Black Sun (occult symbol)

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A depiction of the "Black Sun" the design of which is based primarily on the shape of the Wewelsburg sunwheel mosaic in the "Obergruppenfhrer"-Hall (SS Generals' Hall).

The former SS Generals' Hall (German: "Obergruppenfhrersaal") in the first floor of the North Tower of Wewelsburg Castle. In the middle of the hall the dark green sun wheel mosaic is located which is called the "Black Sun" since the post-war years. The architects who redesigned the castle during the Nazi era called the axis of the North Tower the "Center of the World". The term Black Sun (German Schwarze Sonne), also referred to as the Sonnenrad (the German for "Sun Wheel"), is a symbol of esoteric or occult significance. Its design bases on a sun wheel incorporated in a floor of Wewelsburg Castle during the Nazi era. Today, it may also be used in occult currents of Germanic neopaganism, and in Irminenschaft or Armanenschaft-inspired esotericism - but not necessarily in a racial or neo-Nazi context.

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1 Historical background 2 The Wewelsburg mosaic 3 The Vienna Circle 4 Nazi and Neo-Nazi significance 5 Contemporary esotericism 6 Alternative design 7 Popular culture 8 See also 9 References 10 Further study 11 External links

Historical background

Alemannic brooches with designs reminiscent of the Wewelsburg symbol.[1] The design has loose visual parallels in Migration Age Alemannic brooches (Zierscheiben), possibly a variation of the Roman swastika fibula, thought to have been worn on Frankish and Alemannic women's belts.[2] Some Alemannic or Bavarian specimens incorporate a swastika symbol at the center.[3] The number of rays in the brooches varies between five and twelve. Goodrick-Clarke (2002) does connect the Wewelsburg design with the Early Medieval Germanic brooches, and does assume that the original artifacts had a solar significance, stating that "this twelve-spoke sun wheel derives from decorative disks of the Merovingians of the early medieval period and are supposed to represent the visible sun or its passage through the months of the year."[4] He further refers to scholarly discussion of the brooches in Nazi Germany,[5] allowing for the possibility that the designers of the Wewelsburg mosaic were indeed inspired by these historical precedents.

The Wewelsburg mosaic

The shape of the symbol as it is used within Germanic mysticist esotericism and NeoNazism today is based primarily on the design of a floor mosaic at the castle of Wewelsburg (built 1603), a Renaissance castle located in the northwest of North RhineWestphalia, Germany.

During the Third Reich the castle was to become a representative and ideological center of the order of the SS. Heinrich Himmler, the leader of the SS, wanted to establish the "Center of the New World".[6] A focus of the actual SS-activities at the castle were archaeological excavations in the surrounding region and studies on Germanic early history.[7][8] The mosaic is located in the ground floor room of the North-Tower of the castle, in the so-called Obergruppenfhrersaal ("Obergruppenfhrer hall", completed 1939-1943).[9] ("Obergruppenfhrer" (literally: "Upper-Group-Leader") was the SS-rank parallel to General in the Wehrmacht or Lieutenant-General in the US and British armies.) It is not known if the SS had a special name for the ornament, or if they attributed a special meaning to it. The sun wheel is significant for the Germanic light- and sun-mysticism[10] which was propagated by the SS. In their studies on sense characters, the sun apart was interpreted as "the strongest and most visible expression of god", the number twelve as significant for "the things of the target and the completion".[11] The mosaic at Wewelsburg itself is dark green (see two photos: top view and close-up in highresolution (1,1 MB)) on a whitish/greyish marble floor. Probably a golden disc was originally located in the middle of the ornament.[12][13][unreliable source?] Traditional Christianity was to be replaced by a "vlkisch" (folkish or racial) cult. Instead of Christianity, Himmler wanted a moral doctrine derived from the preChristian pagan Germanic heritage. Cultic ceremonies and rituals were part of the everyday life of the SS. The Wewelsburg was to be a center of a "species-compliant" religion (German: "artgeme" Religion)[14][15] The North-Tower of the castle was to be the center of a planned circular estate, 1.27 kilometres in diameter.[16][17] The architects called the complex the "Center of the World" from 1941 on. The North-Tower, which had survived a ruin after 1815, only assumed importance for Himmler starting in the autumn of 1935. In the process of Himmler establishing the castle as a cult site (an ideological and religious center of the SS), the tower was to serve the highest-ranking SS leaders as a meeting place and probably as location for quasi-religious devotions. Nothing is known about the possible way and the kind of arrangement of designated ceremonies in the towerthe redesigned rooms were never used.[18] According to the architects, the axis of the North-Tower was to be the actual "Center of the World".[19] The inside of the complete castle was redesigned in an Nazi-specific mythological way (see the Wewelsburg SS School). SS architect Hermann Bartels presented a first draft of plans that envisioned using the North Tower on three different levels. However, a meeting in the first floor mosaic room never occurredthe building work at the room was stopped in 1943.[20] In 1945, when the "final victory" didn't materialize, the castle was partially blasted and set on fire by the SS, but the two redesigned rooms in the North-Tower stayed intact. It is not known whether this symbol was placed in the marble floor at Wewelsburg before or after the National Socialist Regime and the taking over of the castle by Himmler. There is speculation as to whether the symbol was put into the hall by the Nazis or whether it was there a long time before but there is no definitive proof either

