Occult capital of the 3rd Reich. Mysticism and occultism in the Third Reich
Vermishev Georgy Andreevich
postgraduate student of the Department of Philosophy of Religion
and religious studies of St. Petersburg State University [email protected]
Vermishev Georgy Andreevich
graduate student of chair of philosophy of religion and St. Petersburg State University religious studies [email protected]
The role of the occult movement in the ideology of the Third Reich
Role of the occult in the formation of the Third Reich ideology
Annotation. The article examines the role of occultism in the formation of the ideology of the Third Reich. It is proven that information about the fascination of the top officials of the NSDAP with occult mysticism is an exaggeration, and sometimes even an outright falsification. However, some Nazi political myths were first formulated in the occult. In addition, occult mysticism had an influence on the symbolic system of the Reich and Nazi culture as a whole.
Key words: Nazism, occultism, ideology, Third Reich Annotation. The article considers the role of the occult in the formation of the Third Reich ideology. It is argued, that testimony about passion of the first NSDAP-persons for occult mysticism is overestimated and sometimes even falsification. Nevertheless, some political myths of the Nazis were first formulated in the occult environment. In addition, occult mysticism had deep influence on the symbolic system of the Reich and Nazi culture as a whole.
KEYWORDS: nazism, occultism, ideology, Third Reich
The role of the occult in the ideology of the Third Reich is one of the most significant problems for studying the relationship between National Socialism and religion. At the same time, perhaps, few other aspects of Nazi activity have acquired such a number of scientific speculations and forgeries as this one. Suffice it to recall the numerous documentaries about the Holy Grail or the Spear of Longen, which Hitler allegedly tried to find, as well as many printed pseudoscientific works about the activities of the Ahnenerbe. Of course, there are a number of sources and studies that obviously cannot be considered scientific, but even if we discard them, there will remain a whole layer of literature that is difficult to interpret unambiguously.
What is least discussed today is the connection between the Nazi myth and the earlier concepts of the Völkische Bewegung movement, which formed at the end of the 19th century. Of course, the classics had a certain influence on Hitler’s racial concepts - Charles Darwin, J. Gobineau and
H. S. Chamberlain. However, in the Völkisch, racist and anti-Semitic ideas that arose in France and England acquired a truly German flavor, and their anti-Christian potential was also fully revealed.
In the second half of the 19th century. N. Blavatsky's theosophical ideas became widespread among occult circles in Austria. According to N. Godric-Clark, it was her work that influenced the development of the concepts of Guido Von List (Guido Von List, 1848-1917) - the first to combine the nationalistic ideas of “völkische” with the occult. Liszt, fascinated by the idea of the “German spirit,” tried to find its origins in the traditional beliefs of the Germans associated with the worship of Wotan. In his main work, “The Secret of the Runes,” he tries, through the analysis of surviving runes and hieroglyphs, to reveal the secret content of ancient German culture. List was convinced that the Wotanic priesthood did not disappear without a trace, but was dissolved in the German people, turning the German language into a kind of cipher, a “hidden revelation.” "All sagas, folk tales and myths on the third, esoteric, secret level have a special meaning, depending on the locality with which they are associated," List points out.
As a result, he comes to the conclusion that the Germans had esoteric beliefs - this religious system, which mixed Gnostic motives and traditional beliefs, he calls “Armanism” (also: “Wotanism”). According to List, Armanism was professed by the priest-kings who ruled the ancient Aryan state, which was superior to other nations in everything. However, then Christianity came and destroyed traces of its former greatness. “Another religious system appeared and entered into battle with Odinism - a religious system that denied the physical and recognized only the spiritual; which ignorantly decided to delay the processes of development and evolution, processes that exist and are therefore desired by God - the “primary laws of nature” that cannot be changed,” writes List. One of the main differences between German Aryanism and Indian (Buddhism) and late Christianity is the glorification of not only the spirit, but also the body.
Another outstanding occultist of that time is considered to be Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels; Adolf Joseph Lanz, 1874-1954. Also concerned about the loss of ancient Aryan culture, he relies on Christianity and Christian Gnosticism, although he distorts the content of the sources he uses (including the Bible), adjusting them to his racist ideas. In his main work “Theozoologie” (Theozoologie, 1904), Lanz von Liebenfels writes: “Logos is the progenitor of European man, man in the true sense, he is the one who sits on a white horse, he is the white stone (Rev. II, 17). He has defeated three other kinds of people, black, yellow and red, he is the king of all kings, the lord of all lords.<...>Today, all of them - the sons of the Logos - are as dangerous as in ancient times. They seduce us with their art of love, develop and degrade.” The collective image of everything bad in undeveloped cultures in his book is Sodom, while Christ opposes Sodom and patronizes the higher man. “The great mystery of Christianity, the Trinity, will now seem to us a magnificent anthropology. Father, spirit and son -
these are 3 stages of development of higher (white) humanity,” writes Lanz von Liebenfels.
The result of his research is the conclusion that modern Germans are “children of God.” As proof, the famous “Ye are Gods” of the Apostle John is quoted, as well as the Gnostic text “Pistis Sophia”, in which pneumatics are proclaimed “angels, archangels, lords and rulers.” True, the process cannot be considered completed. Lanz von Liebenfels asserts the need for further evolution, the further rise of the nation, in order to liken the chosen people to God. “Our bodies are temples of God, they are members of the future superman.” As for Christianity, it is perceived as the key of salvation given to the German people. “Many biblical passages say that the European, the white man, we say in short the German, the son of heaven,” he writes. However, the forces of Sodom distorted the true content: “the Sodomite spirit of Rome and Byzantium” preached “false Christianity” to the Germans, imbued with unnatural “love for one’s neighbor.”
“True” Christianity, as Lanz von Liebenfels understands it, still gravitates towards Christian Gnosticism. It is worth noting here that Gnosticism with its anthropological concepts dividing all human society into “hylics” (people of the body), “psychics” (people of the soul) and “pneumatics” (people of the pneuma, that is, the chosen ones and possessing divine gnosis), was convenient used to substantiate ideas of national superiority. Moreover, it was in the Gnostic environment that the idea that Jews could be considered a “nation of evil” arose: after the Old Testament god began to be perceived as the evil demiurge Jaldabaoth, the interpretation of the idea of the “chosen” people also changed. As a result, in Gnostic literature, Jews are sometimes perceived as servants of Jaldabaoth, preventing the return of the bright souls of the Gnostics to the First Father (although, paradoxically, Gnosticism grows precisely from the Jewish heretical culture).
However, among the “völkische” there were those who tried to maintain the connection between Christianity and Protestantism - for example, the German writer Adolf Bartels (ADOLF BARTELS, 1862-1945), recognized by the Nazis. Bartels was convinced that Christianity is the “Aryan religion”, which fully expresses the German national character. However, “true” Christianity was understood to be German Protestantism (albeit somewhat curtailed). Thus, he fully follows Chamberlain, who considered it necessary to return Christianity to the free Aryan spirit, the exponent of which was the Protestant religion. In 1913, Bartels first used the concept of “German Christianity” (Deutschchristentum). In his article “Der Deutsche Verfall” he formulates the slogan “Always more German Christianity, always less Jewish Christianity!” (Immer mehr Deutschchristentum, immer weniger Judenchristentum). In general, anti-Semitism was a central element of his ideology. Bartels seeks to free himself from Jewish culture: “If an Aryan God must be born in our souls, then for this the Jewish God
Jehovah must be defeated,” he writes. And in the Bible it calls to “tolerate” only those parts that are consistent with the concept of Aryanism. Of course, this does not include the Old Testament, which, from Bareilles’s point of view, contains “morally dubious exploits of Jewish heroes,” as well as ideas of discrimination against women characteristic of the East. He also rejected the Ten Commandments, which he considered based on “stupid fear” of the “wrathful Jehovah God,” and at their basis he saw “shallow utilitarian morality.” Paul's message was also rejected because it was incompatible with the racial ideas of the völkische: “forward to Christ. Away from Paul,” was the new motto.
