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Review of Forbidden History S06E07: "Hitler's Occult Conspiracy"

5/20/2020

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If you can believe it, this is my 3,000th blog post. What better way to mark this milestone than with an episode of a cable TV pseudohistory show featuring ancient astronauts, lost civilizations, Nephilim, the occult, and glowing descriptions of Nazis? It’s everything we have criticized and debunked over the past ten years in capsule form.
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“For the Nazis, the occult was like oxygen,” pseudohistorical gasbag Andrew Gough intones at the beginning of the season finale of Forbidden History. Occult conspiracy theorist Lynn Picknett excuses the entire political process of systemic failure in Depression-era Germany by adding that the Nazification of Germany wasn’t the result of human failings but was an “occult process” that turned men into monsters. This isn’t true, of course: People are capable for becoming evil on their own, as soon as they no longer recognize other people as fully human and can justify hate and killing. We don’t want to believe that, though. We want to imagine that human evil isn’t their fault, or ours, so we imagine demons and aliens to take the blame. That is fairly common in fringe history circles, but what is less common is the almost lustful way Forbidden History worships that dark power as but a step removed from communion with the divine.
In 1960, Jacques Bergier and Louis Pauwels gave birth to an entire school of pseudohistory centered on Hitler’s alleged involvement with demons and the supernatural power he supposedly wielded. Morning of the Magicians intended these claims to be outré and emotionally rather than literally true, in the winking half-serious way of French literature, but readers took them very seriously. The authors drew on a few real incidents, some Allied propaganda, and imaginary ideas they made up from whole cloth. As I wrote many years ago, “The authors specified that Hitler, while evil, had special access to ‘Superior Beings,’ who were space aliens; that these beings were directly involved in the creation of the Master Race; and that there was a powerful science of alien evil that was directly opposed to ‘Jewish-Liberal science.’” Would it surprise you to learn that Forbidden History replays the false claims from Morning of the Magicians almost beat-for-beat?
 
The show opens with the question of Aryan race theory, and the show mixes Aryan race theory with Ariosophy, an Aryan occult belief system. The two overlap but are not identical. The show focuses, correctly, on Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS, as the source of the Nazi movement’s most extreme occult ideas. (The title of the episode is a lie, as Hitler hardly figures in the hour.) Himmler was indeed an occultist, but it is less clear how much the other Nazi leaders considered occultism any more than a useful propaganda tool. Prof. Eric Kurlander, the author of Hitler’s Monsters, explains some of the steps Himmler took to try to paganize Germany and resurrect pre-Christian “Aryan” beliefs. However, the show doesn’t distinguish clearly between German paganism, scientific racism, and Ariosophy-style occultism. While they overlap, they are not the same, and many Nazis were racists without being occultists, and more celebrated Germanic paganism without being supernatural occultists. Kurlander makes this distinction, but the producers let the point slide right on by as they heavily imply that any interest in paganism or ancient history is prima facie a belief in the diabolical mystical-magical occult. Most of the show is actually about Himmler’s interest in using German paganism to create a pseudohistorical origin for the German people, not about his beliefs in magic and the supernatural.
 
To be entirely honest, despite the show reminding viewers that the Nazis performed evil acts, it’s really hard not to listen to the narration and the narrative without feeling like the show is glorifying a mystical iron bond between antiquity and the Aryan occult. I’m disturbed by the number of times that the narrative talks about the master race and ancient perfection and how such beliefs spoke to the deep needs and emotions of the German people in sound bites and claims that are framed in a worshipful, celebratory manner. I don’t think they did it on purpose, but the producers seem to misunderstand how ideas presented on television read to their audiences. I would argue that if this episode aired on Reich TV on The Man in the High Castle minus a couple of sinister adjectives, I wouldn’t have been surprised. At times it plays like SS propaganda.
 
“The Nazis were great at what we’d call the branding business,” novelist and history writer Guy Walters says. “There is no better brand than the swastika.” I know what he meant, but the show clearly doesn’t. I mean, seriously: Did anyone listen to what they were putting on the air? They sliced and diced soundbites into a torrent of praise for Nazis, and an almost obsequious worship of Nazi aesthetics. The occasional use of words like “twisted” and “nutter” to describe Nazis just don’t quite overcome the glorifying b-roll, the emphatic and enthusiastic descriptions of Nazis, and the decidedly milquetoast reminders that Aryan race theory is racist nonsense.
 