way. The book sold by the Wewelsburg museum on the history of the castle from 1933 to 1945 makes no mention of who put it there. The plans for the North Tower by SS architect Hermann Bartels make no mention of it. Scholars today are reluctant to say with any certainty why it was put there, or by whom.[4][21] Because the ceilings of the North-Tower were cast in concrete and faced with natural stone during the Third Reich, it is more likely that the ornament was created during the Himmler era. There is, although its origins are unknown, an identical rendition of the Wewelsburg Schwarze Sonne in a wall painting at a World War II military bunker memorial to Bismarck at Hamburg below a statue of Bismarck (see Bismarck-Monument (Hamburg)). It is with a central piece incorporating a sunwheel and swastikas and the texts "Nicht durch Reden werden groe Fragen entschieden, sondern durch Eisen und Blut" ("Great questions will not be resolved by talk, but by iron and blood").[22][23][24][25][unreliable source?]

The Vienna Circle

The "Black Sun" is often associated with the mystic-esoteric aspects of National Socialism. Origin of a phantastic post war "SS mysticism" which refers to the "Black Sun" is a right-wing esoteric circle in Vienna in the early 1950s.[26] The former SS member Wilhelm Landig of the Vienna Circle (esoteric) "coined the idea of the Black Sun, a substitute swastika and mystical source of energy capable of regenerating the Aryan race"[4] Rudolf J. Mund (also a former SS member and later also member of the Vienna Circle) discusses a relationship of the Black Sun with alchemy. The visible sun is described as a symbol of an invisible anti-sun: "Everything that can be comprehended by human senses is material, the shadow of the invisible spiritual light. The material fire is - seen in this way - also just the shadow of the spiritual fire."[27]

Nazi and Neo-Nazi significance

The term Black Sun may originate with the mystical "Central Sun" in Helena Blavatsky's Theosophy. This invisible or burnt out Sun (Karl Maria Wiligut's Santur in Nazi mysticism) symbolizes an opposing force or pole.[citation needed] Emil Rdiger, of Rudolf John Gorslebens Edda-Gesellschaft (Edda Society), claimed that a fight between the new and the old Suns was decided 330,000 years ago, and that Santur had been the source of power of the Hyperboreans.[citation needed] The Wewelsburg symbol can be deconstructed into three swastikas; a "rising", a "zenith" & a "setting" one, the design is popular among German Neo-Nazis as a replacement for the outlawed singular swastika symbol. Another interpretation is that the symbol incorporates twelve reversed "Sig runes" of the Armanen runes. Allegedly, the design was drawn for Heinrich Himmler from an "old Aryan emblem",[28] and was meant to mimic the Round table of Arthurian legend with each spoke of the sun wheel representing one "knight" or Officer of the "inner" SS. According to James Twining, "The symbol of the Black Sun unites the three most important symbols of Nazi ideology - the sun wheel, the swastika and the stylized victory rune." and that it is

