[lbo-talk] another obscure question

[James Heartfield]

On the Nazi occultism there is something to it. In so far as they were 
intellectuals, the Nazis were in the mainstream of German romanticism, which 
appealed - lightly - to a pre-Christian primordialism. But this is only the 
equivalent of Britain's nineteenth century celtic revivial, or even the 
pre-Raphaelites interest in Anglo-Saxonism.

There was a good documentary on "Hitler's search for the Holy Grail" on 
Channel 4 here, though it overstates the case somewhat. Here's a write-up 
http://www.wsws.org/articles/1999/sep1999/nazi-s23.shtml

Jonathan Meades did a pretty good doc on Nazi aesthetics, too, for BBC2: 
"Using Berlin as his starting point, writer and presenter Jonathan Meades 
goes in search of the architectural relics of the genocidal Third Reich, 
which was steeped in mysticism and pagan death cults. These include a model 
village for SS Doctors, Himmler's Castle at a crossing of ley lines and a 
seaside utopia for 20,000 of the master race."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctwo/listings/programme.shtml?day=thursda&service_id=4224&filename=20060503/20060503_2320_4224_63798_40