A relação do nazismo com crenças ocultistas e a sua transformação em mito após a Segunda Guerra Mundial
Year: 2023
Type: article
Abstract: An idea persists today, stimulated by a certain sensationalist genre of literature (mainly conspiracy theories), that the Nazis and their leader, Adolf Hitler, were inspired by occult and dark agents who operated in Germany and throughout Europe even before its advent to power in the 1930s. This fact evolved into a great post-war fascination with regard to a supposed connection with, for example, occult beliefs, esoteric knowledge and beings from another world. For beginning observers, National Socialism is often seen as a mysterious interlude in history. But to what extent did occult and esoteric ideas actually influence the thinking of Hitler and the Nazis? To answer this question, the aim was to analyze the characteristics of nationalist ideologies and occult beliefs formed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which rooted racist and mythical ideas in German society (superiority of the Aryan race) “preparing the ground” for the ideological formation of the National Socialist party. In addition, we sought to understand how these issues influenced the process of turning Nazism into a myth after the end of World War II, by occult writers and conspiracy theorists.
Source: Espaço Plural
DOI: 10.48075/73ak2169
Author: Marcos Meinerz
Institution: Universidade Estadual do Paraná
Language: English
Subfield: Religious studies
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7171534548