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astonishment one thousand Tibetan corpses in German army uniforms.
Some Germans, especially intellectuals, found the Nazis attractive precisely because of the
daemonic element. Ernst Junger expressed this attitude in 1932:
One of the best means of preparation for a new and bolder life is to be found in the
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annihilation of the values of the free-floating and autocratic spirit, in the destruction of the
standards which the bourgeois age has laboured to impart to man ... The best answer to the
high treason of the spirit against life is high treason of the spirit against the spirit, and to be a
part of this blasting operation is one of the great and cruel pleasures of our time.'7
Another example of this type of intellectual, then very common throughout Germany, was
Hans Heinz Ewers, whose tales of horror, In Terror and The Mandragore anticipated the
malefic sadism of the Nazi regime. Ewers was under no illusions regarding the Nazis. He
joined them because he saw in their movement the strongest expression of the Powers of
Darkness'. His main contribution was the Sturmabteilung hymn, the Horst Wessel Lied.
The destined leader of the Aryan peoples, however, obviously had things other than the Vril
Society with which to occupy his mind, in particular the increasing strength of his vehicle, the
Nazi Party. He agreed with the opinion of the astrologer, Elsbeth Ebertin, that his trial had
not only given this movement inner strength, but outer strength, a massive impetus to the
pendulum of world history'. One does not know if he also agreed with Frau Ebertin's
description of him as on the platform like a man possessed, like a medium, the unconscious
tool of higher powers': Hitler did not hold astrologers in high regard except when their
conclusions pleased him. He had many cutting things to say about astrology as a predictive
science, and preferred to rely on his own intuition. Now his intuition told him that Germany's
prosperity would not last, and he could afford to feel pleased with his slow but steady
political progress. The reconstituted SA was also attracting recruits, and two more willing
and capable executives of his will had come to his attention, Joseph Goebbels and Heinrich
Himmler.
Goebels was a frustrated and cynical club-footed intellectual who, like so many of his breed,
had come to despise the intellect and exalt the passion of violence for its own sake. This in-
,itself does not make him very interesting, but he possessed too a genius for propaganda
that was superior to Hitler's own, and a talent for oratory that was second only to the
Führer's. Originally something of a Socialist and in a Communist country he would have
remained so Dr Goebbels was finally mesmerised by Hitler, and like so many others, he
came to worship him. It no longer mattered if Hitler was interested in occultism and like
pursuits, for which Goebbels felt nothing but contempt; all that mattered was that he had
found faith once more in a god.
In time, Goebbels came to usurp the role of Rudolf Hess as Hitler's High Priest, devoting
every particle of his propagandist skills to persuading others to abandon all reason and lie at
the feet of the divine being whom he praised. His rise had really commenced in 1926, when
Hitler made him Gauleiter of the small party organisation in Communist dominated Berlin.
Beware you dogs,' wrote Goebbels. When the Devil is loose in me you will not curb him
again,' and he made good his promise, becoming within months the city's most feared
demagogue. He organised demonstrations, printed propaganda, mass meetings and street
brawls, convinced that history is made in the street'. He had absolutely no regard for truth
whatsoever, and did not care how much bad publicity he received provided there was plenty
of it. By 1932, the Nazis ruled the streets of Berlin, and Goebbels was ready to become
master of his nation's propaganda and public enlightenment.
Heinrich Himmler was not as intelligent, as colourful or as talented as Joseph Goebbels. As
a man, he was distinguished only by a disturbing mediocrity. He relied for his advancement
upon an unquestioning loyalty to Hitler, an uncritical devotion to Nazism, and unexciting but
thoroughly conscientious bureaucratic skills. A chicken farmer by profession, his polite but
pedantic manner reminded observers of an elementary schoolteacher. Although he had
joined the Nazis in 1923, even they paid little attention to the dutiful little nonentity.
Eventually, Hitler found him a job, Commander of a very small organisation known as the
SS. This was then the bodyguard of the Nazi elite, and subordinate to the SA, and only
Himmler seems to have regarded his task as something other than a backwater for a
devoted subordinate.
His mild manner belied his ambition; more important from his own point of view, his
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meticulous attention to the smallest details impressed Adolf Hitler. Within four years of his
appointment, Himmler had persuaded Hitler to allow him to increase the strength of the SS
to 30,000 men, though it was still nominally subordinate to the SA. Even this was not nearly
enough for Himmler and his assistant, the ruthless Reinhard Heydrich, and the two men
tirelessly schemed that they might succeed in three aims: the SS would become not only an
independent Nazi Praetorian Guard; not only the controllers of all police forces throughout
Germany; but also the most powerful magical Order that the world has ever known. For
Heinrich Himmler was, as we shall see, a completely dedicated occultist.
The years from 1924-9 were therefore years of consolidation in which the Nazi movement
laid the foundations for future conquest. They were also happy years insofar as Hitler's
personal life was concerned. He found himself a lovely home at Berchtesgaden, on the
Obersalzberg in the Bavarian Alps, which became his haven for solitude, rest and relaxation.
Yes, there are so many links between Obersalzberg and me,' he later reminisced. So many
things were born there ... I spent there the finest hours of my life ... It is here that all my great
projects were conceived and ripened. I had hours of leisure in those days, and how many
charming friends!'
Some of those friends were women, whose company he enjoyed, especially if they were
beautiful. What lovely women there are in the world!' he once exlaimed dreamily, though he
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