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      New Religions and the Nazis
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      New Religions and the Nazis book

      ByKarla Poewe
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2005
      eBook Published 29 November 2005
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203508442
      Pages 240
      eBook ISBN 9780203508442
      Subjects Humanities
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      Poewe, K. (2005). New Religions and the Nazis (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203508442

      ABSTRACT

      This book sheds light on an important but neglected part of Nazi history – the contribution of new religions to the emergence of Nazi ideology in 1920s and 1930s Germany.

      Post –World War I conditions threw Germans into major turmoil. The loss of the war, the Weimar Republic and the punitive Treaty of Versailles all caused widespread discontent and resentment. As a result Germans generally and intellectuals specifically took political, paramilitary, and religious matters into their own hands to achieve national regeneration. Taken together such cultural figures as Jakob Wilhelm Hauer, Mathilde Ludendorff, Ernst Bergmann, Hans F.K. Günther, and nationalist writers like Hans Grimm created a mind-set that swept across Germany like a tidal wave. By fusing politics, religion, theology, Indo-Aryan metaphysics, literature and Darwinian science they intended to craft a new, genuinely German faith-based political community. What emerged instead was an anti-Semitic totalitarian political regime known as National Socialism. Looking at modern paganism as well as the established Church, Karla Poewe reveals that the new religions founded in the pre-Nazi and Nazi years, especially Jakob Hauer’s German Faith Movement,  present a model for how German fascism distilled aspects of religious doctrine into political extremism.

      New Religions and the Nazis addresses one of the most important questions of the twentieth century – how and why did Germans come to embrace National Socialism? Researched from original documents, letters and unpublished papers, including the SS personnel files held in the German Federal Archives, it is an absorbing and fresh approach to the difficulties raised by this deeply significant period of history.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter 1|16 pages

      Introduction

      chapter 2|16 pages

      An overview

      chapter 3|13 pages

      Hauer and the Bünde: becoming a National Socialist

      chapter 4|11 pages

      The push toward Nazism: youths and leaders

      chapter 5|18 pages

      Hauer’s view of religion

      chapter 6|11 pages

      The Germanic-deutsch leg of Hauer’s German Faith

      chapter 7|13 pages

      Organizational help from Wehrwolf and the SS

      chapter 8|14 pages

      Hauer and the war of attrition against Christianity

      chapter 9|11 pages

      Werner Best: Hauer’s contact in the SS

      chapter 10|15 pages

      The faith of the Nationalists: narrative and the Third Reich

      chapter 11|13 pages

      Scientific neo-paganism and the extreme Right then and today

      chapter 12|3 pages

      Conclusion

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