[lbo-talk] Another obscure question (on witches this time)

[wrobert at uci.edu]

They're a mixed batch when it comes to this question, if I am remembering
my history correctly.  I think Himmler had some interests, and there were
some intellectuals exploring this terrain, but Hitler and Goebbels tended
to look  at these endeavors with a certain amount of contempt, holding to
a certain cynical materialism....  robert wood


> As an aside, is all that stuff often asserted about
> the Nazi leadership being into occult societies and so
> forth true? I've been told it is the product of an
> ant-Nazi propaganda campaign to make them look like
> whackos (well, they were whackos in some ways, but
> maybe not in that way).
>
> --- andie nachgeborenen
> <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Or maybe that the Nazis would pick up the D-Day date
>> from her, using _their_ dark forces. (Hitler used an
>> astrologer.) If their theory was what you suggest,
>> she'd have been liable for espionage and treason,
>> and
>> subject to capital punishment, as under the old
>> Witchcraft Act. Hey, I don't write the law, I'm just
>> telling you what it says.
>>
>
> Lyubo, bratsy, lyubo, lyubo, bratsy, zhit!
>
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