At the same time, supporters of “Deutschchristentum” did not completely abandon the heritage of traditional religions, perceiving the myths about the Ases (the righteous martyr Balder or the warlike Odin) as the forerunner of Christianity. A good illustration of this kind of concept is the poem “The German Christ.” It was written in 1914 by one of the members of the völkische, Max Bewer, and is literally imbued with the spirit of messianism and militarism, which would later be characteristic of Nazi ideology: Putting my palm to my eyes, I watch you in the morning light, Your path is known, and it leads From the Jordan to the Rhine.
Putting my ear to the ground, I feel your steps - You walk, not bowed to the cross, You walk as the Lord steps.
The child will become a Man, the Cross will become a sword, and the rose will become a tall shoot; Your kingdom is the whole world, and Germany is your hearth. When will you come, secret Tsar?
A question that causes much more heated debate: how connected was Hitler himself with the occult Völkische circles? It is safe to say that a significant amount of literature on this topic is banal fiction that has nothing to do with scientific research. The first “historical evidence” of this kind about Hitler’s occult hobbies was published already in the 30s, and they were written among Christian esotericists. Even then he was accused of participating in demonic rituals and practicing dark magic. One of the striking works of this kind was the book “Occult Causes of the Present War,” published in 1940 by the British mystic Lewis Spence. However, the main body of pseudo-historical research appeared between 1960-1975. Among them are “The Morning of the Magicians” by Lya Povel, “The Spear of Destiny” by Trevor Ravenscroft, “The Occult Reich” by James Brennan
(Occult Reich), etc.
American researcher Stefan Flowers points out that the occult element in Nazi ideology was always somewhat exaggerated in order to demonize the Nazis. During the war years, such books were part of anti-Nazi propaganda, the purpose of which was to discredit Hitler in the eyes of Christians. He considers another factor in the appearance of such works to be the attempts of the Catholic Church to disavow any connection with the Nazis. Flowers cites the case of media coverage of the election of Pope Benedict XVI (J. Ratzinger). To the remark that Ratzinger was a member of the Hitler Youth, the authoritative journalist replied: “Come on, everyone knows that Nazism had nothing to do with Christianity, it was a purely pagan movement,” with this example the researcher emphasizes the rootedness of the myth about the occult roots of Nazism in public life. consciousness. Flowers himself joined Arthur LaVey's Church of Satan in the 1970s and is a practicing mystic, which inevitably raises questions about his bias.
However, assumptions about the propaganda nature of some sources are confirmed by other studies. To this day, references to the memoirs of Hermann Rauschning, a Nazi ally who fled the United States in 1939, are common in Russian historiography. In his book “Hitler Speaks. “The Beast from the Abyss” Rauschning cites memoirs from 1934/35, in which he presents the Fuhrer as an “Antichrist” who considered it necessary to eradicate Christianity and replace it with an updated ancient Germanic religion. However, in the late 80s, the German researcher W. Haenel showed that most of the loud statements attributed to Hitler in his books are fake. Rauschning could not see Hitler more than 100 times, as he himself describes it. He could attend at most 13 audiences, only two could he write down for the Fuhrer, and there is no reason to believe that Hitler would be so frank in his presence.
Today this approach is contested. Thus, researcher B. Lenke compared Rauschning’s text and G. Picker’s “Hitler’s Table Talks,” recorded much later, in 1941/44. Having discovered a significant number of stylistic and conceptual similarities, he states that Rauschning’s memoirs “give a good idea of Hitler’s way of thinking and his goals on almost all fundamental issues. However, when touching on issues that were relevant at the time of writing the book, as well as the personality of Hitler, the author resorts to exaggerations that do not correspond to the facts.<...>The last two chapters are a clear mixture of historical source and fiction,” Lenke concludes. At the same time, the British historian of National Socialism Ian Kershaw calls Rauschning’s memoirs a source “so dubious that it is better not to use it at all.” However, Kershaw also speaks critically of other memoirs, including Table Talk. The researcher cites several possible reasons for the unreliability of such information: the secretive nature of the Fuhrer, the coldness of his personal relationships, the flattery or hatred of his subordinates, as well as those introduced in the post-war period
edits.
In August 1918, on the basis of Liebendorf's occult concepts, the Thule Society appeared in Munich, founded by Turkish citizen Adam Glauer, who adopted the pseudonym Rudolf von Sebottendorf (Rudolf von Sebottendorf, 1875-1945). The ideology of the society was based on the ideas of pan-Germanism, anti-Semitism and Ariosophy. Members of society shared the idea of a turning point in an era that could mark the beginning of an apocalypse or universal salvation. At that time, German society was indeed at a breaking point - in November 1918, a revolution began in the German Empire, which formally ended only a year later. Under these conditions, Thule functioned more as a political than as an occult organization. However, she did not get rid of her esoteric anti-Semitic heritage. Thule members believed that the historical process in Germany was being controlled by 300 wise Jewish elders who were using the ideology of Bolshevism to win over the working class. To counter this, in October 1918, the Thule Society created the “Political Workers' Circle,” whose members then formed the German Workers' Party. Thus, some of the future National Socialists were indeed members of the Thule Society, but Hitler himself was not a member of it, but joined the German Workers' Party (DAP), which in 1920 was transformed into the NSDAP. N. Goodrick-Clark rightly points out Hitler's purely pragmatic interest in the Thule Society - in it he was able to quickly find his first like-minded people. However, it was in his interest to create a mass party, so some of the esoteric ideas of the Thule were discarded. But the solar symbol of the swastika, which at that time was popular in similar circles, was preserved (the same swastika facing right, for example, was used by G. List). For the National Socialists, the swastika combined the idea of Aryan superiority (the symbol was borrowed from Indian culture), anti-Semitism and even the Christian cross. At the same time, Hitler himself wrote that the swastika contains the idea of the struggle for the victory of the Aryans and creative labor, the red flag symbolizes socialist orientation, and the white flag symbolizes nationalism.
The Hungarian historian Ambrus Miscolci, having analyzed Hitler’s personal library, makes an assumption about Hitler’s ambivalent attitude towards the occult: esotericism interested him, but at the same time irritated him. Thus, the researcher cites one of the “occult” poems allegedly written by the Fuhrer:
On bitter nights I often go
To Wotan's oak tree in a quiet clearing,
To make an alliance with dark forces.
However, he did not show significant interest in occult literature. According to Miscolci, Hitler managed to get acquainted with the books of Liszt and Liebenfels in Vienna, but he never read deeply into the later esoteric works sent to him. Analyzing the notes made by Hitler on the books sent to him, Miscolci draws attention to the narcissism with
with which the Fuhrer marks quotations from his own writings. The researcher’s conclusion is logical: the Fuhrer had no reason to read other people’s books and teachings, since he already had his own.
In this sense, the fate of the main occult ideologists of the Völkische movement is very indicative. In 1933, the founder of the society, Sebottendorf, published a book disloyal to the regime, “Bevor Hitler kam,” and was arrested, but miraculously managed to escape, and his book was banned. Lanz von Liebenfels also fell into disgrace after the Anschluss of Austria in 1938; part of his works (the Ostara series) was confiscated by the Nazis. It seems fair to assume that Hitler was simply not ready to tolerate esoteric societies around him, since National Socialism was to be perceived as the brainchild of the Fuhrer, and not a group of mystics.
However, it does not at all follow from this that other members of the NSDAP should not have been carried away by esotericism. Researcher M.I. Shakhnovich noted that clairvoyance and occult healing were widespread in the Third Reich, and by 1940 over 50 thousand professional mystics were registered in the country. Although the most serious work related to occult mysticism, namely “The Myth of the 20th Century” by Alfred Rosenberg (1893-1946), remained unnoticed by his comrades. A. Speer recalls that this 700-page Talmud was printed in copies of hundreds of thousands, although it was “simply impossible to read” and even Hitler was surprised at how this, in his own words, “relapse of medieval mysticism” was sold. Rosenberg fully follows the ariosophical ideas of the völkische. He declares the ideals of Christian Europe useless. Calls for the liberation of European culture from soft, abstract Christian ideals that came from the East and Asia Minor, and the discovery of a new philosophy that would be rooted in the bowels of the earth. Nordic man must realize his racial superiority and purity. Instead of meekness and forgiveness, Rosenberg offers the ideal of a powerful, earthly personality and a strong peasant. Mysticism is positioned as the path to the revival of the German nation, and “dreamers” are declared people of action.
