming events in Germany in the form of a very strange vision.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">I have never forgotten this little book, for it struck me at the time as a forecast of the German weather.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">It anticipates the conflict between the realm of ideas and life, between Wotan’s dual nature as a god of storm and a god of secret musings.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">Wotan disappeared when his oaks fell and appeared again when the Christian God proved too weak to save Christendom from fratricidal slaughter.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">When the Holy Father at Rome could only impotently lament before God the fate of the grex segregatus (separated flock), the one-eyed old hunter, on the edge of the German forest, laughed and saddled Sleipnir.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">We are always convinced that the modern world is a reasonable world, basing our opinion on economic, political, and psychological factors, but if we may forget for a moment and lay aside our well-meaning, all-too human reasonableness, may burden God or the gods with the responsibility for contemporary events instead of man, we would find Wotan quite suitable as a casual hypothesis.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">In fact, I venture the heretical suggestion that the unfathomable depths of Wotan’s character explain more of Völkisch philosophy than all three reasonable factors put together.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">There is no doubt that each of these factors explains an important aspect of what is going on in Germany, but Wotan explains yet more.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">He is particularly enlightening in regard to a general phenomenon, which is so strange to anybody <i>not </i>a German that it remains incomprehensible, even after the deepest reflection. Perhaps we may sum up this general phenomenon as 'Ergriffenheit' – a state of being seized or possessed.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">The term postulates not only an 'Ergriffener' (one who is seized) but, also, an 'Ergreifer' (one who seizes).</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">Wotan is an 'Ergreifer' of men, and, unless one wishes to deify Hitler – which has indeed actually happened – he is really the only explanation.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">It is true that Wotan shares this quality with his cousin Dionysus, but Dionysus seems to have exercised his influence mainly on women.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">The maenads were a species of female 'storm-troopers', and, according to mythical reports, were dangerous enough.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">Wotan confined himself to the 'berserkers', who found their vocation as the Blackshirts of mythical kings.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">A mind that is still childish thinks of the gods as metaphysical entities existing in their own right, or else regards them as playful or superstitious inventions.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">From either point of view the parallel between 'Wotan redivivus' (come back to life; revived) and the social, political, and psychic storm that is shaking Germany might have at least the value of parable.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">But since the 'gods' are without doubt personifications of psychic forces, to assert their metaphysical existence is as much an intellectual presumption as the opinion that they could ever be invented.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">Not that “psychic forces” have anything to do with the conscious mind, fond as we are of playing with the idea that consciousness and psyche are identical.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">This is only another piece of intellectual presumption.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">“Psychic forces” have far more to do with the realm of the unconscious.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">Our <i>mania</i> for rational explanations obviously has its roots in our <i>fear</i> of metaphysics, for the two were always hostile brothers.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">Hence, anything unexpected that approaches us from the dark realm is regarded either as coming from outside and, therefore, as real, or else as a hallucination and, therefore, not true.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">The idea that anything could be real or true which does not come from outside has hardly begun to dawn on contemporary man.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">For the sake of better understanding and to avoid prejudice, we could of course dispense with the name “Wotan” and speak instead of the 'furor Teutonicus' (furor - violent anger or frenzy; a state of intense excitement).</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">But we should only be saying the same thing and not as well, for the furor in this case is a mere psychologizing of Wotan and tells us no more than that the Germans are in a state of “fury.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">We thus lose sight of the most peculiar feature of this whole phenomenon, namely, the dramatic aspect of the 'Ergreifer' and the 'Ergriffener'.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">The impressive thing about the German phenomenon is that one man, who is obviously “<i>possessed</i>,” has infected a whole nation to such an extent that everything is set in motion and has started rolling on its course towards perdition.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">It seems to me that Wotan hits the mark as an hypothesis.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Kyffhäuser is a range of hills located on the border of the German state of Thuringia with Saxony-Anhalt. It stands on the southern edge of the Harz. The range has a length of 19 kilometres (12 mi) and a width of 7 kilometres (4.3 mi). It reaches its highest point at the Kulpenberg (473.4 metres (1,553 ft)), situated in Thuringia. The Kyffhäuser has significance in German traditional mythology as the resting place of Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, who drowned on June 10, 1190 in the Göksu River near Silifke during the Third Crusade.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">He is a fundamental attribute of the German psyche, an irrational psychic factor which acts on the high pressure of civilization like a cyclone and blows it away.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">Despite their apparent crankiness, the Wotan-worshippers seem to have judged things more correctly than the worshippers of reason.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">Apparently everyone had forgotten that Wotan is a Germanic 'datum' of first importance, the trust expression and unsurpassed personification of a fundamental quality that is particularly characteristic of the Germans.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">Houston Stewart Chamberlain is a symptom which arouses suspicion that other veiled gods may be sleeping elsewhere.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">The emphasis on the German race – commonly called “Aryan” – the Germanic heritage, blood and soil, the Wagalaweia songs, the ride of the Valkyries, Jesus as a blond and blue-eyed hero, the Greek mother of St. Paul, the devil as an international Alberich in Jewish or Masonic guise, the Nordic aurora borealis as the light of civilization, the inferior Mediterranean races – all this is the indispensable scenery for the drama that is taking place and at the bottom they all mean the same thing: a god has taken possession of the Germans and their house is filled with a “<i>mighty rushing wind</i>.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">It was soon after Hitler seized power that a cartoon appeared in Punch of a raving berserker tearing himself free from his bonds.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">A hurricane has broken loose in Germany while we still believe it is fine weather.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">Things are comparatively quite in Switzerland, though occasionally there is a puff of wind from the north or south.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">Sometimes it has a slightly ominous sound, sometimes it whispers so harmlessly or even idealistically that no one is alarmed.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">“<i>Let the sleeping dogs lie</i>” – we manage to get along pretty well with this proverbial wisdom.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">It is sometimes said that the Swiss are singularly averse to making a problem of themselves.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">I must rebut this accusation: the Swiss do have their problems, but they would not admit it for anything in the world, even though they see which way the wind is blowing.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">We thus pay our tribute to the time of storm and stress in Germany, but we never mention it, and this enables us to feel vastly superior.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">It is above all the Germans who have an opportunity, perhaps unique in history, to look into their own hearts and to learn what those perils of the soul were from which Christianity tried to rescue mankind.</span></div>
<span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Germany is a land of </span><i style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">spiritual catastrophes</i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, where nature never makes more than a pretence of peace with the world-ruling reason.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The disturber of the peace is a wind that blows into Europe from Asia’s vastness, sweeping in on a wide front from Thrace to the Baltic, scattering the nations before it like dry leaves, or inspiring thoughts that shake the world to its foundations.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is an elemental Dionysus breaking into the Apollonian order.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The rouser of this Tempest is named Wotan, and we can learn a good deal about him from the political confusion and spiritual upheaval he has caused throughout history.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For a more exact investigation of his character, however, we must go back to the age of myths, which did not explain everything in terms of man and his limited capabilities, but sought the deeper cause in the psyche and its autonomous powers.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Man’s earliest intuitions personified these powers as 'gods', and described them in the myths with great care and circumstantiality, according to their various characters.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This could be done the more readily on account of the firmly established primordial types or images which are innate in the unconscious of many races and exercise a direct influence upon them.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Because the behaviour of a race takes on its specific character from its underlying images, we can speak of an <i>archetype </i>“Wotan.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Archetypes are often used in myths and storytelling across different cultures.</span><br />
<span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">In Jung's psychological framework, archetypes are innate, universal prototypes for ideas and may be used to interpret observations. A group of memories and interpretations associated with an archetype is a complex ( e.g. a mother complex associated with the mother archetype). Jung treated the archetypes as psychological organs, analogous to physical ones in that both are morphological constructs that arose through evolution.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For Wotan has a peculiar biology of his own, quite apart from the nature of man.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is only from time to time that individuals fall under the irresistible influence of this unconscious factor.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When it is quiescent, one is no more aware of the archetype Wotan than of a latent epilepsy. Could the Germans who were adults in 1914 have foreseen what they would be today ?</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Such amazing transformations are the effect of the god of wind, that “<i>bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, nor whither it goeth.</i>” It seizes everything in its path and overthrows everything that is not firmly rooted.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When the wind blows it shakes everything that is insecure, whether without or within.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Martin Ninck has recently published a monograph which is a most welcome addition to our knowledge of Wotan’s nature.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The reader need not fear that this book is nothing but a scientific study written with academic aloofness from the subject. Certainly the right to scientific objectivity is fully preserved, and the material has been collected with extraordinary thoroughness and presented in unusually clear form. But, over and above all this, one feels that the author is vitally interested in it, that the chord of Wotan is vibrating in him, too.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is no criticism – on the contrary, it is one of the chief merits of the book, which without this enthusiasm might easily have degenerated into a tedious catalogue.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ninck sketches a really magnificent portrait of the German archetype Wotan.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He describes him in ten chapters, using all the available sources, as the berserker, the god of storm, the wanderer, the warrior, the Wunsch- (wish) and Minne -god, the lord of the dead and of the Einherjar, the master of secret knowledge, the magician, and the god of the poets. Neither the Valkyries nor the Fylgja (a supernatural being or creature which accompanies a person in connection to their fate or fortune)</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> are forgotten, for they form part of the mythological background and fateful significance of Wotan.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ninck’s inquiry into the name and its origin is particularly instructive.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He shows that Wotan is not only a god of rage and frenzy, who embodies the instinctual and emotional aspect of the unconscious.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Its intuitive and inspiring side, also, manifests itself in him, for he understands the runes and can interpret fate.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Romans identified Wotan with Mercury, but his character does not really corresponded to any Roman or Greek god, although there are certain resemblances.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He is a wanderer like Mercury, for instance, he rules over the dead like Pluto and Kronos, and is connected with Dionysus by his emotional frenzy, particularly in its mantic aspect.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is surprising that Ninck does not mention Hermes, the god of revelation, who as 'pneuma' (ancient Greek for breath, spirit or soul) and 'nous' (Greek - intellect or intelligence) is associated with the wind.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He would be the connecting-link with the Christian 'pneuma' and the miracle of Pentecost.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As Poimandres (the shepherd of men), Hermes is an 'Ergreifer' like Wotan.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ninck rightly points out that Dionysus and the other Greek gods always remained under the supreme authority of Zeus, which indicates a fundamental difference between the Greek and Germanic temperament.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ninck assumes an inner affinity between Wotan and Kronos, and the latter’s defeat may perhaps be a sign that the Wotan-archetype was once overcome and split up in prehistoric times.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At all events, the Germanic god represents a<i> totality </i>on a very primitive level, - a psychological condition in which man’s will was almost identical with the god’s and entirely at his mercy.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But the Greeks had gods who helped man against other gods; indeed, 'All-Father' Zeus himself is not far from the ideal of a benevolent, enlightened despot.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was not in Wotan’s nature to linger on, and show signs of old age.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He simply disappeared when the times turned against him, and remained invisible for more than a thousand years, working anonymously and indirectly.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Archetypes are like riverbeds which dry up when the water deserts them, but which it can find again at any-time. </span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">An archetype is like an old watercourse along which the water of life has flowed for centuries, digging a deep channel for itself.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The longer it has flowed in this channel the more likely it is that sooner or later the water will return to its old bed.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The life of the individual as a member of society and particularly as a part of the state may be regulated like a canal, but the life of nations is a great rushing river which is utterly beyond human control, in the hands of 'One' who has always been stronger than men.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The League of Nations, which was supposed to possess supernatural authority, is regarded by some as a child in need of care and protection, by others as an abortion.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thus, the life of nations rolls on unchecked, without guidance, unconscious of where it is going, like a rock crashing down the side of a hill, until it is stopped by an obstacle stronger than itself. Political events move from one impasse to the next, like a torrent caught in gullies, creeks and marshes.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">All human control comes to an end when the individual is caught in a mass movement.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then, the archetypes begin to function, as happens, also, in the lives of individuals when they are confronted with situations that cannot be dealt with in any of the familiar ways.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But what a so-called Fü</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">hrer does with a mass movement can plainly be seen if we turn our eyes to the north or south of our country.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The ruling archetype does not remain the same forever, as is evident from the temporal limitations that have been set to the hoped-for reign of peace, the “thousand-year Reich.”</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Mediterranean father-archetype of the just, order-loving, benevolent ruler had been shattered over the whole of northern Europe, as the present fate of the Christian churches bears witness.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Fascism in Italy and the civil war in Spain show that in the south as well the cataclysm has been far greater than one expected.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Even the Catholic Church can no longer afford trials of strength.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The nationalist God has attacked Christianity on a broad front.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In Russia, he is called technology and science, in Italy, 'Duce' (leader), and in Germany, '</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Deutsch Glaube' (</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">German Faith), 'German Christianity', or the State.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“The German Christians” are a contradiction in many terms, and would do better to join Hauer’s '</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Deutsche Glaubensbewegung' (</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">German Faith Movement).</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These are decent and well-meaning people who honestly admit their 'Ergriffenheit' and try to come to terms with this new and undeniable fact.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They go to an enormous amount of trouble to make it look less alarming by dressing it up in a conciliatory historical garb and giving us consoling glimpses of great figures such as Meister Eckhart, who was, also, a German and, also, 'ergriffen'.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In this way the awkward question of who the Ergreifer is is circumvented.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He was always “God.”</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But the more Hauer restricts the world-wide sphere of Indo-European culture to the “Nordic” in general and to the 'Edda' in particular, and the more “German” this faith becomes as a manifestation of 'Ergriffenheit', the more painfully evident it is that the “German” god is the god of the Germans.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One cannot read Hauer’s book without emotion, if one regards it as the tragic and really heroic effort of a conscientious scholar who, without knowing how it happened to him, was violently summoned by the inaudible voice of the 'Ergreifer' and is now trying with all his might, and with all his knowledge and ability, to build a bridge between the dark forces of life and the shining world of historical ideas.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But what do all the beauties of the past from totally different levels of culture mean to the man of today, when confronted with a living and unfathomable tribal god such as he has never experienced before ?</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They are sucked like dry leaves into the roaring whirlwind, and the rhythmic alliterations of the 'Edda' became inextricably mixed up with Christian mystical texts, German poetry and the wisdom of the Upanishads.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hauer himself is 'ergriffen' by the depths of meaning in the primal words lying at the root of the Germanic languages, to an extent that he certainly never knew before.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hauer the Indologist is not to blame for this, nor yet the 'Edda'; it is rather the fault of kairos – 'the present moment in time' – whose name on closer investigation turns out to be Wotan.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I would, therefore, advise the '<a href="http://irdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/national-socialism-and-christianity.html" target="_blank">German Faith Movement</a>' to throw aside their scruples.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Intelligent people will not confuse them with the crude Wotan-worshipers whose faith is a mere pretense.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The <a href="http://irdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/national-socialism-and-christianity.html" target="_blank">Deutsche Glaubensbewegung</a> was closely associated with Jakob Wilhelm Hauer during the Third Reich (1933–1945), and sought to move Germany away from Christianity towards a religion based on "immediate experience" of God. Hauer was a professor at the University of Tübingen.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #d9d2e9;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Instead of the Bible, a combination of Indian (Hindu) and German literature was used as scripture. Hauer had worked as a missionary in India and was influenced in particular by the Bhagavad Gita. Ceremonies of the movement involved sermons, German classical music and political hymns. </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Hauer was considered by contemporary observers as a genuinely religious man, though his political sentiments were also commented on. </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The movement had around 200,000 followers at its height. Following the Nazi accession to power, it obtained rights of civil tolerance from Rudolf Hess, but never the preferential treatment from the Third Reich, for which Hauer campaigned. </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The development of the German Faith Movement revolved around four main themes:</span></span></div>
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<li><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif;">the rejection of Christian ethics</span></li>
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<span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Similar movements have remained active in Germany since 1945 outside mainstream educational and social structures.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There are people in the 'German Faith Movement' who are intelligent enough not only to believe, but to know, that the god of the Germans is Wotan and not the Christian God.</span></div>
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is a tragic experience and no disgrace.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It has always been terrible to fall into the hands of a living god.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Yahweh was no exception to this rule, and the Philistines, Edomites, Amorites, and the rest, who were outside the Yahweh experience, must certainly have found it exceedingly disagreeable.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Semitic experience of Allah was for a long time an extremely painful affair for the whole of Christendom.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We who stand outside judge the Germans far too much, as if they were responsible agents, but perhaps it would be nearer the truth to regard them, also, as victims.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If we apply our admittedly peculiar point of view consistently, we are driven to conclude that Wotan must, in time, reveal not only the restless, violent, stormy side of his character, but, also, his ecstatic and mantic qualities (</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">relating to, or having the power of divination) </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">– a very different aspect of his nature.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If this conclusion is correct, National Socialism would <i>not be the last word</i>.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Things must be concealed in the background which we cannot imagine at present, but we may expect them to appear in the course of the next few years or decades.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Wotan’s reawakening is stepping into the past; the stream was dammed up and has broken into its old channel.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But the Obstruction will not last forever; it is rather a reculer pour mieux sauter, (go </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">back to have a better jump) and the water will over-leap the obstacle.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then, at last, we shall know what Wotan is saying when he “<i>murmurs with Mimir’s head.</i>”</span><br />
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Peter Crawfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08185209993829407070noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2205145836551042962.post-2992311821759017972013-09-07T15:21:00.003-07:002014-06-04T17:11:22.287-07:00Die Okkulten Hakenkreuz - The Occult Swastika<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The swastika is an ancient symbol that has been used for over 3,000 years. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That even pre-dates the ancient Egyptian symbol, the Ankh !</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Artifacts such as pottery and coins from ancient Troy (see below) show that the swastika was a commonly used symbol as far back as 1000 BCE.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The symbol of the 4-sided swastika is an archetype for the rotations of time and consciousness - moving clockwise and counterwise - in upward or downward spirals - allowing souls to experience many levels of reality simultaneously.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The completed symbol of the swastika denotes a world in itself, a spatial order of power with elements equidistant from the centre.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is the dual glyph of the cosmic and microcosmic, the configuration of movement divided into four parts.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The solar swastika represents the eternal round of season.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The circle represents the Unknown One; the point in the circle signifies the Logos.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the light of the Logos, becomes Fohat, the link between spirit and matter.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Fohat appears in 'Die Geheimlehre' (the Secret Doctrine) by H.P. Blavatsky – and especially in the first volume titled “Cosmogenesis”. Fohat is one of the keys in Occultism which opens up the multiform symbols and respective allegories in mythology. Fohat is always spoken of in terms of cosmic or universal electricity, vitality, energy, and life force. The universe itself is animated, vitalised, and powered on the macrocosmic level by Fohat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This initial, passive duality becomes a conscious activation of duality through human life, symbolized by a vertical diameter cutting across the horizontal, balancing heaven and earth and penetrating both.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The swastika is taken from the circumscribed cross; its hooks are portions of the circle now rendered directional.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Logoic point, expanding toward the four cardinal points, has set the wheel in motion.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In alchemy, the swastika was used to symbolise the four cardinal corners of the world and the guardianship of this world.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Also in the 'Die Geheimlehre' (the </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Secret Doctrine) the swastika is a summary in a few lines of the whole work of creation or evolution . . . from cosmo-theogony to anthropogony.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is the worker’s hammer “<i>which striketh sparks from flint,</i>” - flint symbolizing space while the sparks symbolize worlds.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is Thor’s hammer brought to consecrate the New Heaven and New Earth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The four-footed cross, which Thor uses to smite the head of the serpent of evil passions, becomes the root power of the macrocosm and the microcosm.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The swastika, symbolizing the work of creation, also symbolizes the Great Architect</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the Pythagorean tradition, the swastika stood for the tetraktys, the double symbol.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is the link between heaven and earth, its right arm pointing to heaven, its left arm pointing to earth.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Alchemists labelled the heavenward arm “solve” and the earthward arm “coagula,” while man stands at the axis, his spiritual nature resolving all form.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Like the swastika, he represents the alpha and omega of Universal Creative Force.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The central point is not limited to one perfect being, but is God in humanity, the four arms emanating from pure spirit, losing themselves infinitely in matter.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Only the balanced cross of spirit-matter fits within the spherical pattern of evolution, exalting the mysteries of each and squaring the circle.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The swastika itself is symbolized by the number six which signifies the four points - North, South, East and West - and the poles, or Zenith and Nadir, which coincide with the mystic center and represent the origin of the universe.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The swastika is an equilateral cross with its arms bent at right angles either clockwise or anticlockwise.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is traditionally oriented so that a main line is horizontal, though it is occasionally rotated at forty-five degrees, and the Hindu version often has a dot in each quadrant.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The swastika has not always been used as a völkisch occult symbol, and was in fact borrowed from Eastern cultures.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It seems to have first been used by early inhabitants of Eurasia.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is an important symbol in Eastern religions, notably Hinduism and Buddhism, among others, and was also used in Native American faiths.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The ancient Greeks and Romans also extensively used the swastika (see left).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The swastika, also known as the fylfot in northwestern Europe, appears on many pre-Christian artefacts, within a circle or in a swirling form.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Greek goddess Athena was sometimes portrayed as wearing robes covered with swastikas.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The "Ogham stone" found in County Kerry, Ireland is inscribed with several swastikas dating to the fifth century AD, and is believed to have been an altar stone of the Druids.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The pre-Christian Anglo-Saxon ship burial at Sutton Hoo, England, contains gold cups and shields bearing swastikas.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today it is used as a symbol for Asatru, the reconstructed religion of Northern Europe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By the early twentieth century it was regarded worldwide as a symbol of good luck and auspiciousness.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The use made of the swastika by the NSDAP derived from earlier German völkisch nationalist movements, for which the swastika was a symbol of "Aryan" identity, a concept that came to be equated by theorists like Alfred Rosenberg with a Nordic master race originating in northern Europe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The word swastika is derived from the Sanskrit svastika, meaning any lucky or auspicious object, and in particular a mark made on persons and things to denote good luck.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is composed of <i>su</i>- (cognate with Greek e?-), meaning "good, well" and <i>asti</i> a verbal abstract to the root as "to be"; svasti thus means "well-being".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The suffix -ka forms a diminutive, and svastika might thus be translated literally as "little thing associated with well-being", corresponding roughly to "lucky charm", or "thing that is auspicious".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The word first appears in the Classical Sanskrit (in the Ramayana and Mahabharata epics).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Alternative historical English spellings of the Sanskrit word include suastika and svastica.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cross gammadion (see left) - tetragammadion or just gammadion, as each arm resembles the Greek letter (gamma)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tetraskelion - Greek "four legged", especially when composed of four conjoined legs</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thor's hammer (see right) - from its supposed association with Thor, the Norse god of thunder, but this may be a misappropriation of a name that properly belongs to a Y-shaped or T-shaped symbol. - The Swastika shape appears in an 8th century Icelandic grimoire where in it is named Þurs Hamar</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">In Norse mythology, Mjölnir (also Mjǫlnir, Mjollnir, Mjölner or Mjølner) is the hammer of Thor, the Norse god of thunder. Mjölnir is depicted in Norse mythology as one of the most fearsome weapons, capable of levelling mountains.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">In his account of Norse mythology Snorri Sturluson relates how the hammer was made by the dwarven brothers Sindri and Brokkr, and how its characteristically short handle was due to a mishap during its manufacture. According to some scholars, the swastika shape may have been a variant popular in Anglo-Saxon England prior to Christianization, especially in East Anglia and Kent. Wilson (1894) points out that while the swastika had been "vulgarly called in Scandinavia the hammer of Thor" (in Icelandic: Thorshamarmerki, mark of Thor's hammer ) , the symbol properly so called had a Y or T shape.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hooked cross - (Dutch: hakenkruis, Icelandic Hakakross, German: Hakenkreuz, Finnish: hakaristi, Norwegian: Hakekors, Italian: croce uncinata and Swedish: Hakkors)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The swastika appears in art and design from pre-history symbolizing, in various contexts: luck, the sun, Brahma, or the Hindu concept of samsara.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In antiquity, the swastika was used extensively by Hittites, Celts and Greeks, among others.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It occurs in other Asian, European, African and Native American cultures sometimes as a geometrical motif, sometimes as a religious symbol.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today, the swastika is a common symbol in Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism, among others. The ubiquity of the swastika has been explained by three main theories: independent development, cultural diffusion, and external event.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first theory is that the swastika's symmetry and simplicity led to its independent development everywhere, along the lines of Carl Jung's collective unconscious.Another explanation is suggested by Carl Sagan in his book 'Comet'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sagan reproduces an ancient Chinese manuscript that shows comet tail varieties: most are variations on simple comet tails, but the last shows the comet nucleus with four bent arms extending from it, recalling a swastika.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sagan suggests that in antiquity a comet could have approached so close to Earth that the jets of gas streaming from it, bent by the comet's rotation, became visible, leading to the adoption of the swastika as a symbol across the world. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Theories of single origin as a sacred prehistorical symbol point to the Proto-Indo-Europeans, noting that the swastika was not adopted by Sumer in Mesopotamia, which was established no later than 3500 BC, and the Old Kingdom of Egypt, beginning in 2630 BC, arguing that these were already well-established and codified at the time of the symbol's diffusion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The swastika symbol is prominent in Hinduism, which is considered the parent religion of Buddhism and Jainism, both dating from about the sixth century BC, and both borrowing the swastika from their parent.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Buddhism in particular enjoyed great success, spreading eastward and taking hold in southeast Asia, China, Korea and Japan by the end of the first millennium.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The use of the swastika by the indigenous Bön faith of Tibet, as well as syncretic religions, such as Cao Dai of Vietnam and Falun Gong of China, is thought to be borrowed from Buddhism as well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Similarly, the existence of the swastika as a solar symbol among the Akan civilization of south-west Africa may have been the result of cultural transfer along the African slave routes around 1500 AD. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Regardless of origins, the swastika had generally positive connotations from early in human history, with the exceptions being most of Africa and South America.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For example, the counter-clockwise variant of it, adopted by the National Socialists, is also the letter “G” in the medieval Northern European Runic Script.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The medieval runes, or the futhork, was a Scandinavian 27 letter runic alphabet that evolved from the Younger Futhark after the introduction of dotted runes at the end of the Viking Age and it was fully formed in the early 13th century. Due to the expansion, each rune corresponded to only one phoneme, whereas the runes in the preceding Younger Futhark could correspond to several.The medieval runes were in use throughout Scandinavia during the Middle Ages, and provided the basis for the appearance of runology in the 16th century.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Freemasons took the letter as an important symbol, since “G” could stand for God, the Great Architect of the Universe, or Geometry.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The swastika is also a traditional symbol of the Old Norse God of Thunder and Might (Scandinavian Thor, German Donner, Baltic Perkunas).</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">In Norse mythology, Thor (from Old Norse Þórr) is a hammer-wielding god associated with thunder, lightning, storms, oak trees, strength, the protection of mankind, and also hallowing, healing and fertility. The cognate deity in wider Germanic mythology and paganism was known in Old English as Þunor and in Old High German as Donar, stemming from a Common Germanic *Þunraz (meaning "thunder").</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Thor is a prominently mentioned god throughout the recorded history of the Germanic peoples, from the Roman occupation of regions of Germania, to the tribal expansions of the Migration Period, to his high popularity during the Viking Age, when, in the face of the process of the Christianization of Scandinavia, emblems of his hammer, Mjölnir, were worn in defiance and Norse pagan personal names containing the name of the god bear witness to his popularity. Into the modern period, Thor continued to be acknowledged in rural folklore throughout Germanic regions. Thor is frequently referred to in place names, the day of the week Thursday ("Thor's day") bears his name, and names stemming from the pagan period containing his own continue to be used today</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Because of this association with the God of Thunder, the Latvians and Finnish both took the swastika as the insignia for their air forces when they gained independence after the First World War.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The word Swastika also means 'source', and was seen by occultists as representing 'eternal cause' or the 'fountain of creation'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From the secret patterns of the 'Forms' the creation of the material universe was set in motion by the will of the all highest - and the motion of creation was in the form of a spiralling circle - which even now is echoed, in the microcosm, in the forms of the basic particles of matter, and in the macrocosm, by the forms of the galaxies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And now the symbol of creation is represented by the <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/deutsch-occult-physik-german-occult_2.html" target="_blank">Swastika</a> - the 'Sigil of Creation' which is an archetype for the rotations of time and human consciousness, spiralling and allowing souls to experience many levels of reality at the same time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Swastika, therefore, is undoubtedly one of the most effective symbols ever devised, and it has a profound power that penetrates deep into the human psyche.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Heinrich Schliemann discovered the symbol of the Swastika in the site of ancient Troy and associated it with the ancient migrations of Proto-Indo-Europeans.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He connected it with similar shapes found on ancient pots in Germany, and theorized that the swastika was a "<i>significant religious symbol of our remote ancestors</i>", linking Germanic, Greek and Indo-Iranian cultures.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The work of Schliemann soon became intertwined with the völkisch movements, for which the swastika was a symbol of the "Aryan race", a concept that came to be equated by theorists such as Alfred Rosenberg with a Nordic master race originating in northern Europe.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By a strange coincidence - or maybe not - Hitler's first contact with the swastika was while he was a young boy with the Benedictines at the Abbey of Lambach-am-Traum, in upper Austria.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At Lambach Hitler saw the swastika engraved on the four corners of the monastery, where it had been sculpted several years before, following orders of the abbot, Theodorich Hagen.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A most erudite ecclesiastic, Father Hagen had a considerable knowledge of astrology, and of the<i> occult</i> sciences.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He was also an specialist on the New Testament Apocalypse of Saint John.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In 1856 Father Hagen made a long trip to the Near East visiting, among other places, Persia, Arabia, Turkey, and the Caucasus.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Upon his return to Lambach in 1868 he immediately hired workers and cabinet makers, whom he ordered to sculpt the swastika (on stone and wood) on the four corners of the building, and even on some religious objects.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hagen was reputed to be an expert on the Cathars, and several other medieval heresies including the Bogomils</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When young Adolf became a student at Lambach Father Hagen had already died, but the swastikas he ordered to be carved were still there.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While Hitler was a at the abbey, a Cistercian monk, named Adolf Joseph Lanz (Liebenfels), made a stay at Lambach.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He stayed for several weeks, shut up in the monastery library, thoroughly researching and studying Hagen's personal papers.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The monks affirm that during his research he evidenced the signs of great agitation, like of a person who had made a <i>great discovery</i>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After his visit to Abbey, Lanz returned to Vienna, where the following year (1900) he founded the Order of the New Templars raising a swastika flag over the Templar castle he chose to be the centre of the Order.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At a later date, when Hitler was a young man, he and Liebenfels met in Vienna.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The origin of the Lambach swwastik was to be found in the personal coat of arms of Abbot Theoderich Hagen, which bore a golden swastika with slanted points on a blue field.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Lambach swastika is probably of Medieval origin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The swastika flag adopted by the NSDAP was the brain-child of a member of the Thulist Gesellschaft, a dentist from Sternberg called Dr Krohn.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">His design was subsequently modified by <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.com/2011/07/case-of-adolf-hitler-hitlers-early-life.html">Hitler</a> to the version seen on the left.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The flag was also used as the national flag for Germany from 1933 until 1945</span><br />
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The Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP) formally adopted the swastika (in German: Hakenkreuz (hook-cross)) in 1920.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This was used on the party's flag, badge, and armband.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In his 1925 work Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler wrote that:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'<i>I myself, meanwhile, after innumerable attempts, had laid down a final form; a flag with a red background, a white disk, and a black swastika in the middle. After long trials I also found a definite proportion between the size of the flag and the size of the white disk, as well as the shape and thickness of the swastik</i>a'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When Hitler created a flag for the NSDAP, he sought to incorporate both the swastika and</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<i>those revered colors expressive of our homage to the glorious past and which once brought so much honor to the German nation.</i>" (Red, white, and black were the colours of the flag of the old German Empire.)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He also stated:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<i>As National Socialists, we see our program in our flag. In red, we see the social idea of the movement; in white, the nationalistic idea; in the swastika, the mission of the struggle for the victory of the Aryan man, and, by the same token, the victory of the idea of creative work</i>."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The swastika was also understood as</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<i>the symbol of the creating, effecting life</i>" (<i>das Symbol des schaffenden, wirkenden Lebens</i>) and as</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<i>race emblem of the Aryans</i>" (Rasseabzeichen der Arier).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interestingly, Hitler makes no mention of the swastikas at Lambach.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Before the National Socialists, the swastika was already in use as a symbol of German völkisch nationalist movements (Völkische Bewegung).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The use of the swastika was incorporated by Völkisch theorists with their conjecture of Aryan cultural descent of the German people.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The use of the swastika as a symbol of the Aryan race dates back to writings of Emile Burnouf.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Émile-Louis Burnouf (26 August 1821, in Valognes – January 1907, in Paris) was a leading nineteenth-century Orientalist and racialist whose ideas influenced the development of theosophy and Aryanism.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">He was a professor at the faculté de lettres at Nancy University, then principal of the French School at Athens from 1867 to 1875.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">He was also the author of a Sanskrit-French dictionary.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Burnouf believed that only Aryan and Semitic peoples were truly religious in temperament. </span><span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Science has proved that the original tendency of the Aryan peoples is pantheism, while monotheism proper is the constant doctrine of Semitic populations. These are surely the two great beds in which flow the sacred stream of humanity. But the facts show is, in the West, peoples of Aryan origin in some sort Semiticised in Christianity. The whole of Europe is at once Aryan and Christian; that is to say pantheistic by its origin and natural dispositions, but accustomed to admit the dogma of creation from a Semitic influence.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Following many other writers, the German nationalist poet Guido von List believed it to be a uniquely Aryan symbol.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What inspired Hitler to use the swastika as a symbol for the NSDAP, apart from its use at Lambach and its use by Liebenfels and the New Templars, was its use by the Thule-Gesellschaft, since there were many connections between the Thulists and the DAP.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From 1919 until the summer of 1921 Hitler used the special Nationalsozialistische library of Dr. Friedrich Krohn, a very active member of the Thule-Gesellschaft.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dr. Krohn was also the dentist from Sternberg who was named by Hitler in 'Mein Kampf' as the designer of a flag very similar to one that Hitler designed in 1920</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">During the summer of 1920, the first party flag was shown at Tegernsee.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These home-made early flags were not preserved.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Ortsgruppe München (Munich Local Group) flag was generally regarded as the first flag of the Party.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first time the swastika was used with an "Aryan" meaning, however, was on December 25, 1907, when the self-named Order of the New Templars, a secret society founded by Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels, hoisted at Werfenstein Castle (Austria) a yellow flag with a swastika and four fleurs-de-lys.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, Liebenfels was drawing on an already established use of the symbol.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On March 14, 1933, shortly after Hitler's appointment as Chancellor of Germany, the NSDAP flag was hoisted alongside Germany's national colours.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was adopted as the sole national flag on September 15, 1935.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">"Left-facing" and "right-facing" are used mostly consistently referring to the upper arm of an upright swastika facing either to the viewer's left (卍) or right (卐). The other two descriptions are ambiguous as it is unclear whether they refer to the arms as leading or being dragged or whether their bending is viewed outward or inward. However, "clockwise" usually refers to the "right-facing" swastika. The terms are used inconsistently in modern times, which is confusing and may obfuscate an important point, that the rotation of the swastika may have symbolic relevance, although ancient vedic scripts describe the symbolic relevance of clock motion and counter clock motion. Less ambiguous terms might be "clockwise-pointing" and "counterclockwise-pointing."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The mountains of books that have been written about Hitler based on blind hatred and ignorance do little to describe or explain this enigmatic individual. How, I ponder, do these thousands of disparate portraits of Hitler in any way resemble the real man ? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">People have come to accept a fiction, repeated a thousand times over, as reality.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Yet they have never seen Hitler, never spoken to him, never heard a word from his mouth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The very name of Hitler immediately conjures up a grimacing devil, the fount of all of one’s negative emotions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Like Pavlov’s bell, the mention of Hitler is meant to dispense with substance and reality.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In time, however, history will demand more than these summary judgements.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Hitler was a man of peace in 1936, a man of war from 1939</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The first thing anyone noticed when he came into view was his small mustache.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Countless times he had been advised to shave it off, but he always refused: people were used to him the way he was.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He was not tall - no more than was Napoleon or Alexander the Great.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Hitler had deep blue eyes that many found fascinating and bewitching.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Some even said that there was an electric current that his hands were said to give off.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">His face showed emotion or indifference according to the passion or apathy of the moment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">At times he was as though benumbed, saying not a word, while his jaws moved in the meanwhile as if they were grinding an obstacle to smithereens in the void.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Then he would come suddenly alive and launch into a speech directed at individual but, paradoxically, as though he were addressing a crowd of hundreds of thousands at Berlin’s Tempelhof airfield.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Then he became as if transfigured.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Even his complexion, otherwise dull, lit up as he spoke.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And at such times, to be sure, Hitler was strangely attractive, and as if possessed of magic powers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Anything that might have seemed too solemn in his remarks, he quickly tempered with a touch of humour.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The picturesque word, the biting phrase were at his command.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In a flash he would paint a word-picture that brought a smile, or come up with an unexpected and disarming comparison.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He could be harsh, and even implacable in his judgements, and yet almost at the same time be surprisingly conciliatory, sensitive and warm.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">After 1945 Hitler was accused of every cruelty, but it was not in his nature to be cruel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He loved children.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It was an entirely natural thing for him to stop his car and share his food with young cyclists along the road. Once he gave his raincoat to a derelict plodding in the rain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">At midnight he would interrupt his work and prepare the food for his dog Blondi.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He could not bear to eat meat, because it meant the death of a living creature.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He refused to have so much as a rabbit or a trout sacrificed to provide his food.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He would allow only eggs on his table, because egg-laying meant that the hen had been spared rather than killed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Hitler’s eating habits were a constant source of amazement to those around him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">How could someone on such a rigorous schedule, who had taken part in tens of thousands of exhausting mass meetings from which he emerged bathed with sweat, often losing two to four pounds in the process; who slept only three to four hours a night; and who, from 1940 to 1945, carried the whole world on his shoulders while ruling over 380 million Europeans: how could he physically survive on just a boiled egg, a few tomatoes, two or three pancakes, and a plate of noodles ? But he actually gained weight !</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He drank only water.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He did not smoke, and would not tolerate smoking in his presence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">At one or two o’clock in the morning he would still be talking, untroubled, close to his fireplace, lively, often amusing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He never showed any sign of weariness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Dead tired his audience might be, but not Hitler.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Hitler’s most notable characteristic was ever his simplicity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The most complex of problems resolved itself in his mind into a few basic principles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">His actions were geared to ideas and decisions that could be understood by anyone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The labourer from Essen, the isolated farmer, the Ruhr industrialist, and the university professor could all easily follow his line of thought.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The very clarity of his reasoning made everything obvious.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">His behaviour and his lifestyle never changed even when he became the ruler of Germany.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He dressed and lived frugally.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">During his early days in Munich, he spent no more than a mark per day for food.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">At no stage in his life did he spend anything on himself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Throughout his thirteen years in the chancellery he never carried a wallet or ever had money of his own.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Hitler was self-taught and made not attempt to hide the fact.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The smug conceit of intellectuals, their shiny ideas packaged like so many flashlight batteries, irritated him at times.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">His own knowledge he had acquired through selective and unremitting study, and he knew far more than thousands of diploma-decorated academics.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I don’t think anyone ever read as much as he did.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He normally read one book every day, always first reading the conclusion and the index in order to gauge the work’s interest for him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He had the power to extract the essence of each book and then store it in his computer-like mind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">he often talked about complicated scientific books with faultless precision, even at the height of the war.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">His intellectual curiosity was limitless.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He was readily familiar with the writings of the most diverse authors, and nothing was too complex for his comprehension.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He had a deep knowledge and understanding of Buddha, Confucius, and Jesus Christ, as well as Luther, Calvin, and Savonarola; of literary giants such as Dante, Schiller, Shakespeare, and Goethe; and of analytical writers such as Renan and Gobineau, Chamberlain and Sorel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He had trained himself in philosophy by studying Aristotle and Plato.