Hitler's Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich with Dr. Eric Kurlander

 

"Hitler's Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich" by Eric Kurlander, Yale University Press, 2018.

Wikipedia:

Eric Kurlander (born January 1973) is an American historian who currently serves as the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of History at Stetson University. He received his B.A. in history from Bowdoin College, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in modern European history from Harvard University. Kurlander is a specialist in modern German history and particularly of Nazi Germany, about which he has written three books. The most recent, Hitler's Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich, was nominated for the Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year in 2019.

Description of the book (Yale University Press):

The Nazi fascination with the occult is legendary, yet today it is often dismissed as Himmler’s personal obsession or wildly overstated for its novelty. Preposterous though it was, however, supernatural thinking was inextricable from the Nazi project. The regime enlisted astrology and the paranormal, paganism, Indo-Aryan mythology, witchcraft, miracle weapons, and the lost kingdom of Atlantis in reimagining German politics and society and recasting German science and religion. In this eye-opening history, Eric Kurlander reveals how the Third Reich’s relationship to the supernatural was far from straightforward. Even as popular occultism and superstition were intermittently rooted out, suppressed, and outlawed, the Nazis drew upon a wide variety of occult practices and esoteric sciences to gain power, shape propaganda and policy, and pursue their dreams of racial utopia and empire.

Video Title: Hitler's Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich with Dr. Eric Kurlander. Source: William Ramsey Investigates, v4. Date Published: December 4, 2025.

Nazi Germany's Greatest Crime

 

First they came for the bells . . .

Nazi Germany's greatest crime was not the Holocaust but the looting of Europe's church bells for the war effort. 

An excerpt from, "The seizing of Europe’s bells" by Stephen J. Thorne, Legion Magazine, October 8, 2025:

The bells that rang out across allied nations after the First World War ended what for many had been a four-year silence enforced by regulation in some places and imposed by confiscation in others.

In Germany and across Europe, tens of thousands of bronze bells—some imparting “the songs of the angels” since the 12th century—had been seized and melted down for arms and munitions.

During the First World War, 44 per cent of the bells in Germany alone were lost, many given willingly to support the war effort—and some not so willingly.

In the parish of Kusel in southwestern Germany, Deacon Karl Munzinger had grudgingly resigned himself to the inevitable after resisting a decree ordering the surrender of bells to be melted down and converted to guns and shells.

“They will speak a different language in the future,” Munzinger said in his sermon on July 22, 1917. “It goes against any feelings that they, who like no other preach peace and should heal wounded hearts, should tear apart bodies in gruesome murders and open wounds that will never heal.”

The practice wasn’t limited to the conflict of 1914-18, either.

Between 1939 and 1945, 175,000 bells across Europe were taken by Nazi Germany. They were transported to collection points, known as Glockenfriedhöfe, or bell cemeteries, the biggest of them in Hamburg. Some 150,000 were delivered to foundries and melted down to make shell casings and armaments.

Benito Mussolini’s government actually forged a prewar agreement with the Vatican providing for the “mobilization” of Italian bells under which half were to be claimed for war industries. As was the case in Germany, at least one bell designated by local authorities was to remain in every tower.

The bells were to be broken up in Italy and the scrap sent to Hamburg for processing because Italian smelting plants did not have the capacity to meet the deluge.

Bell metal is typically made of a hard alloy usually composed of four parts copper to one part tin. It is known for its hardness and rigidity, but the Germans broke up the bells, then smelted and refined the bell metal, separating the copper, tin and other metals, including lead, zinc, even silver and gold. A tonne of bell metal would typically yield 760 kilograms of copper and 180 of the more sought-after tin.

After the Second World War, Canadian Percival Price, Canada’s first dominion carillonneur and, in fact, the designer of the Peace Tower carillon in Ottawa, was dispatched to help investigate and repatriate as many bells as possible.

Price was serving as a consultant to the Vatican Commission for the Restoration of Bells and the Inter-Allied Commission on the Wartime Preservation of Artistic and Historic Monuments in War Areas, better known as the Monuments Men.

A member of the Canadian army’s Enemy Science and Technology Investigation Section, Price spent two years helping Austrian, Belgian, Dutch, West German and Italian government commissions locate and repatriate bells.

