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According to some reports, religious buildings could be located in the dungeons of the Third Reich. Interest in the occult was generally characteristic of representatives of the National Socialist elite, and not only. The German romantics of the Second World War were fond of ancient mythology, Aryan mysticism and esotericism. Therefore, mysticism and the occult in the Third Reich were very common.

Origins of the occult in the Third Reich

During the capture of Hitler's headquarters by the liberators, it turned out that there were many Tibetans in the form of SS men in his personal guard. The monks, who initially professed the religion of non-violence, Buddhism, found themselves under the banner of the left-handed swastika for a reason.

In his youth, Adolf Hitler, like other future spiritual and political leaders of Nazi Germany, was fond of Eastern occultism. Esotericism and mysticism in the Third Reich were rooted in mediumistic seances popular at the end of the 19th century and German romanticism fascinated by the East. Hitler himself considered himself a man with clairvoyant abilities, the reincarnation of one of the Sicilian satanic magicians of the 11th century and, in a sense, the message of divine forces.

The occult history of the Third Reich assumed a complete rejection of the Jewish Old Testament heritage (Jesus was declared an Aryan martyr). The ancient Aryans are supposed to have lived for a long time isolated from the Jewish Christian course of history in the legendary mysterious Shambhala high in the mountains of Tibet. In the thirties, the Nazis equipped several expeditions there. And if at first the Tibetan monks greeted the German guests rather coldly, before the Second World War in the Tibetan highlands, Hitler was received with honor as an exponent of "Aryan wisdom" in the West.

Occultism in the Third Reich also took its origins in the bowels of the Thule organization, which, through several stages of initiation, introduced its followers to the processed and rethought teachings of Eastern spiritual leaders. This community appeared back in 1911, but its vigorous activity dates back to the period after the end of the First World War. when Germany, disappointed by its defeat, was carried away by revanchist ideas ....

Are members of the Thule Society bearers of the truth or provocateurs?

One of the main ideological pillars of the Thule society was the idea of ​​​​the existence in the far north (somewhere in the region of Scandinavia) in prehistoric times of the legendary Hyperborea, Thule - a country of morally and physically perfect Aryans. Knowledge about this country was lost later in history, but supporters of the society believed that through magic, one could join the spirit of the ancestors and awaken the necessary qualities in modern Germans related to the Scandinavian peoples. Complemented by eugenics (the politics of racial purity), these ideas became the moral justification for a whole series of tragic events, the consequences of which affected the entire history of the world.

It is not known for certain whether Hitler was in the Thule society. But a historically proven fact is the membership in this organization of Karl Haushofer, Alfred Rosenberg, Rudolf Hess, who had a significant influence on Hitler. It is believed that members of the Thule Society taught Hitler the art of public speaking and inspired him with confidence in his own "superpowers". Some researchers believe that perhaps the less charismatic and more cautious German occultists simply wanted to use the person of Hitler as a political guide to their ideas. But the mysticism of the Third Reich at some point got out of control and became entirely dependent on the will of the suspicious, domineering and, importantly, beloved by the people "leader", who brutally suppressed any dissent in the ranks of the Nazi leadership.

Occult practices in the service of Nazism

Since Thule was a long gone country, the connection with the ancestors had to be restored in special ways. In search of the best "contact" in Munich in the twenties and thirties, a number of practicing "mediums" appeared. Both in city apartments and in castles, satanic rituals of astrological Arabic magic were practiced. . Later, already during the war years, the Nazis often resorted to sacrifices and burnings. And Dietrich Eckart, who had influence on Hitler, developed in his “astral body” centers for exiting into the macrocosm and interaction with the forces of darkness.

include various mystical teachings, ancient "secret knowledge" about the supernatural. Occultism rose to an unprecedented height during the coming to power in Germany Nazis. Among the high-ranking officials of the party, there were a lot of adherents occult beliefs.