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He could quote entire paragraphs of Schopenhauer from memory, and for a long time carried a pocked edition of Schopenhauer with him. Nietzsche taught him much about the willpower.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">His thirst for knowledge was unquenchable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He spent hundreds of hours studying the works of Tacitus and Mommsen, military strategists such as Clausewitz, and empire builders such as Bismarck. Nothing escaped him: world history or the history of civilizations, the study of the Bible and the Talmud, Thomistic philosophy and all the master- pieces of Homer, Sophocles, Horace, Ovid, Titus Livius and Cicero. He knew Julian the Apostate as if he had been his contemporary.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">His knowledge also extended to mechanics.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He knew how engines worked; he understood the ballistics of various weapons; and he astonished the best medical scientists with his knowledge of medicine and biology.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The universality of Hitler’s knowledge may surprise or displease those unaware of it, but it is nonetheless a historical fact: Hitler was probably one of the most cultivated men of this century.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Many times more so than Churchill, an intellectual mediocrity; or than Pierre Laval, with his mere cursory knowledge of history; or than Roosevelt; or Eisenhower, who never got beyond detective novels.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Even during his earliest years, Hitler was different than other children.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He had an inner strength and was guided by his spirit and his instincts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He could draw skilfully when he was only eleven years old.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">His sketches made at that age show a remarkable firmness and liveliness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">His first paintings and watercolours, created at age 15, are full of poetry and sensitivity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">One of his most striking early works, “<i>Fortress Utopia</i>,” also shows him to have been an artist of rare imagination.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">His artistic orientation took many forms.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He wrote poetry from the time he was a lad.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He dictated a complete play to his sister Paula who was amazed at his presumption.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">At the age of 16, in Vienna, he launched into the creation of an opera.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He even designed the stage settings, as well as all the costumes; and, of course, the characters were Wagnerian heroes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">More than just an artist, Hitler was above all an architect.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Hundreds of his works were notable as much for the architecture as for the painting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">From memory alone he could reproduce in every detail the onion dome of a church or the intricate curves of wrought iron, indeed, it was to fulfil his dream of becoming an architect that Hitler went to Vienna at the beginning of the century.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When one sees the hundreds of paintings, sketches and drawings he created at the time, which reveal his mastery of three dimensional figures, it is astounding that his examiners at the Fine Arts Academy failed him in two successive examinations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">German historian Werner Maser, no friend of Hitler, castigated these examiners: “A<i>ll of his works revealed extraordinary architectural gifts and knowledge. The builder of the Third Reich gives the former Fine Arts Academy of Vienna cause for shame</i>.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Impressed by the beauty of the church in a Benedictine monastery where he was part of the choir and served as an altar boy, Hitler dreamt fleetingly of becoming a Benedictine monk.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And it was at that time, too, interestingly enough, that whenever he attended mass, he always had to pass beneath the first swastika he had ever seen: it was graven in the stone escutcheon of the abbey portal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Hitler’s father, a customs officer, hoped the boy would follow in his footsteps and become a civil servant.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">His tutor encouraged him to become a monk.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Instead the young Hitler went, or rather he fled, to Vienna.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And there, thwarted in his artistic aspirations by the bureaucratic mediocraties of academia, he turned to isolation and meditation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Lost in the great capital of Austria-Hungary, he searched for his destiny.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">During the first thirty years of Hitler’s life, the date April 20, 1889, meant nothing to anyone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He was born on that day in Branau, a small town in the Inn valley.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">During his exile in Vienna, he often thought of his modest home, and particularly of his mother.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When she fell ill, he returned home from Vienna to look after her.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">For weeks he nursed her, did all the household chores, and supported her as the most loving of sons.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When she finally died, on Christmas eve, his pain was immense.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Wracked with grief, he buried his mother in the little country cemetery: “<i>I have never seen anyone so prostrate with grief,</i>” said his mother’s doctor, who happened to be Jewish.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In his room, Hitler always displayed a picture of his mother.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The memory of the mother he loved was with him until the day he died.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">She had blue eyes like his and a similar face.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Her maternal intuition told her that her son was different from other children</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">She acted almost as if she knew her son’s destiny.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When she died, she felt anguished by the immense mystery surrounding her son.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Throughout the years of his youth, Hitler lived the life of a virtual recluse.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He greatest wish was to withdraw from the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">At heart a loner, he wandered about, ate meagre meals, but devoured the books of three public libraries.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He abstained from conversations and had few friends.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It is almost impossible to imagine another such destiny where a man started with so little and reached such heights.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Alexander the Great was the son of a king.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Napoleon, from a well-to-do family, was a general at twenty-four.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Fifteen years after Vienna, Hitler would still be an unknown corporal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Thousands of others had a thousand times more opportunity to leave their mark on the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Hitler was not much concerned with his private life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In Vienna he had lived in shabby, cramped lodgings, but for all that he rented a piano that took up half his room, and concentrated on composing his opera.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He lived on bread, milk, and vegetable soup.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But he never stopped painting or reading.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Landlords and landladies in Vienna and Munich all remembered him for his civility and pleasant disposition. His behaviour was impeccable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">His room was always spotless, his meagre belongings meticulously arranged, and his clothes neatly hung or folded.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He washed and ironed his own clothes, something which in those days few men did.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He needed almost nothing to survive, and money from the sale of a few paintings was sufficient to provide for all his needs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Hitler had not yet focused on politics, but without his rightly knowing, that was the career to which he was most strongly called.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Politics would ultimately blend with his passion for art.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">People, the masses, would be the clay the sculptor shapes into an immortal form.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The human clay would become for him a beautiful work of art like one of Myron’s marble sculptures, a Hans Makart painting, or Wagner’s Ring Cycle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">His love of music, art, and architecture had not removed him from the political life and social concerns of Vienna.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When Hitler later said that he had formed his social and political doctrine in Vienna, he told the truth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Ten years later his observations made in Vienna would become the order of the day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Thus Hitler was to live for several years in the crowded city of Vienna as a virtual outcast, yet quietly observing everything around him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">His strength came from within.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He did not rely on anyone to do his thinking for him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Exceptional human beings always feel lonely amid the vast human throng.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Hitler saw his solitude as a wonderful opportunity to meditate and not to be submerged in a mindless sea.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In order not to be lost in the wastes of a sterile desert, a strong soul seeks refuge within himself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Hitler was such a soul.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The lightning in Hitler’s life would come from the Word.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">All his artistic talent would be channelled into his mastery of communication and eloquence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Hitler would never conceive of popular conquests without the power of the Word.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He would enchant and be enchanted by it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He would find total fulfilment when the magic of his words inspired the hearts and minds of the masses with whom he communed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He would feel reborn each time he conveyed with mystical beauty the knowledge he had acquired in his lifetime.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Hitler’s incantatory eloquence will remain, for a very long time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The power of Hitler’s word is the key.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Did Hitler believe in God ?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He believed deeply in God.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He called God the Almighty, master of all that is known and unknown.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He acknowledged that every human being has spiritual needs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The song of the nightingale, the pattern and colour of a flower, continually brought him back to the great problems of creation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">No one in the world has spoke so eloquently about the existence of God.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He held this view not because he was brought up as a Christian, but because his analytical mind bound him to the concept of God.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Hitler’s faith transcended formulas and contingencies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">God was for him the basis of everything, the ordainer of all things, of his destiny and that of all others.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>My youthful enthusiasm for the Bayreuth Master knew no bounds."</i></span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>“When human hearts break and human souls despair, then from the twilight of the past, the great conquerors of distress and care, of shame and misery, of spiritual slavery and physical compulsion, look down and hold out their eternal hands to the despairing mortals. Woe to the people ashamed to grasp them !”</i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232;"><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>"He who would live must fight</i></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>"It is my ultimate aim to perform an act of creation, a divine operation, the goal of a biological mutation which will result in an unprecedented exaltation of the human race and the appearance of a new race of heroes, demi-gods and god-men".</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>"Creation is not finished. Man is clearly approaching a phase of metamorphosis. The earlier human species has already reached the stage of dying out.... All of the force of creation will be concentrated in a new species... which will surpass infinitely modern man.... "</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>"We shall rejuvenate the world. This world is near its end."</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>"Do you now appreciate the depth of our National Socialist Movement? Can there be anything greater and more all comprehending? Those who see in National Socialism nothing more than a political movement know scarcely anything of it. It is more even than religion; it is the will to create mankind anew !"</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>“All of the force of creation will be concentrated in a new species... which will surpass infinitely modern man.... "</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>"The new man is living amongst us now! He is here!...I will tell you a secret. I have seen the new man. He is intrepid and cruel. I was afraid of him." </i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>Our revolution is the final stage in an evolution that will end by abolishing history.</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>My Party members have no conception of the dreams that haunt my mind or the grand design for the foundations that will have been laid before I die.</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>The world has reached a pivetol point and will undergo an upheaval which you unititated people cannot understand" </i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>The whole secret knowledge of nature, of the divine, the demonic.</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>We will wash off the Christian veneer and bring out a religion peculiar to our race."</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Like most individuals who become involved in the occult, Hitler, it seems did not make a <i>conscious</i> choice in that direction.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Hitlers first apparently<i> involuntary</i> occult experiences came to him probably after the death (2 February 1900) of his younger brother Edmund - an event that had a profound effect on the young Adolf - see 'Occult Biography of Adolf Hitler'.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">After Edmund's death young Adolf would be seen, late into the night, sitting on the high cemetery wall "gazing up at the stars", or talking to the "windblown trees."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">One of Adolf's playmates remembered that Adolf would also climb the hill behind his house at night and talk to a 'nonexistent audience.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It is here that we see Hitler's first contact with that 'other world' that would play such a large, but<i> secret</i>, part in his later life.</span></div>
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<a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5qxgr05y3NQ/TiTCYRWjV-I/AAAAAAAACX0/15kNCtj7XHA/s1600/Braunau+am+Inn+-+Occult+History+Third+Reich+-+Peter+Crawford.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="141" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5qxgr05y3NQ/TiTCYRWjV-I/AAAAAAAACX0/15kNCtj7XHA/s200/Braunau+am+Inn+-+Occult+History+Third+Reich+-+Peter+Crawford.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Hitler was born in the Austrian Waldviertel region, near the Bohemian border, at Braunau-am-Inn, in 1889.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">It was an area steeped in poverty and well known for its inbreeding. It was also a town which had produced a surprising number of spiritualist mediums, including the famous Schneider brothers <b>(1).</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Perhaps something more sinister than simple peasant frolicking was occurring in the woods and hills around the town.</span></div>
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PBrvSWejJIg/TiSnqkDjjZI/AAAAAAAACXA/WliVfuhpHWI/s1600/Alois+Hilter+-+Occult+History+Third+Reich+-+Peter+Crawford.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Alois Schicklgruber, Hitler's father, was the illegitimate child of Maria Anna Schicklgruber.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">In 1877, Alois Schicklgruber had his step-father's name, Heidler, inserted into his birth certificate, by the local priest.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The name, however, was misspelt as 'Hitler', and from then on Hitler's father was known as Alois Hitler (see right).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Deriving from farming stock, he had substantially bettered himself, having risen to the lower middles class. </span><span style="text-align: left;">(right - Hitler's first schoolroom)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Hitler's mother, however, idolised her son, and in return, for the rest of his life, Hitler kept her picture by his bedside.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Hitler was only six years old when his father retired from the Austrian Civil Service and bought a farm in Lambach.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">At eight years of age Hitler was sent to the school of the Monastery of Lambach (see left); Klara Hitler (see right) had hopes of her son becoming a priest; where he revelled in the pomp and solemnity of Catholic ritual.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">It was at Lambach that Hitler first saw the swastika (see right below), which appeared on the heraldic arms which decorated the Baroque choir stalls, where he sang in the Monastery Church on feast days.</span><br />
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nJdZTQXrrY8/TiSoMR0jOXI/AAAAAAAACXI/tFMEj0jNDKc/s1600/image.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><img border="0" height="156" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nJdZTQXrrY8/TiSoMR0jOXI/AAAAAAAACXI/tFMEj0jNDKc/s200/image.png" width="200" /></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Like Liebenfels, Hitler was not considered suitable for a religious life, despite the fact that he was top of his class.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On 2 February 1900 Hitler's younger brother, Edmund, died of measles.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Adolf was also ill, but recovered, although for the rest of his childhood and boyhood he was considered a 'sickly youth'.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To Klara, the death was like a hammer blow and brought back the memories of the three children she had lost twelve years before.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To the ten year old Adolf, who had been very close to his younger brother, the death left a lasting wound.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After the church service he stood in a driving snowstorm and watched while his little brother was lowered into his grave.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the future, anytime Adolf looked out of his bedroom window he was reminded of Edmund who's grave was visible from his window.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He became moody, dispirited and withdrawn.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The death of Edmund deeply affected Hitler, whose character changed from being confident and outgoing, and an excellent student, to a morose, detached, and sullen boy who constantly fought his father and his teachers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: left;">After Edmund's death young Adolf would be seen, late into the night, sitting on the high cemetery wall "<i>gazing up at the stars</i>" or talking to the "<i>windblown trees</i>."</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One of Adolf's playmates remembered that Adolf would also climb the hill behind his house at night and talk to a "<i>nonexistent audience.</i>"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is here that we see Hitler's first contact with that '<i>other world</i>' that would play such a large part in his later life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">In 1898, the family moved to Leonding, just outside Linz, and Hitler attended the Gymnasium at nearby Steyr.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">It was there that the young Adolf met <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.com/2011/08/gustav-kubizek-reminiscences.html">August Kubizek</a>; probably the only close, personal friend he ever had.</span></span><br />
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FlB-0XsCyuA/TiSm_k8ExDI/AAAAAAAACW8/Bnv7_WvbZhE/s1600/Adolf+Hitler+Schoolboy+-+Occult+History+Third+Reich+-+Peter+Crawford.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FlB-0XsCyuA/TiSm_k8ExDI/AAAAAAAACW8/Bnv7_WvbZhE/s200/Adolf+Hitler+Schoolboy+-+Occult+History+Third+Reich+-+Peter+Crawford.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">In 1902, when Hitler was thirteen years old, his father died.</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">At school his academic work deteriorated and he became moody and difficult.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;">His mother, who had never been firm with him, was now unable to control him, and although he was no delinquent, he was self willed and obstinate.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Strangely Hitler attended the school at the same time as the young Wittgenstein (see right) - they were born six days apart - however they were not in the same class as Hitler had to repeat a year.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">There is no evidence that they were on friendly or unfriendly terms, although some odd theories have been published suggesting that Wittgenstein was the source of Hitler's anti-Semitism.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">There is, in fact, little evidence that Hitler was any more anti-Semitic that the majority of gentile Christian Austrians in his youth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">He was also one of the major figures of the German People's Party. </span><span style="color: #a2c4c9; text-align: left;">Poetsch came from the southern German border regions. </span><span style="color: #a2c4c9; text-align: left;">There, political struggles between Slavs and ethnic Germans angered him and turned him into a loud and fiery proponent of the Pan-German movement. He began teaching in Maribor, and later moved to Linz to teach history.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Poetsch was Hitler's teacher from first through third grade (1901–04) in geography, and in second and third grade in history. </span><span style="color: #a2c4c9; text-align: left;">He also ran the school library.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">As a special privilege, Hitler was allowed to bring his teacher maps, which put him in particularly close contact with him. </span><span style="color: #a2c4c9; text-align: left;">Aside from his service at the school, Poetsch was a much sought after official speaker. </span><span style="color: #a2c4c9; text-align: left;">He spoke at German national associations but also on the occasion of the emperor's anniversary in 1908. In 1905, he joined the Linz city council as a representative of the German People's party. </span><span style="color: #a2c4c9; text-align: left;">Hitler became enamored of Poetsch as a teenager, captivated by the professor's fiery speeches. </span><span style="color: #a2c4c9; text-align: left;">Poetsch was a fervent pan-German. Poetsch despised the Habsburgs and forcefully argued that all ethnic Germans should be united by a single government. Like many Austro-Germans, Poetsch wanted to see the old empire break up and Austria join Germany, to the north. </span><span style="color: #a2c4c9; text-align: left;">He asserted that the Aryan race was stronger, healthier, and more fit to rule than any other people. </span><span style="color: #a2c4c9; text-align: left;">Poetsch declared that Jews and Slavs were what he termed "inferior races". (This position was not uncommon among impoverished Germans after World War I.)</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Hitler was captivated by Poetsch's teachings and began regularly reading a local anti-Semitic newspaper.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Poetsch captured the imagination of his young students with heroic tales of the ancient Teutons and German victories. </span><span style="color: #a2c4c9; text-align: left;">In his later years, Hitler spoke of Poetsch as a "<i>great man</i>." </span><span style="color: #a2c4c9; text-align: left;">As dictator of Germany, Hitler attempted to unite all German-speaking people, just as Poetsch's lectures had demanded, and persecuted Slavs, Jews, Gypsies, and other minorities, eventually attempting to exterminate them in the "Final Solution".</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Hitler stated that "Poetsch used our budding nationalistic fanaticism as a means of educating us, frequently appealing to us our sense of national honor." </span><span style="color: #a2c4c9; text-align: left;">Under Poetsch, Hitler came to the realization that: "Germanism could be safeguarded only by the destruction of Austria, and, furthermore, the national sentiment is in no sense identical with dynastic patriotism; that above all the house of Habsburg was destined to be the misfortune of the German national." </span><span style="color: #a2c4c9; text-align: left;">Poetsch gave popular slide lectures entitled "Images of German History."</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">In them he strongly emphasized the Germanic era and the time of the early German emperors before the rule of the Habsburgs and proceeded to pinpoint the German national awakening up until the Franco-Prussian war. </span><span style="color: #a2c4c9; text-align: left;">However, during those Hitler's teenage years while he may have been inspired by Leopold Poetsch's class, he was not motivated enough to become involved in politics. His only obsession was to become an artist.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">After the strange events subsequent to Edmund's death, the next evidence of Hitler's involvement with occult, and psychic phenomena occurred after a performance of Wagner's 'Rienzi' that he and Kubizek attended at the Linz Opera House.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>So unforgettable is it, that even the most trivial things, the clothes Adolf wore that evening, the weather, are still present in my mind as though the experience were exempt from the passing of time.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>Adolf stood outside my house in his black overcoat, his dark hat pulled down over his face.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>My friend, his hands thrust into his coat pockets, silent and withdrawn, strode through the streets and out of the city.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>Usually, after an artistic experience that had moved him, he would start talking straight away, sharply criticizing the performance, but after 'Rienzi' he remained quiet a long while.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>This surprised me, and I asked him what he thought of it.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>He threw me a strange, almost hostile glance.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>"Shut up !" he said brusquely.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>The cold, damp mist lay oppressively over the narrow streets.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>Our solitary steps resounded on the pavement.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>Adolf took the road that led up to the Freinberg. Without speaking a word, he strode forward.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>He looked almost sinister, and paler than ever.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>His turned-up coat collar increased this impression.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>I wanted to ask him, "Where are you going ?" - but his pallid face looked so forbidding that I suppressed the question.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>As if propelled by an invisible force, Adolf climbed up to the top of the Freinberg.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>And only now did I realize that we were no longer in solitude and darkness, for the stars shone brilliantly above us.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>Adolf stood in front of me; and now he gripped both my hands and held them tight.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>He had never made such a gesture before.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>I felt from the grasp of his hands how deeply moved he was.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>His eyes were feverish with excitement.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>The words did not come smoothly from his mouth as they usually did, but rather erupted, hoarse and raucous.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>From his voice I could tell even more how much this experience had shaken him.</i></span><br />
<i style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; text-align: left;">Gradually his speech loosened, and the words flowed more freely.</i><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>Never before and never again have I heard Adolf Hitler speak as he did in that hour, as we stood there alone under the stars, as though we were the only creatures in the world.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>I cannot repeat every word that my friend uttered.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>I was struck by something strange, which I had never noticed before, even when he had talked to me in moments of the greatest excitement.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>It was as if 'another being' spoke out of his body, and moved him as much as it did me.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>It wasn't at all a case of a speaker being carried away by his own words.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>On the contrary; I rather felt as though he himself listened with astonishment and emotion to what burst forth from him with elementary force.</i></span><br />
<i style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; text-align: left;">I will not attempt to interpret this phenomenon, but it was a state of complete ecstasy and rapture, in which he transferred the character of 'Rienzi', without even mentioning him as a model or example, with visionary power to the plane of his own ambitions.'</i><br />
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>Never in my life have I seen any other person whose appearance - how shall I put it - was so completely dominated by the eyes.</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>They were the light eyes of his mother, but her somewhat staring, penetrating gaze was even more marked in the son and had even more force and expressiveness.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>It was uncanny how these eyes could change their expression, especially when Adolf was speaking.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>To me his sonorous voice meant much less than the expression of his eyes.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>In fact, Adolf spoke with his eyes, and even when his lips were silent one knew what he wanted to say.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>When he first came to our house, and I introduced him to my mother, she said to me in the evening, "What eyes your friend has!"</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>And I remember quite distinctly that there was more fear than admiration in her words.</i></span><br />
<i style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; text-align: left;">If I am asked where one could perceive, in his youth, this man's exceptional qualities, I can only answer, "In the eyes."</i><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">One only acquires such power of the eyes by patient training, and undoubtedly Hitler's ability to use his eyes in such a way resulted from his time with Lodz and Eckart - and does the nickname of 'Wolf' for Hitler come from this pseudo-canine dominance trait of the eyes ? <span style="text-align: left;">However - even when he was young Hitler's eyes were remarkable.</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hitler spent the last weeks of Klara by her side, tending to her with great care and affection.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Klara was buried on Christmas eve and she was given an expensive burial Klara Hitler left a substantial sum of money and appointed a certain Mayrhofer, as executor.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hitler was granted a yearly allowance and moved from Linz, where he had lived since his father's death, to Vienna in 1908.<br />In Vienna he stayed with a certain Frau Zakrey at Stumpergasse 29, with his friend <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.com/2011/08/gustav-kubizek-reminiscences.html">Kubizek</a>, who was nicknamed 'Gustl'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hitler received a student's pension, because his father had been a civil servant, along with his allowance from his mother's estate and was, therefore, far from poor, despite his protestations in 'Mein Kamf'.<span style="font-size: small;">It appears that at this time Hitler lived the life of a man of leisure, visiting the opera, to hear Wagner, drawing and painting and producing detailed architectural plans for the rebuilding of Vienna and Linz <b>(3)</b>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">It is at this time, when Hitler was living at Felberstrasse, that he first came across the writings of <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.com/2011/07/lanz-von-liebenfels.html">Lanz von Liebenfels</a> (see right below) and Houston Stewart Chamberlain.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At the beginning of 1909 he took the opportunity to visit Liebenfels and at the same time caught his first glimpse of the Spear of Longinus in the Schatzkammer in the Hofburg.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">At this point, without warning or explanation, Hitler left <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.com/2011/08/gustav-kubizek-reminiscences.html">Kubizek</a>, and despite the fact that he had a reasonable income from his inheritance, as well as savings, he disappeared into a world of 'drop outs'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.com/2011/08/gustav-kubizek-reminiscences.html">Kubizek</a> (see right below), however, continued his studies : he graduated in 1912 and was hired as second conductor at the city </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">He was geared towards a great career but during the Great War (World War One) he contracted a serious infection and his health was almost ruined.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">He never became the great conductor he had longed for.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">In April 1938, he met again with Hitler in Linz and the Fuehrer helped him to finance his sons' education.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">In return he was asked by Martin Bormann to write his reminiscences of his life with the Fuhrer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">In 1940, they met again in Bayreuth. and in 1942 he became director of propaganda and regional manager of the "Kraft durch Freude" program of Robert Ley.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">After WW2, he was kept in jail during 17 months by the Allies -because of this late appointment.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">He was released and in 1953 published a very much edited version of the NSDAP draft, called in its German version "Adolf Hitler, Friend of my Youth" (see left).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">It is during this period that Hitler painted scenes (see left), in watercolour and ink, of Vienna.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">These were not postcards, as if often stated, but were finished, large scale works of some merit.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Also, strangely, many of Hitler's customers were relatively wealthy, middle-class Jews.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 1910, Hitler moved to a Hotel for Professional Working Men - not a 'down and outs' flop house as is often stated - at Meldemannstrasse, and yet again tried, and failed to obtain entry to the Academy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">He was a regular customer at a bookshop owned by Ernst Pretzsche - a bookshop which sold Völkisch periodicals, including '<a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.com/2011/07/lanz-von-liebenfels.html">Ostara</a>' edited by<a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.com/2011/07/lanz-von-liebenfels.html"> Liebenfels</a> (see left).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span><span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">'An unshaven hack who ran a mystical bookstore in the red light district of Vienna. </span><span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; text-align: left;">He devoted his life to the overthrow of the Catholic moral order of the turn of the century Austrian capital. </span><span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; text-align: left;">Known to have bared his bottom at Emperor Franz Joseph, he was on the list of every European governments secret police group as an avowed Satanist.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">His father Wilhelm Pretzsche had been a chemist, who in his spare time had studied the occult law of the Aztecs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">The relationship, which had developed between Hitler and Pretzsche was not only a result of their mutual interest in the occult, but was also a matter of business.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">In return for providing Hitler with books Pretzsche obtained watercolours from Hitler which he sold.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">The paintings and drawings (see right) improved the shop's atmosphere and often attracted customers, who as well as buying a picture, would often purchase books as well. It was a good working arrangement.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Hitler's favourite existing building was the Paris Opera House by Charles Garnier (see left), although its style, Neobaroque, was not used in the buildings Hitler commissioned, and in some cases designed, when he came to power.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Troost designed the Konigsplatz, the Braun Haus and the House of German Art in Munich before his tragic death in 1934.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Hitler, Troost and Speer's architectural style was, not surprisingly, been bitterly criticized for the last forty years.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">During the last ten years, with the emergence of Post Modernism, Hitler's taste has been, rightly vindicated.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Hitler collaborated with Speer in producing massive schemes for the rebuilding of Munich, Nurnberg, Berlin and Hitler's beloved Linz.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Sadly these schemes only exist as plans and photographs of models.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Pretzsche specialized in books about history, philosophy, politics,art and the occult; all subjects which were of interest to the young Hitler.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Pretzsche, through his father's researches had knowledge of, and access to Peyotl; the active constituent of the psychedelic peyote plant indigenous to Central America.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Despite this,it was not Pretzsche, however, who was responsible for introducing Hitler to the world of drug induced psychic awareness, but someone far more mysterious.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">He had concocted devious potions that could lead users to unmask our 'normal' reality such that the supra-reality could be absorbed. </span><span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; text-align: left;">Said to have urinated in the Danube daily, his mystical meanderings led directly to the perfidious overthrow of the Jewish masters of the Berlin Lodge of the Freemasons.'</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Hitler had first encountered Lodz whilst he was in the country.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">On discovering the purpose of his visit, Lodz had taken Hitler back to his cabin, where he had prepared for him a potion, probably distilled from the active ingredients of the mushroom Amanita muscarina (see left) <b>(4)</b>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Hitler's experiences with Lodz's potions, along with Pretzsche's peyotol were undoubtedly responsible for opening his mind to the relationships existing between the Macrocosm and Microcosm, and taking him on the first steps to an awareness of the existence of powerful, and alien entities.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Despite such strange experiences, ordinary life still continued, however, and in 1911 Hitler received a substantial sum from his godmother, Joanna Prinz, just before she died.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Hitler later wrote of this period in Vienna, in 'Mein Kampf', that it gave him '<i>the foundations of a knowledge which sustained him for the rest of his life: In this period there took shape within me a world picture and a philosophy which became the granite foundation of all my acts.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i>In addition to what I then created, I have had to learn little; and I have had to alter nothing'.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Vienna's population went up 259 percent between 1860 and 1900, and the flood of new arrivals sought relief from the frustrations of an overcrowded and expensive existence.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The city was deluged by mediums, necromancers, and astrologers who claimed to be occupied with a futuristic science which the scientific establishment was as yet unable to appreciate, since experiments were still unverified and many</span><span style="text-align: left;"> - scholars and academics included - believed that intuition and vision enabled 'specially endowed natures' to investigate phenomena which eluded ordinary people.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Despite his involvement with the 'well-heeled' in occult circles Hitler continued his apparently poverty stricken life-style, making money from painting scenes of the city and continuing his studies of History Politics and Philosophy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">According to 'Mein Kampf', Hitler, on hearing of the outbreak of war, got down on his knees and thanked Heaven for granting him the good fortune of being permitted to live at that time. Although Hitler's description is somewhat melodramatic, he undoubtedly was pleased that war had finally come, and in this he was not unlike millions of other ordinary people.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The 6th Bavarian Reserve Division (6. Bayerische Reserve-Division) was a unit of the Royal Bavarian Army, part of the German Army, in World War I. The division was formed on 10 September 1914 and organized over the next month. The division was disbanded in 1919 during the demobilization of the German Army after World War I. </span><span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; text-align: left;">6th Bavarian Reserve Division was raised and recruited from Bavaria's Ist and IIIrd Army Corps Districts. As a reserve division, it consisted mainly of recalled reservists. A considerable number of war volunteers were taken in, also. Among the latter was perhaps the division's most famous, or rather infamous, soldier, Adolf Hitler, a Gefreiter in the Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment 16.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Its common name derives from the practice, common in Germany, of crumbling pieces of the fungus in a saucer of water which was used to kill flies. </span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The mushroom was used by Norse warriors in the Dark Ages, its effect being to give them exceptional courage and strength, causing them to go 'berserk'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Once in the Army and through his basic training, Hitler volunteered for the dangerous job of Meldeganger or regimental messenger, and throughout the War refused to be promoted above the rank of corporal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">He was initially posted to the front at Ypres.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">As a result of the First Battle of Ypres, only six hundred men, in Hitler's regiment, out of an original total of three thousand and five hundred, survived.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Hitler himself was later wounded in the thigh at the Somme, and spent a short time in a military hospital in Berlin, recovering.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Rejoining his regiment, he took part in the battle of Arras, and in 1917, visited Berlin and Dresden while on leave.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">In August of 1918 Hitler was awarded the Iron Cross, First Class, (equivalent to the British Victoria Cross) for his exceptional bravery.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">There is, in fact, evidence that he won the Iron Cross on two occasions; in one case in recognition of his capture of four French soldiers single handed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">In October he was blinded in a gas attack at Ypres, and subsequently sent to a military hospital at Pasewalk, a small town north-east of Berlin.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">In 'Mein Kampf' Hitler describes, in detail, his physical pain along with the anguish and despair he felt when he learned of Germany's defeat.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">While initially the effects of his gassing must have caused him considerable pain, what he fails to tell us is that once the physical pain had subsided, he found himself in a prolonged state of sensory deprivation; known to para-psychologists as 'the ganzfeld effect' <b>(5)</b>; confined to his bed, unable to see and in the hushed atmosphere of a hospital ward.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Compared to the living hell of the front, with its screaming shells combining with the screams of the mutilated and dying, and the everlasting thundering of the guns, Hitler's new environment was tailor-made for the psychic experience he sought</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">According to Hitler, he experienced a 'vision' from 'another world' while at the hospital (see right).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">In that vision, Hitler was told that he would lead Germany back to glory.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">On his recovery, in November, he was posted back to Munich.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">By the time Hitler returned to Munich the War had ended.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">During the next year Germany was racked by internal dissent, and after the Kaiser's abdication (see left), along with the other various Kings, Princes and Arch-Dukes of the Empire, Germany became a republic.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">On the 6th of April, 1919, in Bavaria, a Soviet Republic was declared at Munich, following the fall of the Hoffman Government.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">During this time of upheaval and uncertainty Hitler was initially stationed at Traunstein, near Munich, as a guard in a prisoner of war camp, and then later was sent back to Munich as a 'Political Officer' for the Wehrmacht.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">During this time he successfully infiltrated certain Army units which had gone over to the Communists.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">When the Communists fell from power, the army turned to informers in order to root out subversive elements, and as a result of information, which Hitler provided, many were executed during the vengeful days which followed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Hitler implies that he first came into contact with this small party which was ostensibly run by the ex-railway engineer Anton Drexler (see left), as the result of an instruction from his superior officer, Konstantin Heirl (see right) <b>(6)</b>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Some years later, Hitler went to great lengths in 'Mein Kampf', to paint an innocuous picture of his first encounter with the German Worker's Party.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Hitler claimed, in 'Mein Kampf', that he came upon the political group, quite by chance.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">He recounts, in considerable detail, how he attended his first meeting at the Lieber Room of the Sterneckerbrau in Munich.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">When he subsequently received an offer of membership he implies that he was both surprised and unsure as to whether to accept.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Of course, after communing with his 'droll little friends', the mice, in his bare barrack room, Hitler did decide to accept this invitation to join, and, as is well known, the German Worker's Party eventually became the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (National Socialist German Worker's Party) (see left above).</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">(6) <i> </i>Heirl is mysterious by virtue of the fact that his date of birth is unknown, along with the fact that at the end of the war he disappeared without trace.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">At the time he ordered Hitler to investigate the German Worker's Party he was probably a clandestine member, although officially his membership postdates that of Hitler.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">(7) <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"> </span>Gottfried Feder, 1883-1941, joined the German Worker's Party in 1919.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">In 1920 he was instrumental in helping to draw up the famous 'Twenty-five Articles', which formed the backbone of the party's policies.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Feder was essentially an economist, radically ahead of his time, who saw the inherent flaws in industrial society, and particularly its dependence on the concept of interest. In his quest for power Hitler found it necessary to court the rich industrialist, such as Thyssen and Krup, and thus Feder's influence waned.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Hitler, of course, was a member of the <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.com/2011/07/thule-gesellschaft.html">Thule Group</a>, from which the majority of members of the committee of the German Worker's Party (DAP) had been recruited.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">He said to his confidants in the Thule Gesellschaft, shortly before he died, "<i>Hitler will dance, but it is I who have called the tune</i> !</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i>I have initiated him into the <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.com/2011/06/introduction.html">'Secret Doctrine'</a>, opened his centres of vision</i> <b>(8)</b> <i>and given him the means to communicate with the Powers.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i>Do not mourn for me: I shall have influenced History more than any other German</i>".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Returning to Hitler's political testament, 'Mein Kampf'; the book, of course, must be understood as a pure piece of political propaganda.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">The cruel and devastating lessons of War had taught Hitler that political power and the destinies of nations could not be compromised by such bourgeois values as honesty and openness.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Any consideration of current political events, will of course show that Hitler's appraisal is still widely practised by even the most 'respectable' of governments who are, on numerous occasions, 'economical with the truth'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Notwithstanding being economical with the truth, 'Mein Kampf' is a remarkable book, which, because of the reputation of its author, has been regularly described as verbose, confused and turgid in style, by many commentators.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">It is probably significant to note that it was only after 1945 that such criticisms of the book's style and content became general, - before then it sold well even outside Germany, and was highly praised by many influential critics.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Unlike the books of Smith, <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.com/2011/06/introduction.html">Blavatsky</a>, Crowley or even <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.com/2011/06/englishman-at-court-of-kaiser.html">Chamberlain</a>, there is no claim on Hitler's part, or anyone else's for that matter, to divine or daemonic inspiration in its creation.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">The book is simply propaganda combined with political, economic and social philosophy.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">(8) <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span>Eckart's use of the phrase 'geheimlehre' (Secret Doctrine) appears, on the face of it, to be a reference to Madame Blavatsky's Theosophical teaching; 'The Secret Doctrine' being the title of her last book published in 1891; particularly with regards to Race and the existence of 'hidden supermen'. Eckart may, however, be referring to some esoteric doctrine of his own.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">(9)<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span>Albrecht Haushofer, son of Professor Karl Haushofer, was born in 1903.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">An intellectual, he wrote esoteric poetry and historical verse dramas.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Remarkably precocious, he obtained his doctorate at the age of nineteen.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">He involved in Hess's flight to Scotland in May, 1941 and in the attempt on Hitler's life in July of 1944.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">He was arrested by the Gestapo and executed in 1945.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">That Hitler, in common with the other remarkable individuals, underwent a transformational experience, which radically altered his outlook, and unleashed hitherto untapped mental and psychic resources is without doubt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">In some ways Hitler is the most problematic of our subjects.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Objectively, it must be admitted that, out of all the individuals we shall be considering, his achievements were, undoubtedly, the most influential, far reaching and significant.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Most people, however, would find it difficult to admit to such an assessment despite the fact that Hitler was, almost single-handedly responsible for remoulding, politically, a country and its culture.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">He then went on to impose his philosophical system upon the greater part of a whole continent, causing, in the process, the outbreak of a conflict of world wide scope and significance.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">It is one of the mysteries of History that we can call Alexander of Macedon, 'Alexander the Great' (see left), despite of the fact that he crucified the entire adult male population of Tyre and Sidon, castrating the youths and sending them into slavery along with the women, whom his soldiers violated.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Equally we can study the career of Napoleon the First, dispassionately, despite his conquest of Europe and the enormous numbers of dead and injured which these wars produced.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Stalin (see left), whilst often condemned, is still viewed merely as a historical phenomena, although he was undoubtedly guilty of causing the deaths of far more people than Hitler, even assuming that the highest estimates of deaths in the Holocaust are accepted as correct.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">In the years since the end of the last War Hitler has been presented as the 'ultimate bogeyman' of History.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">The victors wrote a history, however, that was too darkly coloured.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Shakespeare warns us to beware of those who 'protest too much'.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">The victors feared, and even today still fear that Hitler may strike at them from the grave.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">It appears that they know something about this man, and his ideas that the majority do not.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">On the reasonable assumption that Hitler and Nazism are essentially evil and repulsive they will surely appeal to no one.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">It should not be necessary to destroy Hitler's mountain home, the Berghof, at Berchtesgaden <b>(10)</b>, along with everything else associated with him, and to ridicule and condemn both him and his ideas at every opportunity if they are self evidently unacceptable to right thinking people.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Behind all this frantic and seemingly unnecessary condemnation lies an enigma which involves, undoubtedly, the nature of the source of Hitler's ideas and personal power.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Those who are now in power, and who inherited the laurels of the victory over Fascism, know something of, and deeply fear the power that inspired Hitler, and through him, a whole nation, a mere sixty or so years ago.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">That power is opposed to all our mundane and bourgeois habits; a power capable of releasing us from this familiar world into a harsher dawn.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">(10) <i> </i>When the Americans captured Berchtesgaden, in Bavaria, in 1945, it was decided that the Berghof (Haus Wachenfeld), which Hitler had first rented and subsequently bought with the proceeds from the sale of 'Mein Kampf', after his release from Landsberg Prison, should be destroyed, along with most of the other buildings on the Obersalzburg, with the exception of the Platterhof and the Hotel Turken.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">This reason given for this wanton destruction of buildings of historical importance, which included the Nurnberg Stadium, (which resisted all attempts such was the quality of its construction), and many other buildings designed by Speer and Hitler, was that they would become 'shrines to Nazism'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">That Hitler has been judged a psychopath, a fool, a carpet chewing maniac, a crank, an uneducated eccentric, a thug and much else besides is well known.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Most people would undoubtedly consider him an evil individual.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">The problem we face here, though, is that it is only the victors who are given the privilege of writing History, initially.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Hitler was well aware of this when he made his famous statement that '<i>the Goddess of History would tear to tatters the judgement of this court'</i>, during his trial in 1924, which resulted from the failure of the Munich Putch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Any objective assessment of Hitler cannot support the contention that he was insane, stupid or lacking in personal qualities.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">The fact that he was highly thought of by his superiors in the Army should indicate that he was self disciplined, reliable and intelligent.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">The fact that he was awarded the Iron Cross on two occasions, should show that he was courageous.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">It was in 1923 that Hitler met Chamberlain (see left below) at Bayreuth, in Bavaria, and acclaimed him, in the presence of the Wagner family and other celebrities, to be the 'new German messiah'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">The old man, driven once again by his daemons, was able, eventually, to die content; happy in the knowledge that his prophecies of Aryan greatness were at last about to come true.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">While it may be difficult for many people to accept the fact today, Hitler came nearer to being revered as a God than any other individual in modern times.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Surprisingly, this adoration was not limited to the uneducated masses but was felt by artists, intellectuals and academics; many of his greatest admirers being in the military; the Junker aristocracy, and captains of industry and commerce.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Those who met Hitler, after the War often refer, in their reminiscences, to his remarkable pale, clear blue eyes, which many state, unequivocally, had a distinctly hypnotic quality.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Face to face, few could resist his charm, or his anger, and contrary to popular belief, it was only towards the end that Hitler resorted to bouts of aggressive anger, rather than to his winning smile and boyish enthusiasm.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">(11) Fritz von Thyssen, 1873-1951. He was a multimillionaire who made his money from steel. He became a member of the NSDAP in 1923, pouring huge sums of money into the party coffers.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">He saw the National Socialists as a bulwark against communism.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">He was instrumental in encouraging Hitler to remove members of the party like Strasser and Feder, who were anti- capitalist, from influential positions in the party.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The son and heir of Gustav Krupp, he was an enthusiastic supporter of Hitler.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">In 1943 he was appointed Minister of War Economy. Shortly after his capture and imprisonment as a 'war criminal', by the Allies he was released and his companies property and fortune were restored to him.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">From 1931 he was Chairman of the Association of German Industrialists. Initially he distrusted Hitler but later, after meeting Hitler, he became a firm friend and supporter of the National Socialists.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">At the end of the war he was not tried by the Nurnberg War Crimes Commission because of 'ill health'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Eckart implied that Hitler had special powers and communion with occult entities; 'hidden masters' or unknown supermen'.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Certainly, Hitler had an abnormal ability to sway people, both as individuals and in the mass. Eye witnesses are united in reporting an almost physical transformation in the Fuhrer when he spoke at public meetings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Equally, Professor Alan Bullock (see right) <b>(14)</b> was of the opinion that when Hitler spoke it was not as if he was using words but rather '<i>a case of the emotions coming direct, with a rawness and power</i>'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Many eye witnesses have equated Hitler's behaviour during his public appearances with those of a medium.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Usually they have presumed that Hitler was communicating with the collective unconscious of his listeners.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">There are, however, still many witnesses of Hitler's rallies, alive today, who are prepared to honestly report their feelings about Hitler, now that some fifty years have passed.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Alfons Heck, a German writer on the National Socialist era, has stated, frankly, that when he came face to face with Hitler, at a Hitler Youth rally, he felt he had '<i>come face to face with God'</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">The key to understanding the exceptional individual, and particularly the individual who has been <i>made</i> exceptional, is to be found in the Will.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">It is no accident that the film of the 1934 Nurnberg Party Rally, directed by Leni Riefenstahl was called '<i>The Triumph of the Will</i>' (see right) <b>(15)</b>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">To Hitler the Will was paramount, as it was for Crowley, Gurdjieff and all others who wished to control the powers of the occult.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">The focusing of the Will was of the essence; once that was lost dissolution was inevitable.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">The Will, which must be focused into a blazing stream of pure energy, is used to wield images and symbols as if they were material reality.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">It is the source of Life; for the Creator is simply an infinite and all-powerful Will, and death comes to men only through a weakness of Will.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">(13) Ernst Franz Sedgwick Hanfstangl (Putzi), 1887-1976.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">He was a Harvard graduate, with an American mother. He belonged to an affluent family, which originally came from Munich and dealt in fine art reproductions and publishing. Hanfstangl met Hitler in 1921 and regularly lent and gave him money.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">He was responsible for introducing Hitler to 'polite' Munich society. He was a competent pianist who often entertained and relaxed Hitler by playing excerpts from Wagner's operas.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">In 1937 he inexplicably fled from Germany, convinced that Hitler was planning to kill him. After the war he published a book entitled 'Hitler, the Missing Years'.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Hitler personally convinced her to make a further documentary of the 1934 Nurnberg Party Rally.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">This was the now famous 'Triumph des Willens' ('The Triumph of the Will') which is considered, even today, and despite its subject, to be the peak of the documentary film maker's art.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">She went on to make 'Olympia', which was a record of the Berlin Olympics of 1936.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">She was imprisoned for a short while by the Allies after the war, presumably for making documentaries, and has continued her career in films and photography since then</span><br />
