Hitlers monsters : a supernatural history of the Third Reich The Supernatural Roots of Nazism : Ario Germanic Religion Border Science and the Austro German Occult Revival 1889 1914 From the Thule Society to the NSDAP : Fashioning the Nazi Supernatural Imaginary 1912 24 Exploiting Hitlers Magic : From Weimars Horrors to Visions of the Third Reich The Third Reichs War on the Occult : Anti Occultism Hitlers Magicians Controversy and the Hess Action The Stars Come Down to Frozen Earth : Border Science in the Third Reich Lucifers Court : Ario Germanic Paganism Indo Aryan Spirituality and the Nazi Search for Alternative Religions The Supernatural and the Second World War : Folklore and Border Science in Foreign Policy Propaganda and Military Operations Monstrous Science : Racial Resettlement Human Experiments and the Holocaust Nazi Twilight : Miracle Weapons Supernatural Partisans and the Collapse of the Third Reich The definitive history of the supernatural in Nazi Germany exploring the occult ideas esoteric sciences and pagan religions touted by the Third Reich in the service of power. The Nazi fascination with the occult is legendary yet today it is often dismissed as Himmlers personal obsession or wildly overstated for its novelty. Preposterous though it was however supernatural thinking was inextricable from the Nazi project. The regime enlisted astrology and the paranormal paganism Indo Aryan mythology witchcraft miracle weapons and the lost kingdom of Atlantis in reimagining German politics and society and recasting German science and religion. In this eye opening history Eric Kurlander reveals how the Third Reichs relationship to the supernatural was far from straightforward. Even as popular occultism and superstition were intermittently rooted out suppressed and outlawed the Nazis drew upon a wide variety of occult practices and esoteric sciences to gain power shape propaganda and policy and pursue their dreams of racial utopia and empire