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Revisiting the "Nazi occult" : histories, realities, legacies /

Scholars have debated the role of the occult in Nazism since it first appeared on the German political landscape in the 1920s. After 1945, a consensus held that occultism - an ostensibly anti-modern, irrational blend of pseudo-religious and -scientific practices and ideas - had directly facilitated...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Black, Monica, 1968- (Editor ), Kurlander, Eric, 1973- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Rochester, New York : Camden House, 2015.
Colección:German history in context.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Machine generated contents note: pt. I Histories, 1890
  • 1933
  • 1. Esoteric Alternatives in Imperial Germany: Science, Spirit, and the Modern Occult Revival / Peter Staudenmaier
  • 2. Elite Class of Thinkers: Monism between Science and the Spiritual in Wilhelmine Germany / Perry Myers
  • 3. Max Hoelz Haunts the Vogtland: The Visible and the Invisible in Germany, 1914
  • 21 / John Ondrovcik
  • 4. Siegfried Kracauer, Spirit, and the Soul of Weimar Germany / Jared Poley
  • pt. II Realities, 1933
  • 1945
  • 5. Pseudoscience Reconsidered: SS Research and the Archaeology of Haithabu / J. Laurence Hare
  • 6. Hitler's Supernatural Sciences: Astrology, Anthroposophy, and World Ice Theory in the Third Reich / Eric Kurlander
  • 7. Pragmatic Occultism in the Military History of the Third Reich / Michael T. Schetsche
  • 8. Disruptive Potential: Therese Neumann of Konnersreuth, National Socialism, and Democracy / Michael E. O'Sullivan
  • pt. III Legacies, 1945
  • Present
  • 9. Messiah after Hitler, and His Miracles: Bruno Groning and Postwar Popular Apocalypticism / Monica Black
  • 10. On All Channels: Hans Bender, the Supernatural, and the Mass Media / Anna Lux
  • 11. Beyond Good and Evil: Nazis and the Supernatural in Video Games / Jeff Hayton
  • 12. Wewelsburg Effect: Nazi Myth and Paganism in Postwar European Popular Music / Oded Heilbronner.