symbolic in its form representing "the twelve SS Knights of The Order of the Death's Head and their three retainers).[29] Erich Halik was the first to link the esoteric SS with the Black Sun roundel insignia carried by German aircraft in the polar region at the close of World War II.[4][30]

Contemporary esotericism
The symbol has been used by a variety of esotericists; for example, as the official symbol of the occult group Black Order of the Theozoa. The name of the well-known Black Sun Press (a private literary press active in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s) reflects the occult interests of one of its founders, Harry Crosby, but pre-dates the emergence of the esoteric Nazi symbol. Occasionally, and unscientifically, black dwarfs are referred to as black suns. This is not entirely unrelated to the esoteric meaning, since ariosophy alleges a burnt out sun that was the source of power of the Aryans in some mystical past (see also Karl Maria Wiligut). Others[who?] regard the Black Sun as a black hole; before the term black hole was coined in 1967, black holes (then still theoretical) were sometimes called black stars or dark stars. Still others, such as Miguel Serrano, think of the Black Sun as a wormhole. Uses of the term in science fiction and fantasy literature are influenced by a combination of the esoteric and the astronomical meaning. See Black Sun (disambiguation) for examples of the term as used in popular culture.

Alternative design

The symbol described by Peter Moon and Joseph Farrell, described as the symbol of the Black Sun.[31][32] In 1988/1990 and 1992, Austrian researchers Norbert Jrgen Ratthofer and Ralf Ettl produced the documentaries "UFO - Das Dritte Reich schlgt zurck? (1998/1990) (UFO - The Third Reich Strikes Back?)"[33][34] and "UFO - Geheimnisse des Dritten Reichs (1990) (UFO - Secrets of the Third Reich)"[35][36] which talks of the Thule Society with the Geheimnis Schwarze Sun flashing on screen and talking about it. Professor Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke states that "In the early 1990s, the Austrians Norbert Jrgen Ratthofer and Ralf Ettl and developed new nazi UFO myths involving ancient Babylon, Vril energy and extraterrestrial civilisation in the solar system of

Aldebaran. These colourful ideas are integral elements of a dualist Marcionite religion propagated by Ralf Ettl through his Tempelhofgesellschaft (Temple Society) in Vienna, identified as a secret successor to the historic Templars, who had absorbed Gnostic and heretical ideas in the Levant"[37] Ratthofer and Ettl state in "UFO - Geheimnisse des Dritten Reichs (1990) (UFO - Secrets of the Third Reich)"[35] that "Within the SS the Thule Society created a separate secret organisation called the "Black Sun"" with the "Geheimnis Schwarze Sonne" as its logo.[unreliable source?] In 1997 author Peter Moon (real name: Vince Barbarick), wrote a book entitled 'The Black Sun: Montauk's Nazi-Tibetan Connection' in which he refers to an image (pictured) as the 'Signet of the Black Sun' (a secret order in Germany, also referred to as the 'Order of the Black Sun') and that it is "the symbol of the innermost secret society of Nazi Germany: the Black Sun. It is illegal to print or display this symbol in Germany today."[38] This image and information was, according to Moon, originally provided to him by van Helsing around 1996, along with additional information on Nazi flying discs. Moon alleges that Helsing allegedly got it from Templar groups who emerged from East Germany after the Berlin Wall fell and Germany reunited. The German edition of Moon's book on the Black Sun had to have the image removed. Van Helsing, however, did not write specifically on this symbol and mentioned the Black Sun just in a few phrases. But, from what Moon states, van Helsing could be talking about Ralf Ettl and his Tempelhofgesellschaft (Temple Sociey) in Vienna, identified as a secret successor to the historic Templars. In 2005 American Scholar Dr. Joseph P. Farrell, in his book 'Reich of the Black Sun', also states that the symbol was adopted by the Thule Society but also adopted as an emblem for von Liebenfels' New Templars.[39] Farrell also states that in contemporary German Federal Law it is forbidden to be displayed.[39] Farrell doesn't cite any sources, not referring to Norbert Jrgen Ratthofer and Ralf Ettl, Jan van Helsing or Peter Moon. Additionally, he states it was adopted by the Thule Society and the New Templars, without citation, and in contradiction to the information supplied by van Helsing and Moon. Farrell has stated that as for primary sources, he does not have one other than Ralf Ettl and Juergen Ratthofer for the Black Sun concept.[40] In 2007 author Ron McVan published written works within a Wotanist context utilising the Alternative Black Sun Symbol.[41] British Professor Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke B.A. doesn't mention this image in either of his books on the history of occultism in Nazi Germany but shows the Thule Society emblem to have been this image[42][43] and Liebenfels' New Templars logo to be this image.[44]