Book cover of the Thule Society, which included Hitler and other Nazi leaders

Hitler from childhood was fond of reading books on mythology and occultism and with his coming to power, hundreds of soothsayers, astrologers and clairvoyants reached out.

Among the superstitious associates of Hitler were also Adolf Rosenberg, the ideologue of Nazism;

Rudolf Hess - whose fixed idea was the revival of ancient pagan beliefs; Heinrich Himmler - dreaming of the revival of the German nation.

Not far from the city of Externsteine ​​in the Teutoburg Forest in 1934, Heinrich Himmler rented an ancient castle, the prisoners of a concentration camp located nearby were engaged in its restoration.

This castle housed an archaeological museum, a library occult, Institute of Ancient History and "Nordic Academy" SS. Himmler made it his residence, where in the North Tower, the most majestic, a "sanctuary" was arranged Nazi"new religion" created within the SS, which was a symbiosis of ancient Germanic paganism, early Christianity and modern occult.

A crypt was built at the base of the tower - “Temple to the glory of the deceased leaders of the SS”, twelve pedestal bases were built along its edges, where it was supposed to install urns with the ashes of great SS generals who would die in future battles. Directly above the crypt was the Hall of the SS Leaders, where Himmler intended to meet with the twelve highest officers of his service.

Thus, a parallel was drawn with the Celtic traditions of the Knights of the Round Table during the time of King Arthur. Himmler, creating the SS according to the type of the Teutonic Order of the XIII century (you can read more about the Order of the Templars), dreamed of creating a new German aristocracy supermen, which, like the knights mentioned, will exterminate and enslave the peoples of the lands they conquered, by the way, in the enslaved lands, SS officers were promised feudal allotments with working, but in reality slave, power.

The source of esoteric power to the Nazis was the Mysterious chalice of the Holy Grail, in which, according to ancient sources, the blood of the Savior was collected. It was believed that having this Christian artifact, which promised prosperity, prosperity and power, Third Reich secure an easy victory in the war.

According to the archaeologist Otto Rahn, who was Himmler's adviser on this issue, the Chalice was hidden in a cave in southern France from time immemorial. By order of Himmler, expeditions were equipped, including to the fortress of Montsegur, where the remains of the once powerful Albigensian fortress were preserved.

It was a heretical sect that was destroyed in the 13th century because of the accusation of worshiping the devil. According to legend, three warriors managed to leave the fortress on the eve of the rout, take with them something extremely valuable and hide it in one of the many caves. It is believed that this was precisely the Grail.

From the stories of the expedition members, it is known that a small detachment went into the depths of mountain caves along an underground passage known only to Ran. Tired people returned, confirming that they found two walled caves, where only swords and armor were found, eaten away by rust. But Ran was pleased - these findings corresponded to some of his assumptions. The next day, Ran went into the caves alone and was absent for two days.

Otto Rahn during an archaeological dig

When he returned, he did not tell anyone, but he had a happy smile on his face. The next day the camp was removed and Otto Rahn lost all interest in him. No one ever found out what he found or did not find ... The archaeologist in 1938 wrote a report on his dismissal from the ranks of the SS and he (an unprecedented case !!) was released.

Ahnenerbe Society

In 1939, Otto Rahn was found dead in the Austrian Alps under unspecified circumstances. It is believed that it was on the orders of Himmler that the archaeologist was liquidated, since the search for the Holy Grail was unsuccessful, or vice versa, having found the Chalice for Nazis he didn't need them...

One of the most mysterious organizations Third Reich, shrouded in secrets and speculation was " Ahnenerbe”, which literally means “ancestral heritage” in German. It was her task to apply the secret knowledge of European mystics and Eastern occultists to exalt Third Reich both spiritually and practically.

Origins Ahnenerbe” are served by the Germanenorden, Thule and Vril societies. It was these mystical organizations that became the "three pillars" of the ideology of National Socialism, supporting the idea of ​​the existence in prehistoric times of a certain state, whose powerful civilization knew almost all the secrets of the universe and which died after a grandiose catastrophe. Having miraculously saved some of the people, having mixed with the Aryans, it gave rise to the appearance of a race of superhumans - the ancestors of the Germans.

