Third Reich period

The Third Reich period functions in the book as a point of comparison, not as a separately narrated historical episode. Its significance lies in the contrast drawn between the regime’s provision for people considered part of its ideological and racial community and Varg Vikernes’s still harsher prescriptions for a future Germania.

Political Comparison

The book describes Varg Vikernes as orthodox in his National Socialist ideology, while arguing that some of his policy ideas went further than those of the Third Reich. As an example, it notes that the Third Reich was in some respects a modern welfare state for people whose ancestry and ideology aligned with National Socialist doctrine. This qualified comparison establishes the historical regime as a measure of state provision, while emphasizing that such provision was bounded by exclusion.

Veterans and the Limits of Provision

Against that comparison, Varg Vikernes argued that military veterans disabled in future wars fought for Germania’s greatness should commit suicide rather than consume the Nation’s resources. He reportedly presented reincarnation as a source of comfort for those who followed this prescription. The example makes the contrast concrete: even within the exclusions described by the book, the Third Reich is presented as providing welfare to an ideologically approved population, whereas Vikernes’s proposed order would deny support to its wounded veterans. The passage leaves the tension visible between martial glorification and the expected fate of those harmed in its service.

Role in the Book’s Argument

The comparison appears in a discussion of the uncompromising political stance that, the book argues, contributed to the glamour of Varg Vikernes’s public persona. His worldview is characterized there as more like an artistic project than a practical political model: its severity and consequences distinguish it from ordinary political positioning. The Third Reich period thus serves a narrow but pointed function in the argument. It is a historical reference used to demonstrate the extremity of Vikernes’s stated proposals, not a basis for a broader account of the period or its policies.