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CYILcyXgX1M/TiISLp1QOdI/AAAAAAAACTo/HJp-uz96pao/s1600/Herman+Rauschning+-+Occult+History+Third+Reich+-+Peter+Crawford.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CYILcyXgX1M/TiISLp1QOdI/AAAAAAAACTo/HJp-uz96pao/s200/Herman+Rauschning+-+Occult+History+Third+Reich+-+Peter+Crawford.jpg" width="146" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">From Hitler's confidential conversations, including those with <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.com/2011/07/heinrich-himmler-ahnenerbe.html">Heinrich Himmler</a> (see right) <b>(16)</b> and Hermann Rauschning (see left) <b>(17)</b>, it is evident that he was far from being an ex-corporal turned right-wing, bourgeois politician, made good.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">One simply has to observe Hitler with someone like Neville Chamberlain to see the difference between a politician and a religious leader.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">His statements show him to be a person for whom, like <a href="http://petercrawfordharvest.blogspot.com/">Joseph Smith</a>, politics were only a means to an end.</span><br />
<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-z9GZyfef8wA/TiIUbm3rQeI/AAAAAAAACTs/g37kZWugOhA/s1600/Aleister+Crowley+-+Occult+History+Third+Reich+-+Peter+Crawford.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-z9GZyfef8wA/TiIUbm3rQeI/AAAAAAAACTs/g37kZWugOhA/s200/Aleister+Crowley+-+Occult+History+Third+Reich+-+Peter+Crawford.jpg" width="156" /></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">He, like <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.com/2011/06/introduction.html">Crowley</a> (see right), was ushering in a 'New Age', and like Crowley, and unlike our contemporary, sentimental and woolly headed disciples of alternative lifestyles and green politics, he knew that if this New Age was to be firmly established it would involve upheaval and suffering on an immense scale.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">The tragedy is probably that we have had the suffering but the 'new age' has been aborted by the free-market capitalists.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">That dawn is still awaited by so many, but before it dawns more suffering is probably inevitable</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Hitler made it clear that he felt that the world was at the point of a crucial transformation which he would be instrumental in initiating.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">It was not to be simply a political or economic transformation, but rather a transformation of moral and spiritual values.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">In this, of course, he was echoing one of his favourite authors, <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.com/2011/06/nietzsche.html">Friederich Nietzsche</a> (see left).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">In addition he saw the advent of a change in cultural perception, from the dominance of logic and the intellect to a new consciousness of Will and magical interpretation.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Rauschning makes it clear in his book 'Conversations with Hitler' that to understand Hitler one must realize that he believed absolutely that there was a magical relationship between Man and the Universe.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Although Rauschning was not aware of it, this conviction on Hitler's part undoubtedly stemmed from his drug induced experiences with Hans L¢dz in 1910 and the teachings of Eckart.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">In common with Madame Blavatsky and Gurdjieff, Hitler believed that the creative process, far from being over, was still active, and, if anything, undergoing a significant escalation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Like <a href="http://petercrawfordharvest.blogspot.com/">Joseph Smith</a>, Hitler believed that the purpose of material creation was the deification of man, although Hitler, unlike Smith, believed that such a process could be achieved in this life by essentially biological means.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Perhaps Hitler's most perceptive and significant comment was that the purpose of human evolution was to achieve a mystic vision of the Universe.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">It was also, by inference, the purpose of National Socialism.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">(16)<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;"> </span><a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.com/2011/07/heinrich-himmler-ahnenerbe.html">Heinrich Himmler</a>, 1900-1945. He was born at Landshut in Bavaria, the son of a respected teacher and former tutor to the Wittlesbach family.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Himmler studied at the Technischehochschule in Munich and became a laboratory technician.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">He was too young to serve in the Great War, but joined the Freikorps at the end of the War and took part in the Munich Putch of 1923, acting as standard bearer, having joined the NSDAP that same year..</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">After the Putch he set up a small chicken farm near Munich.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">He was appointed head of Hitler's bodyguard, the Schutzstaffel or SS,in 1926. By 1936 Himmler controlled all the police in Germany, including the Gestapo and the SD.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The SS eventually became a state within a state, having its own armed forces and producing its own weapons, including the first operational jet fighters along with the V1 and V2 rockets. The SS, under Himmler made its own laws, which were administered by its own courts. It also had responsibility for the concentration camps. The Ahnenerbe was a special section of the SS concerned with the study of Nordic culture and History along with occult matters.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Himmler, like Hitler, was teetotal and vegetarian. He was also convinced of the value of Homeopathic and Herbal Remedies.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The SS itself intended to provide the genetic material from which would come the superhuman beings which Hitler saw as the final stage of Human evolution. Himmler committed suicide in 1945.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">(17) <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;"> </span>Herman Rauschning, (1887-). He was president of the Danzig Senate in 1933. In 1935 he disagreed with Hitler and fled to Switzerland. He subsequently became an American citizen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Before we jump too hurriedly to a judgement on such values, however, perhaps we should consider the 'assured mutual destruction' of nuclear war, which hung over the world for fifty years, and which to an extent still does, which is not only contemplated, but embraced in the defence of economic systems which are patently fraudulent, ineffective and ecologically disastrous.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Which is the greater price to pay, and which is the higher objective ?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">The 'liberals' in the West and the one-time communists in the East, with their fingers on the nuclear buttons are still writing History, but, it seems, fewer people are prepared to believe them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Of course, there was never any possibility of Hitler's vast vision of a transformed future coming to pass within his lifetime.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Shortly after the beginning of the War Hitler began to lose control of the powers he had acquired through the teachings of L¢dz, his experiences in the Great War, and his time with Eckart, who was responsible for activating Hitler's centres of vision.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">The 'centres of vision' are the the Sacred Chakras, which are a central part of esoteric philosophy in both the Oriental and Oriental systems of magic.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">In Occidental magic, which has its origins in Gnosticism and the Kabala, the Chakras are associated with the Planetary Spheres and the Kabalistic Tree of Life.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">There are seven Chakras in the human body associated with various organs.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">The lowest Chakra is associated with the rectum, the second with the genitals, the third with the abdomen, the fourth with the heart, the fifth with the thyroid, the sixth with the pineal gland and the last Chakra with the crown.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Each Chakra 'vibrates' at its own rate and acts as a 'gate' to the 'Kundalini Power' which originates in the ano-genital area and, when released, can rise through the Chakras, being modified by each one; eventually reaching the Crown Chakra to produce a spiritual 'awakening'. There are various ways of causing such an awakening of power; the easiest being a direct stimulation of the Kundalini through erotic or sado-erotic practices.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Such stimulation, rather than the slower and considerably more difficult meditatory path, often results in a lack of control of the powers so obtained.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">In 1928, when Hitler bought Haus Wachenfeld on the Obersalzburg, he invited his sister Angela Raubal to be his housekeeper.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">By 1929 Hitler and Geli were constantly in each other's company when Hitler was in Munich or on the Obersalzburg.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">When Hitler acquired an apartment in Prinzregentenstrasse, in Munich, Geli was given rooms there.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">There is no doubt that Hitler either had, or intended to have a sexual relationship of some sort with his niece, and was insanely jealous of her seeing other men; at one point accusing her of having an affair with Emil Maurice (who, it has been claimed, was homosexual), his chauffeur and bodyguard.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">In September 1931, Geli Raubal was found shot dead in Hitler's flat.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">According to the Coroner she had committed suicide after an argument with Hitler.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Hitler was devastated, weeping publicly at Geli's funeral.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">It appears that Hitler had written a letter to Geli shortly before her death, which had somehow fallen into the wrong hands.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">The letter was eventually recovered by a priest who supported Hitler.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Everyone who read the letter, including the priest, disappeared as a result of Himmler's efficient and deadly actions.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">In the letter it is believed that Hitler wrote frankly about his sado-masochistic attitude towards sex, which was related to his manipulation of sexual activities for paranormal purposes, although this was not explicitly stated in the letter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">She was certainly an electoral liability and, perhaps more significantly and bizarrely, she would have been a drain on the psycho-sexual powers which Hitler needed in order to produce his mediumistic performances of mass oratory.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">A year later Hitler met <a href="http://evabraunhitler.blogspot.com/2011/12/eva-braun.html" target="_blank">Eva Braun</a> <b>(18)</b> at the studio of the photographer Heinrich Hoffman.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">To begin with Hitler provided her with a flat in Munich, but later she moved into the Berghof.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">She remained hidden from the public, although she acted as Mistress of the Berghof, entertaining Hitler's eminent guests.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Born in Simbach, <a href="http://evabraunhitler.blogspot.com/2011/12/eva-braun.html" target="_blank">Eva Braun</a> was the second daughter of school teacher <a href="http://evabraunhitler.blogspot.com/2011/12/eva-braun.html" target="_blank">Friedrich "Fritz" Braun</a>, a non-practicing Protestant, and Franziska "Fanny" Kronberger, who came from a respectable Bavarian Catholic family.<br />Her elder sister, Ilse, was born in 1909 and her younger sister, Margarete "Gretl", was born in 1915.<br />Eva was educated at a lyceum, then for one year at a business school in a convent where she had average grades and a talent for athletics.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She worked for several months as a receptionist at a medical office, then at age 17, took a job as an office and lab assistant and photographer's model for Heinrich Hoffmann, the official photographer for the Nazi Party.<br />She met Hitler, 23 years her senior, at Hoffmann's studio of Munich in October 1929.<br />He had been introduced to her as "Herr Wolff" (a childhood nickname he used during the 1920s for security purposes).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She described him to friends as a "gentleman of a certain age with a funny moustache, a light-coloured English overcoat, and carrying a big felt hat."<br />He appreciated her eye colour, which was said to be close to his mother's.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Her family was strongly against the relationship and little is known about it during the first two years.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The rest of <a href="http://evabraunhitler.blogspot.com/2011/12/eva-braun.html" target="_blank">Braun's family</a> survived the war, including her father, who worked in a hospital and to whom Braun sent several trunks of her belongings in April 1945.<br />Her mother, Franziska, died at age 91 in January 1976, having lived out her days in an old farmhouse in <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/104201944680889451127/GermanyAustria">Ruhpolding</a> *, Bavaria.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One does not know what is more extraordinary: the bewitchment of the German nation; the phenomenon of Hitler himself; or the inability of most to recognise the sources of the Führer's powers.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Yet the signs are plain for all to see in the work of historians of unimpeachable integrity like Alan Bullock and Hugh Trevor-Roper.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">‘<i>Until the last days of his life,' writes Bullock, ‘he retained an uncanny gift of personal magnetism which defies analysis, but which many who met him have described ... This was connected with the curious powers of his eyes, which are persistently said to have some sort of hypnotic</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Professor Trevor-Roper concurs: ‘<i>Hitler had the eyes of a hypnotist which seduced the wits and affections of all who yielded to their power</i>." One does not acquire such power by accident!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Goebbels wrote about his first meeting with Hitler: "<i>I was fascinated by Hitlers blue eyes...</i>". Traudl Junge, his last secretary often told in interviews, that "...<i>people were amazed about Hitler's blue eyes...."</i>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Martha Dodd writes in her book that, "<i>Hitler's eyes were startling and unforgettable - they seemed pale blue in color, were intense, unwavering, hypnotic</i>."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">However - even when he was young Hitler's eyes were remarkable.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Kubizek has the following to say about Hitler's eyes:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'Never in my life have I seen any other person whose appearance -- how shall I put it -- was so completely dominated by the eyes.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They were the light eyes of his mother, but her somewhat staring, penetrating gaze was even more marked in the son and had even more force and expressiveness.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was uncanny how these eyes could change their expression, especially when Adolf was speaking.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To me his sonorous voice meant much less than the expression of his eyes.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In fact, Adolf spoke with his eyes, and even when his lips were silent one knew what he wanted to say.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When he first came to our house and I introduced him to my mother, she said to me in the evening, "What eyes your friend has!" And I remember quite distinctly that there was more fear than admiration in her words.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If I am asked where one could perceive, in his youth, this man's exceptional qualities, I can only answer, "In the eyes."'</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hence the above descriptions are ludicrous if applied to Mussolini or Stalin, but perfect if applied to men such as Rasputin, Gurdjieff or <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.com/2011/06/introduction.html">Crowley</a>, with whom Hitler must be classed: all four men possessed to a remarkable degree this intense personal magnetism, which, in all four cases, was associated with their ‘hypnotic' eyes.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One has to be inflexibly dogmatic and unscientific to deny the proposition that the human brain is capable of doing extraordinary things, in face of all the evidence, and indeed, the current intellectual fashion is to accept the existence of ESP powers as long as we can talk</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">about them in terms of the brain or the unconscious.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As long as our terms are sufficiently ‘modern', we are on safe ground: yoga we can label Psychocybernetics, and magic, Applied Mind Dynamics, and this almost makes them respectable.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Unfortunately, in considering Adolf Hitler, we are also forced to consider the possibility that the world of spirits and demons may have some objective existence, or at least, that Hitler thought it did.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Time and time again we come upon the phrase used to describe him, ‘<i>the unconscious tool of higher powers</i>'.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We may add to the testimony of witnesses we have quoted earlier the words of the French Ambassador, Francois-Poncet;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">‘<i>He entered into a sort of mediumistic trance; the expression of his face was ecstatic,</i>' and of another Frenchman, Bouchez:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">‘<i>I looked into his eyes - the eyes of a medium in a trance ... Sometimes there seemed to be a sort of ectoplasm; the speaker's body seemed to be inhabited by something ...'</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And Rauschnig said of Hitler <i>- 'One cannot help but think of him as a medium...beyond any doubt Hitler was possessed by forces outside himself..'</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">‘<i>A person close to Hitler related that he wakes up in the night screaming and in convulsions. He calls for help, and appears to be half paralysed.</i></span><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He is seized with a panic that makes him tremble until the bed shakes.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He utters confused and unintelligible sounds, gasping, as if on</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">‘Hitler was standing up in his room, swaying, and looking all round him as if he were lost.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"It's he, it's he," he groaned; "he's come for me!"</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">His lips were white; he was sweating profusely.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Suddenly he uttered a string of meaningless figures, then words and scraps of sentences.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He used strange expressions strung together in bizarre disorder.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then he relapsed again into silence, but his lips still continued to move.</span></i><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Then suddenly he screamed: "There! there! Over in the corner! He </i><i>is there!" – all the time stamping with his feet and shouting.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>To quieten him he was assured </i><i>that nothing extraordinary had happened, and finally he gradually calmed down. </i></span><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After that he slept for a long time and became normal again.’</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Is it possible that this was one of the mysterious beings which forbade him to speak about further stages in evolution ? (see below - 'Hitler Speaks')</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hitler's behaviour invites one to compare the remarks of <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.com/2011/06/introduction.html">Mathers</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The ‘<i>string of meaningless figures, then words and scraps of sentences . . . the </i><i>strange expressions strung together in bizarre disorder</i>' all sound remarkably like the arcane languages and ‘<i>barbarous names of evocation</i>' used by ceremonial magicians to control their consciousness.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We cannot resolve the question of whether spirit beings have an existence independent of the human brain, or whether they are personalised components of the unconscious mind, and we leave the reader to judge.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">From the above, however, it is clear that the Führer thought in terms of an objective world of spirit beings.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Admittedly it is hard to accept that such beliefs nourished one of the twentieth century's most prominent political figures, and yet he said himself, when talking of the destiny of the human race: ‘<i>Politics are only a practical and fragmentary aspect of this destiny</i>.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">The bomb plot, arranged by some of his disillusioned generals was the final blow, weakening his physical and spiritual resolve on which his essential 'Will' rested.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was by any measure an impressive collection: first editions of the works of philosophers, historians, poets, playwrights and novelists.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For him, the library represented a Pierian spring, that metaphorical source of knowledge and inspiration.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He drew deeply there, nourishing his many ambitions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He read voraciously, at least one book per night, sometimes more, he claimed. “<i>When one gives, one also has to take</i>,” he once said. “<i>I take what I need from books</i>.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He ranked Don Quixote, along with 'Robinson Crusoe', 'Uncle Tom’s Cabin' and 'Gulliver’s Travels', among the great works of world literature. “<i>Each of them is a grandiose idea unto itself</i>,” he said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In Robinson Crusoe he perceived “<i>the development of the entire history of mankind</i>”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Don Quixote captured “<i>ingeniously</i>” the end of an era.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He was especially impressed by Gustave Doré’s depictions of Cervantes’s delusion-plagued hero.</span><br />
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OJttYWVGWvs/Tjw2Eria3TI/AAAAAAAACxA/IVZcTFug89k/s1600/Shakespeare+in+Love+-+England+-+Peter+Crawford.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="129" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OJttYWVGWvs/Tjw2Eria3TI/AAAAAAAACxA/IVZcTFug89k/s200/Shakespeare+in+Love+-+England+-+Peter+Crawford.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hitler also owned the collected works of William Shakespeare, published in German translation in 1925 by Georg Müller as part of a series intended to make great literature available to the general public.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The entire set is bound in hand-tooled Moroccan leather, with a gold-embossed eagle, flanked by his initials, on the spine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">While Shakespeare had fuelled his imagination on the protean forces of the emerging British empire, these two Teutonic playwright-poets squandered their talent on stories of midlife crises and sibling rivalries.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Why was it, he wondered, that the German Enlightenment produced 'Nathan the Wise', the story of the rabbi who reconciles Christians, Muslims and Jews, while it had been left to Shakespeare to give the world 'The Merchant of Venice' and 'Shylock' ? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In a 1926 sketchbook he drew a detailed stage set for the first act, with sinister facades enclosing the forum where Caesar is cut down. “<i>We will meet again at Philippi,</i>” he threatened an opponent on more than one occasion, plagiarizing the spectral warning to Brutus after Caesar’s murder.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He kept his Shakespearian volumes in the second-floor study of his Alpine retreat in southern Germany, along with a leather edition of another favourite author, the adventure novelist Karl May.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“<i>The first Karl May that I read was 'The Ride Across the Desert',</i>” he recalled. “<i>I was overwhelmed. I threw myself into him immediately, which resulted in a noticeable decline in my grades.</i>”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He was well versed in the Holy Scriptures, and owned a particularly handsome tome with “Worte Christi” (Words of Christ) embossed in gold on a cream-coloured calfskin cover that even today remains as smooth as silk.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The sinews of emotional logic that once ran through this collection — Hitler shuffled his books ceaselessly and insisted on reshelving them himself — have now been severed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A copy of his family genealogy is sandwiched between a bound collection of newspaper articles titled 'Sunday Meditations' and a folio of political cartoons from the 1920s.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Also surviving in the collection of Hitler's books is a copy of 'Mein Kampf' with Hitler’s ex-libris book plate, an analysis of Wagner’s 'Parsifal' published in 1913, a history of the swastika from 1921, and half a dozen or so spiritual and occult volumes acquired in Munich in the early 1920s, including an account of supernatural occurrences, 'The Dead Are Alive !', and a monograph on Nostradamus.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here Hitler is seen pausing to engage with the text, to underline words and sentences, to mark entire paragraphs, to place an exclamation point beside one passage, a question mark beside another, and quite frequently an emphatic series of parallel lines in the margin alongside a particular passage.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Like footprints in the sand, these markings allow us to trace the course of the journey, but not necessarily the intent, where attention caught and lingered, where it rushed forward and where it ultimately ended.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In a 1934 reprint of Paul Lagarde’s 'German Letters', a series of late-19th-century essays advocating the systematic removal of Europe’s Jewish population, there are more than 100 pages of pencilled intrusions: from page 41, where Lagarde calls for the “<i>transplanting</i>” of German and Austrian Jews to Palestine, extending to ominous passages where he speaks of Jews as “<i>pestilence</i>”.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>“This water pestilence must be eradicated from our streams and lakes</i>,” Lagarde writes on page 276, with a pencil marking bold affirmation in the margin. “<i>The political system without which it cannot exist must be eliminated</i>.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Easily two-thirds of the collection consists of books he never saw, let alone read, but there are also scores of more personal volumes Hitler studied and marked.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hitler left no narrative of his own collection, no account of how one or the other volume came into his possession, or of its particular emotional significance, but the various inscriptions, marginalia and other details provide insight into their personal and intellectual significance for his life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“<i>After being appointed chancellor in 1933 the first building Hitler had erected was not a monument to his own triumph but a massive art gallery.</i>”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hitler’s complaint to his field commanders after Winston Churchill refused peace terms in 1940 was, “<i>It is a pity that I have to wage war on account of that drunk, instead of serving the works of peace</i>.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The tasks of peace - grand architectural renovations and the promotion of German culture - were uppermost in Hitler’s mind, as Hermann Giesler has shown us throughout his memoir.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But not only Giesler.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After pondering the matter for 20 years in Spandau prison, Hitler’s other architect Albert Speer concluded that Hitler was always and with his whole heart an artist.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hitler’s secretary Christa Schroeder recalled that his non-military conversation turned more and more to the arts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Josef Goebbels provides numerous examples in his diaries.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In Jan.1942, after a long discussion with Hitler, he wrote:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“<i>The intensity of the Fuehrer’s longing for music, theatre and cultural relaxation is enormous.</i>”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The life he was then leading was “<i>culturally empty</i>,” the Fuehrer had told him, and he looked forward to the war’s end when he would “<i>compensate for this by a dedication stronger than ever to the more beautiful sides of life</i>.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Giesler was in charge of designing Hitler’s retirement home overlooking Linz.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hitler envisioned discussion of art, philosophy and matters of importance to the future of Europe by those invited to his home. “<i>Ms. Braun</i>,” whom he would marry when he retired after the war, would be the lady of the house.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hitler was no dilettante.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">His knowledge of architecture was enormous, along with many other subjects.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He had supported himself from 1909-1913 in Vienna and Munich by drawing and painting architectural landmarks in watercolor and oil, selling them through dealers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">His Munich landlord, Herr Popp, said he often found his lodger reading the works of Schopenhauer and Plato, along with war histories.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Throughout the First World War Hitler carried with him a pocket edition of Schopenhauer's 'The World as Will and Idea'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">His enthusiasm for Richard Wagner’s music began as a 12 year-old boy attending a performance of Lohengrin in Linz.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He’s said to have seen 'Tristan und Isolde' up to 40 times and 'Der Meistersinger' one hundred times. He could hum or whistle all its themes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 1942, Hitler became equally enthused about Austrian-born composer Anton Bruckner.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He considered Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony the equivalent of Beethoven’s Ninth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Always generous with his own funds, Hitler personally financed a centre of Bruckner studies, had his organ repaired and added to his library; he designed a monument in his honour in Linz; endowed a Bruckner Orchestra and subsidized the publication of the composer’s original scores.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">No other leader of the time came close to that dedication. “<i>Stalin as well as Lenin, Mussolini, Mao Tse-tung and their ilk … had never set foot in an art gallery</i>.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">While possibly better-educated, Churchill, Roosevelt and Wilson were also far below Hitler’s level of cultural awareness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It turns out, by a close study of Adolf Hitler’s biographers, memoirists, associates and the record itself, that his idea of national greatness was only fulfilled in a true national art and culture - reminiscent of the ancient Greeks he admired, wherein magnificent physical beauty combines with a brilliant mind and noble soul.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The area of Obersalzberg was purchased by the Nazis in the 1920s for their senior leaders to enjoy.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Hitler's mountain residence, the Berghof, was located here.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Berchtesgaden and its environs (Stanggass) were fitted to serve as an outpost of the German Reichskanzlei office (Imperial Chancellery).</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Some typical Third Reich buildings in Berchtesgaden include the railway station, that had a reception area for Hitler and his guests, and the post office next to the railway station.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Berchtesgadener Hof Hotel was a hotel where famous visitors stayed, such as Eva Braun, Erwin Rommel, Joseph Goebbels, and Heinrich Himmler, as well as Neville Chamberlain and David Lloyd George.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Not long after Hitler siezed the leadership of the party and became it's Fuhrer, his mentor, Eckart, introduced him to the lovely village of Berchtesgaden that was nestled in the Bavarian Alps.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Located near the Austrian border and only a two hour train ride south-east of Munich, Berchtesgaden was a small farming, mining and resort community.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Since about 1850 the area had been one of the summer stomping grounds for Germany's royalty and high society.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Since the first world war it had fallen on leaner times.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Under the influence of Eckart, Hitler adapted the custom of spending weekends, holidays, and vacations at the mountain retreat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hitler stayed with Eckart in a house, called the Sonnenhauesl, or as Hitler called it, the "Sonnenkopfl," at Lockstein.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">About a year after his introduction to Berchtesgaden, Hitler and a friend made a two mile hike up to Obersalzberg.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dotted with a few small farms and summer guest-houses, the area offered some of the most spectacular scenic views of the German and Austrian Alps.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hitler described the region as "a countryside of indescribable</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">beauty."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He soon began spending most of his free time there and normally took a room at the Pension Moritz (see right).</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A short walk below the Moritz was the Gasthof zum Turken (see left) (named after an innkeeper who fought the Turks) where Hitler and his friends enjoyed the "genuine goulash" and often lingered in one of the small public rooms lost in conversation.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It no doubt impressed Hitler to learn that the Moritz and Turken had once been the meeting places of such dignitaries as Prince-Regent Luitpold of Bavaria, the composer Johannes Brahms and even Crown prince Wilhelm of Prussia.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Having taught Hitler the oratory skills to manipulate an audience through the techniques of hand gestures, voice control and timing, Eckhart now presented his prodigy with a place that would overwhelm him with majestic and inspiring grandeur.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Little wonder that Hitler later said that it was here that he had spent his most pleasant times, and conceived his greatest ideas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And opposite the Eckart's Sonnenhauesl (The Little House of the Sun) was the mighty Untersberg (see right) - the massive mountain that dominates the Obersalzburg.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Interetingly, the Untersburg is no ordinary mountain, and one reason Hitler became intrigued by the mountain is because of re-occuring events, legends and tales of people gone missing, people experiencing missing time, encounters with elves and extraterrestrials and passageways to what Hitler called “the inner earth”.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Often noted by occultists as an “energy spot” or “magnetic geo-node,” many seekers came to the Untersberg to be refreshed by the water and drawn to over 400 caves and tunnels by what is described as a “strong magnetic anomaly.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Untersberg has been characterized by the Dalai-Lama as the “sleeping dragon,” the “heart-chakra of the world.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The legends of time portals, missing expeditions, tunnel systems leading to fountains, temples, forests and marble rooms go back hundreds of years.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One of the most persistent rumors involves the legend of Karl the Great (of the Holy Roman Empire of German Nation), known in the west as Charles the Great or Charlemagne.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Though physically buried in the German village of Aachen, it is believed that the “astral form” of this emperor sleeps in the mysterious depths of a subterranean throne room, surrounded by his strongest knights, gnomes, frost giants and fire giants, Valkyries and other “Volk,” awaiting the final liberation of his country and kinsmen; that he will rule over a thousand year kingdom of Aryan dominion.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Other accounts maintain this entity is the spirit of the emperor Frederich Barbarossa.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Within the ancient mythologies of the Nordic People are the prophecies that at a future point in time, though time itself is a variable, the “Watcher-god”, Heimdall, will sound his horn to summon the children of Loki (see right).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This semi-divine/human Sixth Race will break their bonds and unite with mystical forces to sail from the land of the Niflheim, located in an astral plane beyond the auroras, waging the final battle with the current “usurpers” of the planet to culminate in the enthronement of their vaticinated king.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is this anticipated kingdom and its preparation that has been the goal of the ancient spirits. This is the heart of 'The Awakening of the Black Sun'.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Untersberg is known to be inhabited by certain kinds of elemental spirits of Nature, some of which are good and benevolent, others of a wicked and malicious nature, and inimical to mankind; and there are innumerable tales circulating among the people in the neighborhood, telling about the doings of the gnomes, fairies, and giants, dwelling within caves and in gorgeous marble halls and grottoes filled with gold and precious stones that will turn into dead leaves and stones when seen in the light of day.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Some of the friendly tribes come out of the Untersberg on certain occasions, and they are said to have sometimes associated with the inhabitants of our plane of existence, partaking in the dances and amusements of the peasants, and even taking stray children with them into the Untersberg; and, incredible as it may appear, it is even asserted by, “those who know” that marriages have taken place between citizens of our world and the inhabitants of the kingdom of gnomes.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Of course it is well known that within the mysterious depths of the Untersberg there dwells the soul of a great emperor in his astral form.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There, together with his retinue, he sleeps an enchanted sleep, waiting for the liberation of his country.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sometimes very suddenly, even on a clear summer day, clouds are seen to issue from the sides of the mountain; grotesquely-formed ghost-like mists arise from the caverns and precipices, crawling and gliding slowly upwards toward the top, and form on the neighboring peaks also, clouds of monstrous shapes and sometimes of gigantic proportions floating on, until the head of the Untersberg is surrounded by a surging sea of vapours growing dense and dark.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Seldom included in historical analysis of the Third Reich and Adolf Hitler, is the spiritually mesmerizing impact of Mount Untersberg.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hitler’s first direct encounter took place in 1923, upon which date the future führer would describe his feelings, “It was so wonderful! A view of the Untersberg! Indescribable!”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">While not specifically recorded, it is unlikely that the youthful Hitler would have been unaware of the writings of Franz Hartmann.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">His obsession with occultism and theosophy, now well documented, would explain the peculiar fascination with the “sleeping dragon” as described by the Dalai Lama.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Having rented Haus Wachenfeld, a small vacation villa across the valley from Mount Untersberg, for four years, it was in 1932, with proceeds earned from royalties from Mein Kampf, that Adolf Hitler purchased what would become the Berghof.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A major renovation of the house soon followed, including a series of extensions, a bowling alley, a library and a basement.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(see Grundstein - Foundation Stone of 1936 - left - with Thule Swastikas)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Most importantly, however, was the construction of a huge picture window, providing a completely open view of the Untersberg.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hitler was deeply affected by the legend and remarked to Albert Speer, his architect and armaments minister:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“<i>Look at the Untersberg over there.It is not just by chance that I have my seat across from it.</i>”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In February of 1942, the Fuhrer commented to Heinrich Himmler, “Charlemagne was the one of the greatest men to ever live.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It may well have been that Adolf Hitler had hoped to see some type of manifestation: his telescopes were specifically designed for earth observation.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“<i>Those were the best times of my life</i>,” he would later say. “<i>My great plans were forged there</i>.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So magnetic was the mountain that the Führer later explained,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“<i>I basically built the house around the window</i>,” and he even named the structure Berghof: “The Mountain Court.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Berghof has been described as a “Bavarian country house guarded by 2,000 SS troops,” with Adolf Hitler gazing from a “gigantic window… across a valley to the Untersberg massif, a sheer wall of mountain that looms large in Teutonic myths.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For almost a decade Obersalzburg had become the Holy Mountain of the Third Reich, drawing thousands of pilgrims to pay homage to their Führer.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">A recent expedition (August 2008) into the gigantic cave-system under the mountain revealed that it goes down so far, that its lowest point had not been reached yet.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The cave explorers had to return from their expedition without knowing how far down it goes.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">According to a German newspaper report they had gone down 1056 meters before being forced to return at an abyss-like precipce.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">This had been accomplished by being able to pass an extremely narrow passageway that had been previously unpassable.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The small chalet-style building was refurbished and much expanded during 1935-36 when it was re-named The Berghof.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The library contained books "on history, painting, architecture and music."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A great hall was furnished with expensive 'Nordic' style furniture, a large globe and an expansive red marble fireplace mantel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A sprawling picture window (see right) could be lowered into the wall to give a sweeping, open air view of -the Untersberg. - And on the terrace Hitler installed the finest, very large terrestial telescopes (see left) so that he could observe the mysterious Untersberg in detail.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was built as an extension of the Obersalzberg complex erected in the mountains above Berchtesgaden.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Kehlsteinhaus was intended as a 50th birthday present for Adolf Hitler to serve as a retreat for Hitler and place for him to entertain visiting dignitaries.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Kehlsteinhaus was commissioned by Martin Bormann, with construction proceeding over a 13-month period.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is situated on a ridge at the top of the Kehlstein mountain 1,834 m (6,017 ft), reached by a 6.5 km (4.0 mi) long and 4 m (13 ft) wide road that cost 30 million RMs to build (about 150 million euros in 2007, adjusted in line with inflation).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It includes five tunnels but only one hairpin turn and climbs 800 m (2,600 ft).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Much of the furniture was designed by Paul László.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A significant event held at the Kehlsteinhaus was the wedding reception that followed the marriage of Eva Braun's sister Gretl to Hermann Fegelein on June 3, 1944.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The building is often mistakenly referred to as a "tea house", a corruption of its abbreviated name, "D-Haus", short for "Diplomatic Reception Haus".</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As a result it is frequently confused with the actual tea house at Hitler's Berghof, the Mooslahnerkopf Teehaus he visited daily after lunch.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Although the site is on the same mountain as the Berghof, Hitler rarely visited the property.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It has been suggested he only visited the Kehlsteinhaus around 10 times, and most times for no more than 30 minutes, however he did receive André François-Poncet (the departing French ambassador to Germany) there on October 18, 1938.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As a result of the lack of close association with Hitler the property was saved from demolition at the end of the war.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A trail leads above the Kehlsteinhaus towards the Mannlgrat ridge reaching from the Kehlstein to the summit of the Hoher Goll.</span><br />