Popular culture
Scottish comics writer Grant Morrison, in his 2000AD series Zenith, makes repeated references to a Black Sun cult, which is a combination of Nazi and Lovecraftian ideas. They are the main agents in this world for the extradimensional running villains of the series, the Lloigor, and are the ones at the start of the series who engineer the resurrection of Master Man, the vessel of Iok-Sotot.

In Peter Hogan and Chris Sprouse's America's Best Comics limited series, Tom Strong & the Robots of Doom, Albrecht Strong, the Nazi son of Tom Strong, uses the symbol as his own when he overwrites the timestream with his own worldwide neo-Nazi empire. The symbol is used on the cover of the novel "The Black Sun" by James Twining[45] and is mentioned extensively, although the cover image is not strictly the same - it faces in the wrong direction. The symbol is also used on the cover of the fiction novel "Black Order" by James Rollins and is mentioned extensively therein. In the Outlanders novel, Satan's Seed by Mark Ellis, the Brotherhood of the Black Sun and Aleister Crowley use geomancy to travel through time. It features in the novel Swastika by Michael Slade. In the occult-Nazi thriller Die Schwarze Sonne von Tashi Lhunpo (The Black Sun of Tashi Lhunpo) by Russell McCloud (Stephan Mgle-Stadel) [7] in 1991, the assassinations of the president of the European Bank and a leading member of the UN Security Council are linked by a brand mark of the symbol of the Black Sun on the foreheads of the victims. McCloud is the first writer to identify the Wewelsburg sun wheel with the Black Sun myth (of Wilhelm Landig), thereby indicating the esoteric influence of Wiligut and the SS heritage and Aryan-theosophical lore at the heart of Himmler's imaginative world. Arun-Verlag in Engerda (in the former German Democratic Republic) have published further editions and a film script of the book. The book Unheilige Allianzen by Christian Dornbusch and Hans-Peter Killguss discusses the symbol.[46] The symbol is also used on the book cover for the 2011 novel Order of the Black Sun by Jack Follett, which features a secret nazi base in New Swabia in Antarctica as one of the settings in the occult tech-thriller.[47] The Wewelsburg design is used in the artwork of musical groups from the Neo-Nazi subculture and other bands using Nazi aesthetics, e. g. for shock value. It is used as well as in the in lyrics of the experimental music groups Coil who released a song called Solar Lodge, found on the album Scatology, containing the lyrics "See the black sun rise from the Solar Lodge", Death in June, Von Thronstahl and as the title of a song by Dead Can Dance and E Nomine[48] Gotos=Kalanda (1995) by Allerseelen is adapted from Wiligut's pagan calendar cycle of poems presented to Himmler in 1937. The Wewelsburg Black Sun is prominent on Petak's letterhead and the Allerseelen label.[4][49] In the game Wolfenstein by Id Software, the Black sun was actually another dimension. In the game, the Nazis try to uncover the secrets of the Thule people, an ancient civilization that discovered how to enter the Black sun dimension through the use of portals. The main protagonist called William "B.J." Blazkowicz, a secret agent tries to prevent the Nazis from entering the dimension because they try to build a super weapon to win the war. The main character took an ancient artifact from a Nazi dig site, giving him special abilities that make gameplay easier throughout the game.

