General Information

Author/Creator

Poewe, Karla O, 1941-

Language

English.

Published

New York : Routledge, 2006.

Physical Description

xii, 218 p. : ill., ports. ; 25 cm.

Contents/Summary

Summary

Karla Poewe illuminates an important but neglected part of Nazi history: the contribution of new religions to the emergence of Nazi ideology in 1930s Germany. Looking at traditional German occultism as well as the established Church, this book takes new religions founded in the pre-Nazi and Nazi years, especially Jakob Hauer's German Faith Movement, as indicators of how German fascism distilled aspects of religious doctrine into political extremism. It is researched from original documents, including the SS personnel files held in Berlin's Bundesarchiv.

Subjects

Subject

National socialism > Religious aspects.

Germany > Religion > 20th century.

Germany > Politics and government > 20th century.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

Karla Poewe.

Content

1. Introduction -- 2. An overview -- 3. Hauer and the Bünde: becoming a National Socialist -- 4. The push toward Nazism: youths and leaders -- 5. Hauer's view of religion -- 6. The Germanic-deutsch leg of Hauer's German faith -- 7. Organizational help from Wehrwolf and the SS -- 8. Hauer and the war of attrition against Christianity -- 9. Werner Best: Hauer's contact in the SS -- 10. The faith of the Nationalists: narrative and the Third Reich -- 11. Scientific neo-paganism and the extreme Eight then and today -- 12. Conclusion.

Library Special Collection

The Roger Griffin ComFas Collection

ISBN

0415290244

0415290252

9780415290241

9780415290258

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	General collection	200/.943/09043 POE		General Stacks	-

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