The Occult Roots of Nazism
- The Occult Roots of Nazism
"The Occult Roots of Nazism: Secret Aryan Cults and Their Influence on Nazi Ideology : The Ariosophists of Austria and Germany, 1890-1935" is a book by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke. It is the " work" [Statement by Antoine Faivre (on the back cover of the 2004 edition)] on Nazi occultism and Ariosophy. The book also includes some information on Esotericism in Germany and Austria between 1880 and 1945.
Rohan Butler, who had written "The Roots of National Socialism" in the 1930s, wrote the foreword.
First published in 1985, it was republished as a paperback by New York University Press in 1992 (ISBN 0-8147-3060-4), and more recently republished by I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd (ISBN 1-86064-973-4).
The book has been translated into French, Italian, Russian, Czech, German and Greek. [German edition, front jacket]
The German edition features a preface and an additional essay "Nationalsozialismus and Okkultismus" ("National Socialism and Occultism") (15 pages) by H.T. Hakl.
Publication history
The exact title of the book changed in the 1992 edition. Foreign language editions are also (partly) listed:
:Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke 1985: "The Occult Roots of Nazism: The Ariosophists of Austria and Germany, 1890-1935", Wellingborough, England: The Aquarian Press. ISBN 0-85030-402-4. ::1992: "The Occult Roots of Nazism: Secret Aryan Cults and Their Influence on Nazi Ideology", New York: New York University Press ISBN 978-0814730607::2004: "The Occult Roots of Nazism: Secret Aryan Cults and Their Influence on Nazi Ideology", (Expanded with a new Preface) I.B. Tauris & Co. ISBN 1-86064-973-4. :French edition 1989: "Les racines occultistes du nazisme: Les Aryosophistes en Autriche et en Allemagne 1890-1935" ISBN 2867140692.:Russian edition 1993: "Оккультные корни нацизма":German edition 1997: " Die okkulten Wurzeln des Nationalsozialismus". Graz, Austria: Stocker ISBN 3-7020-0795-4. ::2. German edition 2000: Graz: Stocker ISBN 3-7020-0795-4. ::3. German edition 2004: Wiesbaden: Marix-Verlag ISBN 3937715487.:Greek edition 2006: "ΟΙ ΑΠΟΚΡΥΦΙΣΤΙΚΕΣ ΡΙΖΕΣ ΤΟΥ ΝΑΖΙΣΜΟΥ" ISBN 960-8345-85-5
References
External links
* [http://www.lapismagazine.org/content/view/54/2/ Article by Goodrick-Clarke]
* [http://www.ewtn.com/library/NEWAGE/NAZIOCCU.TXT Magic Realism - A book review] by William Main, taken from the December 1994 issue of "Fidelity" Magazine
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