See also

Black Sun (mythology) Five Suns (mythology) Esoteric Nazism Esotericism in Germany and Austria Fascist symbolism Karl Maria Wiligut Nazi occultism Neo-vlkisch movements Rahu (mythology) Solar symbols Sun cross Suns in alchemy Thule-Seminar

References
1. ^ Left image: decorative brooch found in Inzing, Innsbruck-Land, dated to ca. AD 400, from Hermann Wirth, Die heilige Urschrift der Menschheit , Leipzig 1936, BD. II, Bilderatlas, Tafel 42 (at the time kept in the Staatl. Museen Berlin.) Right image: Migration age Alemannic decorative brooch, from Hans-Joachim Diesner, Die Vlkerwanderung , Gtersloh 1980, used on the title cover of a 1982 Artgemeinschaft booklet. ^ 'Derhain website article (In German) on the Schwarze Sonne (In English); Jadu article; Haag Museum; 'Personal website' of James Twining. ^ 'Jadu article; Haag Museum' ^ a b c d e Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of Identity by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke. ^ References in Rdiger Snner, Schwarze Sonne: Entfesselung und Mibrauch der Mythen in Nationalsozialismus und rechter Esoterik (Freiburg: Herder, 1999), pp. 148, 245 (note 426):'Die durchbrochenen Zierscheiben der Merowingerzeit' (Mainz: Rm-German. Zentralmuseum, 1970) by Dorothee Renner. Examples of symbols very similar to the Wewelsburg sun wheel occur in Mannus 28 (1936), 270; Walther Veeck, Die Alemannen in Wrttemberg (Berlin and Leipzig:DeGruyter, 1931); Hans Reinerth (ed.), Die Vorgeschichte der Deutschen Stmme, 3 vols. (Berlin: Bibliographisches Institut, 1940), vol. 2, plate 219. ^ SS - Die Wewelsburg In German: SS - The Wewelsburg; quote: "... es sollte nach dem Endsieg das Zentrum der neuen Welt entstehen." - "... after the final victory the Center of the New World was to arise (here)." ^ Takeover of the Castle by Himmler 1934 (German) ^ Information about archaeological activities (German) ^ 'Wewelsburg 1933 bis 1945. Kult-und-Terrorsttte der SS. Eine Dokumentation (Schriftenreihe des Kreismuseums Wewelsburg 1), 2nd Edition Paderborn 1987.' by Karl Hser and translated into English in 2000 by Robin Benson ^ Drachen, Helden, Nachtmeerfahrten - Die Archetypenlehre von C.G. Jung ^ Walther Blachetta: Das Buch der deutschen Sinnzeichen (The book of German sense characters); reprint of 1941; page 15/16: interpretation of the sun and page 80: interpretation of the number twelve. ^ The Schwarze Sonne documentary by Rdiger Snner contains as bonus material an interview with the DVD's producer in which he states this. ^ At the end of this article a "plate of pure gold in the axis of the sun wheel" is mentioned. ^ "SS - Wewelsburg (Castle)"; quote: Sie sollte ein Mittelpunkt der "artgemen" Religion werden und einen Reprsentationsbau fr das SS-Fhrerkorps darstellen - (Wewelsburg Castle) was to be a center of the "kind-accordant" religion and a representative building for the SSleader-corps. ^ Heinrich Himmler, quote: "Sie sollte nach dem Endsieg zum Zentrum der neuen Welt und artgemen Religion werden." (Wewelsburg Castle) was to become "Center of the New Word" and the "species-compliant religion" after the "final victory".

