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03626aam a2200397Ii 4500 001 B96B3C68B81011E9A4E5754297128E48 003 SILO 005 20190806010914 008 171003t20182017ctua b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 9780300234541 020 $a 0300234546 035 $a (OCoLC)1005104836 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d MNG $d FMB $d OCLCF $d OCLCA $d KAY $d SILO 043 $a e-gx--- 082 04 $a 943.086 $2 23 100 1 $a Kurlander, Eric, $d 1973- $e author. 245 10 $a Hitler's monsters : $b a supernatural history of the Third Reich / $c Eric Kurlander. 264 1 $a New Haven : $b Yale University Press, $c [2018] 300 $a xxii, 422 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 22 cm 520 $a "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 Himmler's 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 Reich's 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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-406) and index. 505 0 $a 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 Hitler's Magic : From Weimar's Horrors to Visions of the Third Reich -- The Third Reich's War on the Occult : Anti-Occultism, Hitler's Magicians' Controversy, and the Hess Action -- The Stars Come Down to Frozen Earth : Border Science in the Third Reich -- Lucifer's 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. 651 0 $a Germany $x Politics and government $y 1933-1945. $9 54257 650 0 $a Supernatural $x History $z Germany $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Occultism $x History $z Germany $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Paganism $x History $z Germany $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Superstition $x History $z Germany $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a National socialism and occultism $x History. 650 0 $a Religion and politics $z Germany $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Political culture $z Germany $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Popular culture $z Germany $x History $y 20th century. 651 0 $a Germany $x Social conditions $y 1933-1945. $9 253950 941 $a 1 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20220909051246.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=B96B3C68B81011E9A4E5754297128E48 994 $a C0 $b KAYInitiate Another SILO Locator Search