New Religions and the Nazis

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Overview

Karla Poewe illuminates an important but neglected part of Nazi history: the contribution of new religions to the emergence of Nazi ideology in 1930s Germany. Looking at traditional German occultism as well as the established Church, this book takes new religions founded in the pre-Nazi and Nazi years, especially Jakob Hauer's German Faith Movement, as indicators of how German fascism distilled aspects of religious doctrine into political extremism. It is researched from original documents, including the SS personnel files held in Berlin's Bundesarchiv.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780415290258
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
  • Publication date: 2/1/2006
  • Edition description: New Edition
  • Pages: 240
  • Product dimensions: 6.10 (w) x 9.10 (h) x 0.60 (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction
2. An Overview
3. Hauer and the Bunde: Becoming a National Socialist
4. The Push toward Nazism: Youths and Leaders
5. Hauer's View of Religion
6. The Germanic-deutsch Leg of Hauer's German Faith
7. Organizational Help from Wehrwolf and the SS
8. Hauer and the War of Attrition against Christianity
9. Werner Best: Hauer's Receiver in the SS
10. The Faith of the Nationalists: Narrative and the Third Reich
11. Scientific Neo-Paganism and the Extreme Right Then and Today
12. Conclusion
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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 8, 2006

    At last real insight into how the Nazis brainwashed Germans

    This is a great book that really helps the reader understand how and why the Nazis acted as they did. It is by far the best book on Nazi ideology that I have read and exposes the real evil of Nazism as well as its seductive power.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 9, 2006

    Great book

    This is a wonderful book that I wish had been available when I was a student. There are things here that I have never seen anywhere else. Reading it one understands National Socialism much better. In particular the fact that the Nazis hated 'Jewish-Christianity' which they saw as a form of 'cultural imperialism' was a real insight to me. I strongly recommend this book to anyone intersted in the history of the twentieth century, cults and new religions, or the way politicians create and manipulate propaganda.

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