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Unholy Alliance: A History of the Nazi Involvement With the Occult | 
 enlarge | Author: Peter Levenda
Creator: Norman Mailer
Publisher: Continuum
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 134838
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 423
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 1.2
ISBN: 0826414095
Dewey Decimal Number: 133.094309043
EAN: 9780826414090
ASIN: 0826414095
Publication Date: May 2002
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Product Description
FOREWORD BY NORMAN MAILER Engagingly written, this is a comprehensive but popular history of the occult background and roots of the Nazi movement, showing how the ideas of a vast international network of late 19th- and early 20th century occult groups influenced Nazi ideology, from Madame Blavatsky and Aleister Crowley to the Thule Gesellschaft, the Order of the Golden Dawn, the Order of the Eastern Temple, and the pseudoscientific expeditions to Iceland and Tibet of the Ancestral Heritage Research and Teaching Society. Nazi appropriation of the occult was a strange mixture of astrology, freemasonry, racism rooted in occultism, and popular European folklore. It also traces the Nazi movements as they continued their activities after the war or "morphed" into neo-Nazi, skinhead, and satanic groups, such as the Christian Identity and White Aryan Resistance movements.
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 Very good read, unusual information! July 11, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I picked up this book after first hearing about the Nazi occult practices in a Germanic Mythology lecture in college, and wow, was there a lot of information that the mainstream histories leave out. Before that class and reading this book, I had no clue how the ancient Germanic and Viking religion was transported from the 19th century into the modern times, and this book did a lot of filling in that blank.
The book adds a storyline to the telling of Nazi occultism with the author's personal adventure into an alleged Nazi outpost in South America that is supposed to still be in existence. The author felt that he was almost killed tracking down this camp and relates the entire survival story in here-and-there chapters throughout the book.
But the main subject here is how the Nazis used Germanic mythology and other occult beliefs dating from the 19th century with people like Guido von List and Madame Blavatsky to form their own anti-everything-else ideology. The most proving evidence of the influence of these strange origins on Nazism is the Castle Wewelsburg operations, where Himmler and his circle of SS friends were conducting occult rituals regularly in their own version of a war effort. Many sources of Nazi ideology are explained in detail here, and how these sources were used in the 1930s and 1940s.
This book was a fun read, and quite a mind trip. Definitely a good way to kill time!
 Reader beware June 25, 2008
3 out of 9 found this review helpful
I was about to purchase this book because of the interesting subject matter. When noticing the foreword by Mr Norman Mailer and then remembering his political positions I felt the need research some more. Later I noticed Sinister Forces with a foreword by Paul Krassner and I could begin to see a pattern developing.
Decided to read about Mr. Levenda and found his blog which he uses to call every Republican a Nazi. Accuses former President Reagan of "wooing ex Naziz" the entire Bush family of collaborating with Nazi's, former President Nixon of defending Romanian Nazi's as well as the entire Republican Party by claiming that "the Republican Party has a long history of tolerance where Nazis and other assorted fascist fellow-travelers are concerned".
By understanding the author you understand where he is coming from and thus should be careful about the material being presented for your consumption.
The hatred that is contained within the pages of this Author's blogg were enough for me to realize that the "facts" as presented in his books could similarly be clouded by his leftist ideology.
Excellent research! July 6, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Although I could go on and on, like the other reviewers, I'll try to keep this short. Peter Levenda did extensive research for this book, and its obvious looking at the bibliography. There was a lot going on in the world before and during WWII, and this book really opened my eyes as to how many significant events were inspired by the occult and superstitions. I always viewed historical texts focused on this particular time frame as very dry and dull, but this book really got down and dirty with the alterior motives behind all the strategy that took place during those years.
This book was NOT an easy read, however... but it was well worth the effort to stay focused. There was no filler material like most books have - each sentence and paragraph was full of information and detail, so if you drift off into thought about what you just read, you'll miss something important.
I just wish I could buy it in hardback.
Horrible research and poorly formulated arguments April 28, 2007
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
As other reviewer have mentioned, Levenda contradicts his own conclusions and arguments in this book; arguments formed by poor research and untrustworthy sources.
It's at least as bad as "Spear of Destiny" if not worse, due to the greater amount of verifiable, solid sources available.
 You have to be VERY gullible to take this book seriously! January 26, 2007
5 out of 12 found this review helpful
Unholy Alliance has to be the stupidest book written about so called "Nazi occultism" since Spear of Destiny by Trevor Ravenscroft. The author of this book is either insane, a huckster trying to make a buck or a covert ADL agent. It reads like he did his research for this book by watching one of those silly A & E "Nazi occult" documentaries, reading public ADL or SPLC "intelligence" reports designed to scare little old Jewish ladies into thinking the Nazis are coming back if they don't send in a large donation, and then tying the ends by just making a bunch of stuff up.
I mean I really don't know where to start with this one. For one there is absolutely no evidence that Hitler was a Satanist, Odinist or any type of practicing occultist. Levenda can't seem to figure out what the Nazis as a whole are either. In one brush of the stroke he says they are worshippers of Odin, Thor, etc, then in the next he says they were trying to recreate the Christian Knights Templar and the Jesuit Order through the SS!
He also makes the nutty and totally baseless claim that a South American religious cult made up of people of German ancestry are Nazi war criminals who escaped after WW2 and are secretly pulling the strings of the various South American governments behind the scenes. News Flash! There was no connection between the people at ""Colonia Dignidad" and Nazism. Just because you are German and live in South America does not mean you are a "Nazi war criminal" fleeing justice. There were huge amounts of Germans living in South America long before WW2, there have been and still are whole German communities there and 99.999% of the Germans who went to South America after WW2 did so to escape what was going to be a very nasty place to live for many years to come, not because Simon Wiesenthal was hot on their heels. As far as "escaped Nazis" having anything to do with installing these murderous crackpot right wing dictators that popped up at various times in South America its totally baseless and delusional. I think you might look to a Jewish man named Kissinger if you want to know how those regimes came about.
As if all of this wasn't enough I actually heard Levenda on a talk radio show claiming that "Nazi skinheads" were running a multi-million dollar drug smuggling empire as a joint operation with Al-Queda! Ha ha ha! If you believe that you will believe anything.
If you want to read a sane book on Nazis and the occult check out The Occult Roots of Nazism: Secret Aryan Cults and Their Influence on Nazi Ideology by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke
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