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<a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.com/2011/08/gustav-kubizek-reminiscences.html" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-yGedoKZk1IA/TiTA9l44YLI/AAAAAAAACXw/jKv3wTJWiGc/s200/August+Kubizek+1907+-+Occult+History+Third+Reich+-+Peter+Crawford.jpg" width="131" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Some of List and Liebenfels's books lay on the dusty shelves of a neat bed-sit in a middle-class suburb of Vienna, the still dazzling capital of the once great Empire, now weakened and reduced by the ravages of a lost war.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The room was shared by Hitler, and a friend from his school-days, <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.com/2011/08/gustav-kubizek-reminiscences.html">August Kubizek</a> (see right).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Without Wagner would there have been a Third Reich - and what would Richard have thought about his greatest 'fan' - Adolf Hitler. ?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Undoubtedly much of Hitler's weltanschauung (world view or world philosophy) was dictated by the music, librettos and writings of his favourite composer.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Wilhelm Richard Wagner (22 May 1813 – 13 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is primarily known for his operas (or, as some of his later works were later known, "music dramas"). Unlike most opera composers, Wagner wrote both the libretto and the music for each of his stage works. Initially establishing his reputation as a composer of works in the romantic vein of Weber and Meyerbeer, Wagner revolutionised opera through his concept of the <i>Gesamtkunstwerk</i> ("total work of art"), by which he sought to <i>synthesise</i> the poetic, visual, musical and dramatic arts, with music subsidiary to drama, and which was announced in a series of essays between 1849 and 1852.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Wagner realised these ideas most fully in the first half of the four-opera cycle 'Der Ring des Nibelungen' (The Ring of the Nibelung). </span><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">His compositions, particularly those of his later period, are notable for their complex textures, rich harmonies and orchestration, and the elaborate use of leitmotifs—musical phrases associated with individual characters, places, ideas or plot elements. His advances in musical language, such as extreme chromaticism and quickly shifting tonal centres, greatly influenced the development of classical music.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In addition there was a personal element to Hitler's connection with Wagner.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Of course Wagner died in 1883, and Hitler was born in 1889 - so there could be no direct, personal connection - however Wagner had a son,</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Siegfried, and Siegfried, despite his homosexuality, had sons - Wolfgang and Wieland.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After the death of Siegfried Wagner in 1930, Winifred Wagner, Siegfried's wife, took over the Bayreuth Festival, running it until the end of World War II.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In 1923, Winifred met Adolf Hitler who, as we know, greatly admired Wagner's music. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When Hitler was jailed for his part in the Munich Beer Hall Putsch, Winifred sent him food parcels and stationery on which Hitler's autobiography 'Mein Kampf' was written.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the late 1930s, she served as Hitler's personal translator during treaty negotiations with England.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Winifred's relationship with Hitler grew so close that by 1933 there were rumors of impending marriage.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'Haus Wahnfried', the Wagner home in Bayreuth, became Hitler's favorite retreat, and he had his own separate accommodation in the grounds of Wahnfried, known as the Führerbau.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Wahnen means endless striving of an artist for the fulfilment of his aspirations and the triumph of his art.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">So Wahnfried (Wahnen free) was the name chosen and even today we can see Wagner's motto on the front: "Here where my delusions have found peace, let this place be named Wahnfried."</span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Above the door to the villa is a giant mural, depicting Wotan, King of the Gods and the philandering wanderer, being welcomed by classical women.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">We should also note that Wotan was the name of Wagner’s beloved St Bernard dog.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The whole house was a place where Wagner could compose, raise his family and entertain guests.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The Grand Hall is the largest room in the villa, and is a two-storey space with a gallery around the second floor and a skylight in the ceiling. Furnishings include two of Wagner's pianos and numerous busts. The specially designed Bechstein piano was the piano Wagner used when he was composing Meistersinger, part of Siegfried and Parsifal. It was a present from the endlessly patient, endlessly generous King Ludwig II for Wagner's birthday in 1864.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">In a shady grove beyond the garden, surrounded with ivy, is the tomb of Richard and Cosima Wagner. The stone is unmarked, because as Wagner insisted, as long as it remained, everyone would know who was buried there. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But to begin at - <i>almost</i> - the beginning - </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yet in 1908 he was one of the most important figures on the Viennese artistic scene. He was a painter who, along with Gustav Klimt, organized the Vienna Se-cession.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He was also professor of fine arts and soon to be appointed director of the School of Applied Arts. But above all he was a stage designer of great distinction.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Roller at first studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna under Christian Griepenkerl and Eduard Peithner von Lichtenfels, but eventually became disenchanted with the Academy's traditionalism. In 1897 he co-founded the Viennese Secession with Koloman Moser, Joseph Maria Olbrich, Josef Hoffmann, Gustav Klimt, and other artists who rejected the prevalent academic style of art. He became a professor of drawing at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (Kunstgewerbeschule) in 1899, and president of the Secession in 1902.</span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">In his early career Roller was very active as a graphic designer and draughtsman.</span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">He designed numerous covers and vignettes for the pages the Secessionist periodical Ver Sacrum, as well as the posters for the fourth, fourteenth, and sixteenth Secession exhibitions. He also designed the layout of the exhibitions themselves.</span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">In 1902 Roller was introduced to the composer Gustav Mahler by Carl Moll. Roller expressed an interest in stage design and showed Mahler several sketches he had made for Wagner's 'Tristan und Isolde'. Mahler was impressed and decided to employ Roller to design the sets for a new production of the piece. The production, which premiered in February 1903, was a great critical success. Roller continued to design sets for Mahler's productions. Eventually Roller left the Secession and his teaching post at the Kunstgewerbeschule to be appointed chief stage designer to the Vienna State Opera, a position he held until 1909.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 – February 6, 1918) was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt is noted for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other objets d'art. Klimt's primary subject was the female body; his works are marked by a frank eroticism. Gustav Klimt was born in Baumgarten, near Vienna in Austria-Hungary. His mother, Anna Klimt (née Finster), had an unrealized ambition to be a musical performer. His father, Ernst Klimt the Elder, formerly from Bohemia, was a gold engraver. All three of their sons displayed artistic talent early on. Klimt's younger brothers were Ernst Klimt and Georg Klimt. Klimt became one of the founding members and president of the Wiener Sezession (Vienna Secession) in 1897 and of the group's periodical, Ver Sacrum ("Sacred Spring"). He remained with the Secession until 1908.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That production and those that followed - in particular the premiere of 'Der Rosenkavalier' in 1911 made him the world’s most talked-about operatic producer.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In that first week of February, Roller received a letter from a friend declaring that a young man of her acquaintance was a great admirer of his.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The lad was an aspiring painter and loved opera; he would give anything, she wrote, to meet Roller to discuss his professional prospects, either in painting or in stage design. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Despite his heavy commitments, Roller generously agreed to meet him, take a look at some of his work and advise him on a career.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Young Hitler The young man was overjoyed, and a short time later, with Roller’s reply and a portfolio of his works in hand, went to the opera house.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On reaching the entrance, so he later said, he got cold feet and left.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A short time later he summoned up his courage, returned and this time made it as far as the grand staircase, when he again took fright.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On a third occasion he was well on his way to Roller’s office when an opera house attendant asked his business.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At that, he turned on his heels and fled for good.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now young Adolf was not a naturally timid young man - so what was it that prevented him from meeting Roller.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Was there some force, that prevented him from taking the critical that would have decisively changed world history ?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But he never forgot the gesture, and when he finally met Roller in 1934, he told him the story. The young man was now chancellor of Germany.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If only, history sighs, Roller and Hitler had met in 1908 and Hitler had been taken on as an assistant at the opera, or enrolled at the School of Applied Arts.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As Hitler himself remarked to his personal staff in 1942:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'<i>Without a recommendation it was impossible to get anywhere in Austria.</i></span><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When I came to Vienna I had a recommendation to Roller.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But I never made use of it. If I had gone to him with it, he would have taken me right off.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But I do not know whether that would have been better for me. Certainly everything would have been much easier.</span></i><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>And much different</i>.'</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In any event Hitler never lost his admiration of Roller.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When Winifred Wagner decided in 1933 to stage a new production of Richard Wagner's 'Parsifal' at Bayreuth - the first since the original of 1882 - Hitler, not unnaturally proposed Roller to do it, although he had other, more obscure reasons for making that request (see below) and she agreed.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Winifred Wagner (23 June 1897 – 5 March 1980) was an English woman and wife of Siegfried Wagner, Richard Wagner's son. She was the effective head of the Wagner family from 1930 to 1945.</span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">In 1923, Winifred met Adolf Hitler, who greatly admired Wagner's music. When Hitler was jailed for his part in the Munich Beer Hall Putsch, Winifred sent him food parcels and stationery on which Hitler's autobiography Mein Kampf may have been written. In the late 1930s, she served as Hitler's personal translator during treaty negotiations with Britain.</span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Her relationship with Hitler grew so close that by 1933 there were rumors of impending marriage. Haus Wahnfried, the Wagner home in Bayreuth, became Hitler's favorite retreat. Hitler gave the festival government assistance and tax exempt status, and treated Winifred's children solicitously.</span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">She corresponded with Hitler for nearly two decades. Scholars have not been allowed to see the letters which are kept locked away by one of Winifred's grandchildren, Amélie Lafferentz.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Wahnfried was the name given by Richard Wagner to his villa in Bayreuth. The name is a German compound of Wahn (delusion, madness) and Fried(e), (peace, freedom).</span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The house was constructed from 1872 to 1874 under Carl Wölfel's supervision after plans from Berlin architect Wilhelm Neumann, the plans being altered according to some ideas of Wagner. The front of the house shows Wagner's motto "Hier wo mein Wähnen Frieden fand – Wahnfried – sei dieses Haus von mir benannt." ("Here where my delusions have found peace, let this place be named Wahnfried.")</span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The grave of Richard Wagner and his wife Cosima lies on the grounds of Wahnfried. An extension to the house was built for Wagner's son, Siegfried Wagner, and was later used by Hitler and was known as the Führerbau</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hitler’s love affair with Wagnerian opera had begun in Linz in 1901 when at the age of twelve he attended his first opera.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">IAdolf Hitler was born in the border town of Braunau am Inn but moved to Linz in his childhood. Hitler spent most of his youth in the Linz area, from 1898 until 1907, when he left for Vienna. The family lived first in the village of Leonding on the outskirts of town, and then on the Humboldtstrasse in Linz. After elementary education in Leonding, Hitler was enrolled in the Realschule (school) in Linz with the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. To the end of his life, Hitler considered Linz to be his "home town", and envisioned extensive architectural schemes for it, wanting it to become the main cultural centre of the Third Reich.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The performance was of 'Lohengrin' and, as he later wrote in Mein Kampf,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">‘I<i> was captivated at once. My youthful enthusiasm for the Master of Bayreuth knew no bounds. Again and again I was drawn to his works . . . .</i>’</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From that moment the lad found himself addicted, literally so, to Wagner’s operas.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The composer’s musical and intellectual influence in Central Europe was then at its zenith, and Hitler em-braced the cult as devoutly as anyone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">During the years following the ecstasy of that first 'Lohengrin' performance, Hitler returned to the Linz Opera house night after night.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was there that he eventually met another opera enthusiast, August Kubizek.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The slightly older August, although training to follow in the footsteps of his father as an upholsterer, was a serious amateur musician, able to play several stringed and brass instruments.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In a short time he became the sole friend of Hitler’s youth.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was not simply the mutual interest in opera that drew them together but the compliant Kubizek’s willingness - an absolute requisite for everyone else later as well - to listen in tacit agreement or at least silence as the domineering 'Adi' expatiated on whatever caught his fancy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">According to Hitler’s comments to Speer, the two young men spent hours wandering through the streets of Linz as he rambled on about music, architecture and the importance of the arts. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On visiting Vienna for the first time in 1906, it was to Kubizek that he wrote.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">‘<i>Tomorrow I am going to the opera, 'Tristan', and the day after 'Flying Dutchman</i>', etc.,’ he reported soon after arriving.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Later the same day he dispatched a second postcard of the opera house on which he had written grandiloquently:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'<i>The interior of the edifice is not exciting.</i></span><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If the exterior is mighty majesty, lending the building the seriousness of an artistic monument, one feels in the interior admiration rather than dignity.</span></i><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Only when the mighty sound waves flow through the auditorium and when the whisperings of the wind give way to the terrible roaring of the sound waves does one feel the grandeur and forget the surfeit of gold and velvet covering the interior</i>'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On settling in Vienna the following year, he persuaded Kubizek, who had been admitted to the Music Conservatory, to join him there. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The two lived together until 1908 when Hitler, following the humiliation of his second rejection by the Academy of Fine Arts, suddenly vanished from his companion’s life.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Beyond his Wagnermania, little is known for certain about Hitler’s youthful activities.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He sang in a church choir at Lambach Abbey (Stift Lambach) - a Benedictine monastery in Lambach in Austria.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A monastery was founded in about 1040 by Count Arnold II of Lambach-Wels. His son, Bishop Adalbero of Würzburg (later canonised), changed the monastery into a Benedictine abbey ten year later. Since 1056 it has been a Benedictine abbey. During the 17th and 18th centuries a great deal of work in the Baroque style was carried out, much of it by the Carlone family. Lambach escaped the dissolution of the monasteries of Emperor Joseph II in the 1780s. In 1897/98 Adolf Hitler had lived in the town of Lambach (with his parents). He went to the secular Volksschule at which Benedictine teachers were employed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On leaving school, the young Adolf joined a music club, and took piano lessons from October 1906 until the end of the following January from a man named Josef Prawratsky.</span><br />
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He soon quit because of lack of money as a result of the expense of his mother’s cancer treatments, however, his sister Paula recalled him ‘<i>sitting for hours at the beautiful Heitzmann grand piano my mother had given him</i>’.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Klara Hitler née Pölzl (12 August 1860 – 21 December 1907) was an Austrian woman, and the mother of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Paula Hitler (Paula Wolf)[1] (21 January 1896 in Hafeld, Austria – 1 June 1960 in Berchtesgaden) was the younger sister of Adolf Hitler and the last child of Alois Hitler and his third wife, Klara Pölzl. Paula was the only full sibling of Adolf Hitler to survive into adulthood.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In later years he occasionally played - according to Winifred Wagner fairly well - but what he played remains a mystery.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kubizek’s 1954 book, 'Young Hitler' indicates that Hitler had a fairly solid musical background.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hitler was devoted to the works of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven as well as Bruckner, Weber, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Schumann and Grieg, and he was especially fond of Mozart and of Beethoven’s violin and piano concertos, and above all Schumann’s piano concerto.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The assertion that Hitler read Wagner’s prose writings and everything else he could get his hands on by or about Wagner is contradicted by Franz Jetzinger, librarian at the Linz archive, that Hitler did no serious reading at all at the time - however this story, along with many of Jetzinger's assertions about Hitler, has been strongly disputed (see below).</span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Franz Jetzinger (3 December 1882 in Ranshofen in Upper Austria – 19 March 1965 in Ottensheim in Upper Austria) was an Austrian clergyman, academic, politician, civil servant, editor and author. He remains especially famous as author of the book 'Hitler’s Youth'</span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Jetzinger gained fame in 1958 through the English version of his book 'Hitler’s Youth', in which he could refute many of Hitler’s statements about his early years. Moreover, Jetzinger attracted attention by attacking an earlier published book 'The Young Hitler I Knew' by August Kubizek, whom Jetzinger accused of spreading falsehoods. While earlier Hitler biographers like Joachim Fest or Werner Maser adopted Jetzinger’s criticism as their own, Jetzinger’s crushing judgment of Kubizek’s credibility is now <i>challenged</i> by Brigitte Hamann, author of 'Hitlers Wien'. Hamann asserts personal motives for Jetzinger’s tendency to illustrate nearly every statement in Kubizek’s book as an ex post modification of facts, claiming Jetzinger was economically motivated, because the previous release of Kubizek’s book supposedly undermined the sale of his own work. Many of Jetzinger's statements have now been disscredited.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The young Hitler was undoubtedly enthralled by Wagner’s music and he was 't<i>ransported into that extraordinary state which Wagner’s music produced in him, that trance, that escape into a mystical dream-world . . . . . . a changed man; his violence left him, he became quiet, yielding and tracta-ble . . . . intoxicated and bewitched . . . . . . willing to let himself be carried away into a mystical universe . . . . . . from the stale, musty prison of his back room, trans-ported into the blissful regions of Germanic antiquity . . .</i>' according to Kubizek.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">According to some reliable sources Hitler wrote an opera, based on a prose sketch which Wagner had developed, but abandoned, entitled 'Wieland der Schmied' (Wieland the Blacksmith).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An entire chapter is devoted to the story and tells how the young Hitler worked out leitmotifs, a cast of characters, a plot, a dramatic structure and a rough score.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Even after the passage of forty-five years, Kubizek was able to recall the specific names, all old-Teutonic, of the characters.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Within three days of conceiving the idea of the opera, Hitler had already composed an overture - in Wagnerian style - which he played for his friend on the piano in their completely darkened room. ‘<i>Eventually there was produced a very serious sketch for a music drama with Adolf Hitler as its composer.</i>’</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kubizek also explains how Hitler dreamed up the idea of a ‘Mobile Reichs Orchestra’ - or 'Reich Symphony Orchestra' - which was to tour German provinces and perform without charge.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In 1928 an orchestra dedicated to promoting National Socialist ideals was organized and in 1931 it became, with Hitler’s approval, a travelling National Socialist Symphony Orchestra.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By far the best known of Kubizek’s reminiscences relates to 'Rienzi'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Following a performance at the Linz Opera of Wagner’s 'Rienzi', Hitler ascended to a high place - the Freinberg Hill overlooking the city - where he experienced an ideological epiphany.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">'Rienzi, der Letzte der Tribunen' (Rienzi, the Last of the Tribunes) is an early opera by Richard Wagner in five acts, with the libretto written by the composer after Bulwer-Lytton's novel of the same name (1835). Written between July 1838 and November 1840, it was first performed at the Hofoper, Dresden, on 20 October 1842, and was the composer's first success.</span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The opera is set in Rome and is based on the life of Cola di Rienzi (1313–1354), a late medieval Italian populist figure who succeeds in outwitting and then defeating the nobles and their followers and in raising the power of the people.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Inspired by the hero of the opera, a simple man driven by a sense of mission to restore greatness to Rome, Hitler fell into a state of ‘<i>complete ecstasy and rapture’</i> and declared that he too was destined to lead his people to greatness.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kubizek went on to say that he mentioned the episode to Hitler when they met in Bayreuth in 1939 and found that he recalled it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">‘<i>In that hour it began</i>,’ the Führer commented.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And it is a story that is anchored in fact.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One fact is that the opera was actually performed at the local opera house beginning in January 1905.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another is that this is another case where the book and the ‘Reminiscences’ are consistent.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When a sceptical Jetzinger read that passage and challenged it (why ?), Kubizek responded in evident dudgeon, ‘<i>The experience after 'Rienzi' really happened.</i>’</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But most telling is Hitler’s own testimony to Speer in 1938, a full year before Kubizek raised the topic at Bayreuth.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Explaining why the party rallies opened with the overture to the opera, he said it was not simply because of the impressiveness of the music but also because it had great personal significance.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">‘<i>Listening to this blessed music as a young man in the opera at Linz, I had the vision that I too must some day succeed in uniting the German empire and making it great once more.</i>’</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Upon the annexation of Austria, Hitler publicly expressed identical sentiments, without the personal reference to 'Rienzi', telling an audience in Vienna,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">‘<i>I believe it was God’s will to send a youth from here into the Reich, to let him grow up, to raise him to be the leader of the nation so as to enable him to lead his homeland back into the Reich</i>’.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In some sense, then, the 'Rienzi' experience marked the primal scene of his political career. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wilhelm Furtwängler learned this to his shock at a long meeting with the Führer in August 1933. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He wanted music to be readily available, however, and after 1933 built up a large collection of phonograph recordings at the Chancellery in Berlin, at the Berghof, on his train and, later on, at his military headquarters on the Eastern front. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">According to all accounts, these were outstanding in quality and quantity, and the playing equipment was excellent.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the evenings he enjoyed hearing short excerpts and dramatic highlights of favourite pieces. Christa Schroeder:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">‘<i>He would then sit back,</i>’</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was always the same recordings that were played, and usually the guests knew the number of the record by heart. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When Hitler said, for example, ‘<i>Aida, last act: 'The fatal stone upon me now is closing</i>’, then one of the guests would shout the catalogue number to a member of the household staff.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'<i>Record number one-hundred-whatever.</i>'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'<i>Before long,</i>’ according to Speer, ‘<i>the order of the re-cords became virtually fixed. First he wanted a few bra-vura selections from Wagnerian operas, to be followed promptly with operettas.</i>’</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All the while he would try to guess the names of the singers and, as Speer remarked, ‘<i>was pleased when he guessed right, as he frequently did</i>’.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hitler was not genuinely fond of Beethoven and, as time passed, his attendance at performances of his symphonies was usually confined to official events.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This was awkward.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Traditionally Germans looked upon Beethoven along with Goethe, Rembrandt and Shakespeare as the supreme figures of modern Western culture.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Unlike the others, however, Beethoven was never just a cultural figure, but also an ideological symbol, invoked by every political movement.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">National Socialists, Rosenberg in particular, claimed the composer as an Aryan hero - and his music as an elixir that would contribute to the nation’s renewal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In his speeches Hitler consequently felt obliged to give the composer his due, but his praise rarely rose above the perfunctory. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So if Hitler had his Wagner, the Party had its Beethoven. When Hitler ‘entertained’ on state occasions, Wagner was performed; when the party ‘entertained’ on party occasions Beethoven was played.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And played he was, more often than any other symphonic composer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">His works, above all the Ninth Symphony, were the pre-eminent musical set pieces for important occasions.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When Hitler wanted to impress state visitors, he hauled them off to a gala performance of a Wagnerian opera.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In 1938, anxious to gain Hungarian support for his impending dismemberment of Czechoslova-kia; he invited the Prince Regent, Admiral Horthy, to make a state visit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The social high point of the occasion was a stunning performance of 'Lohengrin' - a rather tactless choice considering the opera opens with a call to arms to defend Germany from the Hungarian invader.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The following year Prince Paul, Prince Regent of Yugoslavia, was invited to Berlin for similar reasons, in this case the imminent invasion of Poland. He was treated to the happier 'Meistersinger von Nürnberg'.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Prince Paul of Yugoslavia, also known as Paul Karađorđević (Павле Карађорђевић, - 27 April 1893 – 14 September 1976), was regent of Yugoslavia during the minority of King Peter II. Peter was the eldest son of his first cousin Alexander I. His title in Yugoslavia was "Његово Краљевско Височанство, Кнез Намесник", (His Royal Highness The Prince Regent). In 1939, Prince Paul, as acting head of state, accepted an official invitation from Adolf Hitler and spent 9 days in Berlin.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hitler apparently believed that outstanding musical performances - like his magnificent works of architecture - would leave foreign leaders in awe of the greatness of the Third Reich and incline them to support his policies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hitler’s admirers, such as Hans Severus Ziegler and Furtwängler, traced his antipathy to the old rivalry between the Brahms and Bruckner camps in Vienna. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Hans Severus Ziegler (13 October 1893 – 1 May 1978) was a German publicist, intendant, teacher and National Socialist Party official. A leading cultural director under the Nazis, he was closely associated with the censorship and cultural co-ordination of the Third Reich.</span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Ziegler played a leading role in promoting the Nazi vision of culture, particularly with regards to "degenerate" music. He was a strong critic of atonality, dismissing it as decadent "cultural Bolshevism"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In an attempt to have him overlook history, and concentrate on the music, they persuaded him to attend a concert of the Berlin Philharmonic, which included the Brahm's Fourth Symphony. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But when he blithely commented afterwards,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">‘<i>Well, Furtwängler is such a good conductor that under such a baton even Brahms is impressive</i>,’ they admitted defeat.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene. In his lifetime, Brahms's popularity and influence were considerable; following a comment by the nineteenth-century conductor Hans von Bülow, he is sometimes grouped with Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Unfortunately the record is silent on what Hitler thought of Richard Strauss’s operas, or even which ones he knew.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Strauss represents the late flowering of German Romanticism after Richard Wagner, in which pioneering subtleties of orchestration are combined with an advanced harmonic style.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The story that Hitler begged money from relatives to attend the Austrian premiere of 'Salome' in Graz in May 1906, an event that also drew most of the eminent composers of the day, is possibly apocryphal.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The opera is famous (at the time of its premiere, infamous) for its "Dance of the Seven Veils". It is now better known for the more shocking final scene (often a concert-piece for dramatic sopranos), where Salome declares her love to – and kisses – the severed head of John the Baptist.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In fact, a performance of 'Madama Butterfly' at the Berlin Volksoper inn1937 left him so delighted that he decided then and there to donate 100,000 marks a year to the opera company.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Even so, when once attending a performance of 'La Boheme', what he talked about during the intermissions was Wagner and Bayreuth. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Otherwise there were few if any non-German composers whose works he could abide.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">According to Heinrich Hoffmann, he especially disliked Stravinsky and Prokofiev, and when Hoffmann’s daughter, Henriette von Schirach, presented him with a recording of Tchaikovsky’s Sixth Symphony, he brusquely refused to listen to it.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Anton Bruckner (4 September 1824 – 11 October 1896) was an Austrian composer known for his symphonies, masses, and motets. The first are considered emblematic of the final stage of Austro-German Romanticism because of their rich harmonic language, strongly polyphonic character, and considerable length. Bruckner's compositions helped to define contemporary musical radicalism, owing to their dissonances, unprepared modulations, and roving harmonies.</span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Unlike other musical radicals, such as Richard Wagner or Hugo Wolf who fit the '<i>enfant terrible</i>' mould, Bruckner showed extreme humility before other musicians, Wagner in particular. This apparent dichotomy between Bruckner the man and Bruckner the composer hampers efforts to describe his life in a way that gives a straightforward context for his music.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hoffmann did not so much as mention the composer’s name when once identifying Hitler’s favourites.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Even after becoming chancellor, Speer noted, his interest ‘<i>never seemed very marked</i>’.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The composer had, however, symbolic importance to him, both as a ‘<i>home town boy</i>’ and as a rival to Brahms, so beloved in Vienna.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was a fixed part of the Nuremberg rallies for the cultural session to open with a movement of one of his symphonies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In June 1937 he was famously photographed paying his respects to the composer, standing in mute homage before a monument at ‘Valhalla hall of fame’ near Regensburg as Siegmund von Hausegger and the Munich Philharmonic played the magnificent Adagio of the Seventh Symphony.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Why Hitler staged that event is not known. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Speculation has ranged from the theory that it was intended as a cultural precursor of the annexation of Austria the following year, to the notion that it was out of nostalgia for his ‘<i>beautiful time as a choirboy</i>’ and Lembach Abbey - with its Bruckner associations.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Undoubtedly the Hitler felt a personal kinship.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Both had come from small Austrian towns, grew up in modest circumstances, had fathers who died at an early age, were autodidacts, and made their way in life despite great obstacles.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On a number of occasions he contrasted the Austrian Catholic Bruckner, whom the Viennese shunned, to the north German Protestant Brahms, whom they idolized.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then, suddenly in 1940 he developed a passion for Bruckner’s symphonies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He even began mentioning him in the same breath with Wagner. ‘<i>He told me,</i>’ Goebbels noted in his diary, ‘.<i>.. that it was only now during the war, that he had learned to like him at all</i>.’ The enthusiasm steadily grew.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By 1942 he placed Bruckner on a level with Beethoven, and categorized the former’s Seventh Symphony as ‘<i>one of the most splendid manifestations of German musical creativity, the equivalent of Beethoven’s Ninth</i>’.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">His feelings about Bruckner, man and composer, are best conveyed by remarks he made after listening to a recording of the first movement of the Seventh at his military headquarters in January 1942:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'<i>Those are pure popular melodies from Upper Austria, nothing taken over literally but ländler and so on that I know from my youth. What the man made out of this primitive material ! In this case it was a priest who deserves well for having supported a great master</i>.'</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'The bishop of Linz sat for hours alone in the cathedral when Bruckner, the greatest organist of his time, played the organ.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One can imagine how difficult it was for a small peasant lad when he went to Vienna, that urbanized, debauched society.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A remark by him about Brahms, which a newspaper recently carried, brought him closer to me: Brahms’s music is quite lovely, but he preferred his own.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That is the healthy selfconfidence of a peasant who is modest but when it came down to it knew how to promote a cause when it was his own.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That critic Hanslick made his life in Vienna hell.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But when he could no longer be ignored, he was given honours and awards.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But what could he do with those ?</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was his creative activity that should have been made easier.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Brahms was praised to the heavens.'</span></i><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From then on Hitler did everything possible to promote Bruckner and to enlist him in his vendetta against Vienna.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">St Florian, where the composer’s career had begun, was to be turned into a pilgrimage site in the manner of Bayreuth.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">‘<i>He wants to establish a new cultural centre here</i>,’ Goebbels noted. ‘<i>Simply as a counter-weight to Vienna, which must gradually be shoved aside . . . . He intends to renovate St Florian at his own expense.</i>’</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Accordingly, Hitler financed a centre of Bruckner studies there, had the famous organ repaired and augmented the composer’s library.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He even designed a monument in his honour to stand in Linz, and endowed a Bruckner Orchestra which he was determined to make one of the world’s best.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The publication of the Haas edition of the composer’s original scores was subsidized from his own funds.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And he dreamed of constructing a bell tower in Linz with a carillon that would play a theme from the Fourth Symphony.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An even more startling transformation in Hitler’s musical taste was a growing passion for operetta, in particular Franz Lehar’s 'Die lustige Witwe'</span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Hitler enjoyed Lehár's music, and hostility diminished across Germany after Goebbels's intervention on Lehár's part. The National Socialist regime was aware of the uses of Lehár's music for propaganda purposes: concerts of his music were given in occupied Paris in 1941. Even so, Lehár's influence was limited.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Although Hitler almost always avoided mentioning the names of contemporary composers and their works, in speeches in 1920 and 1922 he singled out 'Die lustige Witwe' as a pre-eminent example of artistic kitsch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He never missed a new production of either that or Johann Strauss’s 'Fledermaus', and drew large sums from his private account for lavish new stagings.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Among his operettas, 'Die Fledermaus' and 'Der Zigeunerbaron' are the best known.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So thrilled was he upon meeting the composer in 1936 at a session of the Reichskulturkammer that he talked about the experience for days afterwards.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In fact, confounding professionals, and showing off to his entourage, gave him wicked pleasure, and those around him occasionally suspected that he boned up on a topic only to bring the conversation round to it so that he could exhibit his ‘extraordinary knowledge’.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After the Viennese premiere of Richard Strauss’s 'Friedenstag', Hitler gave a reception for the artists at which, according to one account, ‘<i>He showed an astonishing array of musical knowledge, and was able, for example, to remind Hans Hotter of what he had been singing ten years previously: </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“I<i>sn’t Scarpia too high for you? That G-flat in Act II?</i>”’</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While confirming the story, Hotter commented that it was difficult to draw much of a conclusion from it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">‘<i>Hitler had an exception-ally good memory.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Richard Georg Strauss (11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. He is known for his operas, which include 'Der Rosenkavalier' and 'Salome'; his lieder, especially his 'Four Last Songs'; and his tone poems and other orchestral works, such as 'Tod und Verklärung', 'Also sprach Zarathustra', 'Eine Alpensinfonie' and Metamorphosen. Strauss was also a prominent conductor throughout Germany and Austria.</span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Strauss represents the late flowering of German Romanticism after Richard Wagner, in which pioneering subtleties of orchestration are combined with an advanced harmonic style.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Friedenstag (Peace Day) is an opera in one act by Richard Strauss, his Opus 81, to a German libretto by Joseph Gregor. </span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The opera was premiered at Munich on 24 July 1938 and dedicated to Viorica Ursuleac and her husband Clemens Krauss, the lead and conductor respectively. Strauss had intended 'Friedenstag' as part of a double-bill, to be conducted by Karl Böhm in Dresden, that would include as the second part his next opera 'Daphne'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Most accounts of his musical expertise relate to his knowledge of Wagnerian opera. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Typical was a comment of Winifred Wagner (see above) who, as her secretary recorded, ‘<i>could not stop raving about what an attentive listener he is and how well he knows the works, above all musically</i>’.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the same vein, Heinz Tietjen remarked that he was ‘<i>amazed</i>’ at how well the Führer knew Wagner’s scores, citing as an example Hitler’s comment after a performance that the oboe had not played quite in tune.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">‘<i>And I had to acknowledge he was right,</i>’ the impresario said.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Heinz Tietjen (June 24, 1881 - November 30, 1967) was a German conductor and music producer.</span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Tietjen was the director of the Deutsche Oper Berlin between 1925 and 1927, then director of the Prussian State Theatre. From 1931 to 1944, he served as artistic director at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus for Winifred Wagner with whom he had a romantic liaison</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">More convincing are the comments of Baldur von Schirach.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Writing after he had served twenty years in Spandau, he cannot be suspected of gilding the lily.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He recalled a performance of 'Die Walküre', which Hitler had attended in Weimar in 1925.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Schirach’s father was managing director of the opera house and, after the performance, Hitler was introduced to him and went on at great length about what he had seen and heard in a way that demonstrated he really knew his Wagner.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He compared the production with those he had attended in Vienna as a young man, naming singers and conductors, and so impressed the elder Schirach that he was invited home to tea.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After he left, Schirach père was said to have commented:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">‘<i>In all my life I never met a layman who understood so much about music, Wagner’s in particular</i>.’</span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Baldur Benedikt von Schirach (9 May 1907 – 8 August 1974) was a Nazi youth leader later convicted of crimes against humanity. He was the head of the Hitler-Jugend (HJ, the "Hitler Youth") and Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter ("Reich Governor") of Vienna. Schirach was born in Berlin, the youngest of four children of theatre director Rittmeister Carl Baily Norris von Schirach (1873–1948) and his American wife Emma Middleton Lynah Tillou (1872–1944). Through his mother, Schirach descended from two signatories of the United States Declaration of Independence. He had two sisters, Viktoria and Rosalind von Schirach, and a brother, Karl Benedict von Schirach, who committed suicide in 1919 at the age of 19.</span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Schirach joined a Wehrjugendgruppe (military cadet group) at the age of 10 and became a member of the NSDAP in 1925. He was soon transferred to Munich and in 1929 became leader of the Nationalsozialistischen Deutschen Studentenbund (NSDStB, National Socialist German Students' League). In 1931 he was a Reichsjugendführer (youth leader) in the NSDAP and in 1933 he was made head of the Hitler Youth (Hitler-Jugend) and given an SA rank of Gruppenführer. He was made a state secretary in 1936.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To this account, Speer added that at his fiftieth birthday celebration in 1939 Hitler had been particularly excited by a gift of some of Wagner’s original scores and, as he leafed through that of Götterdämmerung, ‘<i>showed sheet after sheet to the assembled guests, making knowledgeable comments</i>’</span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer - March 19, 1905 – September 1, 1981 - was a German architect who was, for a part of World War II, Minister of Armaments and War Production for the Third Reich. Speer was Adolf Hitler's chief architect before assuming ministerial office.</span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Speer joined the Nazi Party in 1931, launching him on a political and governmental career which lasted fourteen years. His architectural skills made him increasingly prominent within the Party and he became a member of Hitler's inner circle. Hitler instructed him to design and construct a number of structures, including the Reich Chancellery and the Zeppelinfeld stadium in Nuremberg where Party rallies were held. Speer also made plans to reconstruct Berlin on a grand scale, with huge buildings, wide boulevards, and a reorganized transportation system.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Despite the poverty of his Vienna years, he managed to attend 'Tristan und Isolde' alone thirty or forty times, and in the course of his life heard it, and 'Die Meistersinger', probably a hundred times.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">'Tristan und Isolde' is an opera, or music drama, in three acts by Richard Wagner to a German libretto by the composer, based largely on the romance by Gottfried von Straßburg. It was composed between 1857 and 1859 and premiered in Munich on 10 June 1865 with Hans von Bülow conducting. Wagner referred to the work not as an opera, but called it "eine Handlung" (literally a drama. a plot or an action).</span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Wagner's composition of 'Tristan und Isolde' was inspired by his affair with Mathilde Wesendonck and the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer. Widely acknowledged as one of the peaks of the operatic repertory, 'Tristan' was notable for Wagner's advanced use of chromaticism, tonality, orchestral colour and harmonic suspension.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">According to his press chief, Otto Dietrich, he knew 'Die Meistersinger' by heart and could hum or whistle all its themes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'Lohengrin' no doubt held a special place in his heart.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">According to Fest, Hitler considered the final scene of 'Götterdämmerung' to be ‘<i>the summit of all opera</i>’.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Joachim Clemens Fest (8 December 1926 – 11 September 2006) was a German historian, journalist, critic and editor, best known for his writings and public commentary on Nazi Germany, including an important biography of Adolf Hitler and books about Albert Speer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He further cites Speer as having told him,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">‘<i>In Bayreuth, whenever the citadel of the gods collapsed in flames amid the musical uproar, in the darkness of the loge he would take the hand of Frau Wagner, sitting next to him, and in deep emotion bestow a kiss upon it.</i>’</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Be that as it may, it was 'Tristan and Isolde' that meant most to him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After listening one evening in 1942 to a recording of the 'Prelude and Liebestod', he com-mented, ‘<i>Well, 'Tristan' was his greatest work.</i>’</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">According to Christa Schroeder, the 'Liebestod' moved him so deeply that he said he wished to hear it at the time of his death.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And in a letter from Landsberg prison in 1924 he wrote that he often ‘<i>dreamed of Tristan</i>’.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">‘<i>He is over-joyed at each beautiful passage that he especially loves; then his face just shines.</i>’ </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is no way of knowing whether it was the eroticism, the sense of longing, the triumph of sensuality over reason that - in contrast to his own repressed sexual instincts - appealed to him.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Possibly it was the cult of the night or the tragic end.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Maybe just the music.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'Tannhäuser' engaged him less, and he was long familiar only with the composer’s earliest score, the so-called 'Dresden Version'. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At some point in the 1930s he heard the later 'Paris Version', and was so taken with it that he ordered Goebbels and Goring to permit only that score to be performed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Afterwards, in a deeply contemplative mood, he remarked, ‘<i>Out of Parsifal I shall make for myself a religion, religious service in solemn form without theological disputation.</i>’ </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> 'What is celebrated in Wagner's 'Parsifal' is not the Christian religion of compassion, but pure and noble blood, - blood whose purity the brotherhood of initiates has come together to guard.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then the unknowing but pure human being (Parsifal) is led into temptation, either to submit to the frenzy and to the delights of a corrupt civilisation in Klingsor's magic garden, or to join the select band of knights who guard the secret of life, which is pure blood itself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All of us suffer the sickness of miscegenated, corrupted blood.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Note how the compassion that leads to knowledge applies only to the man who is inwardly corrupt, to the man of contradictions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And Eternal life, as vouchsafed by the Grail, is only granted to those who are truly pure and noble !</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If we discount everything to do with poetry, it is clear that elitism and renewal exist only in the continuing strain of a lasting struggle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The man who sees the meaning of life in conflict will gradually mount the stairs of a new aristocracy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But the mass is prey to decay and self-disintegration.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At this turning- point in the world's revolution the mass is the sum of declining culture and its moribund representatives.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It has sometimes been assumed that Hitler was attracted to Wagner’s works because of the plots, with their classic conflict between the outsider and a rigid social order, their lonely heroes and dark villains, their Nordic myths and Germanic legends.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, (apart from 'Parsifal' - see above) there is no record of any comment on how he interpreted the works, or whether he saw in them any ideological message - much less whether he envisaged himself as Lohengrin, Siegmund, Siegfried, Wotan or any other Wagnerian character.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was the music that moved him.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">‘<i>When I hear Wagner it seems to me like the rhythms of the primeval world</i>,’ he said. ‘<i>And I could imagine that science will one day find measures of creation in the proportions of the physically perceptible vibrations of the Rheingold music</i>.’ </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Perhaps he was trying to say what Thomas Mann wrote in 'Dr Faustus' - that the elements of music are the first and simplest materials of the world, and make music one with the world, that ‘<i>the beginning of all things had its music</i>’. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Christa Schroeder recalled his saying that ‘<i>Wagner’s musical language sounded in his ear like a revelation of the divine</i>’.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The vocabulary suggests that the feelings conjured by the operas may have filled the void left by the conventional Catholic religious belief he lost, or never really had - and it is quite clear that Hitler saw 'Parsifal' in religious terms. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In one of his earliest speeches he made the revealing comment that in their way Wagner’s works were <i>holy</i>, that they offered ‘<i>exaltation and liberation from all the wretchedness and misery as well as all the decadence that prevails</i>’, and that they lift one ‘<i>up into the pure air</i>’.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If escape and <i>purification</i> were part of the appeal, the operas also responded to that proclivity for the overwhelming, the oceanic, the romantic, the orgasmic that was evident in his public rallies, parades and spectacles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Like Wagner himself, Hitler believed that music fully realized itself only when it <i>fused </i> with other arts in visible form on stage.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hans Severus Ziegler recalled taking a walk with Hitler one night at the Berghof, when the moon suddenly appeared from behind a cloud and lit the surrounding meadow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He was insistent that it should be white; but ‘<i>it is often greenish or blueish and that is wrong</i>’, he complained. ‘<i>That is just Romantic kitsch.</i>’</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Already in his youth Hitler had made sketches of Wagnerian stage sets that he imagined or actually saw. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Among them is one of the second act of 'Lohengrin'; others include his rendering of the second and third acts of the famous 1903 Mahler-Roller production of 'Tristan and Isolde', which he had attended in Vienna.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This interest in stage design increased after he became chancellor, and reached such a level that it was common knowledge that the best way to get an appointment with him, which otherwise might take months, was to let him know that you had photos of a new staging of an operetta or opera, particularly Wagnerian.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An invitation was almost certain to follow, and then Hitler would spend countless hours studying the pictures.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Most of all he relished working with Benno von Arent, and together they designed several productions that he commissioned and paid for with his private funds - among them, 'Lohengrin' in 1935 at the German Opera in Berlin, 'Rienzi' in 1939 at the Dietrich Eckart Open Air Theatre in Berlin and 'Die Meistersinger' in 1934, and later years at the Nuremberg opera in connection with the party rally.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Benno von Arent (19 July 1898 – 14 October 1956) was a member of the National Socialist Party and SS, responsible for art, theatres, movies etc.</span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Arent was born in Görlitz, Prussia, on 19 July 1898. Self-taught, after various apprentice positions he obtained his first theater job in Berlin in 1923 and became a stage designer. He joined the SS in 1931 and the NSDAP in 1932. The same year, he was one of the founders of the "Bund nationalsozialistischer Bühnen- und Filmkünstler" ("Union of national-socialist stage and movie artists"), which was renamed "Kameradschaft deutscher Künstler" ("fellowship of German artists") after Hitler's rise to power in 1933.</span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Arent was appointed "Reichsbühnenbildner" ("Reich stage designer") in 1936 and "Reichsbeauftragter für die Mode" ("Reich agent for fashion") in 1939. He designed the diplomatic uniform of the Nazi diplomatic service. In 1944, he was given the rank of SS-Oberführer.</span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">He is listed under 'Kunstlerische Mitarbeiter' in the 1938-39 catalog issued by Porzellan-Manufaktur Allach, Munich.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'<i>At the chancellery Hitler once sent up to his bedroom for neatly executed stage designs, coloured with crayons, for all the acts of 'Tristan and Isolde'; these were to be given to Arent to serve as an inspiration.</i> </span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another time he gave Arent a series of sketches for all the scenes of 'Der Ring des Nibelungen'.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At lunch he told us with great satisfaction that for three weeks he had sat up over these, night after night.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This surprised me the more because at this particular time Hitler’s daily schedule was unusually heavy with visitors, speeches, sight-seeing and other public activities.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">His setting for the second act of 'Tristan', for example, was similar to Roller’s Vienna staging that Hitler adored.' </span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The main trait of the Hitler-Arent style was, as Speer phrased it, ‘<i>smashing effects</i>’, and Arent’s productions were <i>smashing</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gigantic choruses and parades, huge casts of extras and glitzy costumes characterized 'Lohengrin' and 'Rienzi'. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But the Hitler-Arent chef-d’oeuvre was their 1934 joint production of 'Die Meistersinger'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This culminated in a third-act meadow scene staged in the manner of a Nuremberg party rally, with massed banners and martial chorus.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No detail of the production escaped Hitler’s eye.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He fretted over the moonlight scene in the second act and went into ecstasies over the brilliant colours he wanted for the final scene on the Mastersingers’ meadow, and over the romantic look of the little gabled houses opposite Hans Sachs’s cobbler’s shop.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So proud of it was he that he sent it on tour - from Nuremberg to the German Opera in Berlin in 1935, then to Munich in 1936, Danzig in 1938, Weimar in 1939 and Linz in 1941.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It even enjoyed a measure of resurrection after the war when the costumes were used in 1951 at the Bayreuth Festival, then too impoverished to afford to make its own.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hitler’s adulation of Wagner-the-composer probably developed into veneration of Wagner-the-man rather quickly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Except for Frederick the Great and Bismarck, on no other person did he lavish such repeated and fulsome praise.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">‘I<i> must be frank to say that Richard Wagner’s personality meant more to me than Goethe’s,</i>’ he remarked on one occasion. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">‘<i>The Führer talks to me of Richard Wagner, he reveres him and knows of no one like him</i>,’ Goebbels once recorded.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He even managed to introduce Wagner’s name into his 1923 putsch attempt, telling the court at his trial that he had been partly inspired by the composer’s example of preferring deeds to words</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'When I stood at Wagner’s grave for the first time my heart just overflowed with pride that here rested a man who would not permit the inscription on his tombstone: ‘Here lies Privy Counsellor, Music Director, His Excellency Baron Richard von Wagner’.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was proud that this man, like many men in German history, was content to leave his name to posterity not a title.'</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the early 1930s it was being argued that Wagner did not simply enchant Hitler with his music and inspire his anti-Semitism, stagecraft and political ideas, but also that he helped to create the very ideological atmosphere that put him in power.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">‘<i>Of all German creative figures, Wagner is the real father of the current German state of mind,’</i> wrote Emil Ludwig.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was not by chance, he went on, that Hitler was a Wagnerian. </span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The two men were personally alike. Moreover, they worked the same material.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The composer took the German sagas just as they were. ‘Such were the ideals that Wagner proffered the German people.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But it was not just the stories and the ‘musical sound’ that created a mood of ‘mystical rapture’ but also his use of the German language. </span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These were themes developed in later years by Thomas Mann.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The novelist was scarcely less smitten by Wagner than was Hitler himself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He too as a youth had haunted his local opera house, and 'Lohengrin' had also been the first of the Master’s operas he had attended.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mann spoke of the composer as his ‘s<i>tarkstes, bestimmendes Erlebnis</i>’, his strongest and most formative experience.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From the beginning to the end of his life he was enthralled by the music, and bewitched by the man. Wagner was the subject, or important theme, of nearly a dozen essays, any number of letters and countless diary entries.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But while Hitler admired everything he knew about the composer’s life, character, ideology and musical creation, Mann was in someways ambivalent about them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mann’s most important commentary on Wagner was an address to the Goethe Society of Munich in February 1933 on the fiftieth anniversary of the composer’s death.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Entitled 'The Sufferings and Greatness of Richard Wagner', it was a deeply searching and astute treatment of Wagner’s place in European culture.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The fruit of years of thought, it placed the composer among the greatest of artistic figures.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In 1937 Mann noted in his diary that on the one hand that he found ‘<i>elements of a frightening quality</i>’ in a poem Wagner had written for Cosima, and on the other that he had listened to a re-cording of 'Die Walkure' ‘<i>with admiration</i>’.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">According to Joachim C. Fest <i> 'the youthful Hitler succumbed to the music of Richard Wagner . ... The charged emotionality of this music seemed to have served him as a means for self hypnosis, while he found in its lush air of luxury the necessary ingredients for escapist fantasy </i>. . . . ' Hitler himself in fact later declared that with the exception of Richard Wagner he had ‘<i>no forerunners</i>’, and by Wagner he meant not only the composer but Wagner the personality, ‘<i>the greatest prophetic figure the German people has had</i>’ . . . . The points of contact between the two temperaments - all the more marked because the young painter consciously modelled himself after his hero - produce a curious sense of family resemblance. </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The style of public ceremonies in the Third Reich is inconceivable without Wagner’s operatic tradition, without the essentially demagogical art of Richard Wagner - for the 'Master of Bayreuth' was not only Hitler’s great exemplar, he was also the young man’s ideological mentor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wagner’s political writings were some of Hitler’s favourite reading, and his style unmistakably influenced Hitler’s own grammar and syntax.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Those political writings, together with the operas, form much of the framework for Hitler’s ideology . . . . Here he found the ‘<i>granite foundations</i>’ for his view of the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nothing could have symbolized the association more provocatively than the opening scene of Hans Jürgen Syberberg’s 1977 film, 'Hitler', in which the dictator rises ectoplasmically out of Wagner’s Bayreuth grave.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Hans-Jürgen Syberberg (born 8 December 1935) is a German film director, whose best known film is his lengthy feature, 'Hitler: A Film from Germany'. Born in Nossendorf, Pomerania, the son of an estate owner, Syberberg lived until 1945 in Rostock and Berlin. In 1952 and 1953 he created his first 8 mm takes of rehearsals by the Berliner Ensemble. In 1953 he moved to West Germany, where he in 1956 began studies in literature and art history, completing them the following year.</span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">He earned his doctorate in Munich. For Syberberg, cinema is a form of Gesamtkunstwerk. Many commentators, including Syberberg himself, have characterized his work as a cinematic combination of Bertolt Brecht's doctrine of epic theatre and Richard Wagner's operatic aesthetics. Well known philosophers and intellectuals have written about his work, including Susan Sontag, Gilles Deleuze and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">In 1975 Syberberg released 'Winifried Wagner und die Geschichte des Hauses Wahnfried von 1914-1975' - a documentary about Winifred Wagner, wife of Richard Wagner's son Siegfried. The documentary attracted attention because it exposed Winifred's admiration for Adolf Hitler. The film thus proved an embarrassment to the Wagner family and the Bayreuth Festival (which she had run from 1930 until the end of the Second World War).</span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Syberberg is also noted for an acclaimed visual interpretation of the Wagner opera 'Parsifal' in 1982.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What Hitler admired in the composer was what he admired in his other heroes, - <i>courage</i>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In a speech in 1923 he defined the vital quality of human greatness as ‘<i>the heroic</i>’ and attributed it to three men: Luther, Frederick the Great and Wagner - the reformer because he possessed the courage to stand alone against the world, the king because he never lost courage when his lot appeared hopeless and the composer, because he had the courage to struggle in solitude.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Each had fought, had fought alone and had fought ‘<i>like a titan</i>’.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As a desperately lonely and friendless figure in his early days, Hitler must have seen his own situation mirrored in such struggles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wagner was thus a symbol or, better, a <i>model</i> of someone who believed in his destiny and let nothing deter him from it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was no doubt in this sense that he considered the composer, in the oft cited phrase, his only forebear.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, there are many obvious parallels in outlook - anti-Semitism, Hellenism, the belief that culture was the '<i>summum bonum</i>' of a civilization, the notion that the arts should never be hostage to commerce, and the like.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">"Das Judenthum in der Musik" ("Jewishness in Music"), is an essay by Richard Wagner which attacks Jews in general, and the composers Giacomo Meyerbeer and Felix Mendelssohn in particular. It was published under a pseudonym in the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik (NZM) of Leipzig in September 1850 and was reissued, in a greatly expanded version, under Wagner’s name in 1869. It is regarded by some as an important landmark in the history of German anti-Semitism.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Some critics point out that Wagner's opposition to Jews was not limited to his articles, and that the operas contained such messages. In particular the characters of <i>Mime</i> in the 'Ring', <i>Klingsor</i> in 'Parsifal' and <i>Sixtus Beckmesser</i> in Die Meistersinger' appear to be Jewish stereotypes, although none of them are identified as Jews in the libretto. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, at no time did he ever trace his anti-Semitism to the composer, not even in his 1920 speech ‘Warum sind wir Antisemiten ?’ (Why are We Anti-Semites?), in which he expounded his views for the first time in public.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is not surprising, as his 'doctrinal' anti-Semitism, was based on Gnostic and occult teachings, originating with Dietrich Eckart.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kubizek does say, however,that the youthful Hitler was said to have read every biography, letter, essay, diary and other scrap by and about his hero that he could lay his hands on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So we are left with the apprehension that Wagner, and in particular his Bühnenweihfestspiel 'Parsifal', was a seminal influence on Adolf Hitler.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On January 13, 1933 the newly-elected National Socialist Party celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of Richard Wagner's death by staging a grandiose memorial ceremony in Leipzig, the composer's birthplace.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Adolf Hitler invited Siegfried Wagner's widow, the English-born Winifred, and her son Wieland to be guests of honor at this event.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This tribute by Hitler was the continuation of a deep friendship that had begun in 1923 between the Führer and the Wagner family, forging a link between the new Germany and the country's most revered composer.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Within weeks of becoming Chancellor of Germany, Hitler had appropriated Wagner and made him the Reich's great beacon.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Each summer, from 1933 to 1939, Hitler attended the Bayreuth Festival, and he made the Wagner estate, Wahnfried, his second home.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Because she had been one of his earliest supporters, Hitler had great affection for Winifred. Hitler repaid the Wagner family gratitude by pledging his undying friendship, and his deepest devotion to Richard Wagner and Bayreuth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With the assistance of Dr. Josef Goebbels, Hitler's untiring propaganda minister, Richard Wagner became the legendary and ideological voice of the new party, and the musical standard by which all classical composers would, from now on, be judged.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Around the time that Hitler came to power, the Bayreuth '<i>holy of holies</i>' still existed: the original Paul von Joukowsky (1845-1912) sets used at the premiere of Parsifal.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They were still in use at the Festspielhaus even though they were falling apart and were dangerous to the singers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Realistically, the time had come to replace the production, and the logical person to design the sets would be Emil Preetorius.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The stage designer Emil Preetorius (1883-1973) was born in Mainz and was one of the most important stage designers of the first half of the 20th century.</span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">He studied law and art history in Giessen and in 1909 he co-founded a school of illustration and the book trade in Munich together with Paul Renner. In 1928 Preetorius became a professor at the Munich “Hochschule für Bildende Künste”.</span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">He became the head of scenery for the Bayreuth “Festspiele” in 1932. During the 1930s Emil Preetorius’s scenes, such as the rock of the Valkyrie for the “Ring des Niebelungen”, were among the most important and influential designs for Richard Wagner’s works.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A petition began circulating against this decision, after all, this was the scenery "<i>on which the eyes of the Master had reposed</i>," and the conservative faction at Bayreuth believed that the scenery needed to be kept and revered like a holy icon.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Over a thousand signatures were collected, including those of Arturo Toscanini and Richard Strauss.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Winifred Wagner sent the petition to Hitler along with a pamphlet accusing Preetorius of being "un-German" and "under Jewish influence."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hitler, on the other hand, <i>favored </i>a new Bayreuth production of Parsifal, and selected Alfred Roller to design it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Führer was a great admirer of Roller's work in Vienna.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Following all the controversy,. Alfred Roller's production premiered in 1934.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There were, however,only a few changes to the overall designs that had originated with Paul von Joukowsky.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The temple cupola in the second scene of Act One disappeared, and this made many conservatives very disappointed.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Winifred once again appealed to Hitler that there should be yet another new production of 'Parsifal'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hitler agreed, and suggested that Wieland Wagner design the new sets.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hitler had always revered Siegfried's son because he was a direct descendant of the Master. Once the war began, Hitler gave orders that Wieland should be permanently exempt from military service.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Young Wieland therefore designed the sets for the 1937 'Parsifal'.</span><br />
