Documentary about how many of the Nazi high command, including both Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Himmler, were initiates of a secret society which held top secret meetings and rituals at Wewelsburg Castle in Germany.
Occultism in Nazism
Nazism and occultism describes a range of theories, speculation and research into the origins of Nazism and its possible relation to various occult traditions. Such ideas have been a part of popular culture since at least the early 1940s, and gained renewed popularity starting in the 1960s.
There are documentaries and books on the topic, among the most significant are The Morning of the Magicians (1960) and The Spear of Destiny (1972). Nazism and occultism has also been featured in numerous films, novels, comic books and other fictional media. Perhaps the most prominent example is the film Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981).
Historian Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke analyzed the topic in The Occult Roots of Nazism in which he argued there were in fact links between some ideals of Ariosophy and Nazi ideology. Nicholas also analyzed the problems of the numerous popular “occult historiography” books written on the topic. He sought to separate empiricism and sociology from the “Modern Mythology of Nazi Occultism” that exists in many books which “have represented the Nazi phenomenon as the product of arcane and demonic influence”. He considered most of these to be “sensational and under-researched”.