People interested in history Nazi Germany superficially, title Ahnenerbe' says little. But the very fact that Heinrich Himmler was the president of this society and he charged his subordinates with a total search for all the archives and documents of national special services, scientific laboratories, Masonic secret societies and occult sects, preferably around the world, speaks of the importance that was given the work of this society.

A special expedition was immediately sent to each newly occupied country by the Wehrmacht. Ahnenerbe". The main areas of research were the study of the properties of various poisons, the effects of high and low temperatures, and human capabilities in terms of pain thresholds. And besides, great interest was shown in the mass psychological and psychotropic effects, work was underway to create a superweapon. For scientific research Ahnenerbe”attracted well-known scientists from around the world.

« Ahnenerbe”in German, he meticulously clearly delimited the work in the following areas: the creation of a superman, medicine, the development of new non-standard types of weapons of mass destruction, including atomic weapons, as well as the possibility of using religious and mystical practices.

For research " Ahnenerbe» Nazi Germany spent a lot of money. Some sources claim that even more than the United States to create the first atomic bomb. The so-called Nordic theory was one of the main areas of activity " Ahnenerbe' since its inception. Many Germans sincerely believed that they were the descendants of the ancient Aryans, or Aryans who moved to the southern lands from the legendary Hyperborea-Thule, mentioned by Herodotus.

And that it is they who, with the help of the so-called vril forces (for the first time about psychokinetic energy - the vril was written in 1871 by the British novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton in the book The Coming Race) will be able to become a race of superhumans and rule the world. It was assumed that in the heirs of the Aryans, “dormant” parapsychological abilities could be awakened and used in the service of Greater Germany.

Scientists from the SS had to study the runic writings, the history of the Aryans and much more in order to substantiate the superiority of the Aryan race and its right to world domination and, accordingly, find evidence of the inferiority of other peoples, primarily Jewish and Slavic. Ethnographers and archaeologists, historians and philologists serving in the "Ahnenerbe" wrote educational programs for the SS and shot "scientific propaganda" films.

SS members were taught to read runes. The Society created new civil ceremonies for weddings, funerals, the consecration of newborn babies and, of course, the ceremony of initiation and delivery of weapons to recruits.

Nazi the top believed that as soon as evidence of their ancient and almost divine origin was found, they would easily be able to recreate superhumans with the help of selection. The tribal fund became part of the SS, where they selected the strongest, physically healthy and most beautiful young men, certainly tall, blue-eyed blonds. They also had to be of impeccable Aryan origin and well educated. The purity of the genus was supposed to be monitored since 1750.

Members of the SS, regardless of their marital status, were charged with "producing" as many offspring as possible. In 1935, Himmler formulated the Levensborn program (translated from German as the Source of Life), its task was to encourage the birth and life support of truly Aryan children. The doctrine, in particular, provided for and strongly encouraged the fact that girls could and should enter into relations with the SS.

Children born in such relationships were not at all considered dishonorable if the mother and father met the standard of true Aryans. Between 1935 and 1945, 11,000 such children were born. Babies were the property of the state and it took care of them, transferring them to special boarding schools or families of SS members. Children with Aryan appearance were also taken out of the occupied countries and placed in orphanages “ ” in Germany.

ruling elite Nazi Reich was obsessed occultism and racial theories of superiority and actively imposed the ideas of super-race on the entire German people. Adolf Hitler and his associates regularly held loud, carefully planned performances by the Fuhrer, theatrically furnished with parades, torchlight processions and other spectacles.