A segment on runes and their connection to SS iconography misidentifies the runes, a system of writing, as a language. Kurland claims that the Nazis believed that early Germans descended from space aliens, but I think he is referring to a Theosophy-style belief in beings from other worlds, which are not space aliens in our sense but spiritual beings inhabiting spheres beyond Earth. In this context, the show is either discussing “Irminism,” a branch of Ariosophy, or “Armanism,” the original doctrine of Ariosophy. It’s hard to tell because the narrator doesn’t pronounce the word clearly. Assuming it is Irminism, I can find no information about that modernized racist German pagan creed having any connection to space aliens. Klint Janulis references Nephilim in this context—because, of course Nephilim—and Gough says that the Nazis believed the seed of the Aryans came to Earth on a meteorite. He seems to have made this up from Hörbiger’s World Ice Theory, which held that humanity originated in a panspermia-style fertilization of the Earth with a meteor full of “divine sperma.” Or, rather, he stole this interpretation from Morning of the Magicians, where the authors spun it into an ancient astronaut theory
 
After this, the show describes the Ahnenerbe’s efforts to prove that Aryans were the true and rightful rulers of the world by dint of their connection to an ancient civilization.
 
Next, we hear that Hitler was a messiah who had powerful demonic connections to the underworld and the powers of Hell. We actually hear someone say that “perhaps it’s real” that Hitler was possessed of satanic magic. Such claims, popularized in the false narrative in Bergier’s and Pauwels’s Morning of the Magicians, were a disturbing effort to excuse Nazism as a supernatural rather than a human evil when first proposed in the 1960s; today, these claims smack of power-worship, especially when the narrator sounds nearly lusty in lauding Hitler’s power, even while using words like “sinister” to describe his actions. Our culture worships power, so evil is no longer a disqualification. Gough seems to orgasm while describing the Nazis’ efforts to use black magic, astrology, and dowsing to win the war, and the show tells us, falsely, that such magic rites worked with what Gough calls “great accuracy.” He seems way too happy to discuss Nazis.
 
The show accepts as true Aleister Crowley’s false claim to have invented the V-sign for victory as a foil to the Nazi swastika. History records that Victor de Laveleye, a former Belgian official working for the BBC, first began using the symbol in Allied propaganda a month before Crowley claimed to have invented it.
 
The succeeding segment describes Wicca, which it conflates with premodern witchcraft, and alleges that Wicca rituals were used in Britain to fight Nazis. The show breathlessly claims that World War II was actually an occult battle of competing light and dark magics. This is an insult to the 75 million people who died in the war, civilians and soldiers alike. They did not die from magic spells.
 
In the last third of the show, we return to Himmler to describe his efforts to create an occult center for Nazism and the SS. If you’ve ever watched a cable pseudohistory show, you’ve already seen Wewelsburg Castle, and you know all about the Arthurian/chivalric ideals Himmler imagined his Aryan knights would uphold. I’m not sure how the writing makes this sound noble, but their use of language accomplishes that dubious feat. Bits of this segment reuse ideas and concepts the show previously explored in its earlier episode from this season on the Nazi quest for the Holy Grail. To his credit—for once!—Gough cuts against the worshipful tone of the segment by emphasizing the (subjective) feelings of evil that he experienced from the supposedly unholy cultic “energy” in the castle. Castles do not have mystical evil energy, but he accurately described the impression the aesthetics of Nazism create when combined with knowledge of the vast crimes of the regime.
 
Weirdly enough, in the final moments, Lynn Picknett admits that most of this occult material is nonsense, not really believed by many Nazis. The other talking heads disagree, though, emphasizing the disputed claim that Nazi Germany was “obsessed” with magic and the occult.
 
The uncomfortably admiring tone of the writing lasts straight through to the end. Consider narrator Eric Meyers’s final rhetorical question: “What went wrong for the Nazis?” he asks. “How did they get so close to world domination only to fall so spectacularly?” On the surface, there is nothing objectively wrong with the question, but in context, with the b-roll of marching Nazis and glamor shots of Hitler, and Meyers’s excited tone, it scans more like a lament for Nazi failure than an honest inquiry into the underlying weaknesses of the Nazi state, particularly when the writing casts World War II not as a battle of Axis and Allies but as a gambit that was Hitler’s to lose if only he had fully mastered occult power.
 
I don’t think that Forbidden History intentionally tried to make a modern Leni Riefenstahl film, but I think the speed with which trash like this is produced, combined with the laziness of the writing and the ethos that b-roll should slap anything interesting on screen, even when it is Nazi propaganda footage recycled uncritically, combines to give the impression that the show stands in awe of the Nazis’ dark power. Sensitive subject matter needs much more careful writing and more careful production values to avoid exactly this situation. Forbidden History needed to think about how the images on screen and the words being spoken and the dramatic music playing under it all combined and the impression that they were unintentionally creating.
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John link
5/20/2020 09:29:30 am

Congrats Jason. That is a huge accomplishment.

