Unholy Alliance: A History of Nazi Involvement with the OccultEngagingly written, Unholy Alliance is a comprehensive, popular history of the occult background and roots of the Nazi movement, showing how the ideas of a vast international network of late 19th- and early 20th-century occult groups influenced Nazi ideology. Levenda takes readers through the teachings of Madame Blavatsky, Aleister Crowley, the Thule Gesellschaft - the occult secret society that formed the ideological heart of the early Nazi Party - the Order of the Golden Dawn, and the Order of the Eastern Temple and demonstrates how each influenced Nazi ideology. He also details the expedition to Tibet of the Ancestral Heritage Research and Teaching Society, comprised of the same SS officers who would later be involved in grisly medical experiments on concentration camp prisoners. Levenda traces the Nazis' movements as they continued their activities after the war or morphed into neo-Nazi, skinhead, and satanic groups, such as the Christian Identity and White Aryan Resistance movements. Levenda's is not only a "major work of investigative reporting," but also the striking story of the unholy alliance between politics and religion - or politics and occultism - that has dominated events in Europe and the Americas since World War I, with all its implications for continuing racial and religious violence in Europe, Asia, and the Americas. |
Contents
Foreword to the Second Edition by Norman Mailer 153 | 5 |
At the Mountains of Madness | 13 |
One Of Blood Sex and the Rune Magicians | 29 |
Two Volk Magic | 55 |
Three The Occult Messiah | 80 |
Sex Spies | 108 |
Five Cult War 19341939 | 141 |
The Ahnenerbe and | 167 |
Nine Cult Counterstrike | 240 |
Ten Walpurgisnacht 1945 | 261 |
Eleven Aftermath | 280 |
Twelve Is Chile Burning? The Overthrow of Allende | 309 |
Thirteen Nazi Occultism Today | 327 |
Hasta La Vista Baby | 354 |
Notes | 367 |
Bibliography | 389 |
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Unholy Alliance: A History of Nazi Involvement with the Occult (New and ... Peter Levenda Limited preview - 2019 |
Unholy Alliance: A History of Nazi Involvement with the Occult (New and ... Peter Levenda Limited preview - 2019 |
Unholy Alliance: A History of Nazi Involvement with the Occult Peter Levenda No preview available - 2002 |
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