An excerpt from, "When Nazis Took All the Bells" The National Bell Festival:

Between 1939 and 1945, the National Socialist German Workers' Party under Adolf Hitler – the Nazis – confiscated over 175,000 bells from towers throughout Europe. That staggering sum is only part of the devastation and horror exacted by the Nazis during World War II, but it speaks to the plundering of identity and soul that made the Nazi occupation so catastrophic. 

Much was destroyed during World War II. From human lives to cultural artifacts, the Nazis were unrelenting in their conquest. But to feed their war machine and keep their armies outfitted, the Nazis needed vast quantities of metals – and like plucking fruit from a tree, they turned to peaceable, defenseless bell towers to pillage their scrap.

Bells are composed of bronze, an alloy of roughly four parts copper to one part tin. Both metals were crucial to the German armament industry. Nations pleaded for their bells to be spared, but in blatant indifference to the 1907 Hague Convention treaty that prohibited such wartime conduct, they were ignored. In defiance, some communities attempted to hide their bells, often by burying them in surrounding grounds or on parishioners’ land. This, however, had to be completed before Nazis took a local inventory and in collusion with the presiding clergy. It was a grave risk.

The Nazis graded or categorized bells into four groups, A through D, based on their historical or cultural value. “A” bells were cast within the preceding ninety years and therefore generally considered without merit. They were the first to be destroyed. Similarly, “B” bells and then “C” bells were sent for smelting. “D” bells, or those cast before 1740, were treated more like art than commodity and preserved for their noble virtues, which the Nazis relied upon to build a façade of legitimacy. Often, the Nazis would allow one bell of insignificant size to remain in a tower, for the village or community to ring in emergency. The rest were transformed into weapons of war.

Confiscated bells from across the Third Reich’s conquered territories were funneled into Germany for processing – from Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, France, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, the USSR, and Yugoslavia. The Vatican, in a prewar agreement with Mussolini’s government, sought to preserve at least half of the bells in church towers. This, of course, all but guaranteed the other half would be claimed for war industries.

Video Title: The Hidden Truth About Church Bells. Source: Beyond the Bell. Date Published: March 31, 2025.

The Syrian Sacrifice For The Israeli-Led Middle East Order

Putin has Assad under lock and key. Syria still remains without a legitimate ruler two years after his rushed exit.

The humiliation of conquered subjects is an essential policy of imperial statecraft. Any aspiring ruler or sovereign overlord sees to it that a conquered territory knows its boundaries, not only territorially but also in the realms of thought and politics. 

We see this most clearly today in Germany and Japan.

In Germany multiple generations of Germans since WWII have apologized for an imagined historical crime, the Holocaust, that never occurred. This event was a Hollywood fiction. It took place in the imagination, not in reality. But don't tell that to Germany. It protects this fiction harder than Israel.

German leaders, regardless of the political party, defend the interests and territory of Israel more than those of their own nation. They are more Jewish than German.

And in Japan the historical revisionism has gone off the deep end. The situation there is so bad that it is not out of the question that within a generation schoolchildren will be made to believe it was the Soviets who dropped the nukes on their cities and not the American government.

Japanese kids will be forced to learn their real history on the Internet.

And they won't be the only ones.

The new CIA, MI6, and Mossad approved textbooks in Syria will brainwash the future generation of Syrians into believing that the destruction of their society was all caused by Russia. 

This December it will be two years since Assad fled Syria like a coward in the middle of the night. All the Western talking points about the post-Assad era have not come to fruition. The economy is still dead. Millions of Syrian refugees remain in Europe. And the Syrian state has steadily drifted towards extremism and sectarianism. 

Syria's new "leaders" are humiliated every day by Israel. They are constantly made to remember where they are on the new totem pole.

The Syrian nation, much like the Ukrainian nation, was sacrificed for an Israeli project. 

Many of us warned of this reality since the beginning of 2011 when the Obama White House approved regime change operations in Libya and other Arab countries.

The regimes changed, but always for the worse.

The many different components of Syria have all been treated badly by the new terrorist regime. The Druze and Alawites still lack true clarity about their future, fearing the Al-Qaeda hencemen in Damascus are just waiting to either expel or obliterate them. And the Kurdish groups sacrificed their lives, homes, and political reputation for five hours of language classes per week and some dual-language signposts in their towns. 

It's safe to say the Syrian goys got screwed by the Jews. Things aren't looking too bright for them, whatever their background or political persuasions.

The idea that is promulgated out of Washington, that those conquered by America and Israel enjoy an economic boom, rings hollow in Syria and Libya. 

