NSDAP

The NSDAP is discussed as a political organization emerging from a wider current of German nationalist occultism, rather than through an account of its internal structure or activities. The book traces connections among nineteenth-century esoteric ideas, ariosophy, and the groups that helped prepare the ground for National Socialism, identifying the Thule Gesellschaft as instrumental in the party’s development.

Occult and Nationalist Antecedents

The account places one strand of National Socialist occultism in the enduring Western legend of Atlantis, imagined as a lost home to inhabitants more advanced than modern society. Helena Blavatsky notably promoted the idea of Atlantean superiority in the late nineteenth century. Her Theosophical movement influenced mystically inclined German ariosophists, some of whom became proto-National Socialists in the 1920s and 1930s. The passage presents this as an intellectual and organizational prehistory, not as a complete explanation of the party’s origins.

The Thule Gesellschaft and the Party’s Development

The book states that a number of central tenets of National Socialism were influenced by earlier ariosophic occult groups. Among the related organizations, the Thule Gesellschaft is singled out as instrumental in developing the NSDAP. This account establishes a consequential connection between occult networks and the party’s formation, while offering no detailed description of the organization’s membership, programs, or institutional structure.

Later Occult Appropriations

The NSDAP also figures in the book’s discussion of the afterlife of Nazi-associated ideas. It describes Nazi UFO mythology as a modern subgenre in speculative history and pseudoscience, adopted by elements of the Nazi movement with occult interests. The passage distinguishes this later mystical current from the party’s historical development: it presents UFO theology as an intersection between esoteric Hitlerism and broader New Age phenomena, not as evidence that the NSDAP itself was organized around UFO belief.