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<i><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">'The real destiny of Man is something that ordinary men could not conceive and would be unable to comprehend, even if given a glimpse of it.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It is my ultimate aim to perform an act of creation, a divine operation, </span></i><i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="color: #f1c232;">the goal of a biological mutation which will result in an unprecedented exaltation of the human race and the appearance of a new race of heroes, demi-gods and god-men.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">My party comrades have no conception of the dreams that haunt my mind, or of the grandiose edifice of which the foundations, at least, will have been laid before I die. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The world has reached a turning point, and will undergo an upheaval which the uninitiated cannot understand.'</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hitler knew that only concrete action, in the real world, would allow him to achieve this '<i>unprecedented exaltation of the human race</i>'.<br />Perhaps Hitler's most perceptive and significant, yet little known statement was that the purpose of human evolution was '<i>to achieve a mystic vision of the Universe</i>'.<br />And Hitler knew that this vision - this union with the ultimate - could only be achieved by the race of '<i>demi-gods and god-men</i>' - and it was this that motivated all the concern about the purity of the Aryan race that formed the essential core of Völkisch philosophy - because only the Aryan 'god-man' could achieve the '<i>ultimate purpose of creation</i>'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The concept of the <a href="http://peterandphilosophy.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/nietzsche.html" target="_blank">Übermensch</a> (Overman, Overhuman, Above-Human, Superman, Super-human) is a concept first found in the philosophy of <a href="http://peterandphilosophy.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/nietzsche.html" target="_blank">Friedrich Nietzsche</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The German prefix <i>über</i> can have connotations of superiority, transcendence, excessiveness, or intensity, depending on the words to which it is prepended.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The adjective <i>übermenschlich</i> means 'super-human', in the sense of beyond human strength or out of proportion to humanity.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 'Die fröhliche Wissenschaft' - (</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Joyful Science), Nietzsche announces to the reader that “<i>common goal is to erect a new image and ideal of the free spirit</i>,” in reference to the middle period of his work.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">'Die fröhliche Wissenschaft' is a book by Friedrich Nietzsche, first published in 1882 and followed by a second edition, which was published after the completion of 'Also Sprach Zarathustra' and 'Jenseits von Gut und Böse' in 1887. It was noted by Nietzsche to be "t<i>he most personal of all his books</i>", and contains the greatest number of poems in any of his published works.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">'Jenseits von Gut und Böse': Vorspiel einer Philosophie der Zukunft - (Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future) is a book by philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, first published in 1886.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">It draws on and expands the ideas of his previous work, 'Also Sprach Zarathustra', but with a more critical and polemical approach.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'</span><a href="http://peterandphilosophy.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/nietzsche.html" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Also Sprach Zarathustra</a><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> (</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1883) </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Nietzsche does indeed “</span><i style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">erect a new image and ideal of the free spirit</i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">” in his pursuit of the higher man, the '</span><i style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Übermensch</i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Zarathustra is as a whole a compendium of unleashed, overflowing thoughts of the deep, formulations of </span><i style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">mythological figures</i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> and profound </span><i style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">archetypes</i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, brimming in an ocean of apparent paradox.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The doctrine of the “<i>higher man</i>”, as proposed by Zarathustra, sounds strangely reminiscent to the 'True Will', - the<i> true self</i> that exists in everyone.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Therese Elisabeth Alexandra Förster-Nietzsche (July 10, 1846 – November 8, 1935), who went by her second name, was the sister of philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, and the creator of the Weimar Nietzsche Archive in 1894.</span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Förster-Nietzsche was two years younger than her brother. Both were children of a Lutheran pastor in the German village of Röcken bei Lützen. The two children were close during their childhood and early adult years. </span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Friedrich Nietzsche's mental collapse occurred in 1889 (he died in 1900), and Elizabeth Förster-Nietzsche cared for her brother during his last years. Elizabeth Förster-Nietzsche took a leading role in promoting her brother, especially through the publication of a collection of Nietzsche's writings under the title 'Der Wille zur Macht' (The Will to Power). In 1930, Elizabeth Förster-Nietzsche, became a member of the NSDAP. After Hitler came to power in 1933, the Nietzsche Archive received financial support and publicity from the government, in return for which Elizabeth Förster-Nietzsche bestowed her brother's considerable prestige on the régime.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The evolution of man into superman - was always the purpose of the <i>Ancient Mysteries, </i>and it<i> </i>comes as little surprise that Nietzsche viewed the gods of the Bacchic and Dionysian Mysteries so favourably.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They embodied his faith in humanity's emergent deity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Likewise, Hitler adhered to the religion of '<i>apotheosized man'</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"<i>Man is becoming God - that is the simple fact. Man is God in the making</i>". (Hitler)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In his coming kingdom of deified humanity, the Führer envisioned a system where the "<i>god-man</i>" justifiably ruled the "<i>mass of lower humanity</i>".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This was in many ways derivative of Nietzsche's racial vision for the future.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 'Der Wille zur Macht' (The Will to Power), Nietzsche declares:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"<i>A daring and ruling race is building itself up... The aim should be to prepare a transvaluation of values for this new man, - most highly gifted in intellect and will. This man - and the elite around him will become the 'lords of the earth</i>'".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Again, Nietzsche is speaking about a specific </span><a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/hitler-and-jews.html" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'rasse' - race</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In a Gnostic context, Nietzsche's concept of '<i>self-deification'</i> is analogous to the transformation of man's sensate being.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Some commentators associate the Übermensch with a program of <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/racial-hygiene-in-germany.html" target="_blank">eugenics</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Nietzsche asserts that eugenical regimentation should be implemented with no regard for "</span><i style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">rank, descent, or intellect</i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">", and he insists that there is an "</span><i style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">unhealthy</i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">" population that "</span><i style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">must at all costs be eliminated</i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The concept of the Übermensch proposed by Nietzsche is </span><i style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">not </i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">identical to the held by Hitler and other Völkisch philosophers.</span></div>
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The 'Herrenvolk' was a concept in <span style="text-align: center;">V</span><span style="text-align: center;">ö</span><span style="text-align: center;">lkisch</span> ideology in which the 'Nordic race', a branch of what in late-19th and early-20th century taxonomy was called the 'Aryan race', represented an ideal and "<i>pure race</i>".</div>
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In <span style="text-align: center;">V</span><span style="text-align: center;">ö</span><span style="text-align: center;">lkisch</span> ideology this "Nordic" race was the purest example of the original racial stock of those who were then called the Proto-Aryans, whom were believed to have prehistorically dwelt on the North German Plain, and to have ultimately originated from the lost continent of Atlantis.</div>
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The Völkisch philosophers declared that the Nordics, (nowadays referred to as the Germanic peoples), were the true Aryans because they were less racially mixed with "non-native" Indo-European peoples such as the Slavic peoples, the Romance peoples and the Indo-Iranian peoples.</div>
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It was maintained that many of the Slavs that had Nordic traits such as light hair and light eye color were thus seen to be racially fit to be a part of the Herrenrasse.</div>
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Eugenics was a concept adhered to by many thinkers in the 1910s, 1920s, and 1930s, such as Margaret Sanger, Marie Stopes, H. G. Wells, Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, Madison Grant, Emile Zola, George Bernard Shaw, John Maynard Keynes, John Harvey Kellogg, Linus Pauling and Sidney Webb.</div>
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Aldous Huxley’s best-selling novel 'Brave New World', about a future society based on eugenics, was published in 1932.</div>
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Shows, (organized by advocates of eugenics), where men and women appeared on stage in swimsuits in eugenic competitions (only Nordic Aryans were allowed to enter) to be evaluated for their physical and mental qualities as marriage partners were common throughout Europe and North America in the 1920s.</div>
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The Völkisch philosophers took this concept to a further extreme by proposing a program to systematically genetically enhance the Nordic Aryans themselves through a program of <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/racial-hygiene-in-germany.html" target="_blank">eugenics</a>, to create a super race.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Eugenics was a significanr force in scientific, sociological and political circles in the 1920s and 1930s in Germany.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hitler was very much influenced by this movement, and by his reading of Nietzsche, and <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/lanz-von-liebenfels.html" target="_blank">Liebenfels</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Just as, according to the imperishable prophecies of the old Nordic peoples, the world has continually to renew itself, the old order perishing with its gods, just as the Nordic peoples took the sun's passing of the solstices as a figure of the rhythm of life, which proceeds not in a straight line of eternal progress but in a spiral, so must man now, apparently, turn back in order to attain a higher stage.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But more than that, Hitler stressed, he could not say.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There were stages of which he must not allow even himself to speak.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Even this, he said, he only intended to make public when he was no longer living.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then there would be something really great, an '<i>overwhelming revelation'</i>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As had been already said, the '<i>act of creation</i>', of which Hitler spoke, would not come to pass if it was left to idle, Völkisch dreamers, followers of Lebensreform, - <i>practical actions </i>had to be taken in the<i> real world </i>- as described below.......</span></div>
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And so Hitler looked to the youth of Germany for the material on which he and his successors could perform his</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-style: italic;"> 'act of creation, his divine operation.'</span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The youth he was seeking to create - in his own words </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">would be:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was innocent.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And it usually belonged to one or another youth group, whether religious, athletic, nature, cultural, or a combination of these.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Some of them built medieval castles in the air.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They were all an expression of restlessness and bewilderment, and well they might have been, for Germany, especially after World War I, was a place which was losing its hold on sense and purpose.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Young people in Germany after the 'Great War' not only felt estranged from the government, but from adults in general.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In adolescence, however, they experienced the culture shock of Kafkaesque (see left) alienation.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a German-language writer of novels and short stories, regarded by critics as one of the most influential authors of the 20th century. Kafka strongly influenced genres such as existentialism. His works, such as 'Die Verwandlung' ("The Metamorphosis"), 'Der Process' ('The Trial'), and 'Das Schloss' ('The Castle'), are filled with the themes and archetypes of <i>alienation</i>, physical and psychological brutality, parent–child conflict, characters on a terrifying quest, and mystical transformations.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To the rest, young manhood ushered in a period of drift.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The youth groups filled a vacuum.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Everyone seemed to recognize that it was the 'end of an age', and that the futility and smallness which men now felt would not aid them in getting out of the snares of mechanized modern life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The youth groups, whatever their particular character, had certain things in common: They all promised <i>liberation</i> from artificiality, alienation, and sterility, and wholeheartedly <i>opposed</i> the bourgeoisie, (but not in the way the Jewish Marxists did), who stood for everything that had failed them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These young people strived to bring back the romanticism of the Middle Ages.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Its simple faith, loyalty, and high-minded love, contrasted with the impersonality and decadence around them.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But it was not to be all feudal music and peasant crafts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The youth movement early on fell under the spell of philosophers with Völkisch notions, men like the occultist Theodor Fritsch (see left); the Orientalist Paul de Lagarde; and Julius Langbehn, who believed he had sufficient magical powers to exorcise the demons from Friedrich Nietzsche, then languishing in an asylum.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Theodor Fritsch (28 October 1852, in Wiedemar – 8 September 1933, in Markkleeberg), originally Emil Theodor Fritsche, was a German publisher and pundit. His anti-semitic writings did much to influence popular German opinion against Jews in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. </span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Fritsch founded the Reichshammerbund in 1912, one of the first political groups to adopt the swastika. He also founded the secret Germanenorden. Members of these groups formed the Thule Society in 1918, which eventually sponsored the creation of the Nazi party.</span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">A believer in the absolute superiority of the Aryan race, Fritsch was upset by the changes brought on by rapid industrialization and urbanization, and called for a return to the traditional peasant values and customs of the distant past, which he believed exemplified the essence of the Volk.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Paul Anton de Lagarde (2 November 1827 – 22 December 1891) was a German polymath, biblical scholar and orientalist. He has been cited as one of the greatest orientalists of the 19th century. Lagarde's anti-Semitism laid the foundations for aspects of Nazi ideology.</span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Paul de Lagarde was born in Berlin as Paul Bötticher; in early adulthood he legally adopted the family name of his maternal line out of respect for his great-aunt who raised him. At Berlin and Halle he studied theology, philosophy and oriental languages.</span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Lagarde's anti-Semitism laid the foundations for aspects of National Socialist ideology, in particular that of Alfred Rosenberg.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Langbehn, Lagarde glorified the survival of the fittest, scolded humanitarians for attempting to protect the racially unfit, and rejected the idea of social equality - “Equality is death, hierarchy is life,”.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">His glorification of Germanic history and deification of nature were bathed in the rosy glow of a sun which symbolized hidden psychic powers</span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/lanz-von-liebenfels.html" target="_blank">Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels </a>(July 19, 1874 - April 22, 1954) was a Austrian occultist, former Cistercian monk, and founder of the Ariosophy movement. He was a friend of student of Guido von List. Lanz von Liebenfels helped found the "Guido-von-List-Gesellschaft" (Guido von List society) in 1905 and in 1907 he founded the "Ordo Novi Templi" (Order of the New Templars). He published the magazine '<a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/lanz-von-liebenfels.html" target="_blank">Ostara</a>', regularly read by Adolf Hitler.</span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The magazine was founded in 1905 by Lanz, (name of the German goddess of Easter spring) took a huge spread in the German countries, reaching runs over 100,000 copies. It appeared in two series, from 1905 to 1917, eighty-nine numbers and published from 1922 to 1927, with twelve more numbers</span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">In 1904, he published his book 'Theozoologie' in which he glorified the "Aryan race" as "Gottmenschen" ("god-men").</span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Liebenfels proposed the existence of the Gotter-Elektron (the Electron of the Gods), which was a cosmic life force - also known as the 'vril' - which would only be found in the pure blooded Aryans, and which would be capable of transforming them into the Übermensch.</span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Liebenfels states that "the Aryans are the masterpiece of the gods, and are endowed with supernatural and paranormal, </span><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">powers derived from the Grail (</span><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Gotter-Elektron)</span><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> emanating from 'centres of power' that confer absolute supremacy over any other creature.</span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The emblem that Liebenfels chose to use was the swastika.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Some took to the spiritualism of <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/06/introduction.html" target="_blank">Madame Blavatsky</a>, or to the fad for Oriental sects which promised nirvana from the present."</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The peculiarly nineteenth-century phenomenon, spiritualism, and its more "scientific" variation, 'Theosophy', in Germany were welded together with a mystical concept of the Völk as a people whose collective "soul" was more than the sum of its parts.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/06/introduction.html" target="_blank">Theosophy</a> (from Greek θεοσοφία theosophia, from θεός theos, divine + σοφία sophia, wisdom; literally "divine wisdom"), refers to systems of esoteric philosophy concerning, or investigation seeking direct knowledge of, presumed mysteries of being and nature, particularly concerning the nature of divinity.</span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Theosophy is considered a part of the broader field of esotericism, referring to secret doctrine, (known in Germany as the 'Geheimlehre'), that offers the individual enlightenment and salvation. The word esoteric dates back to the 2nd century CE. </span><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The theosophist seeks to understand the mysteries of the universe and the bonds that unite the universe, humanity and the divine. The goal of theosophy is to explore the origin of divinity and humanity, and the world. From investigation of those topics theosophists try to discover a coherent description of the purpose and origin of the universe.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Every tree and rock of German soil was holy, and spoke to the people, shaping them and causing their creativity.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The intuitive wisdom of which the Aryans, rooted in their land, were capable was hidden from the Jews, those 'eternal wanderers', who had no organic place of their own and, therefore, tried to usurp the fatherlands of others.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He alone could contact an extrasensory world which would yield up its secrets and give him special powers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It presented itself as <i>more</i> substantial than the discoveries of science, because science itself did not claim to understand the 'dark mysteries' of the force which drove nature, whereas <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/06/introduction.html" target="_blank">Madame Blavatsky</a> (see left) and others like her did understand those 'dark mysteries'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Guido List, borrowing her <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/06/introduction.html" target="_blank">Theosophy</a> (see right), also did.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Of such were Mathilde Ludendorff's (see left) [the general's wife] Tannenberg Bund, Arthur Dinter's group, the Asgard Circle, or Gustav Muller's sect.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To students who knew that nothing awaited them upon graduation from school, they offered immersion in the group.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To alienated youth drifting into dreary, unfriendly cities, they offered companionship.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To those thirsting for absolute meanings, they provided absolute answers.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'Mysticism and everything mystical had dominion over us.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was in our ranks that the word 'Fuhrer' (leader or guide) originated, with its meaning of blind obedience and devotion.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The word 'Bund' arose with us, too, with its mysterious undertone of conspiracy.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And I shall never forget how in those early days we pronounced the word 'Gemeinschaft' ["community"] with a trembling throaty note of excitement, as though it hid a deep secret.'</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'<i>The appeal of this mysticism to the youth of the post-war period was that it offered them a haven of refuge from the pressing problems of the day.'</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A significant proportion of cultured idealistic youth was thus, for years on end, and at the most impressionable age, withdrawn from the tasks of their time, and estranged.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The divine essence, or life force, or 'Vril', was believed to be electromagnetic - "Theo-zoological," in <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/lanz-von-liebenfels.html" target="_blank">Lanz von Leibenfels</a> (see right) terminology - the '<i>Electron of the Gods</i>' (see left).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In their songs and dances, the groups tried to recreate that primordial kinship with nature which they supposed ancient man to have had.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They abhorred science and reason as enemies of the life of the soul.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Many of them became vegetarians and teetotallers, for they believed that the purification of the physical body would help the soul to see reality.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They threw over orthodox medicine for spiritual and herbal healing, which were somehow felt to be closer to the primal source.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The youth movement in Germany was essentially conservative because it stressed the importance of the link with the past - not with the traditions of one's parents and grandparents, but with the rites of one's <i>remote</i> ancestors.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">While Communist youth was being taught to believe in a classless society in which the individual was subordinated to the state, Völkisch youth was being taught that the Aryan individual was bound to the state through his <i>hereditary </i>ties, that peasantry and rulers were one folk and each had his proper place in the hierarchy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The peasantry was rhapsodised over, and imitated in dance, song, and dress as being "<i>organic</i>" folk.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But like the Communists, Völkisch youth held the bourgeoisie to be contemptible - the source of all misery.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After World War I, the German youth movements took on more and more the character of anti-Semitic societies, seeing the Jew as the <i>exemplar</i> of the bourgeoisie.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Little by little, Jewish youth was <i>excluded</i> from membership in youth organizations.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The politicization of the youth movement came just after World War I, when the paramilitary 'Freikorps' attracted many former members, to pass them on in turn to the Nazi party, and in some cases, the SS.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Their education in obedience, discipline, selfless service to an ideal, romanticism, and the occult - in a patriarchy where fathers had been taken away to the war - helped to make the transition easy, and they were eager to follow the Führer wherever he might lead.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As one Völkisch youth put it:</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">Führer und Reichskanzler Adolf Hitler</td></tr>
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<i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'One often hears the question why it was that youth spontaneously rallied to Hitler.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But the experiences of war, revolution, and inflation supply an explanation.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We were not spared anything.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We knew and felt the worries in the house.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The shadow of necessity never left our table and made us silent.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We were rudely pushed out of our childhood and not shown the right path.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The struggle for life got to us early.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Misery, shame, hatred, lies, and civil war imprinted themselves on our souls and made us mature early.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So we searched, and found Adolf Hitler (see right).</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What attracted us like a magnet was precisely the fact that he only made demands of us and promised us nothing.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He demanded of every person a total commitment to his movement and therefore to Germany.'</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">German youth had always been highly organized.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the Weimar Republic some 4.5 million boys and girls under twenty-one were members of organizations connected with the National Board of German Youth Associations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Under Hitler, the youth movement became a holy crusade.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">By the end of 1934, the Hitler Youth included 6 million members, ranging in age from ten to eighteen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Membership in other youth organizations was officially discouraged and disintegrated under pressure.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Parents and church groups were in jeopardy if they failed actively to support the Hitler Youth, so that eventually all the young in Germany, according to the contemporary observer, Stephen H. Roberts, were "stamped into the same mould"</span>.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The "ideological training" Hitler decreed was "<i>to bring up that unspoiled generation which will consciously find its way back to primitive instinct</i>."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The system of indoctrination was perfect.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At ten, each boy joined the 'Young Folk'; and each girl, the 'Union of German Maidens'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They received uniforms and took a pledge to devote their lives to the Führer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The child who was willing to assert himself as a leader in this system no longer had to worry about his future.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He knew that he could rise to the top of an elitist cult.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">His family usually did not object.</span></div>
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Ga4ORXF-cUE/T15yavYXNCI/AAAAAAAAGNQ/g2PEY64KjFQ/s1600/poster-hitler-youth+Occult+Third+Reich+Peter+Crawford.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Ga4ORXF-cUE/T15yavYXNCI/AAAAAAAAGNQ/g2PEY64KjFQ/s320/poster-hitler-youth+Occult+Third+Reich+Peter+Crawford.png" width="217" /></a><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Paragraph 2 of the Law Relating to the Hitler Youth read that:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"<i>all young Germans in the Reich area are, except in the parental home and at school, to be physically, mentally and morally reared in the spirit of National Socialism for service to the nation and the national community in the Hitler Youth."</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For most young people, there was little resistance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The enthusiasm for the Führer cancelled out all other interests.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Even when church groups or parents pleaded with children to keep away from the Hitler Youth, their hearts and souls had been captured by the uniforms, the fife and drums, and the example of their peers, so that not to be included in the Führer's glorious movement became the worst kind of punishment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The children <i>worshipped</i> the Führer as a god.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To be singled out to see him, and speak to him, was to be elevated to being a 'demigod'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hitler was right, however. His pedagogy was hard.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He took the prevailing knowledge about mass propaganda techniques and applied them zealously.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Almost every moment in the youth camps was regimented.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The mind was led step by step through an intensive drill to accept Nazi principles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The days were long and active, and the political indoctrination was particularly effective when minds were tired.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: center;">The training began with the</span> 'Hitler-Jugend' (Hitler Youth) which was made up of the Hitler-Jugend proper (abbreviated to HJ), for male youth ages 14–18; the younger boys' section 'Deutsches Jungvolk' for ages 10–14; and the girls' section 'Bund Deutscher Mädel' (BDM, the League of German Girls).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The HJ were viewed as potential future "Aryan Übermensch", and were indoctrinated in occult racist doctrine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The HJ put more emphasis on <i>physical</i> training than on academic study.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Nationalsozialistischer Reichsbund für Leibesübungen (NSRBL), the umbrella organization promoting and coordinating sport activities in Germany during the Nazi period, had the responsibility of overseeing the physical fitness development programs provided to the German youth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The aims of the promotion of sports in the Third Reich included <i>hardening</i> the spirit of every German as well as making German citizens feel that they were part of a wider national purpose.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This was in line with the ideals of Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, the "Father of physical exercises", who connected the <i>steeling</i> of one's own body to a healthy spirit, and promoted the idea of a unified, <i>strong</i> Germany.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A further aim was the demonstration of Aryan <i>physical superiority</i>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hans von Tschammer und Osten's impressively staged events of sports pageantry not only enhanced the physical activity, but also the nationalism of Germans.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Nordic <i>aesthetic beauty,</i> and commitment to Germanic ideals of race went hand in hand during the Third Reich, and von Tschammer und Osten implemented a policy of racial exclusion within sports.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After the boy scout movement was banned through German-controlled countries, the HJ appropriated many of its activities, though changed in content and intention.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For example, many HJ activities closely resembled military training, with weapons training, assault course circuits and basic tactics.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Some cruelty by the older boys toward the younger ones was tolerated and even encouraged, since it was believed this would weed out the unfit and <i>harden</i> the rest.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Die Quelle des Lebens Verein - Lebensborn - (Fount of Life Society) was founded on December 12, 1935, in part as a response to declining birth rates in Germany, in order to promote the policies of Nazi <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/racial-hygiene-in-germany.html" target="_blank">eugenics</a> in an attempt to produce the very best Aryan children.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Located in Munich, the organisation was partly an office within the Schutzstaffel (SS) responsible for certain family welfare programmes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The purpose of the programme was to provide incentives to encourage Germans, especially SS members, to have more children.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On September 13, 1936, Himmler wrote the following to members of SS:</span><br />
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'<i>The organization "Lebensborn e. V." serves the SS leaders in the selection and adoption of qualified children. The organisation "Lebensborn e. V." is under my personal direction, is part of the race and settlement central bureau of the SS, and has the following obligations:</i></div>
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<i>(1) aid for racially and biologically-hereditarily valuable families.</i></div>
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<i>(2) the accommodation of racially and biologically-hereditarily valuable mothers in appropriate homes, etc.</i></div>
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<i>(3) care of the children of such families</i></div>
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<i>(4) care of the mothers</i></div>
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<i>It is the honourable duty of all leaders of the central bureau to become members of the organisation "Lebensborn e. V.".</i>'<br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Lebensborn office was part of SS Rasse und Siedlungshauptamt (SS Office of Race and Settlement) until 1938, when it was transferred to Hauptamt Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer-SS (Personal Staff of the Reich Leader SS), i.e. directly overseen by Himmler.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Leaders of Lebensborn e. V. were SS-Standartenführer Max Sollmann and SS-Oberführer Dr. Gregor Ebner.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is sometimes thought that Himmler developed the idea for this experiment in "accelerated evolution" during his short-lived career as a chicken farmer in the early 1920s.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But, in actuality, Himmler was a member of an occult group called the 'Artamen', which drew its inspiration from both esoteric and "<a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/racial-hygiene-in-germany.html" target="_blank">racial hygiene</a>" sources.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the Nineteenth Century, Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton wrote a novel called 'Vril, or The Coming Race', which imagined humanity taking charge of its own evolution and developing "the new race."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Elena Petrovna von Hahn Blavatsky, better known as Madame Blavatsky, elaborated on the idea in her two-volume book, 'Die Geheimlehre' (The Secret Doctrine).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Once installed at Hitler's right hand, and subject to Hitler's influence, Himmler, started up a flurry of projects, of which the Lebensborn was only one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The occult purpose of the Lebensborn was to provide boys who would eventually be sent to the 'Burgs' (see below)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The stated purpose of the society was to care particularly for unmarried mothers of good blood made pregnant by SS or police officers, and to allow them to have their children in private.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Stories spread later that Lebensborn maternity homes were little more than 'stud farms' where SS officers could meet suitable pure-blooded girls to propagate for the Reich, or, as the word went, 'to present the Führer with a child.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At first the Lebensborn was under the Rasse-und- Siedlungshauptamt (Race and Settlement Main Office), Sippenamt (Family and Clan Office) division.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Initially, the programme served as a welfare institution for wives of SS officers; the organisation ran facilities—primarily maternity homes—where women could give birth or get help with family matters. Furthermore, the programme accepted unmarried women who were either pregnant or had already given birth and were in need of aid, provided that both the woman and the father of the child were "racially valuable".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Later, such facilities also served as temporary homes, orphanages, and as an adoption service.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">While Lebensborn e. V. established facilities in several occupied countries, activities were concentrated around Germany, Norway and the occupied north-eastern Europe, mainly Poland.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The main focus in occupied Norway was aiding children born by German soldiers and Norwegian women; in north-eastern Europe the organisation, in addition to services provided to SS members, engaged in the movement of children, mostly orphans, to families in Germany.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Germany: 10</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Austria: 3</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">North-eastern occupied Europe (Poland): 3</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Norway: 9 (or as many as 15)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Denmark: 2</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">France: 1 (February, 1944 - August, 1944) - in Lamorlaye</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Belgium: 1 (March, 1943 - September, 1944) - in Wégimont, municipality of Soumagne</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">About 8,000 children were born in Lebensborn homes in Germany, and another 8,000 in Norway.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was not enough, however, to prepare his youth with the training provided by the Hitler-Jugend.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Youth had to be honed and perfected for a truly unimaginable role.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So, to that end Himmler was instructed to 'aquire' the Napolas, (Nationalpolitische Lehranstalt) from the Minististry of Education, headed by Bernhard Rust.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Napolas were originally secondary boarding schools in the Third Reich.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They were founded as "community education sites" after the National Socialist seizure of power in 1933.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The initial goal of the schools was to raise a new generation for the political, military, and administrative leadership for the Third Reich.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Life at the Napolas was dominated by a strict military discipline.</span><br />
<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wPE7wuVHbgA/UMZrq00B0jI/AAAAAAAAMlg/jjGmUCey6_o/s1600/Napola+Boys+-++Occult+History+Third+Reich+-+SS+Himmler+-+Peter+Crawford.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="171" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wPE7wuVHbgA/UMZrq00B0jI/AAAAAAAAMlg/jjGmUCey6_o/s200/Napola+Boys+-++Occult+History+Third+Reich+-+SS+Himmler+-+Peter+Crawford.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Only boys considered to be "<i>racially flawless</i>" were admitted to the establishments</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This meant that no boys with poor hearing or vision were accepted.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"<i>Above-average intelligence</i>" was also required, so that those looking to be admitted had to complete 8-day academic and physical entrance exams.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The official descriptor (rank) of a Napola cadet was “Jungmann” (plural "Jungmannen"), used similarly to the term “Cadet” in military schools in other countries.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Life in the Napolas was very competitive.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Approximately one fifth of all cadets washed out, or were sent home because of injuries sustained in training accidents.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The percentage of Jungmannen who eventually entered the SS was 13%, much higher than the 1.8% in the general German population.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The first three Napolas were founded in 1933 by the Minister of Education Bernhard Rust in Plön, Potsdam, and Köslin.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The schools initially responded directly to the Reich Ministry for Education, rather than to any state, like regular schools.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">From 1936, the </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Napolas</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> were subordinated to the Inspector of the National Political Institutes of Education and SS Obergruppenführer August Heissmeyer.</span></span><br />
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-h6e5lPaVwF0/UMZqLw0yd3I/AAAAAAAAMlQ/ohwcg5fvXDY/s1600/Schulpforta+-+Anatomy+Lesson+-++Occult+History+Third+Reich+-+SS+Himmler+-+Peter+Crawford.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-h6e5lPaVwF0/UMZqLw0yd3I/AAAAAAAAMlQ/ohwcg5fvXDY/s200/Schulpforta+-+Anatomy+Lesson+-++Occult+History+Third+Reich+-+SS+Himmler+-+Peter+Crawford.jpg" width="158" /></a><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hns5mZiKIhI/UMZq6mb-g6I/AAAAAAAAMlY/dx8OU39WEwQ/s1600/naumburg+Napola+-++Occult+History+Third+Reich+-+SS+Himmler+-+Peter+Crawford.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="120" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hns5mZiKIhI/UMZq6mb-g6I/AAAAAAAAMlY/dx8OU39WEwQ/s200/naumburg+Napola+-++Occult+History+Third+Reich+-+SS+Himmler+-+Peter+Crawford.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">From 1939, they were part of the Hauptamt Dienststelle SS-Obergruppenführer Heißmeyer.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Therewith the schools were under the direct influence of the SS, and Heißmeier pressured teachers to join the SS.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He also introduced uniforms and ranks similar to the SS among students and teachers.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">By 1941 there were 30 Napolas with 6,000 students enrolled in all of Nazi Germany.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 1942 there were 33 schools.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">By the end of the war there were 43 schools.</span><br />
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<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">Oranienstein</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">NPEA Oranienstein</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">1934</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">Military school/Realgymnasium/Castle</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">Ballenstedt</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">NPEA Anhalt</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">Anhalt</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">May 1934</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">City Gymnasium (secondary school)</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">Ploschkowitz (Ploskovice)</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">NPEA Sudetenland</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">Sudetenland (today Czech Republic)</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">10 October 1940</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">Ploskovice Castle</td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">Reisen (Rydzyna)</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">NPEA Wartheland</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">Warthegau (today Poland)</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">1940</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">Polish boarding school for boys in Rydzyna Castle</td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">Loben</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">NPEA Loben</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">(East-) Upper Silesia (today Poland)</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">1 April 1941</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">School for children with speech impediments</td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">Putbus</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">NPEA Rügen</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">Pomerania</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">1 September 1941</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><i>Pädagogium</i> (<i>Stift</i>)</td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">Reichenau</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">NPEA Reichenau</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">Baden</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">1941</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">Hospice</td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">St Wendel</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">NPEA St Wendel</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">Saarland</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">1 September 1941</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">International School of the Steyler Mission</td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">Weierhof bei Marnheim</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">NPEA am Donnersberg</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">Bavaria (Saar Palatinate)</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">1941</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><i>Gau-Oberschule</i> (Reich regional secondary school?)</td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">Sankt Paul im Lavanttal</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">NPEA Spanheim in Kärnten</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">Carinthia (Austria)</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">1941</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">Benedictine Abbey</td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">Vorau</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">NPEA Gottweig</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">Styria (Austria)</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">January 1943</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">Augustine Abbey</td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">Seckau</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">NPEA Seckau</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">Styria (Austria)</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">1941</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">Benedictine Abbey (<i>Stift</i>)</td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">Rufach</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">NPEA Rufach</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">Alsace (today France)</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">October 1940</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">Hospice</td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">Haselünne</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">NPEA Emsland</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">Prussian province of Hanover</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">17 October 1941</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">Cloister/Seminary for the Ursuline Order</td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">Neubeuern</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">NPEA Neubeuern</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">Bavaria</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">May 1942</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">Castle and state boarding school</td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">St Veit</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">NPEA St Veit</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">Carinthia (Austria)</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">July 1942</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">Catholic Seminary and Gymnasium</td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">Mokritz</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">NPEA Mokritz</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">Styria (Austria)</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">1942</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">Castle</td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">Achern</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">NPEA Achern</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">Baden</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">August 1943</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">The Illenau Sanatorium and Hospice</td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">Kuttenberg (Kutná Hora)</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">NPEA Böhmen</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">22 April 1944</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">Jesuit college and barracks</td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">Raudnitz an der Elbe (Roudnice nad Labem)</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">NPEA Raudnitz</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">July 1944</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">Roudnice Castle</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Adolf Hitler</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After a successful career at a Napola a youth would move up to an Ordensburgen (Order Castles).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Ordensburg program began in the spring of 1933.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>'In my great educative work I am beginning with the young.</i></span><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>We older ones are used up - we are old already.</i></span><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>We are rotten to the marrow.</i></span><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>We have no unrestrained instincts left.</i></span><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>We are cowardly and sentimental.</i></span><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>We are bearing the burden of a humiliating past, and have in our blood the dull recollection of serfdom and servility.</i></span><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>But my magnificent youngsters ! Are there finer ones anywhere in the world ? Look at these young men and boys ! What material !</i></span><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>With them I can make a new world.</i></span><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>My teaching is hard. Weakness has to be knocked out of them.</i></span><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>In my Ordensburgen a youth will grow up before which the world will shrink back.</i></span><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>A violently active, dominating, intrepid, brutal youth - that is what I am after. Youth must be all those things.</i></span><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>It must be indifferent to pain.</i></span><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>There must be no weakness or tenderness in it.</i></span><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>I want to see once more in its eyes the gleam of pride and independence of the beast of prey.</i></span><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Strong and handsome must my young men be.</i></span><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>I will have them fully trained in all physical exercises.</i></span><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>I intend to have an athletic youth - that is the first and the chief thing.</i></span><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>In this way I shall eradicate the thousands of years of human domestication. Then I shall have in front of me the pure and noble natural material.</i></span><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>With that I can create the new order.</i></span><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>I will have no intellectual training.</i></span><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Knowledge is ruin to my young men.</i></span><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>I would have them learn only what takes their fancy.</i></span><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>But one thing they must learn - self-command !</i></span><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>They shall learn to overcome the fear of death, under the severest tests.</i></span><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>That is the intrepid and heroic stage of youth.</i></span><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Out of it comes the stage of the free man, the man who is the substance and essence of the world, the creative man, the 'god-man'.</i></span><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>In my Ordensburgen there will stand as a statue for worship the figure of the magnificent, self-ordaining 'god-man'; it will prepare the young men for their coming period of ripe manhood. More than that I cannot say.'</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The 'Burgs were planned in various remote locations such the Pomerania lakes District in West Prussia, the Eifel in west Germany, the Allgäu in Bavaria and along the Nogat River in East Prussia.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ordensjunkers (Castle Squires) candidates were required to be at least 5 ft 4, between 23 and 26, racially pure and in good health, and without any physical limitations.</span></div>
