Stephen Flowers studied Germanic and Celtic philology and religious history at the University of Texas at Austin and in Goettingen, West Germany. He received his Ph.D. in 1984 in Germanic Languages and Medieval Studies with a dissertation entitled Runes and Magic.

INTRODUCTION

Essential Questions That Must Be Answered

PART I
Foundations of the Nineteenth Century (1800-1900)

Introduction to Part I

1 Foundations of Volkism
The Deep Background of What Became National Socialism

2 Foundations of the Scientific Culture
Science and Pseudoscience of the Nineteenth Century at the Root of National Socialism

3 Foundations of German Occultism
The Deep Occult Background of the Age

PART II
Before Hitler Came
(1900-1919/1933)

Introduction to Part II
4 Symbolic Volkism
The World of Symbols and Signs into which the Third Reich Entered

5 Preludes in Science and Pseudoscience
Science as Symbol and Weapon

6 Occult Culture in Greater Germany
The Fantastic Occulture of the Age

PART III
Myth of the Twentieth Century (1919-1945)

Introduction to Part III
7 Symbolic Elements in the NSDAP
How Signs, Symbols, and Ceremonies Were Wielded to Gain and Maintain Power and Control

8 Rituals of National Socialism
Magic and Manipulation

9 Religious Revolution in the Third Reich
The Rise of New Religions

10 Occult Dimensions of Nazi Sciences
The Weaponization of the Occult

11 Occultism and the Third Reich
The Anti-occult Reich as a Step toward Political Spellcasting

PART IV The Mythology of Nazi Occultism

Introduction to Part IV

12 The Roots of the Myth of Nazi Occultism in Wartime Propaganda Imaginative Propaganda Lays the Foundation of Postwar Tabloid Scholarship

13 Aftermath: Esoteric Nazism Since 1945
The Generation of a New-Age Mythology A Summary and Final Assessments

APPENDIX A
A Simplified Version of the Organizational Structure of the Ahnenerbe

APPENDIX B
The Word Nazi

A Chronological Annotated Bibliography

References

Index