At the beginning of the twentieth century, there were a myriad of racial theories circulating throughout Europe, all of which had their antecedents in the nineteenth century. A common link for these theories was an innate anti-Semitism... more
At the beginning of the twentieth century, there were a myriad of racial theories circulating throughout Europe, all of which had their antecedents in the nineteenth century. A common link for these theories was an innate anti-Semitism that kept the Jewish “race” separate and denigrated. Within occult circles in Germany and Austria, Theosophical theories of race and human evolution were intermingled with Pan Germanic nationalism, anti-Semitism and nostalgic appeals to a Germanic heritage prior to Christianity. This potent cocktail of ideas were consumed heavily by various groups such as the German Order, the Thule Society, and promoted by Ariosophists such as Guido von List (1848-1919) and Jorg Lanz von Liebenfels (1874-1954). Together, these individuals and organizations laid the foundation for a variety of ideas that informed Nazi race theory and contributed to the Nazi Holocaust, claiming the lives of over 20 million. While there are no direct links, most, if not all of these individuals and organizations found inspiration and validation within the work of the Theosophical Society and in particular the materials of Madame Blavatsky.
SATANIC HOMO-OCCULTISM AND THE HOMOSEXUAL ROOTS OF FASCISM - Black Magician Homosexual Hitler created homosexual Cults based upon Black Magic - taught to him by Guido von List and the Armanen Order, Jorg Lanz von Liebenfels and Ariosophy,... more
SATANIC HOMO-OCCULTISM AND THE HOMOSEXUAL ROOTS OF FASCISM - Black Magician Homosexual Hitler created homosexual Cults based upon Black Magic - taught to him by Guido von List and the Armanen Order, Jorg Lanz von Liebenfels and Ariosophy, The Thule Society, Madame Blavatsky and the Theosophical Society, and Friedrich Nietzsche.
Because the Torah and the Bible prohibit Homosexuality, in order to introduce Satanism and its Satanic Rituals, Hitler decided to destroy Judaism and Also he changed Christianity - Jesus - into a Sun God associated with Odin by sending all clerics to the death camps along with all the Ritual burning holocaust six million Jews.
The consideration of movements and sub-cultures within particular societies has always formed an integral part of intellectual history. In studies of Nazism and religion in recent years, there has been a trend towards arguing a deliberate... more
The consideration of movements and sub-cultures within particular societies has always formed an integral part of intellectual history. In studies of Nazism and religion in recent years, there has been a trend towards arguing a deliberate disjunction or separation of the Nazi Party from the longer German anti-Semitic völkisch movement (dating from the nineteenth century) from which Nazism itself arose––a perspective that is challenged in this essay. While there are excellent studies on the heterogeneous nature of Christian response to the Nazis, there has not been a comparable approach in examining how the Nazis viewed religion. Yet this is certainly needed, as one of the consistent features of the völkisch movement was its diversity. Roger Griffin argued a “striking feature of the sub-culture…was just how prolific and variegated it was” such that “the only denominator common to all was the myth of national rebirth.” It contained a colourful, varied and often bewildering range of religious beliefs.
The problem is that historians have tended to argue that the leaders of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) adhered either to paganism or to an “Aryanised” Christian faith. Certainly Uwe Puschner recorded that two major “religious concepts and camps” existed in the völkisch movement from around 1900, one advocating an “Aryanised” German-Christianity and the other a “revival of the pre-Christian religion of the ancient Germans.” Yet Puschner also argued that “völkisch schemes of religion” formed a spectrum, from attempts “to germanise Christianity up to the decisive rejection of Christianity and the constitution of new Germanic religions.” This meant “there were efforts to attempt to account for Christian religious convictions in the Germanic world of faith and fuse Christianity with (constructed) Germanic religious ideas, in which Jesus Christ was approximately equated with Baldur or Odin.” These latter points indicate the capacity to view paganism and Christianity as part of the one continuum.
I argue that we can observe the same process in the early Nazi Party, although there has been a lack of consideration of such heterogeneity of religious response.
In recent years there has been a renaissance of studies into the diverse relationships between National Socialism and esoteric or occult religious trends, which appears to form a remarkable return to the work of George L Mosse. Yet within... more
In recent years there has been a renaissance of studies into the diverse relationships between National Socialism and esoteric or occult religious trends, which appears to form a remarkable return to the work of George L Mosse. Yet within these debates there has been surprisingly little space devoted to the question of what specifically ‘counted’ as religion in the early Nazi milieu. This article seeks to address this problem through a detailed study of the views on religion in one of the major antisemitic groups in the 1920s, the German Socialist Party, which had a number of significant connections to the NSDAP. The German Socialist debates on religion have remained largely unexamined, and this article analyses the group’s response to the Nazis’ 25 Point Programme, the German Socialists’ own debates about religion, and their views on the most important völkisch authors who were seeking a ‘religious revival’. It demonstrates that views on religion in the early Nazi milieu were extremely diverse, but commonly adhered to notions of race and a racial spirituality that amounted to a kind of ‘ethnotheism’. It argues that concepts of religion in völkisch groups at the time, including the NSDAP, have to be principally understood as part of a particular and extreme ‘racist culture’.