Hitler and the Occult: The Magical Thinking of Adolf Hitler

Abstract

difficult, if not impossible, to sort through them and arrive at the real Hitler. Hitler’s character and career, however, have remained consistently popular subjects.’ Many people have tried to give insights into his character and personality. But some of the most controversial have been those writers who have claimed a strong connec- tion between Hitler and occult practices. In fact, over the past thirty years two radically different positions on the subject have formed. The first group of writers generally ignored, rejected, or downplayed the rela- tionship of Hitler and occult knowledge, while the second argued that such