« Ahnenerbe» and Tibet

Scientists from the SS determined the birthplace of the Aryan civilization in Central Asia, the region of the Gobi desert, the Pamirs and the mountains of Tibet, where, starting from the 30s, numerous expeditions began to equip in order to search, firstly, for mythical relics that would contribute to the exaltation Nazi Germany and, secondly, the search for the mythical cities of Shambhala and Agharti (it was believed that these hidden underground cities were under the Himalayas), and to restore contact with the Aryan ancestors located there.

The sent expeditions had to ask for help, and, of course, get it from local initiates, who allegedly owned secret occult powers, such as the previously mentioned Vril power, possessed arcane knowledge that could hold the key to the Aryan master race's absolute dominion over the world. Some researchers still believe that the information obtained during expeditions to Tibet significantly advanced the development of a certain prototype of a combat atomic charge and that the Americans allegedly discovered them at the end of the war.

« Ahnenerbe"organized an expedition to Tibet in 1938-1939 led by Ernst Schaeffer. The expedition members managed to visit not only the closed city of Lhasa, but also visited the sacred place of Yarling. Having worked in this region for three months, the expedition brought home hundreds of meters of film, on which various mystical and religious rites were filmed, and many manuscripts for careful study.

The result of the analysis of the results of the expedition was a report personally submitted to Hitler, after reading which he was extremely excited and the thought of a superweapon, as well as the idea of ​​interstellar flights, no longer left him. Radio communication was established between Berlin and Lhasa, and a large group of Tibetan representatives arrived on a secret mission.

The bodies of these Tibetans, for some reason in the form of the SS, were subsequently found in Hitler's personal bunker and in the premises of the Reich Chancellery. All their secrets they voluntarily took with them to the grave.

Special teams of German researchers visited not only in search of mystical knowledge and documents. In the laboratory " Ahnenerbe” dozens of manuscripts were delivered both in Sanskrit and in ancient Chinese.

Wernher von Braun, who was at the origins of the creation of the first V-1 and V-2 rocket aircraft, said that scientists found a lot of interesting things in these documents. Recently, incredible evidence has appeared that the Nazis received knowledge on the development of space technology and non-standard weapons from some kind of alien civilization, contact with which took place (in detail about the theory of palecontact) at a top-secret base located in Antarctica.

In 1946, under the leadership of Richard Evelyn Brown, the Americans sent a search expedition to Antarctica. It consisted of a submarine, an aircraft carrier and fourteen ships. Many years later Byrd admitted that he was indeed at the base " Ahnenerbe”and saw there extraordinary disc-shaped aircraft capable of covering huge distances almost instantly.

In the laboratories "" they worked actively on the creation of atomic weapons. Sometimes there are publications that supposedly the Germans went the wrong way in research and would never have been able to get positive results. But this is not true, there is evidence that in 1944 the bomb was Third Reich was! Several tests were carried out - in the Baltic Sea on the island of Rügen and in Thuringia. Experienced "material" in these tests were prisoners of war who died during the explosion.

Their bodies burned down without a trace or were badly damaged by radiation and high-temperature exposure. Both Stalin and Truman learned about the tests of the Germans in just a few days. It must be emphasized that the German bomb was more likely not atomic, in the physical sense, but thermonuclear.

In January 1945, the German armaments minister said that "there is an explosive the size of a matchbox, the amount of which is enough to destroy the whole of New York." Analysts say that the Ahnenerbe scientists did not have time, they did not have enough time to create weapons of mass destruction. The intelligence agencies of the USSR and their allies were very interested in the activities of the organization "", but the constant control of the German security services reduced all efforts to penetrate this society.

Despite the fact that most of the intelligence operations carried out during the Second World War have long been declassified, most of the secrets of the work " Ahnenerbe' has not been disclosed by anyone. After the defeat of Nazi Germany, the United States and the USSR made truly titanic efforts to search for archives " Ahnenerbe”, all kinds of materials and developments, as well as its employees. Everything that was found was taken away in complete secrecy. Scientists continued their work in the new, again secret, laboratories of the victorious countries.

