by Frank Lost
CONTENTS
Title
Copyright
INTRODUCTION
HISTORICAL ODDITIES
Non-Whites & Jews in the German Army
Spring of Life and Baby Abductions
Lake Toplitz: the Nazi Abyss
Werewolves
The Underground Reich
Wonder Weapons
NAZI OCCULTISM
The Hollow Earth Theory
World Ice Theory
Neuschwabenland
The Ahnenerbe
The Wewelsburg
Hexen Files
Hitler and Magic
Wotan and the Aryan Archetype
POST-WAR MYTHS
The Morning of the Magicians
Hitler’s Death
The Mystic Treasure of the SS
Fantasy Wonder Weapons
The Genocide
Nazism Becomes a Semi-Religious Movement
The Black Sun
The Vril
EPILOGUE
PICTURE CREDITS
NAZI SECRETS
An Occult Breach
in the Fabric of History
Revised and Augmented Edition
Frank Lost
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INTRODUCTION
Sometimes reality can be stranger than fiction. It is therefore unnecessary to add more fantasies to the genuine historical facts in the field of Nazi occultism, especially when it comes to their weird expeditions and their pseudo-scientific researches.
The true amateur of sensational and strange stories can still be fully satisfied with Himmler's Witch Project, or the Hollow Earth Theory, or the various moons of the World Ice Theory that fell on our planet and drowned the Atlanteans. This is real history and some high-ranking Nazis did believe in these theories, no matter how sensational they may sound to modern ears.
It does not add anything to the uncanny spell of such stories to pollute them with material that cannot be verified or, even worse, with pure lies coming straight out of the imagination of poor authors in search of quick money and fame. These made-up stories are usually rewritten in a thousand ways on the Internet, and everyone ends up adding their own personal touch or interpretation, feeding on each other as makeshift sources.
Even if we happen to be dealing with esoteric matters on the fringe of myth and reality, one should not depart from the proper scientific methods which were suggested by Sagan. We should only work on experimental data, observations and measurements. Facts should be independently confirmed by documented references. Logic should be the basis of all rationale, and every link in the chain of our submitted observations should hold together. One can make hypotheses on the link between two separate phenomena, just because they were close in time, place or shape, but these still have to be confirmed by some relevant material, such as geographical and physical evidences. Take, for instance, the case of the alleged battles that would have taken place after 1945 in Antarctica between Allied forces and very special Nazi aircrafts, looking like UFOs and flying out of underground lairs.
Finally, one should use the rule of Occam’s razor: where there are competing hypotheses to explain the same facts, use the simplest, though you may find another one to be more attractive. The point is not to write a screenplay for a blockbuster, but to find out what really did happen.
Among many untrue statements, the yet fascinating book The Morning of the Magicians written by Pauwels & Bergier in 1960, stresses rightfully that the Nazi era was like a breach in space and time that they called "The Absolute Elsewhere." What happened during these almost 12 years of dictatorship, at the heart of Europe in one of the most civilized and industrially advanced countries, does not match the moral, philosophical and religious values that prevailed everywhere else at the same time in the world. There is therefore a need to revisit all historical facts linked to Nazi "oddities" that one rarely finds in mainstream historians' books.
True occultism did exist in Nazi Germany but was not widespread. It was mainly centered on Himmler's personal fantasies and his small circle of high-ranking officers. Himmler was, though, the very powerful Reichsführer of the feared SS, and as such could introduce occult teachings and new religious practices in the training of his elite soldiers as he did, for example, at the Wewelsburg castle. He founded an almost occult and pseudo-scientific institute called the Ahnenerbe that led expeditions as far as Tibet and searched for the Holy Grail in the South of France. Last but not least, Himmler was very much interested in the persecution of witches during the Middle Ages.
Fantasies, urban legends, literary inventions and pure lies came after the war at the beginning of the ‘60s. Any book that dealt with Nazis and the occult, Satan, UFOs or secret treasures was assured to be sold at thousands of copies. Among the purely commercial approach of fake historians and storytellers, there were a few "honest" though fanatic people who managed, by their writings and teachings, to develop a kind a semi-religious version of Nazism that has formed the basis up until today for neo-Nazi movements throughout the world. We shall therefore deal more deeply with such themes as the Black Sun and the Vril force that pervade many of these Nazi New Age creeds.
This book aims at separating historical facts, however esoteric and strange they can be, from post-war fabrications and commercial lies. The amateur of mysteries and dark secrets will not be disappointed, though, since in this quest reality is often stranger than fiction.
HISTORICAL ODDITIES
Not all that is strange is necessarily of the occult; and not all that is esoteric is necessarily strange, but things can remain hidden for a number of reasons.