These nations were destroyed and sacrificed. 

As were Germany and Japan.

Those countries experienced economic revival after WWII thanks to their own hard work, technological expertise, and innate national intelligence, not because the demons in Washington were benevolent towards them. 

The current rulers of Syria do not possess the intelligence or aspiration to rebuild their country and attract foreign investment like the Germans and Japanese did. They're interested in destruction, not creation. They're building an ideological terrorist army, which will most likely be used against Lebanon and Iraq, in the service of Turkish geopolitical aims.

Israel will huff and puff but it knows the would-be Sultan in Constantinople and Al-Qaeda in Damascus will never dare come for it.

Charles Warren's The Temple or the Tomb (1880)

Wikipedia:

Sir Charles Warren (7 February 1840 – 21 January 1927) was a British Army officer of the Royal Engineers. He was one of the earliest European archaeologists of the Biblical Holy Land, and particularly of the Temple Mount. Much of his military service was spent in British South Africa. Previously he was Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, the head of the London Metropolitan Police, from 1886 to 1888 during the Jack the Ripper murders. His command in combat during the Second Boer War was irredeemably flawed, though he achieved considerable success during his long life in his military and civil posts.

. . .In 1867, Warren was recruited by the Palestine Exploration Fund to conduct Biblical archaeology "reconnaissance" with a view of further research and excavation to be undertaken later in Ottoman Syria, but more specifically the Holy Land or Biblical Palestine. During the PEF Survey of Palestine he conducted one of the first major excavations at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, thereby ushering in a new age of Biblical archaeology. His most significant discovery was a water shaft, now known as Warren's Shaft, and a series of tunnels underneath the Temple Mount.

Warren and his team also improved the topographic map of Jerusalem and made the first excavations of Tell es-Sultan, site of biblical city of Jericho. Some of the sites listed on Warren's topographic map, particularly that of Acra (where he places it in the Upper City, contrary to Josephus who places it in the Lower City), have since been corrected and updated.

In 1870, Warren returned to Britain, where he began writing a book about archaeology. His findings from the expedition would be published later as The survey of Western Palestine: Jerusalem (1884), written with C. R. Conder. Other books by Warren about the area include The Recovery of Jerusalem (1871), Underground Jerusalem (1876) and The Land of Promise (1875).

An excerpt from, "The Temple or the Tomb" by Charles Warren, Richard Bentley and Son, 1880, Pg. 29 - 34:

The subject on which we are to speak this evening is one upon which volumes have been written, and about which there is still much divergence of opinion ; it is not possible to treat it exhaustively in the short space of time which can be devoted to the reading of an evening. It is only practicable to endeavour to lay aside the sophistries which surround the subject, and to put before you the outlines in as sharp relief as is consistent with their nature, leaving you subsequently to fill in the intervals as your own knowledge will best enable you.

In doing this I shall not attempt to confuse the subject by the supposition that there are alleged rival sites claiming attention. The site of the Holy Sepulchre has sustained the violent attacks made a few years ago upon its authenticity without damage to its reputation, and there is now a general conference of facts, historical, archrcological, traditional, in favour of its having been the spot selected by the Emperor Constantine for the erection of the Church of the Resurrection, and there is great reason for supposing that the site he selected was the actual site of the Holy Sepulchre.

I throw over as utterly untenable the bold and original proposition of an enthusiastic writer, who in his zealous study of architecture in the East, has come to the remarkable conclusion that the Dome of the Rock is the Church of the Resurrection, and that the Sakhra of the Moslems is the Sepulchre of Christ ; yet I shall from time to time cast a side-glance at this site of parallel holiness, where the temple of Solomon once stood, pointing out its condition at various periods ; and I shall moreover show in Part IV. conclusively that the Sakhra under the Dome of the Rock, the site of Solomon's temple, cannot possibly be identified as the site of the Holy Sepulchre.

Starting with the assumption that the present site of the Holy Sepulchre is that which witnessed the crucifixion, sepulture, and resurrection, I shall proceed to point out how all evidence concurs in support, especially our most recent evidence, the excavations at Jerusalem.

The history of the Holy Sepulchre extends over five epochs, viz. :

1. From the crucifixion, A.D. 33, to the recovery of the site by the Emperor Constantine, A.D. 325.

2. From the dedication of the Church of the Martyrdom, A.D. 336, to the destruction of it by Chosroes the Persian, A.D. 615.