It was not in vain that the interrogation of SS Standartenführer Wolfram Sievers, Secretary General "" was abruptly interrupted at the Nuremberg trials and why a simple SS colonel was so hastily shot among the most important war criminals " Third Reich"? And Dr. Cameron, who later headed the CIA Blue Bird project for the development and application of psychoprogramming and psychotronics, may not have been in Nuremberg in vain as part of the American delegation and studied the activities of " Ahnenerbe».

And the significant breakthroughs that occurred almost simultaneously in the field of rocket science, space research, the creation of atomic and nuclear weapons in the post-war years of the USSR and the USA suggest the seized secret archives " Third Reich". Also, immediately after the war, the two superpowers were especially active in research in the field of psychotropic weapons. Prior to this, the Nazis successfully carried out in the death camps.

The Nuremberg Tribunal declared the Ahnenerbe a criminal organization. But comments claiming that the Ahnenerbe archives did not contain anything serious and concrete clearly do not stand up to scrutiny. Belief in astrology and prophecy did a disservice to the top of the Nazi Reich.

The famous German astrologer Wilhem Wulff, who is under arrest, made a horoscope for Adolf Hitler and predicted his death in May 1945. And so it happened. Hitler and his wife Eva Braun committed suicide in the Fuhrer's private bunker on April 30, 1945. Goebbels shot himself and his wife, after poisoning his six young children.

Himmler, disguised as a private, tried to escape, but was captured on May 23, 1945, and during the detention by an English patrol, he chewed on a cyanide capsule. Being in the Nurnerg prison accepted Hermann Göring's poison capsule. In November 1945, the survivors appeared before the military tribunal of the victorious countries in Nuremberg. Nazi ringleaders.

Rudolf Hess was sentenced to life imprisonment and died in prison at the age of 93. Alfred Rosenberg, ideologue Nazism and philosopher of racism was found guilty of crimes against humanity and hanged in October 1946. Lasted only 12 years Third Reich, and not the millennium expected by its creators.

History passed its verdict - the fate of almost 50 million dead was shared by representatives of the Hitlerite "superior race", which was supposed to lead to future generations of Aryan supermen.

Occult Hitler

Modern researchers who are seriously involved in the history of the Third Reich deny any influence of the occult and occult doctrines on the worldview of Adolf Hitler. They believe that the Nazi Fuhrer was primarily concerned with political and economic problems, and he never allowed himself to be carried away by metaphysics to the detriment of pragmatic calculations.

Thus, the German historian Joachim Fest writes:

“The idea of ​​Hitler as a man of instinct, walking his own path with the confidence of a clairvoyant, or, as he himself used the expression, “like a somnambulist”, loses sight of the rationality and composure that underlay all his behavior and which ensured his ascent in no less degree than all his powers as a medium. So, we must take into account his extraordinary ability to learn "..." He learned more than from his idols and associates from his opponents "..." He learned the most important thing from Marxism.

Following him, the St. Petersburg professor Oleg Yuryevich Plenkov states:

“It should be pointed out that it was not the intoxication of mass rituals, not the notorious Nazi mysticism and occultism (which arouse such considerable interest among the public to this day), not various Nazi propaganda tricks, which have not become so odious in our time, and therefore shocking, the symbolism of the Nazis created popularity for the Hitler regime but its indisputable economic and foreign policy successes.

“The vast majority of the legends associated with the topic “Occult and mystical secrets of the Third Reich” goes back to the book by French journalists Jacques Bergier and Louis Povel “Morning of the Magicians”, first published in Paris in 1964. They argued, in particular, that “the magical spirit of fascism armed itself with all the levers of the material world. Lenin said that Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country is socialism. Nazism in its own way is magic plus tank divisions.” This thesis is supported by the following facts. As the authors of The Morning of the Magicians emphasize, “Nazism noisily and openly declared itself the enemy of intellectualism. The Nazis burned books, giving this violence against thought, unheard of in modern Europe, the character of a gloomy, oppressive ceremonial. The Nazis threw the greatest scientists into the ranks of their "Judeo-Marxist" and "Jewish-liberal" enemies. Everyone knows this. Far less well known are the cosmogonies, in the name of which Nazism rejected official Western science. And even less known or completely unknown are the religious concepts on which Nazism relied, or rather, some of its leaders. But only the knowledge of this hidden essence of Nazism allows us to consider the Second World War as a genuine great spiritual conflict. „…“