But the most active mystic of the Third Reich, perhaps, can be considered Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945). Himmler is known for his passion for the Bhagavad Gita, Hindu and Buddhist books, from which he drew the spirit of Aryanism. Even more revealing is his passion for astrology - for example, he resorted to the help of astrologers to determine the whereabouts of the captive Mussolini. It is also stated that he believed himself to be the reincarnation of King Henry I the Birdcatcher, the first German ruler.
Himmler was baptized in the Catholic Church and always remained a believer at heart. However, judging by the diaries, from 1919 to 1924. he experiences a serious crisis, after which he moves away from the official Church. Himmler did not ignore the Catholic tradition when, in 1934, he was tasked with forming the SS security units. Based on the ideals of the Jesuit order, he sought to create an organization that would combine religious service and
the ideals of ruthless Teutonic chivalry (which did not prevent us from choosing the German “Sig” runes, considered an attribute of the god of war Thor, as a symbol). That same year, the Teutonic castle of Wewelsburg in Westphalia was handed over to the SS. Those given the honor of visiting him were subject to a hierarchical order based on the model adopted in the Catholic Church, with Himmler being considered the general of the order. Everyone was required to engage in spiritual exercises and spend some time in concentration before important meetings.
Another brainchild of Himmler was the German Institute for the Study of Ancient German History and the Heritage of the Ahnenerbe Ancestors, which was opened in 1935, although it did not immediately come under the control of the SS (by 1937/39). The first curator of the project was private researcher Herman Wirth (1900-1945). A typical representative of the “völkische”, he defended ideas about the origin of humanity from the superhuman Hyperboreans who once lived on the northern continent of Arctogea. Wirth tried to scientifically substantiate his concepts, which is generally rare for the “völkische”, but did not meet like-minded people either in the academic environment or in the Nazi elite (Although Rosenberg even honored him with several critical passages in his “Myth of the 20th Century”). After meeting Himmler, the situation changes briefly. Having received a position in the Ahnenerbe, Wirth makes two expeditions to Scandinavia. However, the results disappointed Himmler, and the organization’s budget was squandered, so in 1938, not without squabbles and personal conflicts, Wirth left his post.
Walter Wüst (1901-1994), a researcher who had a good reputation in the academic community, was appointed as the new leader (scientific, Himmler took the post of president). Himmler declared the complete independence of the scientist, but at the same time set a clear task - to work on concepts that would strengthen the cultural foundation of the Third Reich. The Ahnenerbe was instructed to take care of the state of the German soul and the inner life of the people. An example of such research is the development by Fritz Weitzel of ritual practices for SS soldiers based on a neo-pagan religious worldview. Ritual rules were presented as the tradition of ancestors; such a collection contained ritual songs, runes and illustrative materials.
By 1939, the Ahnenerbe was a community with rather vague goals - the range of scientific tasks was too wide. However, it published the monthly “Germany” and also operated its own printing house in Berlin. Of course, a significant part of the publications was of no value to the independent academic community. Contrary to his promises, Himmler did not give researchers freedom, so propaganda pieces that had little to do with science were often published. However, serious research on the rituals and rituals of the ancient Germans also came from the pen of Ahnenerbe workers.
A number of pseudoscientific studies attribute the Ahnenerbe's work on the search for the Grail, or the Spear of Destiny - allegedly this was a personal instruction from Hitler,
who, with the help of occult practices and “sacred artifacts,” hoped to seize power throughout the world. This kind of theory did not appear out of nowhere, but it is more correct to talk about Himmler’s interest, and not the Fuhrer’s personally.
The most significant episode is associated with the name of Karl Wiligut (Karl Maria Wiligut, 1866-1946) - one of the main creators of the occult myth of the Third Reich. Wiligut was a mentally ill person, and he was diagnosed with schizophrenia during the First World War. Starting at the age of 18, he had epiphanies from time to time. Secret knowledge was given in the form of prophetic sayings, and he wrote them down in the form of runes. It was assumed that, ultimately, Wiligut would be able to completely restore the secret knowledge of the original proto-religion. It is worth adding to this that he traced his origins to the Aesir, and, in addition, he spoke in detail about the crucifixion of Balder, which took place near Goslar on the ruins of the seminary of St. Peter.
This kind of evidence clearly revealed a mentally ill person, but the Reichsführer SS was not embarrassed by this, so Wiligut was even dubbed “Himmler’s Rasputin.” There is every reason to believe that the senior SS leadership treated these revelations with the utmost attention. First, he was given a special post in Munich, where he was to record his hereditary fantasies under the fictitious name "Wise Thor" (weisthor). Secondly, he was able to involve Müller in correspondence with another occultist, Günter Kirchenhoff, who - as an example - "suggested the existence of geodesic lines of energy running across the entire continent." Third, Wiligut had enormous influence on the SS ritual system. A. Vasilchenko cites as an example a report in which SS Brigadier General Karl Wolf describes in detail the ritual performed on his newborn child with the participation of Müller: “Wiligut wrapped the child with a blue ribbon of life and uttered the traditional words: The blue ribbon of fidelity winds through your life. Every Aryan, every self-aware Aryan must remain faithful! This blue ribbon symbolically links birth and marriage, life and death. And so, this child is associated with my deep desire for his transformation into a real Aryan boy and a staunch Aryan man.” After this, Wiligut took the cup and said: “God is the source of all life! From God flows your knowledge, sense of duty, life purpose and the whole meaning of life. Every sip from this cup confirms your connection with God.” Having returned the child to the mother, he utters a new ritual phrase: “This spoon will nourish you until you grow up. Your mother will show her love by feeding you with this spoon, and will punish you by depriving you of food if you break the Commandments of God.” After this, the spoon was also given to the mother. In conclusion, Wiligut proclaimed: “You, child, will wear this ring, the ancestral ring of the Wolf family, as soon as you prove yourself worthy of the SS and your family. And so, according to the will of your parents and the order of the Order of the SS, I name you: Thorisman, Heinrich, Karl, Reinhard. Let the parents and successors nurture in the child a brave Aryan heart, according to the Will of God."
The mystification of the Grail is also associated with Wiligut's visions. During the redevelopment of Wewelsburg Castle, two ritual rooms were created in the northern part: one with a marble-lined black sun with runic lightning, the other a crypt with a stone circle in the center. Not without the help of the revelations of Wiligut, who called for searching for the Grail in the vicinity of the castle, the place quickly became overgrown with legends. Amateur archaeologist Otto Rahn also contributed to this hoax, writing the book “The Crusade Against the Grail” in 1933. In it, he proclaimed the Cathars an Aryan branch of Judaism and indicated the possible location of the Grail - in the south of France. These researches of his attracted the attention of Wiligut, who influenced Himmler, so that after some time Rahn was already collaborating with the Ahnenerbe. Could he be involved in some kind of “search for the Grail”? As researcher Michael Kater points out, even if Himmler had entrusted this kind of task to Otto Rank, his main goal would rather have been to prove the thesis that Christianity is secondary to the older Germanic religion.
After G. Wirth left the society, it became easier for W. Wüst to dispel Himmler’s fantasies and direct the Ahnenerbe’s activities in a more productive direction. In this regard, it should be clear why other members of the Ahnenerbe perceived Wiligut and Kirchenhoff at least unfriendly. This turned out to be quite fair. In 1938, it turned out that Wiligut had schizophrenia, so a year later he was removed from all positions with the official wording “due to old age and health problems.”
We see that Nazism absorbed a number of key ideas formulated precisely in the occult circles of the völkische. In a revised form, they were used by the Nazis for their own expanded concept of the Aryan race, as well as for the implementation of religious and cultural policies. However, it seems incorrect to overestimate the importance of the occult for the Third Reich. An apologist for mysticism as a condition for the development of human society, Rosenberg did not introduce significantly new ideas into the ideological discourse of National Socialism. Himmler made a more significant contribution to Nazi culture through the activities of the Ahnenerbe, although he never made occult goals the determining motive for his decisions. As for Hitler, the persistent tendency to attribute occult interests to him is not consistent with the available facts. Indeed, the Fuhrer used occult societies and messianic sentiments to gain political advantage, but if anyone was considered a mystical prophet, it was only himself.