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<b>Krössinsee - Die Falkenburg am Krössinsee</b><br />
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Die Falkenburg am Krössinsee</td></tr>
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Die Falkenburg am Krössinsee</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Completed in less two years and dedicated simultaneously with Vogelsang and Sonthofen on April 24, 1936 by Adolf Hitler, Krössinsee represented the program's first year of training and ending four years later at Marienburg.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Built by architect Clemens Klotz, the Volkish styled complex of buildings consisted of numerous buildings with granite foundations, rustic stone facades and thatched roofs and cost an estimated 20 million Reichsmarks to complete.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The complex was laid out on a grid system and consisted of two 150-foot (46 m) towers, the barracks called the Kameradschafthausen, a court of honor, sports hall and mammoth administration building.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Classes began each morning at 7 am and included studies in philosophy, politics and world history. Afternoons were devoted to military drills, battle tactics, sports and equestrian techniques. The school was recognized for its outstanding equestrian program.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The nearby lake provided the means for students to develop their rowing and sailing skills.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On May 16, 1941, the Ordensburg was renamed Die Falkenburg am Krössinsee.</span></div>
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<b>Vogelsang</b><br />
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dJrk4o8UQSM/T1T0_o5yn4I/AAAAAAAAFvM/CEQVu35KoKk/s1600/Ordensburg+Vogelsang+Besuch+Adolf+Hitler+-+Napola+-+++Occult+Third+Reich+-+Peter+Crawford.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="225" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dJrk4o8UQSM/T1T0_o5yn4I/AAAAAAAAFvM/CEQVu35KoKk/s320/Ordensburg+Vogelsang+Besuch+Adolf+Hitler+-+Napola+-+++Occult+Third+Reich+-+Peter+Crawford.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The second year of study in the Junker program was held at Burg Vogelsang locating on a slope overlooking the Urft river in the region of west Germany called the Eifel.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Built by Clemens Klotz, the sprawling complex included the Adlerhof (Eagle court), a church like structure called the Gemeinschaftshaus (community house), Wirtschauftgegebäude (economics building), Haus des Wissens or (House of Knowledge), the Kameradschaftshäusen or (Barracks), the Burgsschenke or cantine, Swim and sports Hall.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">stage will emerge – the stage of the 'Man-God', when Man will be the measure and centre of </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the world.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But there are </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">other stages about which I am not permitted to speak ..."</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>“The New Man is living among us now! He is here!</i></span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>I will tell you a secret. I have seen the New Man. He is intrepid and cruel. I was afraid of him!"</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Life on Earth originated and then evolved from a universal common ancestor approximately 3.7 billion years ago. Repeated speciation and the divergence of life can be inferred from shared sets of biochemical and morphological traits, or by shared DNA sequences. </span><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">These homologous traits and sequences are more similar among species that share a more recent common ancestor, and can be used to reconstruct evolutionary histories, using both existing species and the fossil record. </span><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Existing patterns of biodiversity have been shaped both by speciation and by extinction.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Cro-Magnon is an informal name for the first early modern humans (early Homo sapiens sapiens) of the European Upper Paleolithic. Current scientific literature prefers the term European Early Modern Humans (EEMH). The earliest known remains of Cro-Magnon-like humans are radiocarbon dated to 43,000 years before present. Cro-Magnons were robustly built and powerful. The body was generally heavy and solid with a strong musculature. The forehead was fairly straight rather than sloping like in Neanderthals, and with only slight browridges. Like other modern humans, Cro-Magnons had a prominent chin. The brain capacity was about 1,600 cubic centimetres (98 cu in), larger than the average for modern humans, however recent research suggests that the physical dimensions of so-called "Cro-Magnon" are not sufficiently different from modern humans to warrant a separate designation</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cro-Magnon man first appeared in Europe roughly 40,000 years ago and was the first human to have a high forehead, a prominent chin, and gracile skeleton.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Due to the extreme selection of the Caucasoid migration over the Caucasus Mountains, through the Eurasian Steppes, and up the Danubian Corridor, what emerged in Western Europe was a distinctly different species from the 'mixed race' (Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon) Negroid and Mongoloid lines of Homo sapiens.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As Western and Northern European Caucasians are directly descended from Cro-Magnon, by default Western and Northern European Caucasians (i.e. the Nordic sub-race of Caucasians) are not a race but are in fact a totally different species than Negroids and Mongoloids.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These Proto-Aryans are from whom the distinctly Nordic features of colored hair and eyes and pale skin arose.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hence, Cro-Magnon man became much taller and more robust.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They also developed an extremely large brain of 1600 cubic centimeters on average, 400 cubic centimeters larger than the average modern Negroid brain, and 200 cubic centimeters larger than the average modern Caucasian and Mongoloid brain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Yet though there was a reduction in overall brain size in modern Caucasians from our early Cro-Magnon ancestors, the Nordic sub-race of Caucasians have retained the large frontal lobe region, which is the creative and reasoning center of the brain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As for Negroids and Mongoloids, they lack the highly developed frontal lobes, which are responsible for attention, behavior, emotion, intellect, initiative, judgment, personality, and most importantly abstract thinking, problem solving, and creative thought.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Though Mongoloid brains are statistically slightly larger than Caucasoid brains the bulk if their brain power is located in their slightly larger Temporal lobes, which controls auditory and visual memories, language, some hearing, and speech, hence mongoloids have a slightly higher verbal intellect, and memory.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Yet it is creativity that separates us from the animals, all of the most profound creative achievements of humankind have been accomplished by Nordic Caucasoids.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Other races simply lack the creativity of the direct descendants of Cro-Magnon man.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This major difference in the modern Nordic Brain is a trait directly inherited from Cro-Magnon, and is what sets the Nordic brain apart as compared to other human brains.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The highly developed frontal lobes displayed by the high forehead of the Cro-Magnon or Nordic skull, but not shared by other humans known for their sloped forehead.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These highly developed frontal lobes allowed the ancestors of the Nordic sub-race of Caucasians to become the first inventors of writing, the first artists, the first builders, the first seafarers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This Cro-Magnon trait of a high forehead can only be seen today in modern Nordic Caucasians as distinguished from other Caucasian sub-races, which are simply hybrids (mixed race) of the pure Cro-Magnon descendents and the Negroid/Mongoloid lines of Homo sapiens.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hence Western and Northern Europeans are the purest and most direct descendants of the Cro-Magnons.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">By the time the glacial ice began to recede from Northern Europe the Cro-Magnon was firmly settled in Western Europe and the Neanderthals were extinct.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The most advanced of these Cro-Magnons appeared in Western Europe around 17,000 years ago and are known as the Solutreans or Proto-Aryans, which lived on the coastal regions of Western Europe and Doggerland.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This advanced culture of Cro-Magnons was subjected to a mutation, which caused an evolutionary leap in their society resulting in the development of advanced technologies.</span></div>
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Much of the significant material in the section derives from the writings of Hermann Rauschning.<br />
Rauschning was born in Thorn (Toruń), at the time part of the German Empire, to a Prussian officer in the province of West Prussia<br />
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According to Rauschning, Germans in these areas were constantly put under pressure to leave Poland.<br />
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In 1932 he moved to a new estate in Warnow and became leader of the 'Danzig Land League', previously affiliated with the Deutschnationale Volkspartei DNVP (German National People's Party).<br />
He then joined the NSDAP, believing that they offered the only way out of Germany's troubles, including the incorporation of Danzig into Germany.<br />
He became President of the 'Danzig Teachers' Association' in 1932.<br />
After Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany in 1933, the National Socialists in Danzig won control of the Free City's government, and Rauschning became the President of the Senate of Danzig on 20 June 1933; that is, head of state of the 'Free City Government'.<br />
He was an excellent speaker.<br />
In foreign matters Rauschning did not conceal that his personal desire was to return Poland to the Third Reich.<br />
His 'Gespräche mit Hitler' (Conversations with Hitler) was a huge bestseller, but its credibility would later be criticised.<br />
In 1941 Rauschning left Germany and moved to the United States, becoming a US citizen in 1942 and purchasing a farm near Portland, Oregon where he died in 1982.<br />
The authenticity of the discussions Rauschning claims to have had with Hitler between 1932 and 1934, which form the basis of his book 'Hitler Speaks', was challenged shortly after Rauschning's death by Swiss researcher Wolfgang Hänel.<br />
Hänel declared that 'Gespräche mit Hitler' (the German title of Hitler Speaks) was a fraud and that the book has no value "<i>except as a document of Allied war propaganda</i>" (?)<br />
Other historians have<i> not </i>been convinced by Hänel′s research.<br />
David Redles <i>attacked</i> Hänel′s method which consisted of:<br />
'<i>pointing out similarities in phrasing of quotations from other individuals in Rauschning's other books...and those attributed to Hitler in 'Voice of Destruction'</i> [i.e. Hitler Speaks].<br />
If the two are even remotely similar Hänel concludes that the latter must be concoctions, however the similarities, which are mostly slight, could be for a number of reasons....'<i>they need not stem from forgery</i>'.<br />
Eberhard Jaeckel also concluded that, '<i>whilst the work cannot be regarded as a verbatim account, it is a good guide to Hitler's world view from someone who conversed with him'</i>.<br />
It is highly unlikely Rauschning could have simply <i>invented </i>the revelations that he reports Hitler as making as they relate to political and occult concepts that a person of Rauschning's education and experience simply would <i>not</i> have been aware.<br />
Some have questioned whether Hitler would have made such revelation to a relatiovely unimportant individual, but the likelihood is that Hitler was simply '<i>letting off steam</i>' with and individual unlikely to share such insights with others - and if they had shared such insights, would have been unlikely to have been believed.<br />
Obviously, Hitler did <i>not</i> envision that Rauschning would subsequently leave the Party and defect to America.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>'The heaviest blow which ever struck humanity was Christianity; Bolshevism is Christianity’s illegitimate child. Both are inventions of the Jew</i></span><br />
<i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The religions are all alike, no matter what they call themselves.</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>They have no future—certainly none for the Germans.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Fascism, if it likes, may come to terms with the Church.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>So shall I. Why not?</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>That will not prevent me from tearing up Christianity root and branch, and annihilating it in Germany.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>The Italians are naive; they're quite capable of being heathens and Christians at the same time.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>The Italians and the French are essentially heathens.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Their Christianity is only skin- deep.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>But the German is different.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>He is serious in everything he undertakes.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>He wants to be either a Christian or a heathen.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>He cannot be both.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Besides, Mussolini will never make heroes of his Fascists.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>It doesn't matter there whether they're Christians or heathens.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>But for our people it is decisive whether they acknowledge the Jewish Christ-creed, with its effeminate pity-ethics, or a strong, heroic belief in God in Nature, God in our own people, in our destiny, in our blood."</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Leave the hair-splitting to others.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Whether it's the Old Testament or the New, or simply the sayings of Jesus, according to Houston Stewart Chamberlain - it's all the same old Jewish swindle.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>It will not make us free.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>A German Church, a German Christianity, is distortion.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>One is either a German or a Christian.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>You cannot be both.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>You can throw the epileptic Paul out of Christianity - others have done so before us.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>You can make Christ into a noble human being, and deny his divinity and his role as a savior.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>People have been doing it for centuries.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>I believe there are such Christians today in England and America—Unitarians they call themselves, or something like that.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>It's no use, you cannot get rid of the mentality behind it.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>We don't want people who keep one eye on the life in the hereafter.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>We need free men who feel and know that God is in themselves."</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>You can't make an Aryan of Jesus, that's nonsense.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>What Chamberlain wrote in his 'Foundations' is, to say the least, stupid. What's to be done, you say?</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>I will tell you: we must prevent the churches from doing anything but what they are doing now, that is, losing ground day by day.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Do you really believe the masses will ever be Christian again?</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Nonsense! Never again.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>That tale is finished.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>No one will listen to it again.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>But we can hasten matters.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>The parsons will be made to dig their own graves. </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>They will betray their God to us.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>They will betray anything for the sake of their miserable little jobs and incomes.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>What we can do?</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Just what the Catholic Church did when it forced its beliefs on the heathen: preserve what can be preserved, and change its meaning.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>We shall take the road back: Easter is no longer resurrection, but the eternal renewal of our people.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Christmas is the birth of our savior: the spirit of heroism and the freedom of our people.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Do you think these liberal priests, who have no longer a belief, only an office, will refuse to preach our God in their churches?</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>I can guarantee that, just as they have made Haeckel and Darwin, Goethe and Stefan George the prophets of their Christianity so they will replace the cross with our swastika.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Instead of worshiping the blood of their quondam savior, they will worship the 'pure blood' of our people.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>They will receive the fruits of the German soil as a divine gift, and will eat it as a symbol of the eternal communion of the people, as they have hitherto eaten of the body of their God.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>And when we have reached that point the churches will be crowded again.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>If we wish it, then it will be so - when it is our religion that is preached there.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>We need not hurry the process.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>I'm a Catholic.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Certainly that was fated from the beginning, for only a Catholic knows the weaknesses of the Church.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>I know how to deal with these gentry.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Bismarck was a fool.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>In other words, he was a Protestant.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Protestants don't know what a church is.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>In these things you must be able to feel and think with the people, know what they want and what they dislike.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Bismarck stuck to his legal clauses and his Prussian sergeant-majors.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>That was not enough.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>And least of all shall I institute a cultural struggle.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>That was a blunder.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>But I shall know how to deal with them, I can guarantee that.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>The Catholic Church is a really big thing.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Why, what an organization!</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>It's something to have lasted nearly two thousand years!</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>We must learn from it.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Astuteness and knowledge of human nature are behind it.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Catholic priests know where the shoe pinches.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>But their day is done, and they know it.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>They are far too intelligent not to see that, and to enter upon a hopeless battle.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>But if they do, I shall certainly not make martyrs of them.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>We shall brand them as ordinary criminals.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>I shall tear the mask of honesty from their faces.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>And if that is not enough, I shall make them appear ridiculous and contemptible.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>I shall order films to be made about them.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>We shall show the history of the monks on the cinema.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Let the whole mass of nonsense, selfishness, repression and deceit be revealed: how they drained the money out of the country, how they haggled with the Jews for the world, how they committed incest.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>We shall make it so thrilling that everyone will want to see it.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>There will be queues outside the cinemas.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>And if the pious burghers find the hair rising on their heads in horror, so much the better.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>The young people will accept it—the young people and the masses. I can do without the others.</i></span><br />
<i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You see what I'm building on.</i><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Our peasants have not <i></i></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><i>It still lives. It is merely covered over.</i></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><i>The Christian mythology has </i></i></span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>simply coated it like a layer of tallow.</i></i><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>The law of selection justifies this incessant struggle, by allowing the survival of the fittest. Christianity is a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature. Taken to its logical extreme, Christianity would mean the systematic cultivation of the human failure</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><i><b>And so</b> <b>the old beliefs will be brought back to honor </b></i></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>And this is where we must begin.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>There we shall only lose ourselves in the stupid godlessness propaganda of the Marxists.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>But our peasantry still lives in heathen beliefs and values.</i></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i style="font-style: italic;">It is through the peasantry that we shall really be able to destroy Christianity because there is in them a <b>true religion </b>rooted in </i>nature and blood<i style="font-style: italic;">.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i style="font-style: italic;">It is through the peasantry that we shall one day be able to act as missionaries to the urban masses as well.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i style="font-style: italic;">But there is plenty of time for that.'</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Slav mestizos have overrun the place.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>A decent German is no longer respected. Priests and Jews rule the country. These scoundrels have got to be thrown out!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>This Dollfuss, these paid clerks and nonentities, these absurd dwarfs who imagine they're statesmen and don't see they're the twitching puppets of French and British wirepullers—I shall see that they do not escape their retribution.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>It is high time. Another generation, and this country will be lost to Germandom forever.'</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>'My Socialism is not the same thing as Marxism.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>My Socialism is not class war, but order.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Whoever imagines Socialism as revolt and mass demagogy is not a National Socialist.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Revolution is not games for the masses. Revolution is hard work.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>The masses see only the finished product, but they are ignorant, and should be ignorant, of the immeasurable amount of hidden labor that must be done before a new step forward can be taken.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>The revolution cannot be ended. It can never be ended.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>We are motion itself, we are eternal revolution.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>We shall never allow ourselves to be held down to one permanent condition.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Externally I end the revolution, but internally it goes on, just as we store up our hate, and think of the day on which we shall cast off the mask, and stand revealed as those we are, and eternally shall remain</i>.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>My Socialism, is not the same thing as Marxism. My Socialism is not class war, but order.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Whoever imagines Socialism as revolt and mass demagogy is not a <i></i></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><i>Revolution is not games for the masses. Revolution is hard work.</i></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><i>The masses </i></i></span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">see only the finished product, but they are ignorant, and should be ignorant, of the immeasurable </i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><i>The </i></i></span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>revolution cannot be ended. It can never be ended. We are motion itself, we are eternal </i></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><i>We shall never allow ourselves to be held down to one permanent condition.</i></i></span></div>
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The party is well-intentioned.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The party understands everything.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is only a matter of explaining properly.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you do not succeed in making your intentions clear to the party, then either you do not yourself see things simply and clearly enough, or you are not the right man.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you become estranged from the party, so that it no longer understands your speech, it is always your own fault.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That is why I constantly insist that people should talk, discuss, hold meetings, remain always in close touch with the mass of the party.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you lose that contact, you may have the best intentions in the world, but no one will understand you.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We must not make the mistake of the bourgeois representatives, who are strangers to the people, and have perhaps one or two meetings, usually a fortnight before elections, and then never bother about their constituents again.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It may be that our party comrades fail to understand certain matters because they have hitherto been unacquainted with them, but you cannot reproach them with being unwilling to understand.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is my mission, as it is that of each one of my assistants, repeatedly to explain my views to the party comrades, until they have understood them, and have voluntarily accepted them.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Of course it is evident that in this continual striving, the sharp corners of your own views will be rounded off, and your judgment will often have to be re-adjusted.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So much the better ! This is the fruitful outcome of such a constant interchange of ideas.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The party is an incorruptible judge.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">However correct your own motives and ideas may be, if the party rejects them, you must seek the fault first and foremost in yourself.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What is the meaning of our party ?</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Why have we eliminated all the other parties, and fought against the whole of the parliamentary, democratic system ?</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Was because we wanted to destroy all contact with the people ?</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On the contrary: we have destroyed outworn institutions just because they no longer served to produce a fruitful relationship with the body of the nation, but led only to gossip and brazen deceit.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We have eliminated parasites who insinuated themselves between the people and their leaders.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Of course the part played by the masses is thereby also cut out.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is no longer a voting herd periodically intoxicated with words.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In place of the mass, there is now the people's community, developed from the masses, the incorporated nation awakened to self-consciousness: our party.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The term 'party', however, is a misnomer.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I should prefer the term 'order'.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But perhaps this is romantic.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nowwhat is the meaning of our party ?</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Only he who accepts duties has a right to a voice in them.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But he who does so, he who joins our ranks, who is thought worthy of joining our ranks (and this without regard to person) - that man has a right to be heard, and is heard.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We stand in close contact with this flower of the nation.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We submit all questions to it.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We are doing a work of political education such as no other party has ever done before.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I shall never take an important decision without first being assured of the approval of the party.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I cannot give orders as I please.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What I command is not arbitrary, but the result of close understanding with the party.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We go far beyond any parliament on earth in our constant reference to the will of the people.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Only thus can a real people's unity be attained.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am not dependent on the man in the street, but I am responsible to my party comrades.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The parliamentary democracies can influence public opinion as they like.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am subject to an incorruptible judge, my party.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So I build the new Germany, not like a self-centered, and in the profoundest sense, <i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span></i></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">unproductive artist of the present day, but like the pious cathedral builders of the Middle Ages.</span></i></span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>National Socialism is a cool and highly reasoned approach to reality based on the greatest scientific knowledge and its spiritual expression… .</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Above all, National Socialism is a Vö</i></span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">lkish Movement in essence, and under no circumstances a cult movement ! …</i><br />
<i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For this reason, the infiltration of the movement by mystically inclined researchers into the otherworldly cannot be tolerated.</i><br />
<i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They are not National Socialists, but something else – certainly something with which we have nothing to do. …</i><br />
<i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cult-like activities are no our responsibility, but that of the churches.</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The Aryan as Custodian of Culture</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>'The Volkish view recognizes the importance of mankind in its racially innate elements.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>In principle, it sees in the state only a means to an end, and as its end it considers the preservation of the racial existence of men.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Thus it by no means believes in an equality of the races, but with their differences it also recognizes their superior and inferior values, and by this recognition it feels the obligation in accordance with the 'Eternal Will' that dominates this universe to promote the victory of the better and stronger, and to demand the submission of the worse and the weaker.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Thus in principle it favors also the fundamental aristocratic thought of nature and believes in the validity of this law down to the last individual.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>It sees not only the different values of the races, but also the different values of individual man.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>In its opinion, out of the masses emerges the importance of the person, but by this it has an organizing effect, as contrasted with disorganizing Marxism. It believes in the necessity of idealizing mankind, as, in turn, it sees in this the only presumption for the existence of mankind, but it cannot grant the right of existence to an ethical idea, if this idea represents a danger for the racial life of the bearers of higher ethics; for in a hybridized world all conceptions of the humanly beautiful and sublime, as well as all conceptions of an idealized future of our mankind, would be lost forever.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>In this world human culture and civilization are inseparably bound up with the existence of the <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/the-genisis-of-ubermensch.html" target="_blank">Aryan</a>.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>His dying off or his decline would again lower upon this earth the dark veils of a time without culture.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>The Jewish people, with all its apparent intellectual qualities, is nevertheless without any true culture, especially without a culture of its own.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>For the sham culture which the Jew possesses today is the property of other peoples, and is mostly spoiled in his hands.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>When judging Jewry in its attitude toward the question of human culture, one has to keep before one's eye as an essential characteristic that there never has been and consequently that today also there is no Jewish art; that above all the two queens of all arts, architecture and music, owe nothing original to Jewry. </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>What he achieves in the field of art is either bowdlerization or intellectual theft.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>With this, the Jew lacks those qualities which distinguish creatively and, with it, culturally blessed races.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>It is indeed the presumption for the formation of a higher human culture, but not its cause.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>On the contrary, the latter lies exclusively in the existence of a race capable of culture.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Hundreds of exemplary states may exist on this globe, but in case of a dying off of the Aryan culture supporter, no culture would exist which would correspond to the spiritual level of the highest peoples of today.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>One can even go further and say that the fact of human state formation would not in the least exclude the possibility of the destruction of the human race, insofar as the superior intellectual ability and elasticity, in consequence of the lack of its racial supporters, would be lost.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/hitler-and-jews.html" target="_blank">Hitler on Education</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>No matter how necessary this is for a time in which techniques and chemistry dominate in daily life and represent its symptoms, at least as far as outwardly recognizable, it is just as dangerous if the general education of a nation is always directed exclusively at this.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>On the contrary, this <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/hitler-and-jews.html" target="_blank">education</a> has always to be an ideal one.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>It has to correspond more to the classic subjects and should only offer the foundations of a later training in a special field.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Otherwise, one renounces forces which are still more important for the preservation of the nation than any technical or other ability.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Especially in history instruction one should not let oneself be deterred from studying antiquity.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Roman history, rightly conceived in very broad outlines, is and remains the best teacher not only for today but probably for all times.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>The Hellenic ideal of culture, too, should be preserved for us in its exemplary beauty.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>One must not allow the differences of the individual races to tear up the greater racial community.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>The struggle that rages today involves very great aims: a culture fights for its existence, which combines millenniums and embraces Hellenism and Germanity together.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>A sharp difference should be made between general education and specialized knowledge.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Since the latter, today more than ever, threatens to sink into the service of pure mammon, general education, at least in its more ideal orientation, has to be preserved as a counterbalance.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Here, too, one has continuously to inculcate the principle that industry and techniques, trade and professions are able to flourish only as long as an idealistically disposed national community offers the necessary presuppositions, but the latter do not lie in material egoism, but in a joyous readiness to renounce and to sacrifice.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">from a speech by Adolf Hitler on the dedication of the <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/aryanism-and-third-reich.html" target="_blank">'Haus der Deutschen Kunst'</a></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the collapse of Germany after the war, the economic decline had been generally felt, the political decline had been denied by many, the cultural decline had not even been observed by the majority of the people.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was an age of phrases and catchwords: in the economic sphere the hard facts of misery and unemployment deprived these phrases of their force: in the political sphere such phrases as "international solidarity" had more success and veiled from the German people the extent of the political collapse, but in the long run the failure of the parliamentary-democratic form of government, copied from the West - a West which regardless of this democratic form still continued to extort from Germany whatever there remained to extort - defeated the phrase-mongers.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Far more lasting was the effect of these phrases in the cultural field, where they resulted in a complete confusion concerning the essential character of culture.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here the influence of the Jews was paramount and through their control of the press they were able to intimidate those who desired to champion "the normal sound intelligence and instinct of men," Art was said to be "an international experience," and thus all comprehension of its intimate association with a people was stifled: it was said that there was no such thing as the art of a people or, better, of a race: there was only the art of a certain period.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thus it was not Greeks who created the art of Greece, Romans the art of Rome, etc. - a particular period had found in each art its expression.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Art is a "time- conditioned phenomenon."</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So today there is not a German or a French art, 'but a "modern art."</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is to reduce art to the level of fashions in dress, with the motto "Every year something fresh" - Impressionism, Futurism, Cubism, perhaps also Dadaism.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These newly created art phrases would be comic, if they were not tragic.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The result was uncertainty in judgments passed on art and the silencing of those who might otherwise have protested against this Kulturbolschewismus, while the press continued to poison our sound appreciation of art.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And just as in fashions one must wear "modern" clothes whether they are beautiful or not, so the great masters of the past were decried, b</span></i><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">ut <b>true art is and remains eternal</b>, it does not follow the law of the season's fashions: its effect is that of a revelation arising from the depths of the essential character of a people which successive generations can inherit, but those who do not create for eternity do not readily talk of eternities: they seek to dim the radiance of these giants who reach out of the past into the future in order that contemporaries may discover their own tiny flames.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These facile daubers in art are but the products of a day: yesterday, nonexistent: today, modern: tomorrow, out of date.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Jewish discovery that art was just the affair of a period was for them a godsend: theirs could be the art of the present time.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Theirs was a small art -- small in form and substance - and at the same time intolerant of the masters of the past and the rivals of the present.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There was a conspiracy of incapacity and mediocrity against better work of any age.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The new rich, having no judgment of their own in art matters, accepted these artists at their own valuation.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was only an attraction that these works of art were difficult to understand and on that account very costly: no one wished to admit lack of comprehension or insufficient means!</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And if one does not oneself understand, probably one's neighbor will not either, and he will admire one's comprehension of obscurity.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For this "modern art" National Socialism desires to substitute a "German" art and an eternal art.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The 'House of German Art' is designed for the art of the German people - not for an international art.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The people in the flux of phenomena is the one constant point.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is that which is abiding and permanent, and therefore art as the expression of the essential character of the abiding people must be an eternal monument, itself abiding and permanent; there can be therefore no standard of yesterday and today, of modern or unmodern: there can be only the standard of 'valueless' or 'valuable,' of 'eternal' or 'transitory.'</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And therefore in speaking of German art I shall see the standard for that art in the German people, in its character and life, in its feeling, its emotions, and its development."</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">From the history of the development of our people we know that it is composed of a number of more or less distinct races which in the course of millennia through the formative influence of a certain outstanding racial kernel produced that mixture which we see before us in Our people today.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This force which formed the people in time past and which still today continues that formative activity lies in the same Aryan branch of mankind which we recognize not only as the support of our own civilization but of the earlier civilizations of the ancient world.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The way in which our people was composed has produced the many-sidedness of our own cultural development, but as we look upon the final result of this process we cannot but wish for an art which may correspond to the increasing homogeneity of our racial composition, and thus present in itself the characteristics of unity and homogeneity.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Many attempts have been made through the centuries to define what "to be German" really means.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I would not seek to give an explanation in the first instance.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I would rather state a law - a law previously expressed by a great German: "To be German is to be clear," and that means that to be German is to be logical and true.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is this spirit which has always lived in our people, which has inspired painters, sculptors, architects, thinkers, poets, and above all our musicians. When on June 6, 1931, the Glass Palace was burned down there perished with it an immortal treasure of German art.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The artists were called Romantics, and yet they were but the finest representatives of that German search for the real and true character of our people, for an honest and decent expression of this law of life divined by our people.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For it was not only their choice of subject which was decisive but the clear and simple mode of rendering these sentiments.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Many of their original works are lost, we possess only copies or reproductions, but the works of these masters are removed by a great gulf from the pitiable products of our modern so-called "creative artists."</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These masters felt themselves to be Germans, and consequently they created works which should be valued as long as there should be a German people to appreciate them.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But these modern works we would also preserve as documents illustrating the depths of that decline into which the people had fallen.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The "Exhibition of Degenerate Art" is intended as a useful lesson.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">During the long years in which I planned the formation of a new Reich I gave much thought to the tasks which would await us in the cultural cleansing of the people's life: there was to be a cultural renascence as well as a political and economic reform.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was convinced that peoples which have been trodden underfoot by the whole world of their day have all the greater duty consciously to assert their own value before their oppressors, and there is no prouder proof of the highest rights of a people to its own life than immortal cultural achievements. I was therefore always determined that if fate should one day give us power I would discuss these matters with no one but would form my own decisions, for it is not given to all to have an understanding for tasks as great as these. Among the plans which floated before me in my mind both during the war and after the collapse was the idea of building a great new exhibition palace in Munich; and many years ago I thought of the place where the building now stands.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In 1931 I feared that I should be anticipated and that the "men of November" would erect an exhibition building.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Plans indeed were produced for an edifice which might well have served for a railway station or a swimming bath, b</span></i><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">ut when we came to power in 1933 the plan had not been executed: the erection of the building was left to the Third Reich.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And the building is so unique, so individual, that it cannot be compared with anything else: it is a true monument for this city and more than that -- for German art.... It represents a turning point, the first of the new buildings which will take their place among the immortal achievements of German artistic life.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But the House is not enough: it must house an Exhibition, and if now I venture to speak of art I can claim a title to do so from the contribution which I myself have made to the restoration of German art.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For our modern German state that I with my associates have created has alone brought into existence the conditions for a new, vigorous flowering of art.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is not Bolshevist art collectors or their henchmen who have laid the foundations: we have provided vast sums for the encouragement of art, we have set before art itself great, new tasks.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As in politics, so in German art-life: we are determined to make a clean sweep of phrases.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ability is the necessary qualification if an artist wishes his work to be exhibited here.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">People have attempted to recommend modern art by saying that it is the expression of a new age: but art does not create a new age, it is the general life of peoples which fashions itself anew and therefore often seeks after a new expression.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A new epoch is not created by litterateurs but by the fighters, those who really fashion and lead peoples, who thus make history.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is either impudent effrontery or stark stupidity to exhibit to the people of today works which perhaps ten or twenty thousand years ago might have been made by a man of the Stone Age.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They talk of primitive art, but they forget that it is not the function of art to retreat backward from the stage of development which a people has already reached: its sole function must be to symbolize that development.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The new age of today is at work on a new human type. Men and women are to be more healthy, stronger: there is a new feeling of life, a new joy in life. Never was humanity in its external appearance and in its frame of mind nearer to the ancient world than it is today.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This, my good prehistoric art-stutterers, is the type of the new age.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And what do you manufacture?</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Misformed cripples and cretins, women who inspire only disgust, men who are more like wild beasts, children who, were they alive, must be regarded as cursed of God.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And let no one say to me that that is how these artists see things.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">From the pictures sent in for exhibition it is clear that the eye of some men shows them things otherwise than as they are - that there really are men who on principle feel meadows to be blue, the heaven green, clouds sulphur-yellow - or as they perhaps prefer to say "experience" them thus.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I need not ask whether they really do see or feel things in this way, but in the name of the German people I have only to prevent these pitiable unfortunates who clearly suffer from defects of vision from attempting with violence to persuade contemporaries by their chatter that these faults of observation are indeed realities or from presenting them as "Art."</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here only two possibilities are open: either these "artists" do really see things in this way and believe in that which they represent - then one has but to ask how the defect in vision arose, and if it is hereditary the Minister of the Interior will have to see to it that so ghastly a defect of vision shall not be allowed to perpetuate itself - or if they do not believe in the reality of such impressions but seek on other grounds to impose upon the nation by this humbug, then it is a matter for a criminal court.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is no place for such works in this building.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The industry of architects and workmen was not spent to house canvases which were daubed over in five hours, the painters being assured that the boldness of the pricing could not fail to produce its effect, that the canvas would be hailed as the most brilliant lightning-birth of a genius.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">No, they can be left to cackle over each other's eggs!</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The artist does not create for the artist: he creates for the people and we will see to it that henceforth the people will be called in to judge its art.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">No one must say that the people has no understanding for a really valuable enrichment of its cultural life.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Before the critics did justice to the genius of a Richard Wagner he had the people on his side, while the people has had nothing to do with so-called "modern art."</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The people regarded this art as the outcome of an impudent and unashamed arrogance or of a simply shocking lack of skill; it felt that this art-stammer -- these achievements which might have been produced by untalented children of from eight to ten years old - could never be valued as an expression of our own times or of the German future.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When we know today that the development of millions of years repeats itself in every individual compressed into a few decades, then this art, we realize, is not "modern"; it is on the contrary in the highest degree "archaic," far older probably than the Stone Age.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The people when it passes through these galleries will recognize in me its own spokesman and counselor: it will draw a sigh of relief and express its glad agreement with this purification of art.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And that is decisive: an art which cannot count on the readiest and most intimate agreement of the great mass of the people, an art which must rely upon the support of small cliques, is intolerable.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Such an art does but endeavor to confuse, instead of gladly reinforcing, the sure and healthy instinct of a people.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The artist cannot stand aloof from his people.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This exhibition is but a beginning, yet the end of the artistic stultification of Germany has begun.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now is the opportunity for youth to start its industrious apprenticeship, and when a sacred conscientiousness at last comes into its own, then I doubt not that the Almighty, from the mass of these decent creators of art, will once more raise up individuals to the eternal starry heaven of the imperishable God-favored artists of the great periods.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We believe that especially today, when in so many spheres the highest individual achievements are being manifested, so also in art the highest value of personality will once again assert itself.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Nürnberg Reichsparteitag 1938</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The proof of the endowment of a true artist is always to be found in the fact that his work of art expresses the general will of a period.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Perhaps that is most clearly shown in architecture ....</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The religious mystical world of the Christian Middle Ages, turning inwards upon itself, found forms of expression which were possible only for that world. A Gothic stadium is as unthinkable as a Romanesque railway station or a Byzantine market hall.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The way in which the artist of the Middle Ages, of the beginnings of the modern world, found the artistic solution for the buildings which he was commissioned to create is in the highest degree striking and admirable.