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Nazi Occultism 3: Hitler vs Magic | European History (Patreon)

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In our last episode, we saw how Nazi ideology mixed mysticism, pseudoscience, and cultural appropriation, striving to appear “modern” while rejecting established science. Despite this, Nazi leadership initially tolerated the occultists, psychics, and mediums who thrived in Weimar Germany’s volatile atmosphere. Figures like Dr. Mathilde Ludendorff crusaded against these “frauds,” claiming they weakened Germany, and were even involved in a conspiracy with foreign forces. But everything changed when Rudolf Hess flew to Britain in 1941. Branded mad and misled by astrologers, his actions spurred “Action Hess,” a nationwide crackdown on occultism.

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Part 1 - The Thule Society | Part 2 - Weird Science| Part 3 - Hitler vs Magic | Part 4 - Release Date: 10/12 | Part 5 - Release Date: 10/12 | Lies - Release Date: 10/12

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After you've learned about Weird Science, 🌎 Get an exclusive 15% discount on Saily data plans! Use code "ExtraHistory" at checkout. Download Saily app or go to https://saily.com/ExtraHistory ⛵. In our last episode, we saw how Nazi ideology mixed mysticism, pseudoscience, and cultural appropriation, striving to appear “modern” while rejecting established science. Despite this, Nazi leadership initially tolerated the occultists, psychics, and mediums who thrived in Weimar Germany’s volatile atmosphere. Figures like Dr. Mathilde Ludendorff crusaded against these “frauds,” claiming they weakened Germany, and were even involved in a conspiracy with foreign forces. But everything changed when Rudolf Hess flew to Britain in 1941. Branded mad and misled by astrologers, his actions spurred “Action Hess,” a nationwide crackdown on occultism. * Watch Extra History ad-free & get 1-week early access on *NEBULA* https://go.nebula.tv/extrahistory * Suggest & Vote on our next episodes, get exclusive content & 24-hour early access on *PATREON* https://bit.ly/EHPatreon * Show off your fandom with *MERCH* from our store! http://extracredits.store/ * Interested in sponsoring an episode?* Email us: extracredits@standard.tv https://twitter.com/extracreditz | https://www.facebook.com/ExtraCredits/ | http://instagram.com/extracredits | https://www.tiktok.com/@extracreditz GAMING: https://www.youtube.com/@extracredits | http://www.twitch.tv/extracredits/ https://bsky.app/profile/extracredits.bsky.social *Miss an episode in our Nazi Occultism Series?* Part 1 - https://youtu.be/TokYUITs6zs Part 2 - https://youtu.be/6MEzUovLTMs Part 3 - https://youtu.be/06fXIstwddk Part 4 - Release Date: Nov, 9th Part 5 - Release Date: Nov, 16th Series Wrap-up & Recommended Reading / Lies Episode - Release Date: Nov, 30th BIBLIOGRAPHY Walter C., Breintenfeld. “Nazi Liturgy,” Blacfriars 27 (1946): 44-50. DOI: https://www.jstor.org/stable/43701291 Ian Kershaw. Hitler: A Biography (W.W. Norton and Company, 2010) https://a.co/d/9sNkRi3 Erick Kurlander. Hitler’s Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017) https://a.co/d/6zEO2Hh Erick Kurlander. “The Nazi Magicians’ Controversy: Enlightenment, ‘Border Science,’ and Occultism in the Third Reich,” Central European History 48 (2015): 498-522. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43965203 Heather Pringle. The Master Plan: Himmler’s Scholars and the Holocaust (Hyperion, 2006). https://a.co/d/eMgAE9v Samuel Koehne. “Were the National Socialists a ‘Völkisch’ Party? Paganism, Christianity, and the Nazi Christmas,” Central European History 47 (2014): 760-790. DOI: https://www.jstor.org/stable/43965085 Manfred Nagl. “SPF, Occult Sciences, and Nazi Myths,” Science Fiction Studies 1 (1974): 185-197. DOI: https://www.jstor.org/stable/4238861 Leo Pavlát. “The Jewish Museum in Prague During the Second World War,” European Judaism: A Journal for the New Europe Vol. 41, No. 1 (2008), 124-130. DOI: https://www.jstor.org/stable/i40070460 Stanley Stowers. “The Concepts of ‘Religion’, ‘Political Religion’ and the Study of Nazism,” Journal of Contemporary History (2007): 9-24. DOI: https://www.jstor.org/stable/30036425 Dorothy Thompson. “Culture under the Nazis,” Foreign Affairs (1936): 407-423. DOI: https://www.jstor.org/stable/20030741 Volker Ullrich. Hitler: Ascent 1889-1939 (Vintage, 2017) https://a.co/d/cnvJN2d Jeb J. Card. Spooky Archaeology: The Myth and Science of the Past. (University of New Mexico Press, 2019). https://a.co/d/0riHwxR Thanks for the high-quality conversations & for following our community guidelines here: https://bit.ly/ECFansRNice Artist: Ali R Thome | Writer: Robert Rath | Researcher: A. Siso | Showrunner & Narrator: Matthew Krol | Video Editor: Devon House Creative | Audio Editor: Clean Waves | Studio Director: Geoffrey Zatkin | Social Media: Kat Rider | ♪ Music by Demetori: http://bit.ly/1EQA5N7 | ♪ "4,000 Miles" by Tiffany Roman #ExtraHistory #WorldWar2 #History

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Bear Kid

The feds are trying to stop me from getting to Agartha. Can you make a series on how to get there?

chromicacid

@2:07 (according to captions): "...the miasma of anxiety that pervaded viir germany" What does "viir germany" mean? I can't find a translation of "viir" after a little online searching.

Martin Verran

I'm really looking forward to the Indiana Jones stuff next episode! Are you going to play the Indiana Jones theme at full blast at the beginning of the episode or the regular EH jingle? Is the fellow with the moustache and goatee at 0:56 directly behind Hitler supposed to be any actual member of Hitler's Government or just a generic bean figure? There were a large number of reasons why the Germans lost the First World War but I'm guessing we'll just have to wait until Extra History make a series on the Armistice of 1918 for them to be discussed. Speaking as someone who identifies as a Socialist, and have done for a very long time now, I can safely say that most Socialists here in the UK would probably reject Occultism as a superstition. Then again, Occultism was, in the years after the First World War, very, very fashionable among the British Aristocracy, and there are stories that, just before the discovery of Tutankhamun's Tomb in the 1920s, Lord Carnarvon was warned, during a séance held at his country seat in Highclear Castle, that, quote, "the most dire punishment" would fall on any rash intruder into a Royal Tomb. Lord Carnarvon was bitten by a mosquito during the opening of the Tomb, which he then accidentally cut while shaving. It subsequently became infected and he died in his hotel room in Cairo on 5th April 1923 from blood poisoning, which led to pneumonia. The room he died in has never been rented out to anyone ever again since that day.