There is hard historical evidence of odd things that did happen during the Nazi era; these topics are rarely touched by mainstream historians because they may not feel at ease with the classical "all evil/all good" dichotomy between the Axis and the Allied forces. This is probably due to the Nuremberg Trials held by the Allied forces just after the Second World War.
Suffice it to consider that the bad guys did not discriminate in their ranks as much as the US Army did with its Negro troops, or that whatever technical achievement the villains acquired has boosted the post-war research and development of both the USA and the USSR. This is particularly true in the fields of aeronautics and missiles.
Non-Whites & Jews in the German Army
Although Nazism applied racial theories against non-white people, it welcomed volunteers from almost all races in some of its organizations. According to Bryan Mark Rigg, in his book Hitler's Jewish Soldiers, there were up to 150,000 Jews, or partially Jewish soldiers, in the regular German armed forces. Some of them were even awarded very high decorations, and others became high-ranking officers, like generals and admirals. These Jews considered themselves nonetheless German above all, and not Jews.
Field-Marshal Erhard Milch
The most astounding example is Field-Marshal Erhard Milch, who was a "half-Jew," and whose birth certificate was falsified by none other than Goering, who had claimed to Nazi protesters that "I decide who is a Jew and who is an Aryan."
In fact, there was an exception to the racial laws of Nuremberg, called the concept of “honorary Aryan.” The whole Japanese people as well as the Finns, who are not of Indo-European descent, were proclaimed “honorary Aryans.” Some Jews were considered as such too, but on a very small scale, being mostly veterans from WWI who won military medals for their bravery during the fights.
There were also a few Black pe
ople living in Germany at that time. Some were sterilized when Nazis came to power, while others were harshly discriminated against by the population.
African serving in the Free Arabian legion
Afro-American POW soldiers were usually treated much worse than white American soldiers. Although rare, there have been some confirmed instances of Blacks being enlisted within Nazi organizations, such as the Hitlerjugend (Hitler Youth) and the Wehrmacht. There were even a few Blacks in Berlin that were kept in pretty good conditions so that they could be used in propaganda movies.
Sikh soldier from the Indische Legion
controlling French citizens (1944)
In the German army, there was an influx of volunteers from many nationalities and races. Indians served on the Atlantic Wall in France under German uniform in the Indische Legion, all the while keeping some ethnic insignias of their own, just like Black and Arab soldiers were deployed throughout the Free Arabian Legion in North Africa.
Non-Germanic soldiers were enlisted in the Wehrmacht as Foreign Volunteers, whereas “Aryan” candidates usually joined the Waffen-SS.
All in all, there were around 120 different nationalities in the Waffen-SS and the Foreign Legions together, representing many races and religions alike. There were even a few American and British volunteer recruits among the POWs.
Spring of Life and Baby Abductions
The Lebensborn, meaning Spring of Life in German, was not a breeding organization taking care of Aryan children, as it was claimed after the war. Its aim was to lower the very high abortion rate in Germany after WWI (800,000 per year); to take care of orphans during wartime; and to offer social help for children born out of wedlock, may they be German or not and may they be in Germany or in an occupied country alike. The women, of whom 60 percent were not married, were allowed to give birth anonymously and have their children adopted by Aryan families.
The strict conditions to be eligible for the Lebensborn benefits were of course in accordance with the Nuremberg racial laws, and therefore they applied only to the members of the so-called Nordic race or Aryan race.
Nurse taking care of Aryan children
in a Lebensborn center
Though not directly involved, the Lebensborn helped host some of the abducted Polish children who were meant to be Germanized. A total of around 200,000 Polish children, none older than 10 and all bearing "racial value," were taken from their homes and brought to Germany to be raised by German families according to the national-socialist ideology. On a lesser scale, similar abductions were reported in other occupied countries as well.
It appears that the Lebensborn was only the tip of the iceberg regarding the broader problem of children considered to be Aryans throughout Europe. Besides abductions, many children were born from the illegitimate relations between German soldiers and women in occupied countries. In France alone, the number of such children, called enfants de la guerre (children of war) is estimated to be as high as 200,000. There were as many as 40,000 in Belgium, 20,000 in the Netherlands, 12,000 in Norway and 4,000 in Finland. After the war, these children were very often harshly discriminated against as "traitors."
Lake Toplitz: the Nazi Abyss
Lake Toplitz is located in the mountains close to Salzburg, in Austria. It is possible to access its shores only by foot, since the only small road close to it is private property. The lake itself is pretty narrow, only 400 meters wide; it’s not that long (2 km), but it is quite deep (108 m). Because of these particular characteristics, Germans used this site to test their torpedoes.