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The nature of this regime is still presented in a simplified manner, as are the forces that stood behind it. We are, of course, far from representing Hitler and his inner circle as “puppets” of the “reactionary” forces of the West, as was done in Soviet times. No matter what connections Hitler had with globalist structures in his politics, no matter what obligations he gave them, he always remained an independent political figure with his own ideology. Moreover, it was precisely the fact that influential forces in the West shared this ideology, or at least sympathized with it, that played a decisive role in the fact that the unknown native of Braunau am In, half Czech, half Austrian Adolf Hitler, who spoke poor Hochdeutsch , became the Fuhrer of the German Reich, and then conquered all of Europe and laid claim to world domination.
Hitler and Nazism are the result of the collapse of monarchical statehood in Europe. At its core, Nazism was revolutionary and hostile to bourgeois society. This shows its unconditional kinship with Bolshevism. However, the popular comparison of Hitler with Stalin is correct only in the sense that they were both totalitarian dictators, whose cult of personality in the 30s and 40s. lay at the heart of the ideology of both Germany and the USSR. But Stalin was not the first and only founder of Bolshevism; he was Lenin’s comrade-in-arms and the successor of his work. Hitler positioned himself as the main organizer of the Nazi revolution. In this regard, he had much more in common with Lenin and Trotsky, although Hitler declared himself their mortal enemy. But, like Lenin, Hitler was an atheist and a socialist. On May Day 1927, the Fuhrer declared: “We are socialists, we are the enemies of the economic system of capitalism.” True, he emphasized: “We have nothing in common with Marxist socialism, Marxism is against private property, but real socialism is not.” Hitler argued that if Marxism abandoned “all crazy ideas about democracy” and the “socialization” of banks and factories, it would become National Socialism. That is, in other respects, Hitler did not reject socialist and Marxist ideas.
Having come to power, Hitler gradually introduced a socialist economic system in Germany. A four-year development plan for the country was introduced, and by 1938 independent private property was practically eliminated. During the war, work books were introduced for all employees of the Third Reich. Entrepreneurs and business executives followed the orders and instructions of the Imperial Ministry of Economics and the Commissioner for the Four-Year Plan. If one of them did not comply with the decrees, then he was removed from the management of his enterprise. When the largest German industrialist Fritz Thyssen began to criticize the Nazi order too much and emigrated to Switzerland, his concern was immediately nationalized. By the beginning of World War II, the Nazis had liquidated more than one million businesses, primarily small and medium-sized businesses.
The Nazis introduced a red flag with a swastika, celebrated May Day, and addressed each other as “Kamerad” (comrade). In domestic films about the Second World War, you can often see that SS members use the address “Herr Hauptsturmführer” or “Herr Sturmbannführer”. But in reality, the SS men addressed each other either simply by rank (without the word “master”), or (not in official communication) simply “kamerad”.
The political platform of the Nazi Party was completely socialist. Here are its points: all citizens have not only the right, but also the obligation to participate in elections; every German citizen must work for the common good; illegal profits are confiscated; nationalization of all large enterprises; workers and employees participate in the profits of large-scale industries; old age pension must be decent; state support for motherhood and encouragement of youth development. In the Leninist constitution there were so-called disenfranchised people who did not have any political and social rights: former people from the nobility, clergy, bourgeoisie, and officers. Hitler's laws had their own “disenfranchised”: Jews and other “racially inferior” “non-citizens”. Points 4 and 5 of the Nazi Party Program read: “Citizenship will be granted on the basis of race. Jews will not be citizens of Germany. All non-Germans can only be guests.”
Hitler was a racist socialist. Photo: www.globallookpress.com
So the popular view of National Socialism as a far-right political movement is incorrect: it was inherently left-wing and socialist, while being both racist and xenophobic.
If Lenin was an internationalist socialist, then Hitler was a racist socialist. Lenin hated the Orthodox monarchy, priests, nobles and mercilessly destroyed their representatives. Hitler hated the monarchy, Catholics, Jews, gypsies, Slavs. He mercilessly pursued the first, and destroyed the second. Lenin sought to “make happy” the whole world with “world revolution” and communism, and Hitler wanted to build a paradise on earth only for the Germans and the Aryans he invented, and turn the rest into slaves or destroy them.
During Soviet times, we were constantly told that the main enemies of the Nazis were the communists. But they were their main ideological and political competitors. However, after the KKE was banned in 1933, tens of thousands of Communist Party members were thrown into concentration camps, many were killed. Let us remember that the KKE numbered 300 thousand people before Hitler came to power.
As historian K. A. Zalessky notes:
Among those who wanted to join the Nazi Party were many former communists, for whom they came up with the nickname “beefsteaks” - brown on the outside and red on the inside.
However, Hitler did not see the communists as his mortal enemies. Here is what, for example, the Fuhrer said about the leader of the KPD Ernst Thälmann:
Thälmann is a typical little man who could not act differently. As soon as the terrible threat that Russia conceals within itself is dealt with, let him go where he wants.<…>The communists themselves are a thousand times nicer to me than Starhemberg. They have healthy natures, and if they had stayed longer in Russia, they would probably have returned home healed.
Let us explain: Prince Ernst Rüdiger Starhemberg was a moderate Austrian Nazi, but a supporter of Austrian independence, a Catholic and a monarchist. For Hitler, these were principles that made a person seemingly close in convictions much more dangerous than Thälmann. Another Nazi, Joseph Goebbels, admitted in his diary: “In my opinion, it is terrible that we (Nazis) and communists are beating each other... Where and when will we meet with the communist leaders?” Before the burning of the Reichstag in 1933 and the banning of the Communist Party, the National Socialist Party and the KPD acted together in parliament. For example, in the mid-1920s, the NSDAP supported the communist proposal to confiscate the lands of the former imperial princely families of Germany, and in 1932 Hitler supported the transport workers' strike. Until 1933, the communists and Nazis had one goal - to destroy the Weimar Republic and take power into their own hands.
Having come to power, the Nazis, being tolerant of the Hohenzollern Protestant dynasty, persecuted representatives of the Catholic royal families in every possible way. Thus, the Gestapo arrested and threw into concentration camps Princess Mafalda of Savoy, the wife of Prince Philip of Hesse-Rumpenheim, who did not recognize the Nazi regime. In 1943, she was captured by deception in Rome on the territory of the German Embassy and, after a series of interrogations, she was taken to the Buchenwald concentration camp. Princess Mafalda died on the night of August 26-27, 1944 from wounds during a bombing. Mafalda's husband, Philip of Hesse, was also arrested in 1943 and placed in the Dachau concentration camp.
The entire Bavarian royal house of Wittelsbach, to which Prince Albrecht of Bavaria belonged, opposed the Nazi regime and refused to join the Nazi party. In October 1944, Albrecht and his wife, Princess Maria, along with their children, were arrested and sent to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Oranienburg. In April 1945, the family was moved to the Dachau concentration camp, where they were later liberated by the American army.
On July 22, 1944, Prince Francis Xavier of Bourbon-Parma, head of the Bourbons of Parma and titular Duke of Parma and Piancenza, was arrested by the Gestapo. On May 8, 1945, he was liberated by the American army.
In 1943, the children of the heir to the Austrian throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and his morganatic wife, Her Serene Duchess Sophia of Hohenberg, brothers Maximilian and Ernst, who spoke out for the independence of Austria and against the Anschluss with the Reich, were arrested and sent to Dachau. The brothers steadfastly endured all the humiliations of imprisonment and treated other prisoners in a comradely manner. Thanks to his wife’s petitions to Hermann Goering, Maximilian was released after six months of imprisonment, and Ernst was transferred to the Buchenwald concentration camp, where he remained until 1943, having spent a total of more than five years in concentration camps. He died on March 5, 1954 in Graz from the consequences of his stay in concentration camps.
Dachau concentration camp. Photo: www.globallookpress.com
The anti-Christian essence of Nazism did not have wide publicity at first, since Hitler understood that it was impossible to manifest it in Christian Germany. Therefore, in many cities that Hitler visited during the election campaign, he was greeted by the ringing of bells, and the Reich Chancellor ended his passionate speeches with a pious “Amen!” But in fact, Hitler and the Nazis, in contrast to the communists, sought to present themselves as defenders of the faith of Christ, which in reality they hated. Reichsleiter M. Bormann argued: “National Socialist and Christian ideas are incompatible... If because of this in the future our youth will not know anything about Christianity, whose doctrines are in many ways inferior to ours, Christianity will disappear by itself.” Bormann also expressed confidence that “the swastika should replace the cross everywhere” (by the way, these words are absolutely illiterate, since the swastika is the “gammatical cross”).
