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How ironic that you should list Liebelfels, von List, and Sebottendorf as victims of the Nazis when these men had as much to do w/ the philosophic underpinning of Nazism as Hitler himself. Hitler was spoon fed his rabid anti-semitism by these idiots. Surely you don't count them as your co-religionists? The Thule Society? This is bad company indeed.

The fact that they were later persecuted by Hitler only shows the nest of vipers that this was.

Steiner was a spiritualist/mystic more associated w/ Madame Blavatsky than Odin, he was attacked because he was an enemy of Nazism.

The others I've never heard of, but the statement that it wasn't until June of '41 that persecutions of religious minorties began is laughable.

Something just occurred to me. I first ran across your name on a thread concerning Nazism and the Occult. You were attempting, as you still are, to tie the atrocities of the holocaust to Christians, and pulled the discussion away from the primary subject w/ spurious insults to Christians and religion in general. That's where I got the idea that you were an atheist.

However, these very names that you've dredged up are the links between Hitler and a dark subaltern society. Hitler studied the occult under a disciple of von List in Vienna, Sebottendorf was the mystical leader of the Thule Society prior to and immediately after WWI. Liebenfels was an author of "The Prayer book of Ariosophic Race Mystery and Anti-semitism" ; a book found in Hitler's library.

Were you trying to throw us off the trail by hijacking the conversation? I surely hope not, but it is curious.