Adolf Hitler's Magical, Self-Extinguishing Thinking

The Dictator's Occult Delusions Were Instrumental in the Nazi Defeat

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As this writer has attempted to substantiate in two previous studies (here and here), the movement to rehabilitate the reputation of Adolf Hitler has emerged from the periphery of the online social media world and gained a larger and in some respects mainstream audience. One of the agents in this development is the Palo Alto, California-based revisionist journalist Ron Unz. In a recent column he wrote:

“More than a dozen years ago, a fully mainstream former German major general named Gerd Schultze-Rhonhof published 1939 – The War That Had Many Fathers, a revelatory 700 page volume on the circumstances leading to that European conflict. The author had been very surprised to discover that Hitler’s public speeches had regularly emphasized his desire for peace with the West along with his proposals for mutual arms control agreements and other confidence-building measures.”

Yes, that was the führer’s public pose, belied by his actions and the requirements of his clandestine occult ideology. To accept Hitler’s oratorical statements (or those of the West’s other leading war criminals of the time, Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin) at face value is a joke. Mr. Unz continues:

“During the 1939 crisis that ultimately led to the outbreak of World War II, the German leader had actually offered neighboring Poland numerous concessions that none of his democratic Weimar predecessors had ever been willing to consider. But the irresponsible military dictatorship running that country had refused any negotiations and instead escalated the violent provocations against their sizeable German ethnic minority, ultimately leading to the declaration of war.”

Mr. Unz’s last sentence is an almost verbatim repetition of the Nazi propaganda employed to justify Hitler’s invasion of Poland. It is consonant with the risible revisionist myth of Hitler as a reasonable statesman and man of peace who sought to rescue Europe from totalitarianism — risible that is to those who are cognizant of Hitler’s esoteric beliefs and agenda, which he imbibed early in his career and held to the end of his life: Darwinian, might-is-right mass murder employed for the purpose of enabling the coming of occult Theosophy’s prophesied Sixth and Seventh “Aryan Root Races.”

Parenthetically, it is certainly true that Winston Churchill’s network actively conspired against peace. Do these facts absolve or even mitigate what Hitler did to Poland in September and October 1939, and what his alliance with the Soviets cost Lithuania? Let’s examine the evidence.

It is August, 1939. Hitler’s high command was not showing sufficient enthusiasm for the planned invasion of Poland and were surprised at Hitler’s focus on the economic necessity of going to war:

“We have nothing to lose and everything to gain,” he proclaimed. ‘Because of the restrictions our economic situation imposes on us we can only hold out for a few years…We have no choice. We must act.”

Hitler was alluding to his enormous military expenditures which had brought Germany to the verge of insolvency, as the former president of the usury Reichsbank, Hjalmar Schacht, who had been dismissed in January 1939, had predicted. It was already transparent that Hitler intended that the war would transfer the costs of this financial crisis to the Poles Nazi Germany intended to conquer.

Stalin meanwhile, was eager to form an alliance with Hitler and the Führer was willing to oblige. In Moscow, August 23, 1939, with Stalin present, Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, officially known as the “German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact” between their respective nations. According to the treaty, which was to be valid for ten years, the Nazis and the Communists agreed to forgo “every act of violence, every aggressive action and every attack against one another” and to abstain from any national alliances that were “directly or indirectly against the other side.” In the obscure diplomatic jargon of Article 2 of the pact, Stalin gave Hitler, de facto, a free hand for his forthcoming invasion of Poland.

There was a quid pro quo: the Nazi handover to Soviet conquest of half of the Christian nation of Poland (which was 70% Catholic at the time), and all of Lithuania (over 80% Catholic), to the atheist ghouls of the USSR. Furthermore, the “German–Soviet Boundary and Friendship Treaty” of September 28, 1939, included a secret supplementary protocol explicitly stating, “Lithuania falls to the sphere of the U.S.S.R.”

With Hitler’s cooperation the Soviets subsequently conducted mass deportations, forcibly transferring hundreds of thousands of Lithuanian Christians to Siberian gulags, including women, children, the elderly, teachers, priests and farmers, with many dying from starvation and disease during transport in cattle cars.

Janus grinned as the “anti-Communist” Hitler sold the people of Poland and Lithuania to a Communist subjugation which would not be lifted until the 1980s. These facts are documented in Adolf Hitler: Enemy of the German People.

Most of my fellow World War II revisionists have missed the hidden factor which made peace between Nazi Germany and Poland impossible. Hitler was a Thule Society initiate. It was from occult doctrine that he gained the conviction that the Slavic race consisted of untermenschen (subhumans). In Mein Kampf he wrote:

“Daß die Organisation eines russischen Staatsgebildes nicht etwa eine politische Leistung der Slawen in Rußland war, sondern einzig das wunderbare Ergebnis der staatsbildenden Tätigkeit eines deutschen Elementes in einer minderwertigen Rasse.”