I think my brain would be goo if I had to watch that much Ancient Aliens and Knights Templer stuff.

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gdave
5/20/2020 10:18:00 am

"The succeeding segment describes Wicca, which it conflates with premodern witchcraft, and alleges that Wicca rituals were used in Britain to fight Nazis. The show breathlessly claims that World War II was actually an occult battle of competing light and dark magics."

This was the plot of Katherine Kurtz's urban fantasy novel, "Lammas Night". I don't think I've seen that bit of fiction bleed into "factual" occult history before, but if anything, I'm surprised that I haven't encountered it before.

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wakko
5/20/2020 02:01:02 pm

I believe that the lovely Sybil Leek ("Britain's most famous witch", it says right here) was spreading this story around back in the Sixties, at least the part about British witches getting together and warding off German attacks on the island. I'm not sure how much further back the story goes, but pretty much everything about modern witchcraft is newer than they'd like us to think.

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Not the Comte de Saint Germain
5/20/2020 03:42:17 pm

Gerald Gardner, the founder of Wicca, claimed that the coven of witches into which he was initiated performed a ceremony to curse Hitler in 1940, so no doubt that is the origin of the idea.

Whether that coven actually existed is questionable. Gardner claimed that Wicca was a preexisting religion going back to pre-Christian Europe, which he had inherited from the New Forest coven and decided to publicize in the late 1940s. But Wicca seems to be Gardner's own invention, and the woman who Gardner claimed was the head of the coven, Dorothy Clutterbuck, seems to have actually been a highly devout and conventional Anglican.

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wakko
5/22/2020 11:56:21 am

Making up an ancient pedigree for one's new belief system was par for the course at the time. The 18th-century founders of Freemasonry traced their teachings to the building of Solomon's temple, after all. That sort of thing has tended to fall out of fashion in the 21st century, as claiming an authentic history going back half a century or more can be impressive enough. :D

By coincidence, I found a claim by the early-20th century occultist Dion Fortune that during WW2, the lodge magicians of England (descendants of the Golden Dawn) were engaged in magical battles with the evil Continental magicians. With both the witches and the adepts against them, no wonder the Nazis lost! :D

gdave
5/20/2020 11:08:14 pm

@Wakko, @Not the Comte de Saint Germain

Thanks. I was not aware that there were "factual" claims of Wiccans magically defending the UK prior to "Lammas Night".

Poking around a bit more, it seems like there might have actually been proto-Wiccans practicing "magic" as early as the 1930s, so it's at least possible that there were covens performing protective rituals during the Battle of Britain.

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Doc Rock
5/21/2020 10:13:41 am

I vaguely remember some story of witches working to wreck the Spanish Armada to save England. Dunno if it derived from the Battle of Britain story or perhaps the Battle of Britain story derived from it.

T. Franke link
5/20/2020 10:59:03 am

Hitler, Goebbels, Goering, and others were mocking Himmler for his occult ideas. But this is not selling. And real explanations for the Nazi crimes are not as satisfying as occult explanations. Monstrous crimes cry for monstrous reasons. Hannah Arendt hit the point when she talked of the banality of evil.

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E.P. Grondine
5/20/2020 05:27:20 pm

Hi T. Franke -

"Hitler, Goebbels, Goering, and others were mocking Himmler for his occult ideas. "

I expected far better knowledge of German history from you.

This "mocking" did not occur at the beginning of the Nazi Party, which grew out of the Thule Society, which in turn was rooted in German theosophy variants.

It is true that the original Theosophist beliefs in re-incarnation were replaced by the "science" of Eugenics, but this occurred later on.

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Kent
5/20/2020 09:22:46 pm

Strictly speaking it was not then the Nazi Party but I expect H. Franke will set you straight in due course.

Theosophists : Grondine :: Jews : Hitler

I suspect you of labeling anything vaguely New Agey or "occult" as Theosophy and Devil take the hindmost. Chips? Fall where they may!

E.P. Grondine
5/20/2020 10:05:19 pm

Hi Kent -

Ah, but it was the Nazi Party. Its an old problem in new times.

I see you have never read W.K.C. Guthriue's Orpheus and Greek Religion. Guthrie pointed out the risks to society from religions which feature re-incarnation.

