"According to Bullock, as an adolescent in Vienna, Hitler read widely, including books on Occultism, Hypnotism, Astrology."
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Hitler on Occultism:
"According to Ron Rosenbaum, some scholars believe the young Hitler was strongly influenced, particularly in his racial views, by an abundance of occult works on the mystical superiority of the Germans, like the occult and anti-Semitic magazine Ostara, and give credence to the claim of its publisher Lanz von Liebenfels that Hitler visited him in 1909 and praised his work."
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According to this, Hitler's views were strongly influenced by an occult magazine.
Hitler on Hinduism:
"Hitler's choice of the Swastika as the Nazis' main and official symbol was linked to the belief in the Aryan cultural descent of the German people. They considered the early Aryans to be the prototypical white invaders and the sign of the Swastika to be a symbol of the Aryan master race. The theory was inspired by the German archaeologist Gustaf Kossinna, who argued that the ancient Aryans were a superior Nordic race from northern Germany who expanded into the steppes of Eurasia, and from there into India, where they established the Vedic religion."
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Hiter took the swastika from Hinduism. It's also worth noting that Nazism was partly influenced by Hinduism.
Hitler on Islam:
Hitler meeting with the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. December 1941. |
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Additional sources:
1. Rosenbaum, Ron Explaining Hitler pp. xxxvii, 282 (citing Yehuda Bauer's belief that Hitler's racism is rooted in occult groups like Ostara), p. 333, 1998 Random House.
2. Angebert, Jean-Michel (1974), The Occult and the Third Reich, Macmillan
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