Hitler's Master of the Dark Arts: Himmler's Black Knights and the Occult Origins of the SSQuarto Publishing Group USA, 14. 10. 2010 - Počet stran: 322 A history of Nazi Germany’s SS and its leader examining the groups mystical cult aspects and Himmler’s rise through the ranks of power. Hitler’s Nazi Party, at its evil roots, embraced a bizarre interpretation of ancient European paganism, blending it with fragments of other traditions from sources as diverse as tenth-century Saxon warlords, nineteenth-century spiritualism, and early-twentieth-century fringe archeology. Even the swastika, the hated symbol of Nazism, had its roots in ancient symbolism, its first recorded appearance carved into a mammoth tusk twelve thousand years before Hitler came to power. At the heart of the evil was Hitler’s “witch doctor,” Heinrich Himmler, and his stranger-than-fiction cult, the deadly SS. The mundanely named Schutzstaffel, literally “protective squadron,” was the very essence of Nazism, and their threatening double lightning bolt was one of the most dreaded symbols of the Third Reich. With good reason: what the SS was truly protecting was the ideology of Aryan superiority. Hitler’s Master of the Dark Arts is the first history of the SS and its leader to focus on the mystical cult aspects of the organization. It follows Himmler’s transformation of the SS from a few hundred members in 1929 to over fifty thousand black-uniformed Aryans by the mid-1930s. Concurrent with its expansion and its eventual independence from the brown shirts of the SA, Himmler infused the Black Knights with a mishmash of occult beliefs and lunatic-fringe theories that would have been completely laughable—except that they were also used to justify the Final Solution. |
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Almost HocusPocus | 36 |
A Call to Duty | 52 |
The Old Crooked Cross | 63 |
Ballot Boxes and Long Knives | 73 |
Black Knights of the Master Race | 86 |
Drang Nach Osten | 168 |
Bloody Hell | 178 |
The Most Feared Address in Europe | 190 |
Burdens Borne of Black Knighthood | 209 |
The Witches of the Schutzstaffel | 227 |
Aryans Beyond Nationality | 235 |
Evil Science | 242 |
Weird Science | 248 |
Father Confessor to the New Order | 98 |
The Dark Temples of the Schutzstaffel | 107 |
Das Ahnenerbe | 125 |
Archaeologists in Black | 134 |
A World of Ice | 148 |
Black Knights in an Army of Field Gray Pawns | 154 |
The Reich and Its Stormy Night | 257 |
Götterdämmerung | 269 |
The Sands of Time | 284 |
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