Prepare for War: Pre And Post Effects Of War On Germany by PS Miller, RH Publisher
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0BHH9MLT8 | EPUB | 0.13 Mb
In the post-war period, especially since the 1960s, ideas of an 'esoteric National Socialism' were widely disseminated by best-selling books, movies, and other media (Goodrick-Clarke 2002, 107-27). The National Socialists were depicted as black magicians or occultists and associated with 'magic,' 'irrationalism,' 'occultism,' or 'superstition,' vaguely summarized by the term 'the occult.' In the vast majority of those publications, 'the occult' is used as a waste-basket category (Hanegraaff 2012, 221), which included a diffuse mass of negative 'otherness.' When it was not done for commercial reasons and sensation-seeking, this 'othering' resulted from an attempt to understand the often-incomprehensible atrocities