"A dense and scholarly book about... the relationship between the Nazi party and the occult... reveals stranger-than-fiction truths on every page." -- Daily Telegraph

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.

"[Kurlander] shows how swiftly irrational ideas can take hold, even in an age before social media." -- The Washington Post

"Deeply researched, convincingly authenticated, this extraordinary study of the magical and supernatural at the highest levels of Nazi Germany will astonish." -- The Spectator

"A trustworthy [book] on an extraordinary subject." -- The Times

"A fascinating look at a little-understood aspect of fascism." -- Kirkus Reviews

"Kurlander provides a careful, clear-headed, and exhaustive examination of a subject so lurid that it has probably scared away some of the serious research it merits." -- National Review

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