This article describes speculative theories about Nazism. Historically verifiable religious or semi-religious aspects of Nazism up to 1945 are discussed in the article religious aspects of Nazism. Religious aspects of neo-Nazism after 1945 are discussed in the article esoteric Nazism. Semi-religious developments within post-1945 neo-Nazism are discussed under the term neo-völkisch movements. Speculation about National Socialism and Occultism has become part of popular culture since 1960.

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  • This article describes speculative theories about Nazism. Historically verifiable religious or semi-religious aspects of Nazism up to 1945 are discussed in the article religious aspects of Nazism. Religious aspects of neo-Nazism after 1945 are discussed in the article esoteric Nazism. Semi-religious developments within post-1945 neo-Nazism are discussed under the term neo-völkisch movements. Speculation about National Socialism and Occultism has become part of popular culture since 1960. Aside from several popular documentaries, there are numerous books on the topic, most notably Le Matin des Magiciens (1960) and The Spear of Destiny (1972); The first examples of this literary genre appeared in the occult milieu in France and England in the early 1940s. These books have been discussed by the historian Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke as "the modern Mythology of Nazi occultism" or "the Nazi Mysteries": The recurring element of this "occult historiography" is the thesis that the Nazis were directed by occult agencies of some sort: black forces, invisible hierarchies, unknown superiors, secret societies or even Satan, who is supposed to have possessed Hitler. Since such an agency "has remained concealed to previous historians of National Socialism," Goodrick-Clarke and the German historian Michael Rißmann have described the genre as cryptohistory. However, there also has been academic research on the potential influence of occultists and paganists on Nazism. This is part of an ongoing debate among historians and political scientist about the religious aspects of Nazism.
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  • This article describes speculative theories about Nazism. Historically verifiable religious or semi-religious aspects of Nazism up to 1945 are discussed in the article religious aspects of Nazism. Religious aspects of neo-Nazism after 1945 are discussed in the article esoteric Nazism. Semi-religious developments within post-1945 neo-Nazism are discussed under the term neo-völkisch movements. Speculation about National Socialism and Occultism has become part of popular culture since 1960.
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  • National Socialism and Occultism
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