But the attempts of Bergier and Povel to connect Hitler and other leaders of the Third Reich with some kind of secret occult societies cannot cause anything but a smile. Thus, they point out, with reference to the German rocket scientist Wilhelm Ley, who fled the Reich in 1933, that there was a secret society in Berlin of admirers of the novel by the English writer Bulwer-Lytton, The Race That Will Surpass Us. It describes people whose psyche has reached the highest stage of evolution: "they will have power over the world and over themselves, which will make them equal to the gods, and now supermen lurk underground in deep caves and will soon appear to rule mankind." Members of the society, in the words of Dr. Lay, “possess some secret methods of changing race, which can be used to become like subterranean supermen. For this kind of transformation, members of society have a system of mental exercises. Start by fixing your eyes on an apple cut in half.” Hitler, on the assurance of the authors of The Morning of the Magicians, “we will find the idea of ​​the mutation of the nation”, and he allegedly shared the belief in the existence of “Higher Unknowns”, and, “moreover, Hitler believed that he had personal contacts with "Highest". But what if Hitler simply read Bulwer-Lytton's novel, or some other similar one, for example, "Food of the Gods" by HG Wells? And in general, the motive of racial mutations, damage or improvement of blood is a common place in almost all racial theories, as well as the idea of ​​higher beings, which is generally quite common in world philosophy and literature, and Hitler is no exception here. But on this basis, it is possible to rank the Fuhrer in any secret society only in science fiction novels. The book of Bergier and Povel is actually such a novel, where the fantasy of the authors builds historical facts and rumors about various kinds of events ... "

By and large, the above researchers are right. Against the background of other Nazi leaders, Hitler stood out for his exceptional sanity. Moreover, when it came to mysticism or the occult, he defiantly distanced himself from any esoteric. For example, in his famous "speech on culture" on September 6, 1938, Hitler sharply condemned the fascination with mysticism of individual members of the NSDAP.

Hitler represented his own worldview as a rational, almost materialistic, theory based on contemporary science. He said that for National Socialism there is nothing more alien than to fill the hearts of the Germans with mysticism, "completely alien to the Nazi movement."

“At the origin of our program requirements,” Hitler said, “are not mysterious and mystical forces, but a clear consciousness and open rationality. Our goal is the cultivation of the natural, natural, that is, pleasing to God. Our humility is due to the admiration for the laws established by God and their respect. We rely only on the consistent performance of these traditional duties. Worship is the responsibility of the church, not the party.”

However, Hitler's denial of the irrational basis of National Socialism should not at all mislead us, as if such a basis did not exist at all. In the last chapter, we analyzed the main doctrines of the Nazi ideology and made sure that they are myths that grew out of pseudoscientific theories and everyday prejudices. Hitler believed in these myths, defended them, made them part of state propaganda, which means that he nevertheless contributed to the spread of a metaphysical irrational worldview.

If we try to penetrate even deeper into Hitler's convictions, we will find that in himself he was a mystic in no less degree than Rosenberg or Hess.

It is known that for some time Hitler was interested in mysticism. As a young man, he regularly read the occult magazine Ostara published by Lanz von Liebenfels. In Vienna, this magazine could be bought at any tobacconist and thus be aware of the details of the "eternal" struggle of the Aryans with subhumans. On the pages of the magazine, Lanz von Liebensfels suggested that the full-fledged race of the Aryans did not arise through natural selection, but was created, as it is said in the "ancient books", by some higher beings, the Heldings, who once inhabited the earth. Some of these higher beings once fell into sin. The lower races originated from the fallen individuals. Then the Aryan females entered into intercourse with the males of inferior races, and the male Aryans, along with racial purity, lost their power. Now the task is to restore the original racial purity.

