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Hitler’s Monsters

A Supernatural History of the Third Reich

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Hitler’s Monsters

By: Eric Kurlander
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
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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.

©2017 Eric Kurlander (P)2017 Blackstone Audio, Inc. 20th Century Europe Germany Military Modern Paranormal Fantasy Magic War Imperialism Middle ages Witchcraft Socialism Social justice Holocaust Mythology Utopian

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This book was interesting and entertaining look to an aspect of nazi germany, which I found to be both absurd and horrifying.

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This book furnishes a surprising number of answers to lingering questions about the more obscure aspects of the Third Reich and Hitler's attempt to reconstruct German society from the base upwards. This including developing a new religion weaved together from the debris of the old Pagan systems and contemporary trends in belief. Although Hitler is viewed as 'evil', Nazism rejects this Judeo-Christian designation and does not recognise its power or relevance to judge his actions or opinions. Hitler's Nazi regime subscribed to a non-scientific interpretation of 'death' and defined in a manner where inflicting it continuously as being appropriate where and when applied to the racial and religious enemies of the Third Reich. Hitler appeared to make bizarre decisions because his value system was entirely different to that already in existence - East or West. The spirit of the racially pure Nazis could express itself at any moment on the physical plane - providing the German Volk were suitably 'purified' through correct racist strategies, rituals and tactics. If the Germans were not racially pure enough - then no spiritual interference would manifest to change Germany's material destiny. Death for Hitler was an empowering act of defiance that ultimately empowered the German race! To Hitler's thinking, if Germany could not meet the spiritual challenge of securing racial dominance in the world - then it does have a right to exist! Mass death for Hitler, was nothing less than a material method for securing spiritually rebirth. He literally 'did not care' about the destruction and the pointless and mindless killing - according to his madness it just had to happen and there was no choice!

Perfect and timely research!

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Please ignore the negative reviews, especially about the book being boring - if you are a high-IQ, literate individual with a capacity for sustained concentration and a profound interest in WW2 you will love this book. If, on the other hand, you are looking for an audiobook version of the History Channel's typically salacious nonsense-on-stilts about Hitler, this isn't the book for you.

Excellent, well-researched and balanced study

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Was looking forward to a nice historical look at how the supernatural beliefs shaped the 3rd reich but the language used, in this book makes every sentence a slog
Gave up after an hour, absolutely a total waste of time. It really feels like the author has add “ology” to the end of every 3rd word and instead of looking smart has made this book feel like decoding the enigma cypher and ,omg, does he drone on! Why use 1 sentence when 15 can be used and imagine all the “ologys’” you can cram in
Avoid at all cost

Unintelligible to anyone not a walking theosaurus

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