The leaders of the Third Reich were very attracted to the experience of anti-church persecution in the USSR. The directives of the head of the RSHA G. Heydrich in the fall of 1941 contained instructions to carefully preserve and export to Germany for study the materials of anti-religious museums and documents of the League of Militant Atheists. The Nazis needed this as auxiliary material for the first stage of the attack on the Church. The Third Reich planned to go and already went much further, starting to create its own religious teaching. It was based on doctrines about blood and race and a frank break with the moral principles of Christianity. Rosenberg wrote about the complete separation of the New and Old Testaments, which were rejected as religious books. The Apostle Paul was declared a “falsifier of the Gospel,” and the existing Churches were called “the product of the Judeo-Syrian aspirations of the apostles.” Along with the Old Testament roots of Christianity, all New Testament dogma, the “magic” of the sacraments and hierarchy were abolished; the Lord Jesus Christ was considered as one of the spiritual leaders along with those who preceded him in other religions. According to Rosenberg, the "religion of Jesus" must be corrected and freed from preaching humility and love for one's neighbor.
The basis of the Nazi Reich was the occult with satanic features. It was raised by the leaders of the Third Reich to unprecedented heights. Among the high-ranking officials of the party there were many adherents of occult beliefs and rituals. In the Teutoburg Forest in 1934, in the medieval castle of Wewelsburg, by order of Reichsführer SS G. Himmler, an archaeological museum, a library of occultism, the Institute of Ancient History and the SS Nordic Academy were located. Himmler made it his residence, where in the North Tower, the most majestic, a “sanctuary” of the Nazi “new religion” was built, created within the SS, which was a symbiosis of ancient German paganism, pseudo-Christianity and occultism. V. Schellenberg recalled: “Wewelsburg was a kind of SS monastery, in which once a year the general of the order held a meeting of the secret consistory. Here everyone who belonged to the highest leadership of the order had to exercise their spirit in the art of concentration.” Hitler himself has repeatedly said in his close circle that he communicates with the “Higher Unknowns.” The mystics of the "Thule Society" attributed this name to Satan.
V. Schelenberg. Photo: www.globallookpress.com
General statements that Hitler attacked the USSR because he “hated” communism have no serious basis. If we look at the forces that brought Hitler to power, we will see that they also played a prominent role in the victory of Bolshevism. Having become Reich Chancellor, Hitler on March 17 returned Hjalmar Schacht, at that time the main representative of the American financial corporation J.P. Morgan, to the post of President of the Reichsbank. Schacht's father, William Schacht, was a member of the so-called Broadway Group (its center was a skyscraper in New York at 120 Broadway). This group included the director of the US Federal Reserve System, banker P. Warburg, and banker J. Schiff. This group played an important role in supporting the conspiracy to overthrow Emperor Nicholas II and bring Trotsky and the militants of the future Red Guard to Russia.
The former head of illegal intelligence of the USSR, Major General Yu. I. Drozdov testified that, according to his data, in 1929, a representative of the world behind the scenes “Russell Center” submitted a note to US President Henry Hoover that said:
A crisis is approaching; trying to avoid the difficult situation in which the United States may find itself can only be done by changing the balance of power in the world. To do this, it is necessary to provide assistance to Russia so that it finally gets rid of the devastation - the consequences of the civil war - and to help Germany get rid of the clutches of the Treaty of Versailles. And then we need to pit Russia and Germany against each other so that, having recovered from the crisis, the United States finds itself face to face with the remaining adversaries. This kind of money, according to Yu. I. Drozdov, and the same American concerns that helped Russia restore its economy - they built factories, participated in the creation of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station - restored and equipped Germany.
Therefore, the reasons for the war with the USSR must be sought primarily not in Hitler’s anti-communism, but in his zoological, dense, even subconscious Russophobia. It is noteworthy that, starting Operation Barbarossa, Hitler was ready to recognize the puppet administrations (“governments”) of almost all territories of the USSR, except Russia. That is, even a puppet at the head of Russia was dangerous for the Nazis. For the Russian people, they envisioned only one future - slaves for the "master race." Hitler was sure that the Russian “cattle” were ruled by the Germans before the revolution, and by the Jews after the revolution. It is necessary, he said, to replace the Jews with Germans again, and everything will be all right. They say that shortly before committing suicide in the bunker, the Fuhrer realized: “No one here in Europe knows Russia and has never known it.”
It is safe to say that the Russian people forced the Soviet leadership to change the spirit and goals of the Great Patriotic War. From a battle between two totalitarian systems, it turned into a battle between the Orthodox Third Rome, albeit hidden under a bushel, and the occult Third Reich. This is the great feat of our people and our army. They forced the communist regime to recognize Russian values, albeit temporarily and perhaps not sincerely. It was these values that were sent to the underworld by the Black Reich in May 1945 on Bright Week of the Resurrection of Christ.
The Nazis had a secret weapon that they believed would help them win World War II. They turned to magical power. Surely you have heard about the Nazis involved in the occult, the creation of armies of zombie demons and other myths. However, the Germans did have a program of using psychic powers and astrology to influence the course of military events.
In January 1933, shortly before he received the post of Chancellor of Germany, Adolf Hitler visited a clairvoyant named Erik Jan Hanussen. The Fuhrer wanted to get a prediction and find out his future.
Hanussen had attracted the dictator's attention a year earlier when he published a newspaper article in which he predicted that Hitler would become chancellor of Germany. Apparently, Adolf Hitler was pleased with the meeting, because he visited the fortuneteller about 10 times.
It is known that during the sessions Hanussen said that great achievements awaited Hitler in the future, but there would be many difficulties on his way. The clairvoyant promised to use magic to ensure the success of his plans. A ritual was even performed - Hanussen and his client buried a mandrake root in the city where Hitler was born on the night of the full moon.
However, the future dictator did not know that Hanussen was Jewish. Predict himself also hid his nationality.
Magic was supposed to help find Jews
After the end of World War I, Hitler became friends with Dr. Wilhelm Hutberlet. This man had the appearance of a gentle and kind person. However, at night he used the occult to try to locate the Jews. Gutberlet constantly boasted that he could sense the presence of Jews anywhere.
Hutberlet was part of the early Nazi movement. He was considered one of the first followers of Hitler and Joseph Goebbels (he was the one who ran the Nazi propaganda machine). They are associated with Hitler by irreconcilable anti-Semitism. It is believed that Hutberlet was looking for Jews for the Reich until the defeat of fascism.
A few days before the assassination attempt on Hitler in Munich, Swiss astrologer Karl Ernst Kraft wanted to warn him of the danger. In early November 1939, Kraft wrote a letter to Heinrich Fesel, who knew Himmler. In the message, he warned that between November 8 and 10 Hitler was in danger, and recommended the cancellation of all public appearances scheduled for this period. The letter was not taken seriously until the assassination attempt occurred. Then Kraft was offered to work for the Reich.
When the British found out that an astrologer was working for the Germans, they hired their own specialist who was supposed to confront the enemy.
Hitler - the German Messiah
Dietrich Eckart was a close friend of Hitler. The dictator called him his mentor, erected several monuments and even dedicated Mein Kampf. And all because it was Eckart who called Hitler the messiah.
Dietrich, like almost all Nazis, was a member of the Thule Society, which specialized in the occult. He believed that an Aryan messiah was to be born in Germany, who would lead his nation to heaven on earth. He considered Hitler such a messiah.
It was Eckart who informed Hitler that great harm could be done to the Germans by Jews who would try to profit from their misfortune.
The Nazis thought they knew how the universe began. It was like this - two huge stars collided, causing a huge amount of ice to scatter around them. This guess was called the World Ice Theory. It was created by Hans Horbiger, who claimed that he saw his theory in a dream. The prerequisite for such an assumption was the Moon, which, according to the scientist, consists of ice.
