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050 00 $aDD256.7$b.K87 2017
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100 1 $aKurlander, Eric,$d1973-$eauthor.
245 10 $aHitler's monsters :$ba supernatural history of the Third Reich /$cEric Kurlander.
264 1 $aNew Haven :$bYale University Press,$c[2017]
300 $axxii, 422 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 2 $a"The definitive history of the supernatural in Nazi Germany, exploring the occult ideas, esoteric sciences, and pagan religions touted by the Third Reich in the service of power. The Nazi fascination with the occult is legendary, yet today it is often dismissed as Himmler's personal obsession or wildly overstated for its novelty. Preposterous though it was, however, supernatural thinking was inextricable from the Nazi project. The regime enlisted astrology and the paranormal, paganism, Indo-Aryan mythology, witchcraft, miracle weapons, and the lost kingdom of Atlantis in reimagining German politics and society and recasting German science and religion. In this eye-opening history, Eric Kurlander reveals how the Third Reich's relationship to the supernatural was far from straightforward. Even as popular occultism and superstition were intermittently rooted out, suppressed, and outlawed, the Nazis drew upon a wide variety of occult practices and esoteric sciences to gain power, shape propaganda and policy, and pursue their dreams of racial utopia and empire"--$cProvided by publisher.
505 0 $aThe Supernatural Roots of Nazism : Ario-Germanic Religion, Border Science, and the Austro-German Occult Revival, 1889-1914 -- From the Thule Society to the NSDAP : Fashioning the Nazi Supernatural Imaginary, 1912-24 -- Exploiting Hitler's Magic : From Weimar's Horrors to Visions of the Third Reich -- The Third Reich's War on the Occult : Anti-Occultism, Hitler's Magicians' Controversy, and the Hess Action -- The Stars Come Down to Frozen Earth : Border Science in the Third Reich -- Lucifer's Court : Ario-Germanic Paganism, Indo-Aryan Spirituality, and the Nazi Search for Alternative Religions -- The Supernatural and the Second World War : Folklore and Border Science in Foreign Policy, Propaganda, and Military Operations -- Monstrous Science : Racial Resettlement, Human Experiments, and the Holocaust -- Nazi Twilight : Miracle Weapons, Supernatural Partisans, and the Collapse of the Third Reich.
651 0 $aGermany$xPolitics and government$y1933-1945.
650 0 $aSupernatural$xPolitical aspects$zGermany$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aOccultism$xPolitical aspects$zGermany$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aPaganism$xPolitical aspects$zGermany$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aSuperstition$xPolitical aspects$zGermany$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aNational socialism and occultism$xHistory.
650 0 $aReligion and politics$zGermany$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aPolitical culture$zGermany$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aPopular culture$zGermany$xHistory$y20th century.
651 0 $aGermany$xSocial conditions$y1933-1945.
650 7 $aHISTORY$zEurope$xGermany.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aBODY, MIND & SPIRIT$xOccultism.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aHISTORY$xMilitary$xWorld War II.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aHISTORY$xModern$x20th Century.$2bisacsh
852 00 $bglx$hDD256.7$i.K87 2017