-Caveat Lector-
In a message dated 11/17/99 1:29:11 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> The Nazi attitude toward the occult was contradictory and paradoxical, as
> was everything associated with the Third Reich. When Reinhard Heydrich was
> named to head the Sicherheitsdienst (SD, the SS Security Service) in 1935,
> his first act was to ban every form of popular and elite occultism, from
> Tarot card readers to the Thule-Gesellschaft. At the same time, however,
the
> SS itself was promulgating its own highly esoteric occultism, centered on
> the Wewelsburg in Westphalia in the heart of Nibelung country. There,
> Himmler gathered his generals for meditation and seances, seeking to raise
> the shades of the heroes of Germany's past... It seems that the Nazis were
> not so much outlawing superstition and fakery when they banned occultism,
as
> they were eliminating actual or potential rivals (such as Rudolph Steiner's
> Anthroposophy).
Truly this is the difference in form from Heydrich and Himmler. Himmler
"seems" to have been much more inclined towards hedging his bets on occultism
and was much more credible in these matters than Heydrich who was a pragmatic
materialist (at least so far as we know). It is probably a really good thing
that Heydrich was offed and Himmler was the main man because the war would
have been worse. Incidentally I don't buy the British offing of Heydrich
story, and attribute his death to more of a mystery, perhaps with Himmler
behind it or other members of the Nazi party.
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