Nazi mysticism in popular culture

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Representations of the Ahnenerbe and Nazi mysticism are common in fantasy fiction, and they have become part of the background several conspiracy theories.

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[edit] Representations, studies and depictions in modern popular culture

[edit] Documentary

The History Channel’s The Occult History of the Third Reich
The History Channel’s The Occult History of the Third Reich
  • Schwarze Sonne documentary by Rüdiger Sünner. Sünner also produced a book to accompany this documentary.
  • Nazis: The Occult Conspiracy (1998), directed by Tracy Atkinson and Joan Baran, narrated by Malcolm McDowell.
  • The Occult History of the Third Reich, Starring: Patrick Allen, Director: Dave Flitton
    • Adolf Hitler - Occult History Of The Third Reich
    • The SS: Blood And Soil - Occult History Of The Third Reich
    • Himmler The Mystic - Occult History Of The Third Reich
    • The Enigma Of The Swastika - Occult History Of The Third Reich
  • "Decoding the Past" Episode: The Nazi Prophecies" by the History Channel [1] [2]
  • Hitler and the Occult by the History Channel [3]
  • The Riddle Of Rudolph Hess/Himmler's Castle: Wewelsburg
  • In 1994, Channel 4 ran a Michael Wood documentary entitled Hitler's Search for the Holy Grail, as part of its "Secret History" series. [4]
  • Unsolved Mysteries of World War II: Occult & Secrets, also known as Volume 3 in the series.
    • Rudolf Hess (Occult)
    • Hitler's Secret Weapons
    • Enigma of the Swastika (Occult)
    • Himmler's Castle: Wewelsburg (Occult)
    • The Last Days of Hitler
    • Decision At Dunkirk/Stalin's Secret Armies

(Different editions have different episodes) [5] [6] [7] [8]

  • Hans-Jürgen Syberberg's Hitler - Ein Film aus Deutschland (Hitler, A Film From Germany), 1977. Originally presented on German television, this is a 7-hour work in 4 parts : The Grail; A German Dream; The End Of Winter's Tale; We, Children Of Hell. The director uses documentary clips, photographic backgrounds, puppets, theatrical stages, and other elements from almost all the visual arts, with the "actors" addressing directly the audience/camera, in order to approach and expand on this most taboo subject of European history of the 20th century.

[edit] Film

Thule member Prof. Kroenen, from the 2004 Hellboy
Thule member Prof. Kroenen, from the 2004 Hellboy
  • Nazi occult-hunters have been featured in the Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones films. The Ahnenerbe organization was the basis for the Nazi archaeologist villains in these movies. They involve several plots related to Nazi mysticism, especially as related to archaeology. As one of the characters in Raiders of the Lost Ark says, Hitler is "obsessed with the occult."
  • The Thule Society (including some of their most known members) plays an important role in the Fullmetal Alchemist movie.
  • Hellboy touches upon a fictional group of mysticist Nazis bent on summoning forces from other dimensions.
  • Invincible (2001 film)
  • Unholy [1]

[edit] Games

  • The computer game Wolfenstein 3D and its sequel, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, featured plotlines involving Nazi obsession with the occult. It portrays an organization (SS Paranormal Division) based on the Ahnenerbe practicing occult rituals and magic.
  • The video game BloodRayne involves a plotline concerning the Thule society and its members, and features a lot of in-game Thule society imagery.
  • A fictional division of the Ahnenerbe, the Karotechia, has a prominent place in the mythology of the Delta Green setting for the role playing game Call of Cthulhu, and stories based upon the setting. In it, the survivors of the Karotechia, a group founded to study occult tomes and conduct magical research, live on in South America, training sorcerers and cultists to found the Fourth Reich, all under the sway of Hitler's ghost (actually Nyarlathotep in disguise).
  • In the game Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb there is a castle in which there are Gestapo agents searching an occult castle in Prague for items of Occult value.

[edit] Literature

‘The Black Sun’ by James Twining - note the incorrect direction the Schwarze Sonne (Black Sun) is facing
‘The Black Sun’ by James Twining - note the incorrect direction the Schwarze Sonne (Black Sun) is facing
‘The Spear’ by James Herbert
‘The Spear’ by James Herbert
    • The Danger Girl comic book features as its villains a modern-day Nazi group called 'The Hammer', which intends to use occult artifacts from Atlantis to establish a Fourth Reich.
  • James Herbert's novel, The Spear, deals with a neo-Nazi cult in Britain and an international conspiracy which includes a right-wing US general and a sinister arms dealer, and their obsession with and through the occult with resurrecting Himmler.
  • Katherine Kurtz’s novel Lammas Night presents Nazis as powerful magicians who must be opposed by British witches.
  • The villains of Clive Cussler's novel Atlantis Found are modern Nazis who operate out of a secret base in Antarctica who are linked to the ancient culture of Atlantis.
  • The Island of Thule is an important location in the Silver Age Sentinels superhero role playing game and collections of short stories based upon the game. It was raised from the Atlantic Ocean by Kreuzritter (“Crusader”), a Nazi superhuman who wears a mystical suit of armor made by a long-disappeared Aryan culture.
  • Kouta Hirano's manga series Hellsing features Millennium, a group of Nazis with the purpose of creating a reich that will last a thousand years (in accordance with Hitler's vision). This organization is heavily mystical, including among its number a werewolf, a catboy, and an army of 1,000 vampires known as the Letztes Bataillon ("Last Battalion"). It is led by a former SS officer whose true intention is the pursuit of absolute war.
  • James Twining - The Black Sun [9]
  • James Rollins - Black Order
  • Charles Stross features the fictitious Ahnenerbe activities in his The Atrocity Archives
  • Daniel Easterman's 1985 literate best-seller, The Seventh Sanctuary, features the Ahnenerbe and a Nazi city in the Saudi desert, where the Ark of the Covenant has been discovered, and from which it is planned that a Fourth Reich will be created.
  • J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series has references to a Dark Wizard named "Grindelwald" who was defeated by Albus Dumbledore in 1945. This has led to speculation among Rowling's fans that Grindelwald may have been a Nazi of some sort.
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