(“The organization of a Russian State was not the result of political achievement of the Slavs in Russia, but rather a wonderful example of the state-forming efficacy of the Germanic element in an inferior race.” [Vol. 2, chapter 14]).

Hitler expressed his contempt in conversations with Goebbels in early October. “The Führer’s verdict on the Poles is devastating,” the propaganda minister wrote. “More animal than human, completely coarse and undistinguished…” (Goebbels, Tagebücher, part I, vol. 7, p. 147, Oct. 10, 1939); see ibid., p. 141, Oct. 7, 1939).

At a meeting on October 17 in the Chancellery which was attended by Heinrich Himmler, Rudolf Hess, Martin Bormann, Hans Lammers, Hans Frank, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, Reich Minister of the Interior Wilhelm Frick and Frick’s state secretary Wilhelm Stuckart, the führer laid out the methods by which his administrators in Poland were to operate. A “bitter ethnic struggle” would have to be waged that would “know no legal bounds.”

Hitler’s Own “Morgenthau” Plan for Poland

It would not be his administration’s task to economically develop or make a “model province” of occupied Slavic territory. On the contrary, the standard of living in Poland was to be kept low: “All we want to harvest there is labor,” Hitler declared.

He sought to ensure that every effort would be made to prevent a Polish intelligentsia from emerging as a leadership elite. He summarized his core message as: “Any traces of a consolidation of conditions in Poland must be swept aside. A worthless ‘Polish economy’ should be allowed to blossom. Governing the territory must enable us also to cleanse the Reich of Jews and Polacks.”(Cf. Schenk, Hans Frank, p. 148; Michael Wildt, Generation des Unbedingten: Das Führungskorps des Reichssicherheitshauptamtes, Hamburg, 2002, p. 474).

General Franz Halder, Chief of the General Staff of the Army (OKH), learned from Quartermaster General Eduard Wagner of the meeting and summarized Hitler’s intentions: “Prevent Polish intelligentsia from rising into a new leadership class. Low standard of living should be preserved. Cheap slaves. The rabble must entirely disappear from German territory.” (Halder, Kriegstagebuch, vol. 1, p. 107 [entry for Oct. 18, 1939]).

In early October 1939, even before he was officially appointed Governor-General of occupied Poland, Hans Frank described the task he had been given by Hitler: “Exploitation of the land by ruthless asset-stripping…Reduction of Poland’s entire economy to the minimum necessary to maintain a most basic standard of living for the population. Closure of all educational institutions, especially technical schools and universities to prevent the development of a Polish intellectual class…Poland is to be treated like a colony, the Poles will become the slaves of a Greater German world empire.” (Cf. Dieter Schenk, Hans Frank: Hitler’s Jurist und Generalgouverneur [2006], p. 144).

Speaking with Hans Frank almost a year later, on October 2, 1940, Hitler reiterated the principles of the occupation policy he had set in 1939, calling his General Government region in central Poland “our reservoir of labor for low forms of work.” The minutes of the meeting, taken by Bormann, continue: “Once again the Führer underlined that Poles could only have one master, and that was the German. There cannot and should not be two masters. For that reason, all members of the Polish intelligentsia were to be killed. That sounded harsh, but it was a law of life.” (Bormann, Oct. 2, 1940; Bundesarchiv Berlin-Lichterfelde NS 6/ 772. Also cf. Goebbels, Tagebücher, part I, vol. 8, p. 406; Nov. 5, 1940).

Hitler’s Occult Initiation

Letterhead of the Thule organization, June 25, 1919. The headline reads “Thule-Gesellschaft Munich.” Below it: “Remember that you are a German! Keep your blood pure!”

From the Thule Gesellschaft magus Dietrich Eckart, Hitler imbibed the racist Nazi precepts of the syncretic Theosophy of magical imperative. Eckart provided Hitler with an intellectual grounding in Theosophy, specifically its “Root Races” dogma. Eckart’s enormous influence on Hitler is undeniable.

A good deal of nonsense has been written about Hitler and the occult, much of it predicated on disinformation sown by his Hitler enthusiasts who point to negative statements he made about German pagans dressed in bear skins and Viking-style horned helmets, and the fact that he persecuted his occult rivals among the Freemasons, and closed masonic lodges in Germany. Magic was to be a Nazi monopoly led by the supreme sorcerer.

The Hitler arcana we will examine is part of a chain of Kabbalistic-Rosicrucian-alchemical process subsequently propelled by the “Root Race” fixations of Darwinism and the 19th century Theosophical Aryanism whose staggering detestation of the Slavic race was not subject to the demands of what contemporary Hitler defenders and admirers imagine to be Hitler’s realpolitik and prudent preparations for the harsh reality of war in the East.