The theory was very well received by the Germans. Hitler even ordered the opening of a special museum telling a new story of the origin of the Universe. And Himmler sent archaeologists around the world to look for evidence of this. The theory was so successful not because anyone took it seriously, but because it contradicted official science, which was considered “Jewish.”
There was a secret office in Berlin with the word “SM” written on the door. The inscription was deciphered as “Sidereal pendulum”. Behind this door sat occult specialists who, using magical pendulums, searched for enemy ships.
The Nazis took up this project only because they were sure that the British already had their own psychics searching for German military equipment. However, the British secret was different - they managed to hack Enigma, which made it possible to listen to encoded reports of the fascist army.
Strange things began when a man named Ludwig Staniak used a pendulum to find an attacked German battleship. Of course, this greatly encouraged the Nazis.
If you believe Himmler’s personal astrologer Wilhelm Wulff, Himmler not only looked for people with magical abilities, but also considered himself one of them. In particular, he claimed that he could predict the future. Himmler said that he made all decisions only after looking at a star chart and finding out the positions of the stars and the Moon. He even exercised command of the Nazi army in this way.
Soon it was Himmler who banned astrology in Germany. He said that this was too much power and should not be available to everyone.
Karl Wiligut, Brigadier Fuhrer of the SS, believed that the roots of German culture go back to the 228th century BC, when three suns shone in the sky and dwarfs and giants roamed the Earth. Jesus, in his opinion, was also a German, and his real name was Christ.
He considered himself a descendant of the ancient god of royal blood. Few people believed Wiligut's stories. And if Himmler had not bought them, then, probably, the name of the alternative historian would have remained unknown.
On May 10, 1941, Rudolf Hess, Deputy Fuhrer, went on a diplomatic mission to Scotland, where he planned to meet with representatives of the British government and the Duke of Hamilton. This was a real betrayal and betrayal of the German government.
The reason that pushed Hess to take this action turned out to be simple - the astrologer told him to do it. Card Haushofer, a friend of Rudolf, told him that he had a dream in which Hess managed to make peace between Germany and Great Britain. This was supposed to happen when six planets were in Taurus and the Moon was full. That day turned out to be May 10th. That is why Hess went to Scotland, confident in the correctness of his action.
However, the British government was not aware of the visitor's plans. Therefore, Hess was captured and imprisoned, where he spent the rest of the war. After this incident, Hitler issued a decree banning occultists, healers and astrologers in Germany.
Even after Hitler's ban, Himmler continued to use the services of people with supernatural powers. For example, to find Mussolini, he found several occultists and put them in prison, promising to release them only after they found the right person.
One of the prisoners reported that Mussolini was located west of Naples on an island. It is believed that this information turned out to be false. And it was possible to find Mussolini only thanks to the interception of enemy communications. However, Himmler kept his own team of psychics a secret from everyone throughout World War II.
Hitler and most of his associates firmly believed in the occult sciences. Since the time of the pharaohs, authorities and intelligence services have closely monitored various psychics and people with more or less sensitive complexities - they recruited them into service in order to use them in their own interests, or forced them to carry out orders.
The beginning of the 20th century was marked by an unprecedented outbreak of interest in everything otherworldly and related phenomena of spiritualism, clairvoyance and other things. It must be said that in Germany in general, over the centuries, mysticism has always been very developed: true magicians and seers were repeatedly born and appeared there, accurately predicting the fate of both individuals and the country as a whole.
Adolf Hitler became especially imbued with the mystical spirit during the Viennese period of his life, even before the First World War. At that time, the two most famous occult schools existed in Germany and Austria. The first was headed by Guido von List (1848-1918) - his teaching and practice boiled down to various mystical interpretations of Scandinavian runes and all kinds of predictions on this basis. According to some information that has not yet been fully confirmed, the young and then unknown Adolf Hitler allegedly turned to one of Guido von List’s students to predict his fate, and he predicted a great future for him.
The second school developed under the leadership of Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels (1874-1954), who was also a former Catholic monk, or in Russian, Joseph Lanz. Mystical ideas of racism and “sacred German blood” reigned in this occult school. Lanz published the popular magazine Ostara in Austria, in which the main driving force of history declared war between the “blond master race” - the Heldings, from the German “hald” - hero, and other inferior races - the “affelings”, from the German “affe” - monkey. He called on the Heldings to avoid the “ape-like” and to prevent mixed marriages, considering the relationship of a “normal” woman with a subhuman to be a disgrace for the master race. Lanz called on representatives of the “superior race” to practice polygamy - do not care about church morality, the number of “pure Aryans” must be increased and tests for “purity of blood” must be introduced.
It immediately becomes clear how many delusional ideas the future Fuhrer gleaned from this magazine, which was published until 1914; it has been absolutely established that Hitler regularly read Lanz’s publication when he lived in Vienna. At the same time, he became addicted to constantly resorting to the services of astrologers - first, cheap street semi-charlatans and outright scammers from wretched “salons”, of which there were a great many in the pre-war period, and then, as his popularity and income grew, he began to enjoy the attention of truly authoritative specialists in this field. areas.
After the end of the First World War, German astrologers in the 20s and early 30s of the 20th century united into two societies. The first was the “Astrological Society of Germany” with headquarters in Leipzig, and the second was the “Central Astrological Office”, located in Düsseldorf.
At that time, Hitler was already in Munich and was actively striving for power. Being a mystic by nature, he began to increasingly turn to German astrologers for predictions and constantly received favorable forecasts from them. It is worth noting that the Fuhrer himself possessed a certain gift of foresight, which more than once surprised his entourage and the Wehrmacht generals. It was he who predicted the date of death of American President Roosevelt, although for some reason this fact is usually attributed to some unknown seer.
Moreover, under the auspices of the SS during the Second World War in Nazi Germany, they even created a special, strictly classified bureau of various occult sciences, in which famous German parapsychologists, psychics and clairvoyants were brought in to work. For a long time this was the subject of constant ridicule, especially from Soviet official sources. However, at the same time, almost all the special services of each of the countries of the anti-Hitler coalition worked with sensitive people in the strictest secrecy. The Soviet state security agencies were no exception. And in the post-war period, and especially now, such cooperation is even reported in the open press.
Before coming to power, Hitler constantly not only asked, but quite openly demanded the help of astrologers in achieving his goals. Most of them, if only for the sake of self-preservation, dutifully provided the Fuhrer with the help he required. Of course, it is very difficult to evaluate its real results, but astrologers and sensitives tried their best and showed the Nazis their zeal and helpfulness. However, as soon as the Fuhrer received what he wanted from the masters of occult sciences, he immediately sharply limited any of their public activities. He even ordered Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler to immediately close all popular publications in this direction.
What is the reason for such a sharp “swaying” from side to side? Most likely, the mystical Fuhrer was terrified of negative otherworldly influences and did not want to allow anyone to predict the future, which he intended to single-handedly determine for the entire nation. Moreover, among the recognized oracles of the Reich and other European countries there were insightful seers, many of whom paid a very high price, giving their lives for the prophecies they made negative for Hitler.
In our country, the most famous case is that of the once very popular psychic and entertainer Wolf Messing, who predicted before World War II the inevitable collapse of the Third Reich and the death of Hitler. This prediction was made by him in Warsaw, where he was then living, and when the Germans occupied the western part of Poland, Messing was immediately arrested by the SS. Only by miracle did he manage to escape from prison and escape to the USSR, where he lived for the rest of his life.
However, many very serious prophetic predictions were made long before Messing and were distinguished by much greater detail and stunning accuracy of the forecasts.
Astrologer and clairvoyant Wilhelm Wulff from Hamburg made his prophecy around the end of 1928 - beginning of 1929, when Hitler's National Socialist Party was on an unprecedented rise and became the second largest party in Germany. He confidently predicted that within the next five years the Nazis would inevitably come to power in the country in a completely bloodless way. But then they will immediately shed rivers of blood, destroying themselves: many of those who were the first among them will be the first to go to their graves. Then for several years there will come a period of high-profile victories for Hitler, and to the surprise of the whole world he will easily be able to conquer large countries and numerous nations - starting wars of his own free will, he will win them in a matter of days!