We live in a country which has freedom of religion. I just strongly advise against being taken in by theosophist con-men.

So, read Guthrie.

T. Franke link
5/21/2020 06:11:49 am

E.P. Grondine,

it is a modern myth that the Nazi party evolved from the Thule society. None of the known Nazis were ever member of the Thule society, except Rudolf Hess, and he only for a short time. (And from Rosenberg we know that he visited the Thule society once, without being a member.)

Exactly one member of the Thule society took part in founding the DAP party, before Hitler entered this party (allegedly as party member No. 7). Hitler took over this sleepy and hopeless party as an empty organizational hull and re-shaped it completely according to his will. And the Hitler party took over the organizational framework of the Thule newspaper, when the Thule society ceased to exist, renaming it and filling it with completely different contents.

So, there are some organizational connections, but no influence in content on Hitler and his party.

The Thule society had its roots in the Ariosophic swamp, this is true, but there were several steps of founding and re-founding of secessionist groups from the original Ariosophy until the Thule society was founded, abandoning more and more the occult stuff.

By the way, Ariosophy is an Austrian variant of theosophy, not a German variant. Austria is not Germany ... there is a major metaphyiscal difference in this: Germany was held together by Prussia, which meant rationality, order, humanism, modernity, protestantism, and the spirit of the winner, whereas Austria meant catholicism, irrationality, disorder, decay, backwardness, and the spirit of the looser.

Hitler was not much influenced by Ariosophy. His main influence was Georg Ritter von Schönerer and his Austrian "Nazi" party (before the word "Nazi" even existed). This included a strong antisemitism and the Wagner delusion, common to Schönerer and Hitler.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Ritter_von_Sch%C3%B6nerer

If you want to look for irrationality in Hitler, look for Richard Wagner! You will find there everything, including Hitler's vegetarianism. The Ariosophy is the wrong track. But it is soooo much more spectacular!

Core literature:

Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, The Occult Roots of Nazism: The Ariosophists of Austria and Germany, 1890–1935. Aquarian Press, Wellingborough 1985; NYU Press, New York 1992.

(The title is misleading: The result of this book is that there are no such roots)

Kent
5/21/2020 10:35:05 am

"Ah, but it was the Nazi Party"

To put it in the simplest possible way, DAP ≠ NSDAP so no it wasn't.

"Ariosophy" and "Theosophy" both have "osophy" in them and "chrestomathy" and "mathematics" both have "math" in them. So?

The Germans were ordering from the entire menu, though with a strong leaning toward the spaetzle and wurst sections, certainly not just the Theosophical Early Bird Specials.

Kent
5/21/2020 10:44:00 am

Speculation about what a stranger has or hasn't read is a mug's game.

"A little learning is a dang'rous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring." - Pope

"While they made complaint, these Magpies that defile our groves, moving their stretched-out arms, began to float, suspended in the air. And since that time their ancient eloquence, their screaming notes, their tiresome zeal of speech have all remained." - Ovid

Verbum sap.

E.P. Grondine
5/21/2020 11:19:53 am

T. Franke -

Thank you. This is an important question, given the number of people killed by this delusion.

So we have Hess at the start and later Himmler.

Wagner - Ride of the Valkyries. We also have Hitler being anti-semetic before his experiences at the end of World War 1, which really led to his fixation, and associating with these people in Vienna.

"Ariosophy is an Austrian variant of theosophy"
Yes, that is the key point.

It looks to me like theosophy provided a theoretical basis for the racism of anti-semitism. That is what re-incarntion religions do. That is why they are evil in themselves.

Kent
5/21/2020 12:25:29 pm

"It looks to me like theosophy provided a theoretical basis for the racism of anti-semitism. That is what re-incarntion religions do. That is why they are evil in themselves."

Yet belief in reincarnation, while not pervasive, is common in Judaism.
Those wily Jews, with their evil-in-itself anti-semitic religion!

Jim
5/21/2020 01:20:24 pm

" That is what re-incarntion religions do."

Yikes, I never knew that about the Dalai Lama.

E.P. Grondine
5/21/2020 09:19:52 pm

Jim, Kent -

Many people have experiences which lead them to believe in re-incarnation. There are other explanations for those experiences.

Given the number of lives lost, determining exactly what occurred is a major historical task.