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^ Nationalsozialismus.de SS - Die Wewelsburg ^ Kreismuseum Wewelsburg - Die SS Schule Haus Wewelsburg ^ In the German article this is stated. ^ The Schwarze Sonne documentary by Rdiger Snner contains as bonus material an interview with the DVD-producer in which he states this. ^ Wewelsburg 1933 bis 1945. Kult-und-Terrorsttte der SS. Eine Dokumentation (Schriftenreihe des Kreismuseums Wewelsburg 1), 2nd Edition Paderborn 1987. Karl Hser; translated into English in 2000 by Robin Benson and Interview with Kirsten John-Stucke, Vize-Director of the memorial-place Wewelsburg (in German) ^ 'Wewelsburg 1933 bis 1945. Kult-und-Terrorsttte der SS. Eine Dokumentation (Schriftenreihe des Kreismuseums Wewelsburg 1), 2nd Edition Paderborn 1987.' by Karl Hser and translated into English in 2000 by Robin Benson and extensive pictorial illustration is provided by Stuart Russell and Jost W. Schneider, Heinrich Himmler's Burg. Das weltanschauliche Zentrum der SS: Bildchronik der SS-Schule Haus Wewelsburg 1934-1945 (Landshut, Germany: RVG, 1989). Photographs of the Sun Wheel appear ibid, pp. 81-82 - this has been translated into English and is sold by the Wewelsburg museum ^ 'Die Schwarzesonne (Revised)' by Steve Anthonijsz (Radbd rtisson). ^ Hamburg Morning Post article ^ Braune Lichtmenschen. Anmerkungen zum Heidentum in rechtsextremen Szenen ^ Hamburger Morgenpost - www.mopo.de - Nachrichten Hamburg Panorama ^ Wien als Brutsttte des okkulten Faschismus Vienna as hatchery of occult fascism: "Die beiden Wiener Wilhelm Landig und Rudolf J. Mund mssen als die eigentlichen Stifter dieses "SS-Mystizismus" angesehen werden, der sich heute um das Symbol der Schwarzen Sonne gruppiert." The two Vienneses Wilhelm Landig and Rudolf J. Mund must be seen as the actual founders of this SS mysticism which refers to the Black Sun nowadays. ^ Rudolf J. Mund: Das Mysterium der Schwarzen Sonne; Kapitel: Die Esoterik der "Schwrze" (The mystery of the Black Sun; chapter: The esotericism of the "black") ^ [1] ^ 'Personal website' of James Twining. ^ "Um Krone und Gipfel der Welt" (Mensch und Schicksal 6, No. 10 (1 August 1952), pp. 3-5) by Erich Halik (Claude Schweikhart) ^ [2] ^ [3] ^ Goodricke Clarke in Black Sun says 1990 but Henry Stevens in Hitler's Flying Saucers says 1988 ^ (viewable here in German) ^ a b (viewable here in German and here in English) ^ Kasen, Victor Ordell L: 'Das Geheimnis der Schwarze Sonne: Hinter der Geheimnis Schwarze Sonne', Salop 1993. ^ Goodricke-Clarke, Black Sun, page 194 ^ Moon, Peter; 'The Black Sun: Montauk's Nazi-Tibetan Connection' ^ a b Farrell, Joseph P.; 'Reich of the Black Sun' p175 ^ Norbert Jrgen Ratthofer and Ralf Ettl - Das Vril-Projekt; Norbert Jrgen Ratthofer Demnachst "Kampf um die Erde"?!"; Norbert Jrgen Ratthofer and Ralf Ettl: UFO - Das Dritte Reich schlgt zurck? (video, 1990) (UFO - The Third Reich Strikes Back?) (viewable here in German); Norbert Jrgen Ratthofer and Ralf Ettl: UFO - Geheimnisse des Dritten Reichs (video, 1992) (UFO - Secrets of the Third Reich) (viewable here in German and here in English); Norbert Jrgen Ratthofer - Lichtreiche auf Erden (1997); Das Vril-Projekt 2 (1999) Der Z-Plan (1999, 4 volume novel) ^ http://www.vinlandfolkresistance.com/articles/200710/McVan_TheBlackSun.html ^ Goodricke-Clarke, Nicholas; 'Occult Roots of Nazism: The Ariosophists of Austria and Germany, 1890-1935' ^ Goodricke-Clarke, Nicholas; 'Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity' ^ http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/de%7Dns_or.html ^ [4] [5] ^ [6] ^ http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004R9QJ14 ^ Appears as 'Schwarze Sonne'. Tracklisting at Amazon.com