3. From its restoration by the Patriarch-Vicar Modestus, A.D. 629, to its second destruction by the mad Fatimite Khalif of Cairo, El Hakim, A.D. 1010.

4. From its restoration by the Patriarch Nicephorus, A.D. 1048 (including its additions, A.D. 1120, by the Crusaders), to its destruction by fire, A.D. 1808.

5. From its restoration by the Greeks, A.D. 1810, to the present day.

Previous, however, to the consideration of the historical account, it is necessary to go back some years before the Christian era, and examine the ground as it originally existed ; we shall thus be enabled to understand the configuration of the city of the Jebusites, and trace its changes to the time of the Komans, and we may comprehend how exactly the present site of the Holy Sepulchre suits the requirements of the case.

In doing this, I have not only the assistance of the many works which have been written on the subject during the last few years, but also the results of our underground researches, which have not hitherto been worked out, as regards the Holy Sepulchre.

I shall examine the subject from a new point of view, although in this particular instance arriving at old results, viz., the authenticity of the site of the Holy Sepulchre; and I take this opportunity of asserting that I have arrived at a solution of the many difficulties surrounding the topography of Jerusalem, allowing in a great measure, or even entirely, of the reconciliation of all the ancient accounts to which credence has hitherto been given, and this without finding it necessary to omit, transfer, or modify any of the details in the manner which has hitherto been found requisite by others in order to bring about harmony.

This solution hinges upon the position I have assigned to Zion (discussed in ' The Parallel Holiness of Zion and Moriah'), a position which I contend is the only one suitable to the requirements of the narrative given in Holy Writ and the account of Josephus. In order to explain the position of this site, it is necessary to describe the position of the Holy City in early times.

The whole of the hill country about Jerusalem is of a very hard, rocky nature, elevated about 2,500 feet above the level of the Mediterranean Sea. Originally these hills were covered over with a layer of red earth from two to three feet thick. When, therefore, I produce a contoured plan of the rock levels about Jerusalem, I exhibit a plan of the ground as it existed in early days, less any cuttings or excavations of the rock which may have subsequently taken place.

This plan as now exhibited (Plate I.) has heen made from observations gained during the excavations, and also from rock-levels obtained during the building of houses, and it will be at once apparent from inspection of it, that the rocky site about the Jebus of the ancients, with its precipitous hills and deep valleys, presents a very different aspect at the present day, when the valleys are filled up, in some cases to heights of a hundred feet or more, with millions of cubic yards of debris or rubbish. From this contoured plan it will be seen that this ancient site then counted of three principal hills, to east, north-west, and south-west, separated by deep valleys.

All authorities, however much they may differ in other matters, unanimously concur in believing that the eastern hill is that which supported the Temple of the Jews, tin outer walls of which still stand out of the filled-up valleys, and can be examined by all observers. It is commonly called Mount Moriah, though only once so called in the Bible.

All authorities are equally agreed that the hill to the south- west is the ' Upper City' of Josephus, and it follows that the hill to the north-west is the ' Lower City ' of Josephus, or the Akra, so often mentioned by that historian as the third hill. The details of the proof that this hill to north-west is the Lower City, or Akra, are to be found in 'The Parallel Holiness of Zion and Moriah.' Now, Josephus informs us that the Akra used to dominate the Temple entrance, and gave so much trouble to the Jews, visiting the Temple from the Upper City, during the time of the Macedonian occupation, that the Maccabees, on gaining possession, by working day and night for three years, succeeded in reducing the height of the Akra to such an extent that it ceased to be above the Temple mount.

Tyranny and Ritual Humiliation | Will Tucker

Video Title: Tyranny and Ritual Humiliation | Will Tucker. Source: The Two Cities Podcast. Date Published: November 25, 2025. Description:

A major feature of contemporary politics, media and culture is the humiliation ritual. Will Tucker and I explore Aristotle's writings on Tyranny and its means of preservation, including humiliation of the subjects.

Mr Tucker presents his research on the occult metaphysics of ritual humiliation; Noahidism as 'decapitation through humiliation'; Nicholas de Cusa's concept of "learned ignorance" and the relations with kenotic theology, personalism and kabbalah. Will Tucker traces the humiliation ritual as a heterodox form of esoteric mystagogy to condition the intellect and will towards "divine nothingness."