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That way, however, is no evidence that the conception of the content of life held by the folk of his day was in itself either absolutely right or absolutely wrong. </span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is evidence only that works of art have rightly mirrored the inner mind of a past age.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is therefore quite comprehensible that insofar as the attempt is made to carry on the life of that past age, those who search for solutions of artistic problems can still seek and find there fruitful suggestions.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thus one can easily imagine that, for instance, in the sphere of religion men will always work backwards to the form-language of a period in which Christianity appeared to meet every need.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On the other hand, at the present moment, the expression of a new view of the world which is determined by the conception of race will return to those ages which in the past have already possessed a similar freedom of the spirit, of the will, and of the mind.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thus, naturally, the manifestation in art of a European conception of the State will not be possible through civilizations, as, for example, the civilizations of the Far East, which -- because they are foreign to us -- have no message for our day. </span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">By contrast we shall be influenced in a thousand ways through the evidences and memories of that mighty imperial Power of antiquity which, although in fact destroyed fifteen hundred years ago, still as an ideal force lives on and works on in the imaginations of men.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The more nearly the modern State approaches to the imperial idea of the ancient world-power, so more and more will the general character of that civilization be manifested in its influence upon the formation of the style of our own day.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">National Socialism is not a cult-movement - a movement for worship; it is exclusively a "volkic" political doctrine based upon racial principles.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In its purpose there is no mystic cult, only the care and leadership of a people defined by a common blood-relationship.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Therefore we have no rooms for worship, but only halls for the people - no open spaces for worship, but spaces for assemblies and parades.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We have no religious retreats, but arenas for sports and playing-fields, and the characteristic feature of our places of assembly is not the mystical gloom of a cathedral, but the brightness and light of a room or hall which combines beauty with fitness for its purpose.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In these halls no acts of worship are celebrated, they are exclusively devoted to gatherings of the people of the kind which we have come to know in the course of our long struggle; to such gatherings we have become accustomed and we wish to maintain them.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We will not allow mystically-minded occult folk with a passion for exploring the secrets of the world beyond to steal into our Movement.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Such folk are not National Socialists, but something else - in any case, something which has nothing to do with us.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At the head of our program there stand no secret surmising but clear-cut perception and straightforward profession of belief.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But since we set as the central point of this perception and of this profession of belief the maintenance and hence the security for the future of a being formed by God, we thus serve the maintenance of a divine work and fulfill a divine will -- not in the secret twilight of a new house of worship, but openly before the face of the Lord.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There were times when a half-light was the necessary condition for the effectiveness of certain teachings: we live in an age when light is for us the fundamental condition of successful action.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It will be a sorry day when through the stealing in of obscure mystic elements the Movement or the State itself issues obscure commissions ....</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is even dangerous to issue any commission for a so-called place of worship, for with the building will arise the necessity for thinking out so-called religious recreations or religious rites, which have nothing to do with National Socialism.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our worship is exclusively the cultivation of the natural, and for that reason, because natural, therefore God-willed.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our humility is the unconditional submission before the divine laws of existence so far as they are known to us men: it is to these we pay our respect.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our commandment is the courageous fulfillment of the duties arising from those laws.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But for religious rites we are not the authorities, but the churches!</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If anyone should believe that these tasks of ours are not enough for him, that they do not correspond with his convictions, then it is for him to prove that God desires to use him to change things for the better.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In no event can National Socialism or the National Socialist State give to German art other tasks than those which accord with our view of the world.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The only sphere in which the Jewish international newspapers still today think that they can attack the new Reich is the cultural sphere.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here they attempt, by a constant appeal to the sentimentality - untroubled by any sort of knowledge - of the world-citizens of democracy to bewail the downfall of German culture: in other words, they lament the commercial closing-down of those elements which, as the heralds and exponents of the November Republic, forced their cultural characteristics, as unnatural as they were deplorable, upon the period between the two Empires; and which have now played out their role for good and all....</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fortunately, however, despite the short time which the National Socialist leadership has been able to allot to works of culture, positive facts, here too, speak louder than any negative criticism.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We Germans can today speak with justice of a new awakening of our cultural life, which finds its confirmation not in mutual compliments and literary phrases, but rather in positive evidences of cultural creative force.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">German architecture, sculpture, painting, drama, and the rest bring today documentary proof of a creative period in art, which for richness and impetuosity has rarely been matched in the course of human history.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And although the Jewish-democratic press magnates in their effrontery even today seek brazenly to turn these facts upside down, we know that the cultural achievements of Germany will in a few years have won from the world respect and appreciation far more unstinted even than that which they now accord to our work in the material field.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The buildings which are arising in the Reich today will speak a language that endures, a language, above all, more compelling than the Jewish babblings of the democratic, international judges of our culture.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What the fingers of these poor wretches have penned or are penning the world will - perhaps unfortunately - forget, as it has forgotten so much else. But the gigantic works of the Third Reich are a token of its cultural renascence and shall one day belong to the inalienable cultural heritage of the Western world, just as the great cultural achievements of this world in the past belong to us today.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Moreover, it is naturally not decisive what attitude, if any, foreign peoples take toward our works of culture, for we have no doubt that cultural creative work, since it is the most sensitive expression of a talent conditioned by blood, cannot be understood, far less appreciated, by individuals or races who are not of the same or related blood.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Therefore we do not trouble in any way to make German art and culture suit the tastes of international Jewry....</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The art of Greece is not merely a formal reproduction of the Greek mode of life, of the landscapes and inhabitants of Greece; no, it is a proclamation of the Greek body and of the essential Greek spirit.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It does not make propaganda for an individual work, for the subject, or for the artist; it makes propaganda for the Greek world as such, which confronts us in Hellenism.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And so art today will in the same way announce and herald that common mental attitude, that common view of life, which governs the present age.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It will do this not because this age entrusts commissions to artists, but because the execution of these commissions can meet with understanding only if it reveals in itself the true essence of the spirit of this age.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The mysticism of Christianity, at the period of its greatest intensity, demanded for the buildings which it ordered an architectonic form which not only did not contradict the spirit of the age, but rather helped it to attain that mysterious gloom which made men the more ready to submit to renunciation of self.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The growing protest against this crushing of the freedom of the soul and of the will, which had lasted for centuries, immediately opened the way to new forms of expression in artistic creation.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The mystic narrowness and gloom of the cathedrals began to recede and, to match the free life of the spirit, buildings became spacious and flooded with light.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mystical twilight gave way before increasing brightness.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The unsteady, groping transition of the nineteenth century led finally in our days to that crisis which in one way or another had to find its solution.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">'One should never build elaborate structures.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These things must grow, and what's more, they must grow up from below.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you construct something from above, it will be a dead body that never fills with life-blood.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Do you know how an artist creates ?</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the same way the statesman must allow not only his own thoughts to mature, but even more the driving forces of the nation itself.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He may stimulate here and there, he may regulate and guide the forces, and he may even shut them all down again if he sees that the true forces have not yet arisen, but he cannot artificially bring forth anything.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nothing is more false than to cloak an immature nation with plans from above; however well-thought-out they may be.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is only one thing that can be done, and that is to keep alive the creative unrest that holds the true artist in constant tension.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This must never be allowed to become stunted.</span></i>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">No matter what you attempt, if an idea is not yet mature, you will not be able to realize it.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I know that as an artist, and I know it as a statesman.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then there is only one thing to do: have patience, wait, try again, wait again. In the subconscious, the work goes on.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It matures, sometimes it dies.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Unless I have the inner, incorruptible conviction: this is the solution, I do nothing.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Not even if the whole party tries to drive me to action.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I will not act; I will wait, no matter what happens. But if the voice speaks, then I know the time has come to act.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The same thing applies to the party members, to the people.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It will have to be tried again later, continually tried again.</span></i></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They will grasp it, carry it out, as though they had never had any </span></i></span></i><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">other intention.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I had to discover experimentally just how mature it was, and whether it could be carried </span></i><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span></i></span></i></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is a matter of </span></i><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span></i></span></i></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">course that before I put something into practice, I must convince myself that it is feasible.</span></i></span></i></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And I </span></i><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span></i></span></i></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">must have men who will carry it out.</span></i></span></i></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For example, I have given my party comrades a task to </span></i></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Very well; if they can master it, then they are the right men for it; if not, others must do </span></i></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But if I find no one, then this too is an unmistakable sign that the time is not yet ripe.</span></i></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">then the problem has not yet matured, and the time is not ripe.</span></i></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is no use calling for a 'strong </span></i><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span></i></span></i></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But if the time is ripe, the men will also be found.</span></i></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I cannot realize my ideas without </span></i><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span></i></span></i></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the men for the job.</span></i></span></i></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I must keep the people occupied. They all want to help.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They are filled with glowing enthusiasm.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I must offer them something. Very well, let them try </span></i></span></i><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The experts never have the true instinct.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Experts are caught in their routine like the spider in its web, incapable of spinning anything but eternally the same web.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Experts are always capable of thinking something diametrically opposed to their first opinion.</span></i></div>
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The instinct to earn and the instinct to possess cannot be eliminated.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Natural instincts remain.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We should be the last to deny that, but the problem is how to adjust and satisfy these natural instincts.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The proper limits to private profit and private enterprise must be drawn through the state and general public according to their vital needs.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And on this point I can tell you, regardless of all the professors' theories and trades-union wisdom, that there is no principle on which you can draw any universally valid limits.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The needs of a state, varying according to time and circumstances, are the sole determining factor.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What may be necessary today need not be so tomorrow.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is not a question of theoretical suppositions, but of practical decisions dictated by existing circumstances.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Therefore I must change or repudiate under changed conditions tomorrow what I consider correct today.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is no ideal condition of permanent validity.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Only fools believe in a cut-and-dried method of changing the social and economic order.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is no such thing as equality, abolition of private property, just wage, or any of the other ideas they've been splitting hairs over</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> And all the distinctions that are made between production for consumption and production for profit are just pastimes for idlers and muddle-heads.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I shall never alter National Socialust economic program; it is meant for the masses.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It points the direction of some of our endeavors - neither more nor less.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is like the dogma of the Church.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Is the significance of the Church exhausted by the dogma ?</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Does it not lie much more in the Church rites and activities ?</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The masses need something for the imagination, they need fixed, permanent doctrines.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The initiates know that there is nothing fixed, that everything is continually changing.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That is why I impress upon you that National Socialism is a potential Socialism that is never consummated because it is in a state of constant change.</span></i><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></i>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The economic structure of the state is like a triangle.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One side of the triangle is the 'Labor Front,' the social community, the classless community in which each man helps his neighbor.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Everyone feels secure here, each one gets assistance, advice and occupation for his leisure time.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All are equal here.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The second side is the professional class.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here each individual is separate, graded, according to his ability and quality, to work for the general good.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Knowledge is the criterion here.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Each is worth as much as he accomplishes.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The third side represents the party, which, in one or other of its many branches, embraces every German who has not been found unworthy.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Each one in the party shares the privilege of leading the nation.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here the decisive factors are devotion and resolution.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All are equal as party comrades, but each man must submit to a grading of ranks that is inviolable.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The party takes over the function of what has been society.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The party is all-embracing.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It rules our lives in all their breadth and depth.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We must therefore develop branches of the party in which the whole of individual life will be reflected.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Each activity and each need of the individual will thereby be regulated by the party as the representative of the general good.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There will be no license, no free space, in which the individual belongs to himself.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is Socialism - not such trifles as the private possession of the means of production.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Of what importance is that if I range men firmly within a discipline they cannot escape ?</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Let them then own land or factories as much as they please.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The decisive factor is that the State, through the party, is supreme over them, regardless whether they are owners or workers.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All that, you see, is unessential.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our Socialism goes far deeper.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It does not alter external conditions; no, it establishes the relation of the individual to the State, the national community.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It does this with the help of one party, or perhaps I should say of one order.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The day of individual happiness has passed.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Instead, we shall feel a collective happiness.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Can there be any greater happiness than a National Socialist meeting in which speakers and audience feel as one ?</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is the happiness of sharing.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Only the early Christian communities could have felt it with equal intensity. They, too, sacrificed their personal happiness for the higher happiness of the community.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If we feel and experience this great era thus then we shall not be disturbed by details and individual failures.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We shall know then that every road leads us forward, no matter how much it seems to go in another direction.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And above all, we shall then maintain our passionate desire to revolutionize the world to an extent unparalleled in history.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It gives us also a special, secret pleasure to see how the people about us are unaware of what is really happening to them.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They gaze fascinated at one or two familiar superficialities, such as possessions and income and rank and other outworn conceptions.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As long as these are kept intact, they are quite satisfied.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But in the meantime they have entered a new relation; a powerful social force has caught them up.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They themselves are changed.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What are ownership and income to that ?</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"I have learned a great deal from Marxism. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I don't mean their tiresome social doctrine, or the materialist conception of history, or their absurd 'marginal utility' theories and so on, but I have learned from their methods.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The difference between them and myself is that I have really put into practice what these peddlers and pen-pushers have timidly begun.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The whole of National Socialism is based on it.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Look at the workers' sports clubs, the industrial cells, the mass demonstrations, the propaganda leaflets written specially for the comprehension of the masses; all these new methods of political struggle are essentially Marxist in origin.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All I had to do was to take over these methods and adapt them to our purpose.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I had only to develop logically what Social Democracy repeatedly failed in because of its attempt to realize its evolution within the framework of democracy.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">National Socialism is what Marxism might have been if it could have broken its absurd and artificial ties with a democratic order.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What remains is a revolutionary creative will that needs no ideological crutches, but grows into a ruthless instrument of might invincible in both the nation and the world.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A doctrine of redemption based on science thus becomes a genuine revolutionary movement possessing all the requisites of power.</span></i></div>
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Marxism teaches that a vast upheaval quite suddenly changes the world.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The millennium falls from the skies like a seventh heaven.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After that world history ceases.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is no further development. Everything is in order. The shepherd tends his flocks.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The end of the world has come.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But we know there is never a final stage, there is no permanency, only eternal change.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Only death is unchanging.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The past is eternal, but the future is an inexhaustible fount of possibilities of further development.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In my youth, and even in the first years of my Munich period after the war, I never shunned the company of Marxists of any shade.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was of the opinion that one or other of them showed promise.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Certainly they had every freedom to unfold their potentialities, but they were, and remained small men.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They wanted no giants who towered above the multitude, though they had plenty of pedants who split dogmatic hairs.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So I made up my mind to start something new.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>'We are now at the end of the Age of Reason.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>The intellect has grown autocratic, and has </i></span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">become a disease of life.</i><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Our revolution is not merely a political and social revolution; we are at the outset of a </i></span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">tremendous revolution in moral ideas and in men's spiritual orientation.</i><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Our movement has at last brought the Middle Ages, medieval times, to a close.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>We are bringing to a close a straying of humanity.</i></span><br />
<i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Ten Commandments have lost their validity.</i><br />
<i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Conscience is a Jewish invention.</i><br />
<i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is a blemish, like circumcision.'</i><br />
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<i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">'A new age of magic interpretation of the world is coming, of interpretation in terms of the will and not of the intelligence.</i><br />
<i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The idea of free and unfettered science, unfettered by hypotheses, could only occur in the age of Liberalism. It is absurd.</i><br />
<i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Science is a social phenomenon, and like every other social phenomenon is limited by the benefit or injury it confers on the community.</i><br />
<i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The slogan of objective science has been coined by the professors, simply in order to escape from the very necessary supervision by the power of the State.</i><br />
<i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What is called the crisis of science is nothing more than that the gentlemen are beginning to see of their own accord how they have gone off the line with their objectivity and independence.</i><br />
<i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The simple question that precedes every scientific activity is: who is it who wants to know something, who is it who wants to find how he stands in the world around him ?</i><br />
<i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It follows necessarily that there can only be the science of a particular type of humanity and of a particular age.</i><br />
<i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is reasonable to say that there is a Nordic Science, and a National Socialist Science, which are bound to be opposed to the Liberal-Jewish Science, which, indeed, is no longer fulfilling its function anywhere, but is in process of stultifying itself.'</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>'We approach the realities of the world only in strong emotion and in action.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>I have no love for Goethe, but I am ready to overlook much in him for the sake of one phrase - 'In the beginning was action.'</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Only the man who acts becomes conscious of the real world.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Men misuse their intelligence.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>It is not the seat of a special dignity of mankind, but merely an instrument in the struggle for life.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Man is here to act.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Only as a being in action does he fulfill his natural vocation.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Contemplative natures, retrospective like all intellectuals, are dead persons who miss the meaning of life.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>We Germans above all, with our long-established habit of brooding and dreaming to excess, needed to be brought back to the great truth that only deeds and perpetual activity give meaning to life.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Every deed has its place.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>All passivity, all inertia, on the other hand, is senseless, inimical to life.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>We must distrust the </i></span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">intellect</i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i> and the conscience, and must place our trust in our instincts.'</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>'We have to regain a new simplicity.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>People set us down as enemies of the intellect</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>We are.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>But in a much deeper sense than these conceited dolts of bourgeois scientists ever dream of.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Providence has ordained that I should be the greatest liberator of humanity. I am freeing men from the restraints of an intelligence that has taken charge; from the dirty and degrading self-mortifications of a chimera called conscience and morality, and from the demands of a freedom and personal independence which only a very few can bear.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>The problem is this: How can we arrest racial decay ?</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><i>We have acted politically on it - no equality, no democracy !</i></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>We must interpret 'Parsifal' in a totally different way to the general conception, the interpretation.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Behind the absurd externals of the story, with its Christian embroidery and its Good Friday mystification, something altogether different is revealed as the true content of this most profound drama.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>It is not the Christian-Schopenhauerist religion of compassion that is acclaimed, but <b>pure, noble blood</b>, in the protection and glorification of whose purity the brotherhood of the initiated have come together.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>The king is suffering from the incurable ailment of corrupted blood.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>The uninitiated but pure man is tempted to abandon himself in Klingsor's magic garden to the lusts and excesses of corrupt civilization, instead of joining the élite of knights who guard the <b>secret of life, the pure blood </b> (das Geheimnis des Lebens, das reine Blut).</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>All of us are suffering from the ailment of mixed, corrupted blood.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>How can we purify ourselves and make atonement ?</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Note that compassion, through which man gains enlightenment, is only for the corrupted man at issue with himself, a</i></span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">nd that this compassion knows only one treatment - the leaving of the sick person to die.</i><br />
<i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The <b>eternal life</b> granted by the Grail is only for the <b>truly pure and noble </b>!"</i><br />
<i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For myself, I have the most intimate familiarity with Wagner's mental processes.</i><br />
<i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At every stage in my life I come back to him.</i><br />
<i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Only a <b>new nobility</b> (</i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>neuen Adels) </i></span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">can introduce the <b>new civilization</b> for us.</i><br />
<i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If we strip Parsifal of every poetic element, we learn from it that selection and renewal are possible only amid the continuous tension of a lasting struggle.</i><br />
<i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A world-wide process of segregation is going on before our eyes.</i><br />
<i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Those who see in struggle the meaning of life, gradually mount the steps of a new nobility.</i><br />
<i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Those who are in search of peace and order through dependence, sink, whatever their origin, to the inert masses.</i><br />
<i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The masses, however, are doomed to decay and self-destruction.</i><br />
<i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In our world-revolutionary turning-point the masses are the sum total of the sinking civilization, and of its dying representatives.</i><br />
<i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We must allow them to die with their kings, like Amfortas.</i><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Take for example the Freemasons.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>I don't seriously believe in the abysmal evilness and noxiousness of these people.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>In Germany they are just a harmless union for the mutual protection of interests.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>All the supposed abominations, the skeletons and death's-heads, the coffins and the mysteries, are mere bogeys for children.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>But there is one dangerous element, and that is the element I have copied from them.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>They form a sort of priestly nobility.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>They have developed an esoteric doctrine, not merely formulated, but imparted through the medium of symbols and mysterious rites in degrees of initiation.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>The hierarchical organization and the initiation through symbolic rites, that is to say without bothering the brains but by working on the imagination through magic and the symbols of a cult - all this is the dangerous element and the element that I have taken over.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Our party must be of this character.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>An Order - the hierarchical Order of a secular priesthood.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>The Jew is the anti-man, the creature of another god.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>He must have come from another root of the human race.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>I set the Aryan and the Jew over against each other; and if I call one of them a human being I must call the other something else.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>The two are as widely separated as man and beast.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Not that I would call the Jew a beast. He is much further from the beasts than we Aryans. He is a creature <b>outside</b> nature and <b>alien</b> to nature.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Creation is not yet at an end.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>At all events, not so far as the creature Man is concerned.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Biologically regarded, man has clearly arrived at a turning-point.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>A new variety of man is beginning to separate out.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>A mutation, precisely in the scientific sense.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>The existing type of man is passing, in consequence, inescapably into the biological stage of atrophy.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>The old type of man will have but a stunted existence.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>All creative energy will be concentrated in the new one.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>The two types will rapidly diverge from one another.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>One will sink to a sub-human race, and the other rise far above the man of today.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>I might call the two varieties the 'god-man' and the 'mass-animal'.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Man has to be passed and surpassed.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Nietzsche did, it is true, realize something of this, in his way.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>He went so far as to recognize the superman as a new biological variety.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>But he was not too sure of it.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Man is becoming 'god' - that is the simple fact.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Man is 'god in the making'.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Man has eternally to strain at his limitations.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>The moment he relaxes, and contents himself with them, he decays and falls below the human level.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>He becomes a quasi-beast.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Gods and beasts, that is what our world is made of. </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>And how simple, how elementary it all becomes.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>And how simple, how elementary it all becomes !</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Do you now appreciate the depth of our National Socialist movement ?</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Can there be anything greater and more all-comprehending ?</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Those who see in National Socialism nothing more than a political movement know scarcely anything of it.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>It is more even than a religion: it is the <b>will to create mankind anew</b>.'</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">'The new man is among us! He is here !</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have seen the vision of the new <i></i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">man - fearless and formidable. - </span></i><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I shrank from him !'</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>'The real destiny of Man is something that ordinary men could not conceive and would be unable to comprehend, even if given a glimpse of it.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Our revolution is a final stage in an evolution that will end by abolishing history.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>It is my ultimate aim to perform an act of creation, a divine operation,</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>the goal of a biological mutation which will result in an unprecedented exaltation of the human race and the appearance of a new race of heroes, demi-gods and god-men.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>My party comrades have no conception of the dreams that haunt my mind or of the grandiose edifice of which the foundations, at least, will have been laid before I die. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>The world has reached a turning point, and will undergo an upheaval which the uninitiated cannot understand.'</i></span><br />
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<i>I will tell you a secret. I am founding an Order.</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>In my great educative work I am beginning with the young.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>We older ones are used up - we are old already.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>We are rotten to the marrow.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>We have no unrestrained instincts left.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>We are cowardly and sentimental.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>We are bearing the burden of a humiliating past, and have in our blood the dull recollection of serfdom and servility.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>But my magnificent youngsters ! Are there finer ones anywhere in the world ? Look at these young men and boys ! What material !</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>With them I can make a new world.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>My teaching is hard. Weakness has to be knocked out of them.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>In my Ordensburgen a youth will grow up before which the world will shrink back.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>A violently active, dominating, intrepid, brutal youth - that is what I am after. Youth must be all those things.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>It must be indifferent to pain.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>There must be no weakness or tenderness in it.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>I want to see once more in its eyes the gleam of pride and independence of the beast of prey.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Strong and handsome must my young men be.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>I will have them fully trained in all physical exercises.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>I intend to have an athletic youth - that is the first and the chief thing.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>In this way I shall eradicate the thousands of years of human domestication. Then I shall have in front of me the pure and noble natural material.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>With that I can create the new order.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>I will have no intellectual training.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Knowledge is ruin to my young men.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>I would have them learn only what takes their fancy.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>But one thing they must learn - self-command !</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>They shall learn to overcome the fear of death, under the severest tests.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>That is the intrepid and heroic stage of youth.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Out of it comes the stage of the free man, the man who is the substance and essence of the world, the creative man, the 'god-man'.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>In my Ordensburgen there will stand as a statue for worship the figure of the magnificent, self-ordaining 'god-man'; it will prepare the young men for their coming period of ripe manhood. More than that I cannot say.</i></span><br />
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And his cries rang out in the night.</div>
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"Now it is over. He will get good care."</div>
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Perhaps I shall fall, a victim of your bullet.</div>
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We lived these sacred hours,</div>
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Where man found himself in man ...</div>
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“<i>When human hearts break and human souls despair, then from the twilight of the past, the great conquerors of distress and care, of shame and misery, of spiritual slavery and physical compulsion, look down and hold out their eternal hands to the despairing mortals. Woe to the people ashamed to grasp them !</i>”</div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A fundamental purpose of National Socialism was the creation of a healthy, pure and beautiful race, - where ‘health’ was understood within a particular aesthetic-ideological frame.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">National Socialist aesthetics took shape in the collective actions and ideology of the NSDAP, and gave shape to numerous aspects of German life.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In developing National Socialist eugenics, the life sciences and holistic biology in particular served to enhance völkisch aesthetic ideals.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The enhancement of the Nordic Aryan race implied that, both ‘positive’ eugenic measures had to be taken to strengthen the quality of the race, and ‘negative’ eugenic measures needed to be taken to eliminate the procreation of ‘unfit’ individuals.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Aesthetic consideration, however, were concomitant with eugenic, biological considerations.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It should be noted that almost half of the highest levels of the government of the Third Reich were professional, or aspiring, artists.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels was a novelist and poet, Alfred Rosenberg, founder of the first 'National Socialist Society for Culture', was a painter and novelist, and Adolf Hitler had made his living as an artist before the Great War, and undoubtedly Hitler’s personal artistic inclinations found expression in much of the aesthetic culture of the Third Reich.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">National Socialist public actions were undoubtedly direct outcomes of Hitler’s cultural an aesthetic beliefs.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Hitler points to the first time he saw the performance of Wagner’s opera ‘Rienzi’ as the hour when “it all began”.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This opera tells of Rienzi, a popular Roman leader, who leads the Romans to re-unite and re-instate the <a href="http://petesrome.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/the-roman-principate-introduction.html" target="_blank">Roman Empire</a> but who, due to a malicious conspiracy, suffers a tragic but glorious death.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The figure of the heroic popular leader, the historical setting in antiquity, as well as the nationalism and racialism of Wagner himself, inspired Hitler and were, in many cases, reflected in the National Socialist culture.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Hitler designed the party standard in 1923 to closely resemble ancient Roman standards and borrowed the symbol of the swastika from ancient Minoan art</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">National Socialist mass rallies depict precise arrangements of disciplined, predominately male bodies in ordered, synchronized motion, taking their positions around the Führer.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">These examples of collective action feature the Hitler as director and leading actor.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The ‘<i>body</i>’ of the ‘<i>new</i>’ German Volk, clean, disciplined and masculine, orients itself in attention to its ‘<i>guiding principle</i>’ –the Führer.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The monumental scale of these actions, the emblazoning of ancient symbols on young bodies, and the centering of it all around the Führer expressed in direct terms the culture of National Socialism: the reverence for the <i>ancient</i> and <i>pure</i>, - the masculine and monumental, and the vision of a united German Volk marching towards the realization of its <i>higher purpose</i>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The aesthetic standards of National Socialist culture were ‘performed’ in more ways than one.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Art itself was made to express to völkisch, Aryan standards of beauty. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Museum collections were actively ‘purged’ of non-Aryan Entartete Kunst (degenerate art)</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">, which often bore the marks of a ‘cultural Bolshevism’ instigated by Jews.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In juxtaposition to Entartete Kunst, the annual Grosse Deutsche Kunstausstellung, which started in 1937, presented the art that captured the aesthetic of National Socialism. Sculpture, in particular, was to become the state art form.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Using the preferred art medium of the ancient Greeks and <a href="http://petesrome.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/the-roman-principate-introduction.html" target="_blank">Romans</a>, sculptors like Thorak and Brecker carved marble and molded bronze into muscular male bodies, creating a vision of the ideal Aryan male.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Hitler’s inaugural speech for the Grosse Deutsche Kunstausstellung of 1939 testifies to the importance of the concept of beauty in the Third Reich.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In celebration of the acquisition of the ancient Greek statue of the Discobolus of Myron, Hitler urges his audience:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>'Let us perceive how splendid Man’s physical beauty once was, and how we may only speak of progress when we have not only achieved such beauty, but even surpassed it. May we find here a measure of the tasks which confront us in our time ! May we strive, as one, for beauty and elevation such that both our race, and our art will withstand the judgment of the millennia.'</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At the heart of völkisch philosophy is the axiom that all the races of the present day, and all the races of recorded history, are<i> heavily degraded</i>, and that it is the natural tendency for such degradation to<i> increase </i>over time, due to natural selection consistently eliminating the noble in favour of the ignoble.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It follows that, tracing backwards in time, the noble traits that historically have appeared only rarely in individual cases might well have been the <i>norm</i> of at least one prehistoric root race, which is known as the Aryan race. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Biologically, the arising of such a race could be described as an accident of genetic mutations occurring in a window of favourable environmental conditions which did not last (but which <i>authentic</i> National Socialism aims to <i>re-create</i>).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Teleologically, what other purpose could there be for a race whose nobility leads them to have <i>no attachment</i> to the material world in which they have arisen, if not to help the rest of living creation transcend it also?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In Hitler’s words:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“<i>There have been human beings, in the simian category, for at least three hundred thousand years. There is less distance between the man-ape and the ordinary modern man than there is between the ordinary modern man and a man like Schopenhauer.</i>”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“<i>Our ancestors were all peasants. There were no hunters amongst them — hunters are only degenerate peasants.</i>” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Prior to complex economic civilization, that permits a multitude of superimposable survival strategies within a single society, humans lived for perhaps hundreds of millenia in small groups in the wild, where <i>natural selection</i> eliminated people mainly according to their failure to provide food, and failure to defend themselves against attackers.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Consequently, the prehistoric root races and their archetypes - whose influences continue to be perceptible even in the present day - were created according to the distinct lifestyles of that epoch.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The oldest human lifestyles are gathering and hunting, a direct continuation from the lifestyles of pre-human apes, however, whereas human gathering techniques were not significantly different than ape (e.g. gorilla) gathering techniques, human hunting techniques were much more advanced than ape (e.g. chimpanzee) hunting techniques, such as involving use of sharpened weapons.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thus the hunter archetype dominated throughout the Paleolithic era, especially in the colder climates outside of Africa where gathering alone was generally inadequate to supply enough food.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is expressed in honest tribalists who prefer to use overt violence to subdue their victims.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We consider a majority of historical and modern humans to belong to this archetype, and call them Gentiles (root “gentilis” meaning “of a tribe”), or simply barbarians.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Later, during the Epipaleolithic or Mesolithic era, some populations developed a lifestyle of herding, which was much more<i> energy-efficient</i> than hunting.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Accompanying changes in selective pressure created a 'herder archetype'.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is expressed in dishonest tribalists who prefer to use mostly deception and manipulation - including pretending to be universalists – to subdue their victims.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(In the Tanakh, the herder’s racial triumph over the hunter is allegorically depicted in the story of Esau vs Jacob.)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A significant and disproportionately influential minority of historical and modern humans belong to this archetype, and are referred to as Jews (root “Yah-udeh” meaning “praise Yahweh”).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The term “Turanian” has also been used in the past.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mutations for nobility might have occurred many times in individuals among hunter or herder populations, however, they would have been quickly terminated by natural selection each time they occurred, being mal-adaptive to the lifestyle of the population.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Only when a new lifestyle of farming was first developed by some populations, at the beginning of the Neolithic era, were conditions anomalously suitable for such traits to thrive and form a new 'farmer archetype'.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is expressed in honest universalists unwilling to victimize others for their own benefit.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These were the original Aryans, the first bearers of the swastika.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Jews referred to Aryans as </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">עֲמָלֵק</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> (Amalek), meaning “valley dweller”, consistent with early farm settlements being based around river basins, however, in the ensuing spread of farming technology to the Gentiles and Jews, their naturally prolific races rapidly increased in number as carrying capacity rose with food supply, and mixed with the Aryans who had originally brought them farming.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In order for a root race to form, the entire society must be engaged in the same lifestyle, so that the entire gene pool is being selected for the same heritable traits.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This has not been the case since the beginning of recorded history, due to the wide variety of occupations available in complex economic society (especially after the appearance of cities and money), such that newly mutated heritable traits mal-adaptive to one occupation could easily be adaptive to another, leading to many concurrent, overlapping survival strategies in the same society.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And because people generally do not reproduce strictly within their occupation (not even in societies with caste systems), the traits mix often, so that instead of evolutionary drift in a single direction, we have had evolutionary <i>diffusion</i> in no particular direction.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thus no new root race has been able to form throughout history; instead historical cultures have been formed mostly by struggle between the conflicting traits of the old root races and their respective influences on society.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The question, therefore, is where we might try to find the Aryan influences.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Some theories (favoured by Alfred Rosenberg) posit that degraded but discernible Aryan genetics continued for a time in the hereditary <i>ruling classes</i> of early historical dynasties, which would account for them being, on the whole, superior to the masses they ruled (hence the term ‘aristocracy’), though still far from the Golden Age ideal.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Ruling classes</i> were generally more <i>conscious of breeding</i> than the masses when it came to mate selection, but this does not imply that they chose according to Aryan standards, and even if they did, this does not imply that ideal choices were always available.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Other theories (favoured by Dr. Joseph Goebbels) posit that Aryan genetic continuities in the ancient world might have persisted among the most rural and isolated peasant farming communities, where – in contrast to metropolitan environments - daily life and hence selective pressure were least affected by the increasingly complexifying economy.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But records are lacking that refer to especially noble peasant cultures, partly because records rarely focus on rural life in the first place, and partly because the vast majority of rural communities would still have been non-Aryan even if such theories were true.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Geographically, it has been speculated that populations living near river valleys may have <i>more</i> Aryan blood than those living deeper inland, on the grounds that inland migration was driven by population expansion in excess of the carrying capacity of the original riverside settlements.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Aryan individuals might also have been more likely than average to be drawn towards esoteric monastic orders of antiquity, which both actively selected for aspects of nobility among its membership and offered an alternative environment to the degenerate mainstream civilization.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Such orders tended to promote celibacy, and therefore would have functioned as focused exit points of Aryan genetics, even as they produced cultural influence.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This does not imply that absence of such orders would have significantly increased the Aryan demographic, however, as it is not religion but <i>innate nobility</i> that causes Aryans to be far less prolific than non-Aryans.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Aryan lifestyle was <i>settled</i> (as opposed to nomadic), with similar stamina-based physical labour for both men and women, cereal-based diet and long-term food storage.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Sexual dimorphism is a phenotypic difference between males and females of the same species. Examples of such differences include differences in morphology, size and behavior.</span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Obvious differences between males and females include all the features related to reproductive role, notably the endocrine (hormonal) systems and their physiological and behavioural effects. Such undisputed sexual dimorphism includes differentiation among gonads, internal genitals, external genitals, breasts, muscle mass, height, and hair.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Particular heritable traits statistically correlate with these attributes and with each other (as well as being anecdotally associated with <i>high spiritual quality</i> by ancient historians), and hence are theoretically likely Aryan traits, many of which were proposed in National Socialist Germany.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Examples include <i>high facial angle</i>, <i>high digit ratio</i>, <i>leptoprosopy</i>, (possessing a facial index of 90.0 - 94.9; long-/narrow-faced) <i>skeletal gracility </i>(gracefully thin or slender) <i>ectomorphy</i> (having a light, slender body structure) <i>lactose intolerance</i>, <i>blood type A1</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is generally considered that the Aryan race would possess great <i>physical beauty,</i> reflecting their<i> noble </i>character.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Aryan race is associated with the introduction of <i>asceticism</i> to civilization.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">While religion existed among both Jews and Gentiles, both types used it solely to derive <i>worldly benefits</i>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Only the arrival of Aryan thinking changed the focus of religion to pursuit of <i>transcendent spiritual ideals</i>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is reflected in many prehistoric customs even before formalization into religious systems.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Instead of burying or attempting to preserve their dead, and enshrining their tombs, Aryans burned their dead, and scattered the ashes.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Instead of the otherwise ubiquitous fertility goddess, Aryans conceived of a <i>virgin goddess</i>, and honoured <i>chastity</i> (both male and female), not merely prior to marriage but as an admirable path in its own right.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Instead of viewing humanity as distinct from the rest of the living world, Aryans saw <i>fundamental unity</i> of all creatures under the sun, a sentiment implicit in the symbolism of the<a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/the-occult-swastika.html" target="_blank"> swastika</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In all historical civilizations there have been outlying individuals - so-called “<i>self-haters</i>” – who morally despised the traditional cultures into which we were born.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Nor do we see prospects of these cultures improving over time, but are convinced that they were fallen from the outset, and that the further they ‘<i>advance</i>’ along this fallen path, the worse they will become.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Such individuals often turn romantically to the distant past, convinced that the only salvation lies in abandoning the present order, returning to the beginning and choosing a different, more noble path.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the words of Miguel Serrano:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“<i>By saying ‘Aryan race’, we say it all. </i></span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Because this term is esoteric, referring to an initiation that permits men to be born anew, for the second time</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Such individuals, who may differ in language, religion and other aspects of background, and who may or may not display the physical attributes mentioned above, are yet bound together by a common collective memory.</span><br />