49. ^ Die Schwarze Sonne von Tashi Lhunpo. Das Drehbuch (Schatten der Macht: Polit-Thriller) by Norbert Hess (Engerda, Germany: Arun-Verlag, 1995) - An Interview With Kadmon (Allerseelen/"Aorta"), The Nexus, No. 2 (November 1995) pp. 1-6.

Further study
Scholarly

Rdiger Snner: Schwarze Sonne. Entfesselung und Missbrauch der Mythen in Nationalsozialismus und rechter Esoterik. Freiburg i. Br. Verlag Herder/Spektrum, 1999, ISBN 3-451-27186-9. Snner also produced the DVD documentary of the same name to accompany his book. Goodrick-Clarke, Nicholas: Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of Identity. New York University Press, New York 2003. Goodrick-Clarke, Nicholas: The Occult Roots of Nazism Friedrich Paul Heller, Anton Maegerle: Die Sprache des Hasses. Rechtsextremismus und vlkische Esoterik. Schmetterling-Verlag, Stuttgart 2001 Friedrich Paul Heller, Anton Maegerle: Thule. Vom vlkischen Okkultismus bis zur Neuen Rechten. 2. Aufl. Stuttgart, Schmetterling-Verlag 1998 Cook, Stephen, Heinrich Himmler's Camelot: Pictorial/documentary: The Wewelsburg Ideological Center of the SS, 1934-1945 (Kressmann-Backmeyer, 1999)

Occult

M. B. Hasler, Die Schwarze Sonne. Gttliches Licht der Erkenntnis, ISBN 39808794-0-2 Rudolf J. Mund, Mythos Schwarze Sonne, ISBN 3-8334-1122-8

Documentary

Schwarze Sonne documentary by Rdiger Snner. Snner also produced a book to accompany this documentary. Nazis: The Occult Conspiracy (1998), directed by Tracy Atkinson and Joan Baran, narrated by Malcolm McDowell. The Occult History of the Third Reich, Starring: Patrick Allen, Director: Dave Flitton o Adolf Hitler - Occult History Of The Third Reich o The SS: Blood And Soil - Occult History Of The Third Reich o Himmler The Mystic - Occult History Of The Third Reich o The Enigma Of The Swastika - Occult History Of The Third Reich "Decoding the Past" Episode: The Nazi Prophecies" by the History Channel [8] [9] Hitler and the Occult by the History Channel [10] The Riddle Of Rudolph Hess/Himmler's Castle: Wewelsburg In 1994, Channel 4 ran a Michael Wood documentary entitled Hitler's Search for the Holy Grail, as part of its "Secret History" series. [11] Unsolved Mysteries of World War II: Occult & Secrets, also known as Volume 3 in the series.

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Rudolf Hess (Occult) Hitler's Secret Weapons Enigma of the Swastika (Occult) Himmler's Castle: Wewelsburg (Occult) The Last Days of Hitler Decision At Dunkirk/Stalin's Secret Armies

(Different editions have different episodes) [12] [13] [14] [15]

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