My bottom line is that you have to take responsibility for your actions

Read W.K.C. Guthrie for his detailed analysis of these religions.
His apparat is superb; I copied out parts of it long hand about 40 years ago.

wakko
5/20/2020 06:31:01 pm

There are home movies, available on video, of Hitler out of uniform and out of the public eye, just relaxing. The remarkable thing is how he looks like nothing more than a typical boring middle-class mid-20th-century German guy who drinks coffee and pets his dog. Pointing this out is likely to provoke cries of how one is trying to "humanize Hitler". Well, yeah, and what was your point? One of the lessons of the Nazi years is how an ordinary human with a little ambition, the right audience, and the right sales pitch can lead other ordinary humans to do shockingly monstrous things.

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E.P. Grondine
5/20/2020 11:24:58 am

Good morning, Jason -

"Theosophy-style belief in beings from other worlds, which are not space aliens in our sense but spiritual beings inhabiting spheres beyond Earth."

That is not quite right, Jason. For the Theosophist beliefs underlying much of the new age nonsense, see:

http://www.danieljglenn.com/the_podcasts/Stelle/Documentation/He%20Walked%20Among%20Us%20Part%201.pdf

http://www.danieljglenn.com/the_podcasts/Stelle/Documentation/He%20Walked%20Among%20Us%20Part%202.pdf

http://www.danieljglenn.com/the_podcasts/Stelle/Documentation/He%20Walked%20Among%20Us%20Part%203.pdf

I do not use the word "occult", as it hides the nonsense at the core of theosophy. But then I focus on direct transmission, and not on works of entertaining fiction using theosophist themes. I have never read Lovecraft.

Despite this particular load of crap, many serious historians now have a good idea of the German theosophy underlying the Nazi world view. A coherent delusional framework used to manipulate many people.

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Joanna Hannigan link
5/20/2020 03:04:54 pm

Granted I lst read MOTM (more accurately Dawning of Magicians) as a teen (& several times since). I saw it more as esoteric manifesto dialectic that summarized the wild lst half plus of 20thc & evolution since ancient times. It brazenly asked outrageous questions similar to mine. It posed inventive, what if solutions that embraced quixotic spirit of the times. It continues to evoke & stimulate the imagination, conspiracies, quests, and cryptological inquiries.It didn't form conclusions. In 3 Parts, it presents ideas Fort, Gurdjieff, Nietzsche, Wells, Mundy, Machen...had.
Part 2 IMHO is misunderstood; it's not a crackpot expose--it's about how we view what came before, how earlier civilizations appear 'alien,' how fiction can be visionary, how myths can still grab (and twist & fascinate beyond reason). How 20thc people with same traditions can feel like aliens from the absolute elsewhere! It influenced Pynchon, C. Wilson, alchemy students, M. Ferguson, Noetics, & Illuminati trilogy writers, UFOers, and those contemplating the future and human potential/links betwen alchemy & atomic physics--conspiring for change, smarter brains... MOTM provided a passport to uncanny, unanswered,.perplexing, paradoxical realms. Fringe perhaps, or a genius, maddening quixotic challenge posed by 2 men that did a deep dive into the human imagination, future imperfect?

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Bezalel
5/21/2020 06:36:14 am

1960s thesis:
Hitler had help from "others", not aliens or from other worlds, but humans...humans who had access to tomes not destroyed during the final burning of the alexandrian library.

Discuss

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Jr. Time Lord
5/30/2020 05:36:01 pm

I have heard all of that many times before. Even claims that nuclear knowledge goes all the way back to Harappa. Have you heard any of the crackpots speculate about Nazis getting ahold of Tesla technology? Allegedly, Nazi spies got a hold of Tesla's materials once he died. Another version has it stolen from him while he was still alive. According to all of these theories, Tesla's knowledge was behind it all. There are some really bizarre claims out there, dude.

This line of thinking applies more to the medieval era when someone got ahold of Ptolemy.

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Bezalel
5/21/2020 06:43:16 am

"We want to imagine that human evil isn’t their fault, or ours, so we imagine demons and aliens to take the blame..."

+1

So true
We also create God and the devil for the same reason, to evade responsibility.

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Jr. Time Lord
5/30/2020 03:37:05 pm

While researching Runic Alphabets, I came across a man named "Wiligut". Not sure what to make of the information. Especially with this man's ties to Nazis.

One claim I came across, "Cathar Women were segregated into four different classes by characteristics of their vagina". I promise, I'm not making this up. Weirdly... This seems to tie in with "Leonardo's alien knowledge" alleged by the History Channel's "Ancient Aliens". This program showed four different versions of female genitalia painted by Leonardo, and labeled them as "Hooded Aliens". They even added glowing eyes. I have never laughed so hard in my life. I bet they never show that episode again. Surely I'm not the only one who realized what, I was looking at.

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