Despite the obvious absurdity of these arguments, they have one important advantage for the Nazis - they quite accurately correspond to the pathological ideology of Hitler's myth of race.

A probable source of Hitler's fascination with Aryan mythology could also be Freemasonry - the Thule Society, in which the DAP originally took shape, was, in fact, a "Masonic" organization - in it, under the influence of Joseph Arthur de Gobineau and Houston Stuart Chamberlain, they preached racial doctrine in the most extreme forms. . The center of the mentioned organization was at first in northern Germany; its members moved to Munich only in 1918. Hitler, as we remember, through Rudolf Hess was familiar with the grand master of the Thule Society and the founder of German geopolitics, Professor Haushofer. According to some recollections, Hitler appreciated the ability of Freemasons and "Masons" in the right direction to influence the people and amaze the public's imagination with the help of symbols of a magical cult. In addition, Hitler several times attended séances arranged by the Viennese Freemasons.

On the other hand, having come to power, Hitler decisively broke with Masonic metaphysics - both mystics and Freemasons became undesirable in the Third Reich; all occult organizations, including Masonic lodges, have been banned since 1935. However, here an enlightened esotericist will say that the Fuhrer simply eliminated “competitors” - not a single ambitious political leader, knowledgeable in the history of secret occult societies, will tolerate the existence of a parallel “power structure” next to him, claiming universal and comprehensive control over the citizens of his country .

So, Hitler publicly demonstrated his contempt for any mysticism and metaphysics, but he himself held special views on this issue. Of great value for clarifying Hitler's true attitude to esoteric and occult doctrines are his "table talks" (actually monologues), in which he touched on the widest range of issues and often let it slip, involuntarily giving out to listeners his deeply hidden convictions.

For example, here is what Hitler said about superstitions:

“In maritime histories,” writes Henry Picker, who transcribed Hitler’s table conversations during 1941-1942, “one thing always struck him: how much attention is paid to all sorts of signs in them. Sailors are obviously a lot like actors. So many times they get into situations, the outcome of which they are not given to foresee and which develop against their will. A sailor does not know when a storm or even a hurricane will hit his ship, just as an actor, going to the theater in the evening, does not know how the audience will behave: what if it suddenly whistles and hoots with such force that it seems to him that a storm has risen . That is why they are so superstitious.

However, for him, superstition is a factor to be reckoned with if you want to lead people along, even if you yourself are above all prejudices and only laugh at them. He therefore, on one occasion, convinced the Duce not to start a military operation - as planned - on the thirteenth. He also advises against going to sea on Friday, as experienced sailors find it very dangerous. In general, they don’t joke with such things, because the consequences can be unpredictable. After all, people who believe in all this, at the slightest crisis, immediately arrange riots.

And, when the situation on the Eastern Front was extremely difficult this winter, some idiot put forward the thesis that Napoleon, like us, also went on a campaign against Russia on June 22. But thank God, he - the boss - immediately managed to refute it, opposing this chatter with the opinion of authoritative experts who proved that Napoleon only moved his troops against Russia on June 23.

The approach is curious: superstitions are nonsense, but they must be reckoned with in order to lead people along. Perhaps, while publicly denying the irrational part of the Nazi ideology, Hitler nevertheless continued to believe in many of its provisions - just in case? After all, even militant materialist atheists, when a black cat crosses their path, superstitiously spit over their shoulders.

