ABSTRACT
During the Weimar Republic, flourishing new religions and literary circles were harnessed to usher in the Cultural Revolution from the right that was soon dominated by the Nazis. Jakob Wilhelm Hauer’s German Faith movement, an umbrella group for numerous new religions from versions of Hinduism to Nordic neo-paganism, all collaborated, as was shown, with Hitler and his party. This chapter looks at the continuity of core ideas from Mathilde Ludendorff’s Gotterkenntnis to Hauer’s German Faith Movement and, importantly, Sigrid Hunke’s Unitarians (Unitarier).1 It shows, further, the close connections between these forms of neo-paganism and the present day European New Right. The paradoxical co-occurrence in fascism of a religious populism and a metapolitical elitism, philosophical vitalism and dreams of national or European rebirth, has its roots in these French and German forms of neo-paganism.