Towards the end of the war, Nazis wanted to bring Hitler to this natural alpine fortress and organize a last-ditch guerrilla attempt against the Allied troops, which were closing in. However, Hitler committed suicide on April 30, 1945, and this place was used to hide the last secrets of the Third Reich as an absolutely last resort to prevent them falling into Allied hands.
Lake Toplitz dark and deep waters
During the very last days of WWII, a SS car squad brought mysterious crates close to the lake. Since no vehicle could go further, they knocked at the door of a 21-year-old girl named Ida Weisenbacher, who still lives in a small house close to the lake. "It was five o'clock in the morning, we were still in bed when we heard the knock on the door," remembered Weisenbacher. "'Get up immediately! Hitch up the horse wagon, we need you.'"
She hurried up and guided them to ride their wagon pulled by horses to the lakeshore. "A commander was there. He told us to bring these boxes as fast as possible to Lake Toplitz," added Weisenbacher. The boxes were labeled with bold-painted letters and numbers. After carrying three full wagonloads to the lake she could later testify: "When I brought the last load, I saw how they went on to the lake and dropped the boxes into the water. The SS kept shoving me away, but I saw the boxes were sunk into the lake."
After the war many people tried to dive in to find these Nazi treasures, but the odds were low and the danger was high. The bottom of the lake was carpeted with logs, sometimes standing like an underwater forest made by falling trees from the steep slopes of the mountain. In 1947 a US navy diver became entangled there and drowned. Then in 1959 a team, financed by the German magazine Stern, managed to retrieve £72 million in forged British currency, hidden in those boxes, together with their money printing press. The fake currency was produced during a secret counterfeiting operation, code-named Operation Bernhard, which was personally authorized by Adolf Hitler to weaken the Allied economies.
In 1963 another diver drowned, and explorations became forbidden until 1983, when a German biologist accidentally discovered more forged British pounds, in addition to numerous Nazi-era rockets that had crashed into the lake. At the turn of the new millennium, other expeditions costing up to US$600,000 were launched in the depths of the lake, one of which brought back some more fake currency. A French company managed to dry some of those soaked banknotes in order to show them at an exhibition.
Some claim, sometimes with good reasons, that there could be more to find there, since it is most likely that any heavy treasure would probably be hidden under the log forest which lies at the bottom of the lake.
Werewolves
The name Werwolf (German for Werewolf) was initially a novel written by Hermann Löns: Der Wehrwolf (1910). The latter spelling literally means "the wolf that defends" in German. This book was read by the Free Corps fighters after WWI, and held as an example. Some go so far back as to see the Werwolf 's origins in the late Middle Ages and the Holy Vehme Courts, which were a secret society of normal citizens taking revenge on criminals who acted negatively towards the community. The criminal was sentenced and often hung on a tree as a manner of advertisement.
Werwolf insignia on pennant
By March 1945, when the Final Victory was seen as impossible, minister of propaganda Joseph Goebbels fostered the idea of a clandestine guerrilla warfare that would assault ceaselessly upon the Allies, even after their victory.
The truth is that the Werwolf was firstly intended as a uniformed unit and not an intellectual concept of resistance. Though some acts of "terrorism" against enemies of Nazism were accounted for as late as 1948, many put into question the fact that they actually were linked to a secret Werwolf organization. The only confirmed consequence of the propaganda made around the Werwolf was the overestimation of the phenomena by the Allies, which led to greater hardships for the German population.
The actual Werwolf was initiated by Heinrich Himmler in the summer of 1944, and then entrusted to SS General Hans-Adolf Prützmann. Their recruits, comprised of some 5,000 SS men and Hitler Youths alike, were trained with guerrilla tactics that were similar to what the Germans saw being used by the Soviet partisans in the occupied territories of the East.
On March 23, 1945, Dr. Joseph Goebbels urged every citizen of occupied Germany to act as a Werwolf. Although the partisans trained by Prützmann were completely annihilated in 1945, the Allies still adopted harsh measures with the Germans. The Soviets in particular killed
thousands of young boys suspected to be Werwolf members, with no real proof or proper court trial.
Nonetheless, the Werwolf could be considered as a masterpiece of Dr. Joseph Goebbels’ successful propaganda, since it mobilized many Allied resources against a quite non-existant danger.
The Underground Reich
In just a few years, Nazi Germany occupied many European countries, and managed to introduce noticeable changes in their daily landscape. Some of them are still visible today, such as the bunkers; others are spread underground through extended networks of tunnels and chambers. What was the purpose of such constructions, and did they hide agendas of the strangest kind?