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“<i>Those who have a beautiful physique should be brought into the foreground, so that they might encourage the development of a beautiful bodily form among the people in general.</i>”</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Æesthetics (also spelled aesthetics) is a branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of art, beauty, and taste, with the creation and appreciation of beauty. It is more scientifically defined as the study of sensory or sensori-emotional values, sometimes called judgments of sentiment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">More broadly, scholars in the field define aesthetics as "critical reflection on art, culture and nature."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Greece had the most influence on the development of aesthetics in the West. This period of Greek art saw a veneration of the human physical form and the development of corresponding skills to show musculature, poise, beauty and anatomically correct proportions. Furthermore, in many Western and Eastern cultures alike, traits such as body hair are rarely depicted in art that addresses physical beauty. In contrast with this Greek-Western aesthetic taste is the non-Aryan genre of the grotesque.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Greek philosophers initially felt that aesthetically appealing objects were beautiful in and of themselves. Plato believed that for us to have a perception of beauty there must be a transcendent form for beauty in which beautiful objects partake and which causes them to be beautiful also.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He felt that beautiful objects incorporated proportion, harmony, and unity among their parts. Similarly, in the Metaphysics, Aristotle found that the universal elements of beauty were order, symmetry, and definiteness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Aesthetics is the science of the sense experiences, a younger sister of logic, and beauty is thus the most <i>perfect kind of knowledge</i> that sense experience can have.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For Immanuel Kant the aesthetic experience of beauty is a judgement of a subjective but similar human truth, since all people should agree that "<i>this rose is beautiful</i>" if it in fact is.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For Friedrich Schiller aesthetic appreciation of beauty is the most <i>perfect reconciliation of the sensual and rational parts of human nature</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“<i>Admiration for everything that is great is not only a tribute to one creative personality but that all those who feel such admiration become thereby united under one will.</i>”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">From the perspective of the viewer, the artist should <i>not</i> be visible in the finished product. Furthermore, emotions that are <i>temporal</i> in character are inherently incapable of being eternalized, thereby are automatically excluded from consideration.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Physical appearance of the human body depends on how closely a person represents a<i> racial archetype</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We can recognize nearness to an archetype, hence have our attention drawn to that person among a crowd of plainer people, but if we dislike the archetype itself, we will feel disgust rather than admiration.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Only those whose type approximate an archetype that we like will be found beautiful by us.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It is important to understand that a black Angora cat and a white Angora cat are both Angora cats - cats of the same race or breed, with a slight variation.<br />A black Angora cat, and a black “gutter” cat, are <i>not</i> of the same race or breed, even if they both be also entirely of the same color (of hair and skin).<br />In Hitler’s words:<br />“<i>The differences between the various peoples should not prevent us from recognizing the community of race which unites them on a higher plane</i>.”<br />Racial idealism is about quality, not ethnicity.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Neoteny also called juvenilization, is one of the three ways by which pedomorphism can arise. Pedomorphism is the retention by adults of traits previously seen only in juveniles, and is a subject studied in the field of developmental biology. In neoteny, the physiological (or somatic) development of an organism (typically an animal) is slowed or delayed. In contrast, in progenesis, sexual development occurs faster. Both processes result in pedomorphism. Ultimately this process results in the retention, in the adults of a species, of juvenile physical characteristics well into maturity and pedogenesis (paedogenesis), the reproduction in a neotenized state.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Neoteny is one of three dimensions of heterochrony, or the change in timing of developmental events: acceleration (faster) vs. neoteny (slower), hypermorphosis (further) vs. progenesis (not as far), and predisplacement (begins earlier) vs. postdisplacement (begins later).</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The word neoteny is borrowed from the <i>German</i> Neotenie, the latter constructed from the Greek νέος (neos, young) and τείνειν (teínein, tend to). The adjective form of the word is either "neotenous" or "neotenic". The opposite of neoteny is either called "gerontomorphic" or "peramorphic".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Clearly the child’s oval skull shape is far nearer the Aryan ideal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In fact, the ape child has a higher crown and forehead, and a lighter brow, nose, jaw and chin than many non-Aryan human adults.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This shows that, by Aryan standards, physical maturation is <i>biological degradation</i> to an <i>inferior level</i>, consistent with Original Nobility and subsequent corruption. (The same is actually true of non-primates also, though this requires more skill to perceive.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Even adults with exemplary Aryan facial angle cannot match children in forehead amplitude. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Some say that the “Aryan look” is characterized as being as far removed from the “Neanderthal look” (ie. low crown, sloping forehead, heavy brow ridge, heavy nose, heavy jaw and chin) as possible.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is incidentally true, but only insofar as Neanderthals are on average<i> less neotenous</i> than Homo Sapiens.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The qualitative reason why we value a high crown, high forehead, minimal brow ridge, light nose, light jaw and light chin is because these approximate the condition in which we were born, when our crowns and foreheads dominated our skull and were actually open - the only condition that supposedly allows the “halo” and the “third eye” (both aids to transcending the material world) to operate freely.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A skull with a sloping forehead can have a larger cranial capacity than a skull with a high forehead, but whereas cranial capacity correlates merely with IQ test scores and other non-moral attributes, it is the high forehead that is believed to correlate with <i>nobility (</i><span style="text-align: left;"><i>Adel)</i></span>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Prior to association with foppery, the term “high-brow” (ie. non-sloping forehead with no brow ridge) originally referred to Aryan skull shape and its association with moral idealism.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There are plenty of long faces with heavy, non-neotenous facial features which are most definitely <i>non-Aryan</i> !</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Aryan oval virtually leaves no room for the possibility of heavy features.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Genuine neoteny is associated closely with <i>ectomorphy</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The ectoderm is the <i>original</i> germ layer of the embryo, with the endoderm and mesoderm being subsequent <i>corruptions</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ectomorphy, which is predominance of the ectoderm over the endoderm and mesoderm after birth, is thus neoteny at a very <i>fundamental level.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here too appears the parallel with <i>low sexual dimorphism</i>: whereas mesomorphy is archetypically <i>masculine</i> and endomorphy is archetypically <i>feminine</i>, ectomorphy represents biological <i>repudiation</i> of both these archetypes in favour of <i>Original Nobility (</i><span style="text-align: left;"><i>Ur-Adels)</i></span>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(It is on this account that ectodermic healthcare systems (e.g. chiropractic, acupuncture) are more therapeutic on Aryan patients, whereas mesodermic or endodermic remedies are more therapeutic on non-Aryan patients.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A subdued mesoderm produces <i>gracile</i> (as opposed to robust) bones, higher proportion of slow-twitch/Type I (as opposed to fast-twitch/Type II) muscles and low muscle mass.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">All these are neotenous traits.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Ectomorphic: characterized by long and thin muscles/limbs and low fat storage; usually referred to as slim. Ectomorphs are not predisposed to store fat nor build muscle.</span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Mesomorphic: characterized by medium bones, solid torso, low fat levels, wide shoulders with a narrow waist; usually referred to as muscular. Mesomorphs are predisposed to build muscle but not store fat.</span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Endomorphic: characterized by increased fat storage, a wide waist and a large bone structure, usually referred to as fat. Endomorphs are predisposed to storing fat.</span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">William Herbert Sheldon, Jr. (November 19, 1898 - September 17, 1977) was an American psychologist. He created the field of somatotypes, and constitutional psychology, that tried to correlate body types with behavior, intelligence.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The combined result is a lean, long-limbed, fine-boned physique that looks <i>youthful through most of life</i>, and which is by no coincidence ergonomically suited to the Neolithic subsistence farming lifestyle that involved repetitive, stamina-based labour in a wider variety of sustained physical positions than were required for the more primitive hunting and herding lifestyles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On the issue of height, neotenous faces are <i>rarer</i> among taller people, due to more overall bone growth during puberty leading to a heavier brow ridge, nose, jaw and chin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But this means that a person who manages to have a neotenous face <i>despite</i> being tall (more common with ectomorphs, involving proportionately longer legs) is a particularly outstanding specimen of Aryan phenotype, and superior to a shorter person with a similarly neotenous face.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In other words, height is valued only among the neotenous, not as an independent factor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Emphatically, tallness in combination with heavy facial features (more common with mesomorphs or endomorphs, involving a proportionately longer torso).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Finally, the rumour (endlessly promoted by the Jewish-owned media) about “Nazi” obsession with blond hair/blue eyes is a vicious distortion.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If two people had blond hair/blue eyes as children but one retains it as he grows up while the other loses it, then the former is more neotenous and therefore superior to the latter.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This and nothing else is the authentic National Socialist proposition.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On no account could this possibly extend to comparison with a person who never had blond hair/blue eyes even as a child, because in this case absence of blond hair/blue eyes as an adult is no indication of non-neoteny. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">By this we mean that we should be wholly honest about our physical appearance and <i>not</i> try to enhance it through artificial means.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cosmetic products or cosmetic surgery must be understood as means of aesthetic deception and therefore unethical to all onlookers (in addition to being economically wasteful).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A National Socialist state would outlaw all cosmetic surgery except for facial reconstruction following disfiguring accidents, and even in such cases surgery should only attempt to restore the pre-accident appearance rather than opportunistically alter it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">By similar reasoning, makeup would be available only to actors who need greasepaint to look on stage/screen how they ordinarily look without makeup.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The truth is that contrast-increasing makeup (e.g. eye shadow, lipstick, rouge, etc.) only improves the <i>non-Aryan</i> face; the Aryan face is so well-proportioned that increased contrast only makes it look worse.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The beauty of an Aryan face comes from <i>superior geometry</i>, not superficial shading.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you have an Aryan face, people will remember you young even when they see you old.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(Also, Aryan hairline does not significantly recede.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Moreover, we need not spend too much time worrying about decor, such as hair, clothes and accessories.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Whereas the aesthetic appeal of non-Aryan phenotypes are heavily dependent on their accompanying styles, the Aryan phenotype is so well-proportioned that it spontaneously makes its accompanying style look good, whatever that style may be.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A person with Aryan physiognomy can wear a T-shirt or pajamas and still project an impression of being better-dressed than a person with non-Aryan physiognomy wearing formal attire – a phenomenon known as “<i>biological aristocracy</i>”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Whether you like dressing down, or you want to romanticize peasant life, or you want to look heroic, having an Aryan skull makes it a lot easier.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“<i>The most sublime beauty owes its nobility of shape, in the last analysis, to the fact that the most beautiful form is the form that is best suited to the purpose it is meant to serve</i>.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">While 'werewolf' symbolism refers mostly to personality, some consider Aryan skulls to look 'werewolf-like'.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Physical appearance is evolutionarily <i>related</i> to spiritual quality in feelings of sexual attraction.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Specifically, an idealistic person is sexually attracted only to those of <i>near-perfect beauty</i>, whereas most people have much lower standards, so that while they too would doubtless prefer a sexual partner of great beauty, it is <i>not</i> a necessary condition for them to feel sexual attraction.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This implies that, in any society where individuals of great beauty are unavailable as spouses to idealists, idealistic bloodlines would quickly go extinct (because idealists would rather stay single than lower their standards), as has in fact been steadily occurring throughout history.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The full solution to reverse this demographic problem requires a highly specialized application of <i>state control </i>over reproduction, but a prerequisite for this solution is a considerably <i>higher</i> proportion of individuals of great beauty than is currently possessed by any society in the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thus, in the rigorous world of National Socialist methodology, the demographic improvement of physical appearance goes hand in hand with the demographic improvement of spiritual quality.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jews cannot produce culture, but they do serve a function: symbolizing all that is evil, they spur the Aryan on to struggle against them and thus to become ever more conscious of his own race. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hitler placed much emphasis on Aryan aesthetics as a way to unite people and give them sense of purpose, thereby turning them into a folk.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Admiration for everything that is great is not only a tribute to one creative personality but that all those who feel such admiration become thereby united under one covenant.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This includes not only the formal arts, but also aesthetics in daily life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In line with the positivity of National Socialism, aesthetics should not offer <i>escapism</i> from ordinary activities, but should try to <i>complement</i> them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Aryan art was characterized by a style of Romantic realism based on <i>classical </i>models.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Belief in an '<i>Arische Seele</i>' or '<i>Arische Geist</i>' - (Aryan spirit) - defined as mystical, rural, moral, bearing ancient wisdom, noble in the face of a tragic destiny - existed <i>long before</i> the rise of the National Socialism; <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/hitler-und-wagner-most-momentous-non.html" target="_blank">Richard Wagner</a> celebrated such ideas in his work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Beginning before World War I the well-known German architect and painter Paul Schultze-Naumburg's influential writings, which invoked racial theories in <i>condemning</i> modern 'art' and architecture, supplied much of the basis for Adolf Hitler's belief that classical Greece and <a href="http://petesrome.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/the-roman-principate-introduction.html" target="_blank">Rome</a> were the <i>true sources</i> of Aryan art.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Motivationally, construction should not function to partition us away from the unpleasant aspects of life, but should rather keep us in touch with these aspects so that empathy is cultivated. Luxury and ostentation of wealth are unacceptable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">Adolf Hitler was an admirer of <a href="http://petesrome.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/the-roman-principate-introduction.html" target="_blank">Imperial Rome</a>, and believed that some ancient Germans had, over time, become part of its social fabric and exerted influence on it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">He considered the <a href="http://petesrome.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/the-roman-principate-introduction.html" target="_blank">Romans</a> an early Aryan empire, and emulated their architecture in an original style inspired by both Neoclassicism and 'Art Deco', sometimes known as <a href="http://deutschlandunddieostmark.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/t-r-o-o-s-t-n-d-p-e-e-r-r-c-h-i-t-e-c-t.html" target="_blank">"Severe" Deco</a>, erecting edifices as cult sites in the Third Reich.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer, (March 19, 1905 – September 1, 1981) was born in Mannheim, into a wealthy middle class family.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">Speer followed in the footsteps of his father and grandfather and studied <a href="http://deutschlandostmark.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/great-german-architecture.html" target="_blank">architecture</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">Hitler commissioned him to design and construct a number of structures, including the <a href="http://deutschlandostmark.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/architektur-im-dritten-reich.html" target="_blank">Reich Chancellery</a> and the <a href="http://deutschlandostmark.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/the-nurnberg-reichsparteitag.html" target="_blank">Zeppelinfeld</a> stadium in Nuremberg where <a href="http://deutschlandostmark.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/the-nurnberg-reichsparteitag.html" target="_blank">Party Rallies</a> were held. Speer also made plans to reconstruct Berlin on a grand scale, with huge buildings, wide boulevards, and a reorganized transportation system.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">The fact that his works were mostly commissions does not lessen their respectability - contrary to what modern-day critics would like people to believe - but demonstrates that sincere personal expression and wholehearted public service are not only not mutually exclusive but can even be mutually supportive when a purpose exists to unite the two.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://deutschlandunddieostmark.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/arno-breker-sculptor-to-fuhrer.html" target="_blank">Arno Breker</a> was born in Elberfeld, Northern German, on July 19th, 1900.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">In his late teens be began the study of stone-carving and anatomy and at age 20 began attending the Duesseldolf Academy of Arts where he began his study of sculpture and an immensely successful art career.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">His work between 1933 and 1942 was most noted for its classical approach to the human form which depicts men and women in timeless glory, youth, potential, honor, desire, hope, and possibility.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">Works such as 'Comradeship' (1940) express a powerful anguish as the state of the world and a simultaneous promise to one's comrades that their loss will be redeemed. In a similar vein are 'Torchbearer' (1940), 'Sacrifice' (1940), and 'Predestination' (1941).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">Touching on the traditional relationships between men and women are the powerfully naturalistic <a href="http://deutschlandunddieostmark.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/arno-breker-sculptor-to-fuhrer.html" target="_blank">'You and I'</a> (1940) and the classically inspired <a href="http://deutschlandunddieostmark.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/arno-breker-sculptor-to-fuhrer.html" target="_blank">'Apollo and Daphne' </a>(1940).</span></div>
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mGWZL4uHZH0/UC_D2ajt36I/AAAAAAAAFJw/jiDzK9Nl1dI/s1600/Adolf+Hitler+-+DAP+Membership+Card+-+Occult+History+Third+Reich+-+Peter+Crawford.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="129" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mGWZL4uHZH0/UC_D2ajt36I/AAAAAAAAFJw/jiDzK9Nl1dI/s200/Adolf+Hitler+-+DAP+Membership+Card+-+Occult+History+Third+Reich+-+Peter+Crawford.png" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Adolf Hitler's rise to power began in Germany (at least formally) in September 1919 when Hitler joined the political party that was known as the Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (abbreviated as DAP, and later commonly referred to by the slang and pejorative name of 'Nazi' Party).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This political party was originally formed as a political offshoot of the 'Thule Gesellschaft', a powerful right-wing secret society, based in Munich, and developed during the post-World War I era.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was anti-Marxist, and was opposed to the democratic post-war government of the Weimar Republic and the Treaty of Versailles; and it advocated extreme nationalism and Pan-Germanism as well as virulent Antisemitism.</span><br />
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ofZKF4cuG_Q/UC_EbZTwlJI/AAAAAAAAFKA/ClJOaQlGj4I/s1600/Reichstag+-+1870+-+Occult+History+Third+Reich+-+Peter+Crawford.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="125" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ofZKF4cuG_Q/UC_EbZTwlJI/AAAAAAAAFKA/ClJOaQlGj4I/s200/Reichstag+-+1870+-+Occult+History+Third+Reich+-+Peter+Crawford.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hitler's "rise" can be considered to have ended in March 1933, after the Reichstag (see right) adopted the Enabling Act of 1933 in that month; President Paul von Hindenburg (see left) had already appointed Hitler as Chancellor on January 30, 1933 after a series of parliamentary elections and associated backstairs intrigues.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg known universally as Paul von Hindenburg (2 October 1847 – 2 August 1934) was a Prussian-German field marshal, statesman, and politician, and served as the second President of Germany from 1925 to 1934.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Hindenburg enjoyed a long career in the Prussian Army, retiring in 1911. He was recalled at the outbreak of World War I, and first came to national attention, at the age of 66, as the victor at Tannenberg in 1914. As Germany's Chief of the General Staff from 1916, he and his deputy, Erich Ludendorff, rose in the German public's esteem until Hindenburg came to eclipse the Kaiser himself. Hindenburg retired again in 1919, but returned to public life one more time in 1925 to be elected as the second President of Germany.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Threatening, and later actually leaving the party, he told the other members of the party to either make him leader of the party or he would never return.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">'Mein Kampf' (English: My Struggle) is a book by Adolf Hitler. It combines elements of autobiography with an exposition of Hitler's political ideology. Volume 1 of Mein Kampf was published in 1925 and Volume 2 in 1926. The book was edited by the former Hieronymite friar Bernhard Stempfle.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Hitler began dictation of the book while imprisoned for what he considered to be "political crimes" following his failed Putsch in Munich in November 1923. Although Hitler received many visitors initially, he soon devoted himself entirely to the book. As he continued, Hitler realized that it would have to be a two-volume work, with the first volume scheduled for release in early 1925. The governor of Landsberg noted at the time that "<i>Hitler hopes the book will run into many editions, thus enabling him to fulfill his financial obligations and to defray the expenses incurred at the time of his trial.</i>"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the mid-1920s, the party engaged in electoral battles in which Hitler participated as a speaker and organizer, as well as in street battles and violence between the Rotfrontkämpferbund (see right) and the Sturmabteilung (SA).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Through the late 1920s and early 1930s, the NSDAP gathered enough electoral support to become the largest political party in the Reichstag, and Hitler's blend of political acuity and cunning converted the party's non-majority, but plurality, status into effective governing power in the ailing Weimar Republic of 1933.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Once in power, the NSDAP created a mythology surrounding the rise to power, and they described the period that roughly corresponds to the scope of this article as either the 'Kampfzeit' (the time of struggle) or the 'Kampfjahre' (years of struggle).</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Wilhelm II (27 January 1859 – 4 June 1941) was the last German Emperor (Kaiser) and King of Prussia, ruling the German Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia from 15 June 1888 to 9 November 1918. He was a grandson of the British Queen Victoria and related to many monarchs and princes of Europe. His "New Course" in foreign affairs that culminated in his support for Austria-Hungary in the crisis of July 1914 that led to World War I. An ineffective war leader, he lost the support of the army, abdicated in November 1918, and fled to exile in the Netherlands.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Soon after the fighting on the front ended in November 1918, Hitler returned to Munich (see right) after the Armistice with no job, no real civilian job skills and no friends.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He remained in the Reichswehr and was given a relatively meaningless assignment during the winter of 1918-1919, but was eventually recruited by the Army's Political Department (Press and News Bureau), possibly because of his assistance to the Army in investigating the responsibility for the ill-fated Bayerische Räterepublik (</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Bavarian Soviet Republic).</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Jewish led Bavarian Soviet Republic, also known as the Munich Soviet Republic (German: Bayerische Räterepublik or Münchner Räterepublik) was, as part of the German Revolution of 1918–1919, the short-lived attempt to establish a socialist state in the form of a democratic workers' council republic in the 'Free State of Bavaria'. </span><span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">It sought independence from the also recently proclaimed Weimar Republic. Its capital was Munich.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Apparently Hitler's skills in oratory, as well as his extreme nationalism, caught the eye of an approving army officer and he was promoted to an "education officer" - which gave him an opportunity to speak in public.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One of his duties was to report on 'subversive' political groups, (he was, in fact, and Army 'spy') as ordered by his superiors.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Any group which contained the word "Workers" in its name was certainly a suspicious group to the Army Political Department, and his commanders assigned Hitler, in his role as 'investigator', to attend a meeting of the small Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (German Workers' Party, abbreviated DAP) on 12 September 1919.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The DAP was founded in Munich in the hotel "Fürstenfelder Hof" on January 5, 1919 by Anton Drexler (see right), a member of the occultist Thule Society (see left).</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">It developed out of the "Freien Arbeiterausschuss für einen guten Frieden" ('Free Workers' Committee for a good Peace') which Drexler had also founded, and led. Its first members were mostly colleagues of Drexler's from the Munich railway depot.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Drexler was encouraged to found the DAP by his mentor, Dr. Paul Tafel, a leader of the 'Alldeutscher Verband' (Pan-Germanist Union), and a director of the 'Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg', and also, more significantly, a member of the 'Thule Gesellschaft'. Tafel's wish was for a party which was both 'in touch' with the masses, <i>and </i>nationalist, unlike the middle class parties.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The initial membership was about forty people.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">On March 24, 1919, Karl Harrer (a sports journalist<i> and a </i>member of the 'Thule Gesellschaft') joined the DAP to increase the influence of the 'Thule Geselschaft' over the DAP's activities, and the party name was changed to the 'Politischer Arbeiterkreis' - (Political Workers' Circle). There was, of course no intention for the Politischer Arbeiterkreis to be aware of the 'occult' aims of the Thule Gesellschaft - as the Politischer Arbeiterkreis was to be a purely political, which would, unknowingly further the aims of the originating and controlling group - and Adolf Hitler - when he took control of the political organisation did everything in his power to distance the political movement from it's occult origins.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">During the 12 September meeting, Hitler took umbrage with comments made by an audience member that were directed against Gottfried Feder (see right), the speaker, and economist with whom Hitler was acquainted as a result of a lecture Feder delivered in an Army "education" course.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The audience member asserted that Bavaria should be wholly independent from Germany and should secede from Germany and unite with Austria to form a new South German nation.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The volatile Hitler arose and castigated the audience member, employing his oratorical skills, and eventually causing the man to leave the meeting before its adjournment.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This bold (and typical) action by Hitler deeply impressed the DAP founder Anton Drexler, who promptly handed Hitler a political pamphlet.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Soon Drexler, or one of his designates, sent Hitler a postcard that invited him to join the party and to attend a "committee" meeting.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hitler attended this meeting, held at the Alte Rosenbad beer-house, and initially concluded that the party was too muddled and disorganized to merit further attention:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It had neither membership numbers nor membership cards, and had a treasury of about seven Reichsmarks, however, on further reflection Hitler realized that because the party was neither well established nor particularly organized, he could exercise a greater influence on its direction.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After two days in thought, Hitler decided to join the DAP; he was the party's fifty-fifth member.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It should be noted that this is the 'narrative' supplied by Hitler in 'Mein Kampf'. It has, however, been suggested, that he was instructed to infiltrate, and later join, and eventually lead the party on instruction he received from Dietrich Eckart, a leading member of the Thule Gesellschaft.</span></blockquote>
<b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The First Two Years: Party Membership to the Hofbrauhaus Melee (November 1921)</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">By early 1920 the DAP had swelled to over 101 members, and Hitler received his membership card as member number 555 (the group started the counting at number 500).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hitler's considerable talents were appreciated by the party leadership and in early 1920's he was named as its head of propaganda.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On 20 February, the party added 'National Socialist' (Nationalsozialistische) to its name and became the 'Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei' (NSDAP) (see left).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Four days later Drexler, Feder and Hitler announced the party's 25-point program (see National Socialist Program).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In August Hitler also organized a group of "security men" under the guise of a party "Gymnastics and Sports Division."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The group was named at first the 'Ordnertruppen', and it may well be that their principal intended purpose was, in fact, to keep order at meetings, and to only suppress those who disrupted such meetings.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In early October the group's name was officially changed to the 'Sturmabteilung' (Storm Detachment) (see right), which was certainly more descriptive and suggested the possibility of offensive, as well as solely defensive, action.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Throughout 1920, Hitler began to lecture at Munich's beer halls, particularly the Hofbräuhaus (see left and right), Sterneckerbräu and Bürgerbräukeller.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">By this time, the police were already monitoring the speeches, and their own surviving records reveal that Hitler delivered lectures with titles such as Political Phenomenon, Jews and the Treaty of Versailles.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At the end of the year, party membership was recorded at 2,000.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On 11 July 1921, Hitler resigned from the party after Drexler, the party's nominal leader, proposed merging the party into a larger nationalist 'Kampfbund' coalition.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #a2c4c9;">The Kampfbund was a league of patriotic fighting societies and the German National Socialist party in Bavaria, Germany, in the 1920s. It included Hitler's NSDAP party and their Sturmabteilung or SA for short, the Oberland League and the Reichskriegsflagge. Its military leader was Hermann Kriebel (see right), and its political leader was Adolf Hitler. It was Captain Ernst Röhm (see left) who proposed that Hitler be the political leader of the Kampfbund.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Kampfbund conducted the Beer Hall Putsch of 1923 in Munich, Germany.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Kampfbund is German for "Battle League". The league was created on 30 September 1923 at Nuremberg.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hitler rejoined once the policy was abandoned, and on 28 July assumed control of the party by causing Drexler to resign his position as leader.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On 14 September 1921, Hitler and a substantial number of SA members and other Nazi party adherents disrupted a meeting at the Lowenbraukeller of the Bavarian League.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This federalist organization objected to the centralism of the Weimar Constitution, but accepted its social program.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The League was led by Otto Ballerstedt, an engineer whom Hitler regarded as "<i>my most dangerous opponent</i>."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One Nazi, Hermann Esser, climbed upon a chair and shouted that the Jews were to blame for the misfortunes of Bavaria, and the Nazis shouted demands that Ballerstedt yield the floor to Hitler.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Nazis shoved</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ballerstedt</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> off the stage into the audience.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Both Hitler and Esser were arrested, and Hitler commented notoriously to the police commissioner, "<i>It's all right. We got what we wanted. Ballerstedt did not speak.</i>"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hitler was eventually sentenced to 3 months imprisonment and ended up serving only a little over one month.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On 4 November 1921, the Nazi Party held a large public meeting in the Munich Hofbräuhaus. After Hitler had spoken for some time, the meeting erupted into a melee in which a small company of SA defeated the opposition.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">From Famous Hall Melee to Famous Hall Coup D'État</span><br />
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In the few months between the end of 1922 and the beginning of 1923, Hitler formed two organizations that would grow to have huge significance.</div>
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The first was the and Jugendbund, which would later become the Hitler Youth.</div>
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The other was the Stabswache, the first incarnation of what would later become the Schutzstaffeln (SS).</div>
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Inspired by Benito Mussolini's March on Rome Hitler decided that a coup d'état was the proper strategy to seize control of the country.</div>
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In May 1923, elements loyal to Hitler within the army helped the SA to procure a barracks and its weaponry, but the order to march never came.<br />
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A pivotal moment came when Hitler led the Beer Hall Putsch, an attempted coup d'état on 8–9 November 1923.</div>
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After it failed, Hitler was put on trial for treason, gaining great public attention.</div>
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In a rather spectacular trial in which Hitler endeavored to turn the tables and put democracy and the Weimar Republic on trial as traitors to the German people, he was convicted and sentenced to five years imprisonment.</div>
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He was eventually paroled, served only a little over eight months after his sentencing in early 1924.</div>
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He was well-treated in prison, had a room with a view of the river, wore a tie, received visitors to his chambers and was permitted the use of a private secretary.</div>
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Hitler used the time in Landsberg prison to consider his political strategy and dictate the first volume of 'Mein Kampf', principally to his loyal aide Rudolf Hess.</div>
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After the putsch the party was banned in Bavaria, but it participated in 1924's two elections by proxy as the National Socialist Freedom Movement.</div>
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In the German election, May 1924 the party gained seats in the Reichstag, with 6.55% (1,918,329) voting for the Movement. In the German election, December 1924 the National Socialist Freedom Movement (NSFB) (Combination of the Deutschvölkische Freiheitspartei (DVFP) and the Nazi Party (NSDAP)) lost 18 seats, only holding on to 14 seats, with 3% (907,242) of the electorate voting for Hitler's party.</div>
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The Barmat Scandal was often used later in Nazi propaganda, both as an electoral strategy and as an appeal to anti-Semitism.</div>
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Hitler had determined, after some reflection, that power was to be achieved not through revolution outside of the government, but rather through legal means, within the confines of the democratic system established by Weimar.</div>
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For five to six years there would be no further prohibitions of the party.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the German election, May 1928 the Party achieved just 12 seats (2.6% of the vote) in the Reichstag.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The highest provincial gain was again in Bavaria (5.11%), though in three areas the NSDAP failed to gain even 1% of the vote.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Overall the NSDAP gained 2.63% (810,127) of the vote.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Partially due to the poor results, Hitler decided that Germans needed to know more about his goals.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Despite being discouraged by his publisher, he wrote a second book that was discovered and released posthumously as <a href="http://geheimebuch.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/das-geheime-buch-editors-introduction.html" target="_blank">Zweites Buch</a> (see left)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At this time the SA began a period of deliberate antagonism to the Rotfront (Red Front) by marching into Communist strongholds and starting violent altercations.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At the end of 1928, party membership was recorded at 130,000. In March 1929, Erich Ludendorff (see right) represented the Nazi party in the Presidential elections.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He gained 280,000 votes (1.1%), and was the only candidate to poll fewer than a million votes.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The battles on the streets grew increasingly violent.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After the Rotfront interrupted a speech by Hitler, the SA marched into the streets of Nuremberg and killed two bystanders.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In a tit-for-tat action, the SA stormed a Rotfront meeting on August 25 and days later the Berlin headquarters of the KPD itself.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In September Goebbels (see left) led his men into Neukölln, a KPD stronghold, and the two warring parties exchanged pistol and revolver fire.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The German referendum of 1929 was important as it gained the Nazi Party recognition and credibility it never had before.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On 14 January 1930 <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/die-fahne-hoch-wessel-and-ewers.html" target="_blank">Horst Wessel</a> got into an argument with his landlady about rent, but the Communists alleged it was over Wessel's soliciting of prostitution on her premises — which would have fatal consequences.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The landlady happened to be a member of the KPD, and contacted one of her Rotfront friends, Albert Hochter, who shot Wessel in the head at point-blank range.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Wessel had penned a song months before his death, which would become Germany's national anthem for 12 years as the <a href="http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/die-fahne-hoch-wessel-and-ewers.html" target="_blank">Horst-Wessel-Lied</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Goebbels also seized upon the attack (and the two weeks Wessel spent on his deathbed) to premier the song.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Along with Horst Wessel, the year 1930 resulted in more deaths in political violence than the previous two years combined.</span><br />
<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Pv0kfxBrZQo/UDAXyO1N6MI/AAAAAAAAFP8/QojuSSdfYqM/s1600/Hitler+youth+-+Occult+Third+Reich+-+Peter+Crawford.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Pv0kfxBrZQo/UDAXyO1N6MI/AAAAAAAAFP8/QojuSSdfYqM/s200/Hitler+youth+-+Occult+Third+Reich+-+Peter+Crawford.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On 1 April Hannover enacted a law banning the Hitlerjugend (the Hitler Youth), and Goebbels was convicted of high treason at the end of May. Bavaria banned all political uniforms on 2 June, and on 11 June Prussia prohibited the wearing of SA brown shirts and associated insignia.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The next month Prussia passed a law against its officials holding membership in either the NSDAP or KPD.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Later in July, Goebbels was again tried, this time for "public insult", and fined.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The government also placed the army officers on trial for "forming national socialist cells".</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Against this violent backdrop, Hitler's party gained a shocking victory in the Reichstag, obtaining 107 seats (18.3%, 6,406,397 votes).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Nazis became the second largest party in Germany.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In Bavaria the party gained 17.9% of the vote, though for the first time this percentage was exceeded by most other provinces: Oldenburg (27.3%), Braunschweig (26.6%), Waldeck (26.5%), Mecklenburg-Strelitz (22.6%), Lippe (22.3%) Mecklenburg-Schwerin (20.1%), Anhalt (19.8%), Thuringen (19.5%), Baden (19.2%), Hamburg (19.2%), Prussia (18.4%), Hessen (18.4%), Sachsen (18.3%), Lubeck (18.3%) and Schaumburg-Lippe (18.1%).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">An unprecedented amount of money was thrown behind the campaign.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Well over one million pamphlets were produced and distributed; sixty trucks were commandeered for use in Berlin alone.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In areas where NSDAP campaigning was less rigorous, the total was as low as 9%.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Great Depression was also a factor in Hitler's electoral success.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Against this legal backdrop, the SA began its first major anti-Jewish action on 13 October 1930 when groups of brownshirts smashed the windows of Jewish-owned stores at Potsdamer Platz.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b></b></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On March 10, 1931, with street violence between the Rotfront and SA spiraling out of control, breaking all previous barriers and expectations, Prussia re-enacted its ban on brown shirts.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Days after the ban SA-men shot dead two communists in a street fight, which led to a ban being placed on the public speaking of Goebbels, who sidestepped the prohibition by recording speeches and playing them to an audience in his absence.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ernst Röhm, in charge of the SA, put Count Micah von Helldorff, a convicted murderer and vehement anti-Semite, in charge of the Berlin SA.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The deaths mounted up, with many more on the Rotfront side, and by the end of 1931 the SA suffered 47 deaths, and the Rotfront recorded losses of approximately 80.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Street fights and beer hall battles resulting in deaths occurred throughout February and April 1932, all against the backdrop of Adolf Hitler's competition in the presidential election which pitted him against the monumentally popular Hindenburg.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the first round on 13 March, Hitler had polled over 11 million votes but was still behind Hindenburg.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The second and final round took place on 10 April: Hitler (36.8% 13,418,547) lost out to Paul von Hindenburg (53.0% 19,359,983) whilst KPD candidate Thälmann gained a meagre percentage of the vote (10.2% 3,706,759).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At this time, the Nazi party had just over 800,000 card-carrying members.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Three days after the presidential elections, the German government banned the NSDAP paramilitaries, the SA and the SS, on the basis of the Emergency Decree for the Preservation of State Authority.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This action was largely prompted by details which emerged at a trial of SA men for assaulting unarmed Jews in Berlin.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But after less than a month the law was repealed by Franz von Papen, Chancellor of Germany, on 30 May.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Such ambivalence about the fate of Jews was supported by the culture of anti-Semitism that pervaded the German public at the time.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dwarfed by Hitler's electoral gains, the KPD turned away from legal means and increasingly towards violence.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One resulting battle in Silesia resulted in the army being dispatched, each shot sending Germany further into a potential all-out civil war. By this time both sides marched into each other's strongholds hoping to spark rivalry. Hermann Göring, as speaker of the Reichstag, asked the Papen government to prosecute shooters. Laws were then passed which made political violence a capital crime.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The attacks continued, and reached fever pitch when SA storm leader Axel Schaffeld was assassinated.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At the end of July, the Nazi party gained almost 14,000,000 votes, securing 230 seats in the Reichstag.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Energised by the incredible results, Hitler asked to be made Chancellor.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Franz von Papen (see right) offered the position of Vice Chancellor but Hitler refused.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hermann Göring, in his position of Reichstag president, asked that decisive measures be taken by the government over the spate in murders of national socialists.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On 9 August, amendments were made to the Reichstrafgesetzbuch statute on 'acts of political violence', increasing the penalty to 'lifetime imprisonment, 20 years hard labour or death'. Special courts were announced to try such offences.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When in power less than half a year later, Hitler would use this legislation against his opponents with devastating effect.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The law was applied almost immediately but did not bring the perpetrators behind the recent massacres to trial as expected. Instead, five SA men who were alleged to have murdered a KPD member in Potempa (Upper Silesia) were tried.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Adolf Hitler appeared at the trial as a defence witness, but on 22 August the five were convicted and sentenced to death.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On appeal, this sentence was commuted to life imprisonment in early September.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They would serve just over four months before Hitler freed all imprisoned Nazis in a 1933 amnesty.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cGjODEEvO-0/UDAaPewLPHI/AAAAAAAAFQM/fzQV6jihsCY/s1600/Reichskabinett+Adolf+Hitler+-+1933+-++Deutschland+und+die+Ostmark+-+Peter+Crawford.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="203" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cGjODEEvO-0/UDAaPewLPHI/AAAAAAAAFQM/fzQV6jihsCY/s320/Reichskabinett+Adolf+Hitler+-+1933+-++Deutschland+und+die+Ostmark+-+Peter+Crawford.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Nazi party lost 35 seats in the November 1932 election but remained the Reichstag's largest party.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The most shocking move of the early election campaign was to send the SA to support a Rotfront action against the transport agency and in support of a strike.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After Chancellor Papen left office, he secretly told Hitler that he still held considerable sway with President Hindenburg and that he would make Hitler chancellor as long as he, Papen, could be the vice chancellor.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On 30 January 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of a coalition government of the NSDAP-DNVP Party.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The SA and SS led torchlight parades throughout Berlin.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the coalition government, three members of the cabinet were Nazis: Hitler, Wilhelm Frick (Minister of the Interior) and Hermann Göring (Minister Without Portfolio).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With Germans who opposed the NSDAP failing to unite against it, Hitler soon moved to consolidate absolute power - which was refered to as Gleichschaltung</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Gleichschaltung, meaning "coordination", "making the same", "bringing into line", is a German term for the process by which the NSDAP successively established a system of control and coordination over all aspects of society.</span><br />
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Among the goals of this policy were to bring about adherence to a specific doctrine and way of thinking and to control as many aspects of life as possible.<br />
The apex of the Gleichschaltung in Germany was in the resolutions approved during the Nürnberg Rally of 1935, when the symbols of the Party and the State were fused, and the Germans of Jewish religion and descent were deprived of citizenship.<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Der Nürnberger Parteitag der NSDAP (Reichsparteitage des deutschen Volkes), meaning Reich party convention, was the annual rally of the Nazi Party in Germany, held from 1923 to 1938. They were large Nazi propaganda events, especially after Hitler's rise to power in 1933. These events were held at the Nazi party rally grounds in Nuremberg from 1933 to 1938 and are usually referred to in English as the Nuremberg Rallies. Many films were made to commemorate them, the most famous of which is 'Triumph of the Will' by Leni Riefenstahl.</span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">1935 – The 7th Party Congress was held in Nuremberg, September 10-16, 1935. It was called the "Rally of Freedom" (Reichsparteitag der Freiheit). "Freedom" referred to the reintroduced compulsory military service and thus the German "liberation" from the Treaty of Versailles. The Leni Riefenstahl film 'Tag der Freiheit: Unsere Wehrmacht' was made at this rally, and the Nuremberg Laws were introduced.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The period from 1933 to 1937 was characterized by the systematic elimination of organizations opposed to the new government that could potentially influence people, such as trade unions and political parties.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Those critical of Hitler's agenda, especially his close ties with industry, were suppressed.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The regime also assailed the influence of the churches, for example by instituting the Ministry of Ecclesiastical Affairs under Hanns Kerrl.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Organizations that the administration could not eliminate, such as the education system, came under its direct control.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Gleichschaltung also included the formation of various organisations with compulsory membership for segments of the population, in particular the youth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Boys served as apprentices in the Pimpfen ("cubs") beginning at the age of six, and at age 10, entered the Deutsches Jungvolk ("Young German Boys") and served there until entering the Hitler Youth proper at age 14.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Boys remained there until age 18, at which time they entered into the Arbeitsdienst ("Labor Service") and the armed forces (Wehrmacht).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Girls became part of the Jungmädel ("Young Maidens") at age 10, and at age 14 were enrolled in the Bund Deutscher Mädel ("League of German Maidens").</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At 18 BDM members went generally to the eastern territory for their Pflichtdienst, or Landjahr – a year of labor on a farm.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 1936 membership of the Hitler Youth numbered just under 6 million.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For workers an all-embracing recreational organization called 'Kraft durch Freude' ("Strength through Joy") was set up.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the Third Reich, even hobbies were regimented; all private clubs (whether they be for chess, football, or woodworking) were brought under the control of KdF and, in turn, the NSDAP.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The 'Kraft durch Freude' organization provided vacation trips (skiing, swimming, concerts, ocean cruises, and so forth).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With some 25 million members, KdF was the largest of the many organizations established by the Third Reich.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Workers were also brought in line with the party through activities such as the 'Reichsberufswettkampf', a national vocational competition.</span><br />
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