The big march to the northeast will be disastrous for the Nazis, where unprecedented gigantic battles will take place and millions of German graves will remain. Soon Germany will find itself in the mortal grip of a difficult war on two fronts: with hordes of Asians armed to the teeth and opponents who sailed from overseas. Many German cities will lie in ruins, all of Europe will be flooded with waves of blood and violence, and then the turn of unprecedented political changes will come.
The Nazi swastika will be defeated and destroyed by the red color, the Gallic rooster and the British lion. The surviving Nazi leaders will face a shameful death, and Hitler himself, trying to avoid it, will die under mysterious and enigmatic circumstances no later than May 7, 1945.
By and large, this is simply a fantastic prediction in its insight. Wulff was only mistaken by a few days in determining the exact date of Adolf Hitler's death - the Fuhrer died on April 30, 1945.
Having learned about the prediction of the Hamburg soothsayer, the Fuhrer was shocked to the core: a mystic himself, he blindly believed in the inevitability of destiny, but never wanted to believe Wulff’s gloomy prophecy for the Nazis.
“The corrupt scribblers shouldn’t get wind of this,” Hitler routinely repeated.
“I’ll take over the newspapers,” Hess promised.
“Yes, of course,” Hitler shrank chillily in his chair. “We cannot allow this blatant Jewish lie to spread throughout Germany and beyond. Fate does not exist with complete unconditionality; you can always make your own amendments to it!
“We will certainly do this,” Himmler immediately assured. — Hamburg is a dangerous city!
Thus, the Nazis sealed the fate of the oracle itself. Not only the prediction, but even the name sank into oblivion for many years and was carefully consigned to oblivion in Germany, and the contents of the prophecy became a state secret of the Third Reich.
About a year later, there was a new, completely unexpected blow to Hitler and National Socialism from foreign clairvoyants. At that time, the prophetess Boriska Silbgner, who was widely popular, lived in Hungary. And so, in 1930, a message came from Budapest: Boriska predicted the victory of the Nazis and the onset of their power in Germany in the next two or three years, and by the beginning of the forties - a new world war, the terrifying fire of which would burn almost all of Europe and reach the most remote corners East and West.
According to the prophecy of the Hungarian clairvoyant, Germany and its allies, despite all their efforts, will suffer a terrible defeat in this war. The National Socialist Party would lose all power and disappear altogether in the mid-1940s. At the same time, Adolf Hitler will face inevitable death.
Boriska's popularity in Hungary was comparable, perhaps, to the popularity of the post-war woman Vanga in Bulgaria, so the Fuhrer could only helplessly gnash his teeth. However, no amount of popularity could have stopped him, but Silbgner lived in Hungary, in another state, and Hitler had not yet come to power. However, he ordered that everything be done immediately so that Boriska’s prediction would not be written about in the newspapers and it would not become known in Germany. Later, after 1933, the Fuhrer gave the order to destroy the prophetess.
In 1932, another clairvoyant named Renald, when Adolf Hitler approached him with a direct question about the future, answered the leader of the National Socialists just as directly:
“I see quite clearly how much grief, blood and tears you will bring to unfortunate Germany and to the whole world in general.”
With this, he also signed his own death warrant, which was not subject to appeal: the Fuhrer was merciless towards those who predicted his collapse.
In 1933, the Nazis became the main political force in the Vaterland, and Hitler took power into his own hands. By the end of this year, many German astrologers either completely stopped their work, or perfectly understood and clearly understood what can and cannot be said or predicted in the new Reich if you want to save your head and the heads of your family and friends.
A number of leading experts in the field of astrology and other occult sciences willingly went into the service of the Nazis and, without blinking an eye, gave long-term forecasts about the bright future of the Third Reich and its upcoming great victories. The undesirable and intractable disappeared without a trace or ended up in concentration camps, and gloomy and unfavorable prophecies about the fate of the Reich and the Fuhrer became a great secret...
"Undoubtedly, every National Socialist must sooner or later come to terms with the so-called 'occult' facts." Newspaper "Reichswart", August 30, 1937. The worst thing in the fight against such an enemy as Nazism is not the answers to the questions. The worst thing is when they pretend that no questions exist at all.
When you start reading about the Nazi space project Aldebaran, it's hard to help think that it's all just science fiction. But as soon as you come across information about the same project in the name of Wernher von Braun, you become a little uneasy. For SS Standartenführer Wernher von Braun, many years after the Second World War, was not just anyone, but one of the key figures in the American project to fly to the moon. It is, of course, much closer to the Moon than to the planet Aldebaran. But, as we know, the flight to the Moon took place.
So there are questions, and there are many of them. It's all about who will answer them and how.
Here are just a few.
What was the SS expedition looking for, which took place under the auspices of the occult and mystical organization Ahnenerbe, in distant Tibet in 1938? And why were the SS men allowed to go where the Europeans were not allowed to go?
What goals did another SS expedition pursue – not just anywhere, but to Antarctica?
Why, in the last years of the war, did the Fuhrer throw the main finances of the Reich not into tanks and planes, but into mysterious and rather illusory projects of the same Ahnenerbe? Does this mean that the projects were already on the verge of implementation?
Why was the interrogation of SS Standartenführer Wolfram Sievers, the Ahnenerbe Secretary General, so abruptly interrupted at the Nuremberg trials as soon as he began to name names? And why was a simple SS colonel so hastily shot among the most important war criminals of the Third Reich?
Why exactly did Dr. Cameron, who was present in Nuremberg as part of the American delegation and studied the activities of Ahnenerbe, then head the CIA Blue Bird project, within the framework of which developments were carried out on psychoprogramming and psychotronics?
Why does the American military intelligence report, dated 1945, say in the preamble that all Ahnenerbe activities were pseudoscientific in nature, while the report itself records, for example, such a “pseudoscientific” achievement as the successful fight against a cancer cell?
What is this strange story about the discovery of the corpses of Tibetan monks in SS uniforms in Hitler's bunker at the end of the war?
Why did Ahnenerbe urgently seize the documentation of scientific laboratories and any secret societies, along with the archives of special services in each of the countries that had just been captured by the Wehrmacht?
Early nineteenth century. The daughter of a Russified German, Helena Blavatsky, between Europe and America. On the way, she visits Egypt and Tibet. Blavatsky is a great adventurer, she knows that the key to her success is constant movement. Where she lingers for even a few months, a trail of scandals and revelations is immediately created behind her, like a comet, including the revelation of the very earthly mechanisms of her “clairvoyance” and “summoning spirits.” Blavatsky quickly became fashionable. Europe was waiting for something like this, and it appeared.
To begin with, Blavatsky told the world that she had observed flying Buddhist monks in Tibet. There, in Tibet, some secret knowledge was allegedly revealed to her. Madame Blavatsky tried to present them in the book “The Secret Doctrine,” combining in it all possible information about Eastern occultism and Hinduism with the latest news of science. It turned out unusual and attractive to contemporaries who were expecting either the end of the world or the second coming.
It was Blavatsky who dictated the dangerous fashion of linking practical science, Eastern occultism and traditional European mysticism. If her ideas had not gone beyond the boundaries of European secular salons, the disaster, perhaps, would not have happened. But the recipe for the explosive mixture also came to Germany.
Historians are absolutely right when in school textbooks they explain the prerequisites for Hitler’s rise to power by the difficult socio-economic conditions of Germany at that time, the geopolitical consequences of defeat in the First World War, the disappointment and resentment of the army, and revanchist sentiments in society. But the main thing that united all this was national humiliation.
A nervous young man who wanted to become an artist stood for hours in front of a “magic spear” exhibited in a Vienna museum. It was believed that whoever owned this spear could rule the world. And this former soldier really wanted to rule the world, because he lived in poverty, and his artistic talents were not recognized as talents. Who could be more dangerous than such a young man? And into whose other head can the darkest magical formulas and mystical ideas be implanted so easily?
In any case, when the army counterintelligence informant Adolf Schicklgruber attended meetings of the secret society "Hermanenorden", his psyche was already sensitive to unusual spells and ritual rites. In turn, key figures of secret societies very quickly noticed a suitable candidate for the post of future leader of the nation. The network of these secret societies actually developed the mechanism of the fascist regime.