Be that as it may, the lack of a systematic natural science education affected the formation of Hitler's worldview. Not really knowing what ideas about the past of the Earth and mankind have developed in scientific circles, the Fuhrer of the German people grabbed the theories that grew straight from the theosophy of Helena Blavatsky and the Ariasophy of Guido von List. This can be confirmed not only by amateurish arguments about the origin of races, but also by the fascination with the theory of the extravagant Austrian inventor Hans Görbiger, who challenged contemporary science and common sense. Read the words of Hitler, which I quote below, and you will see for yourself how far Hitler's personal ideas were from what is called rationalism. The Fuhrer of the NSDAP was a mystic - terry, ossified in his delusions, unusually close to those metaphysical figures whom he banned and expelled from Germany.

“When I think about more ancient peoples,” Hitler said, “about the Egyptians who lived in the previous era, I understand that they were no less worthy people. Only 40 generations separate us from the birth of Christ. But our knowledge is limited to an epoch covering several millennia before the beginning of a new era.

The saga couldn't have come out of nothing. The phenomenon always precedes the concept. We are not connected in any way, I even think we did the right thing in assuming that mythological images are generated by memories of real events of the past.

At the same time, in all ancient legends, we find a story about how the vault of heaven collapsed to the earth. But the biblical stories about this did not mature at all on Jewish soil; the plots were undoubtedly borrowed from the Babylonians and Assyrians. Nordic myth tells of a struggle between gods and giants. I can only explain this by the fact that as a result of a natural disaster in Scandinavia, the human race, which was the bearer of the highest culture, perished. What we find today on earth are, in all likelihood, the traces of those who survived and, following the call of memory, began to revive culture. Who said that the stone ax that can be found in our area was invented by the same people who used it? In my opinion, it would be much more correct to assume that just stone products were previously made from other materials. It is not known whether metal tools also existed along with stone tools. However, copper and bronze are short-lived. And so it may happen that many more stone tools will be found in some layers of the earth's crust.

Nothing is said anywhere about the fact that the cultural life of the peoples in our area on the eve of the catastrophe dried up. The earth is three-quarters covered with water. Only one eighth of the earth's surface is accessible to our researchers. Who knows what discoveries await us when we are able to fully explore the soil flooded with water.

I tend to believe Horbiger's theory of world ice. Perhaps sometime, 10,000 years before our era, there was a collision with the moon. It is possible that the Earth then forced the Moon to rotate in its current orbit. Perhaps our Earth took away its atmosphere from the Moon and this completely changed the living conditions of people on Earth. I admit that creatures lived here then, which could live at any height and depth, because there was no atmospheric pressure. I also admit that the Earth opened up and the water pouring into the craters caused terrible eruptions and torrents of rain. Only two people were able to escape, as they took refuge high in the mountains in a cave. I believe that the answer to these questions will be given only when a person intuitively feels the inner interconnection and thereby paves the way for exact science. Otherwise, the Ancient World that existed before the catastrophe will forever be hidden from our eyes.

If you look at the history of our religion from its origins, it will seem more human. In my opinion, religions have come about because memories have faded into bare outlines, become abstract, and merged with the notions that the church used to stay in power. In general, the time from the 3rd to the 17th centuries was certainly distinguished by unthinkable cruelty and the extreme degree of degradation of mankind. Bloodlust, meanness and lies - that was characteristic of this era.

I do not believe that everything should remain as it was. Providence gave man reason to act wisely. It is reason that tells me that the power of lies should end. But he also suggests that at the moment it is impossible to do this. Not wanting to contribute to the spread of lies, I did not let the priests into the party. And I will not be afraid to join the fight and will immediately act if the test shows that the time has come ... "

This was the whole of Hitler - he was ready to believe any extravagant concept (namely, such extravagance is the theory of the cyclical fall of the moons and Horbiger's "world ice"), which seemed to him more in line with reality than any facts and evidence. Therefore, we should not pay attention to how Hitler condemned mysticism and mystics among the members of the National Socialist Party. The mere fact that he tolerated the presence of people like Rudolf Hess and Alfred Rosenberg next to him and even entrusted them with responsible work speaks volumes. But the most odious in this sense was the all-round support that the Fuhrer provided to one of the most famous mystics of the Third Reich, Heinrich Himmler.