As you know, Hitler wrote “Mein Kampf” in a Munich prison after the failed Nazi putsch. He was in prison with Rudolf Hess. And Professor Haushofer, one of the most influential people in the Thule society, visited them there. The professor liked Hitler, after which the leadership of Thule set his political career in motion. And while still in prison, Dr. Haushofer began to read some mysterious lectures to future leaders, which prompted Hitler to engage in literary work.
And here another question arises in addition to the above list - extremely important in order to understand what happened in the “Third Reich”. Was the faith of the highest SS hierarchs in everything mystical and otherworldly sincere?
It seems like both yes and no. On the one hand, the leaders of National Socialism understood perfectly well what a strong effect, from the point of view of managing people, all these medieval visions with the Holy Grail, flaming torches and so on could give. And here they exploited typical German romanticism with typical German pragmatism.
On the other hand, the daily performance of occult rituals and complete immersion in mysticism could hardly pass without leaving a mark on their own psyche.
And finally, third. Throughout their years in power, the Nazis experienced an unaccountable fear of future retribution. Wasn't the fascination with mysticism the drug that helped to drown out this fear, at least for a moment?
The world of mystical hobbies of the future Fuhrer was most likely wretched and painful. But the very makeup of his psyche fully corresponded to the demands that the people who put forward him had. Just like Himmler’s mentality. Despite all the doubts that the SS chief was able to master the rather complicated and heavy presentations of Madame Blavatsky, he could have heard about her ideas at least from his party comrades. But there is no doubt that the Reichsfuehrer appreciated them. Moreover, this provincial schoolteacher sincerely considered himself the Prussian King Henry in a new reincarnation (he was captured at the end of the Second World War, when Himmler made his way to the grave of his ancient namesake). According to the testimony of some of his associates, including the commander of the Belgian SS division de Grel, there was no other leader in the Reich who so sincerely and passionately wanted to eradicate Christianity in the world.
Whether the Fuhrers sincerely believed in the occult or not, in any case, these people, apparently, were eager to engage in practical black magic in the national, and then preferably worldwide.
Researchers who are trying to grasp some kind of system in the mystical ideas of the hierarchs of the “Third Reich” and explain a huge number of strange mysteries - the history of secret orders and societies like “Hermanenorden” and “Thule”, the development of nuclear and psychotronic weapons, difficult-to-explain expeditions under the auspices of the SS, say, to Tibet - these researchers make one serious mistake. Analyzing the events and comparing them, they proceed from the fact that the leaders of the Reich were people who had learned a certain secret, were initiated into something serious, and had mastered - at least partially - Tibetan secret knowledge. But the Fuhrers were not like that! And this concerns, first of all, Hitler himself, who, solely on the basis of his “clairvoyance,” forbade the continuation of the development of the FAU project at the very moment when success was already looming on the horizon. Yes, the Wehrmacht generals and scientists were close to suicide when they heard about this “epiphany” and the leader’s order!
Finding out which of the researchers is right - those looking for a secret meaning or insisting on a purely materialistic explanation of what happened - is a thankless task, because the truth does not belong to either one or the other. The future leaders of the “Third Reich” were simply faced with things and matters that they were unable to understand, much less manage, due to their lack of any serious educational base. Namely, it serves as a kind of protective barrier for any person interested in the otherworldly and mystical. With illiterate and insufficiently educated people, the “other world” is capable of playing too cruel jokes, completely subordinating their consciousness and paralyzing their will.
It seems that something similar happened with the not very literate leaders of the Reich. They became blind prisoners of their own hallucinoid ideas about the world of the mystical and unknown. And using their example, the so-called subtle world very clearly demonstrated that it is not worth experimenting with it without special preparation.
What happened in the Reich is very reminiscent of one of the Strugatsky novels, where on a distant planet a society in the early stages of development suddenly encounters modern technology. And the slaves there are busy sitting in the machines and turning all the knobs in a row until the right lever is blindly found.
Now let’s remember the Nazi concentration camps with pseudo-medical experiments on people that were incomprehensible neither in their meaning nor in their cruelty. Meanwhile, everything is not very complicated: these are theorists from the Ahnenerbe - one of the most mysterious mystical organizations, either existing under the control of the SS, or even managing the SS itself - trying to squeeze out some kind of secret knowledge of Eastern occultism and European mystics practically applicable theories. For example, they were very interested in the so-called “blood magic”. And in the concentration camps, doctors subordinate to the SS - and, therefore, to all the crazy ideas that were born in the depths of this organization - were already trying to put the same blood magic into practice.
More often than not, nothing worked. But they had a mass of human material, which could be experimented with without any restrictions. And as often happens in experimental sciences, it is not possible to achieve the initially set goal, but instead the conveyor belt of endless experiments leads to other - unexpected - side results.
Perhaps the alchemists in the black SS uniform (and all the employees of the same Ahnenerbe were members of the SS and had the corresponding ranks) worked blindly, and therefore any practical results they achieved can be considered accidental. But the question is not whether it was an accident or not. The question is that, in many ways, there were results. We just almost don’t know what...
Aggressive materialists simply try to ignore obvious mysteries. You can believe in mysticism, you can not believe in it. And if we were talking about fruitless spiritualistic sessions of ecstatic aunts, it is unlikely that Soviet and American intelligence would have spent enormous effort and risked their agents to find out what was happening at these sessions. But according to the recollections of veterans of Soviet military intelligence, its leadership was very interested in any approaches to Ahnenerbe.
Meanwhile, getting close to Ahnenerbe was an extremely difficult operational task: after all, all the people of this organization and their contacts with the outside world were under the constant control of the security service - SD, which in itself speaks volumes. So today it is not possible to get an answer to the question whether we or the Americans had their own Stirlitz inside Ahnenerbe. But if you ask why, you'll run into another strange mystery. Despite the fact that the vast majority of intelligence operations during the Second World War are now declassified (with the exception of those that subsequently led to the work of active agents in the post-war years), everything related to developments on Ahnenerbe is still surrounded by secrecy.
But there is, for example, evidence from the already mentioned Miguel Serrano, one of the theorists of national mysticism, a member of the Thule secret society, whose meetings Hitler attended. In one of his books, he claims that the information received by the Ahnenerbe in Tibet significantly advanced the development of atomic weapons in the Reich. According to his version, Nazi scientists even created some prototypes of a combat atomic charge, and the Allies discovered them at the end of the war. The source of the information, Miguel Serrano, is interesting if only because for several years he represented his homeland Chile in one of the UN commissions on nuclear energy.
And secondly, immediately in the post-war years, the USSR and the USA, having seized a significant part of the secret archives of the “Third Reich,” made almost parallel breakthroughs in time in the field of rocket science, the creation of atomic and nuclear weapons, and in space research. And they begin to actively develop qualitatively new types of weapons. Also, immediately after the war, the two superpowers were particularly active in research in the field of psychotronic weapons.
So comments that claim that the Ahnenerbe archives, by definition, could not contain anything serious do not stand up to criticism. And in order to understand this, you don’t even need to study them. It is enough to get acquainted with what was the responsibility of the Ahnenerbe organization by its president Heinrich Himmler. And this, by the way, is a total search of all archives and documents of national special services, scientific laboratories, Masonic secret societies and occult sects, preferably all over the world. A special Ahnenerbe expedition was immediately sent to each newly occupied country by the Wehrmacht. Sometimes they didn’t even expect occupation. In special cases, the tasks assigned to this organization were carried out by SS special forces. And it turns out that the Ahnenerbe archive is not at all theoretical research by German mystics, but a multilingual collection of a wide variety of documents captured in many states and related to very specific organizations.
Part of this archive was discovered in Moscow several years ago. This is the so-called Lower Silesian archive “Ahnenerbe”, taken by Soviet troops during the assault on Altan Castle. But this is a small part of all Ahnenerbe archives. Some military historians believe that much of it fell into American hands. This is probably true: if you look at the location of Ahnenerbe departments, most of them were located in the western part of Germany.
Our part has not yet been seriously studied by anyone; there is not even a detailed inventory of documentation. The word “Ahnenerbe” itself is known to few people today. But the evil genie, who was released from the bottle by the black magicians of the SS and Ahnenerbe, did not die along with the Third Reich, but remained on our planet.
edited news olqa.weles - 25-02-2012, 08:06
