Name: The Nazis and the Occult
ISBN: 9780785823087

Paul Roland

The Dark Forces Unleashed by the Third Reich

The Nazis and the Occult

The premise of the book is way too fascinating to be tackled by a hack author like this. Within the first chapter he loses almost all credibility as he tries to convince the reader that the supernatural is real. This complete undermining of his credibility is only furthered by his ludicrously dodgy sources (at one point in the book, he even admits that he isn’t sure himself where one of his sources got its information from). 

This is all not to mention the (ironically) subtle white-supremacist views the author holds, as he asks just how on earth a “civilised” country could be lead to such savagery, as if the absence of enlightenment philosophers and early 20th century scholars, means that the level of barbarism achieved by the Third Reich would be expected. You can take a guess at which countries he expects to have violent people (hint: it’s none of the white ones).

Nyibango Costa

What a disappointing read. 

The premise of the book is way too fascinating to be tackled by a hack author like this. Within the first chapter he loses almost all credibility as he tries to convince the reader that the supernatural is real. This complete undermining of his credibility is only furthered by his ludicrously dodgy sources (at one point in the book, he even admits that he isn’t sure himself where one of his sources got its information from). 

This is all not to mention the (ironically) subtle white-supremacist views the author holds, as he asks just how on earth a “civilised” country could be lead to such savagery, as if the absence of enlightenment philosophers and early 20th century scholars, means that the level of barbarism achieved by the Third Reich would be expected. You can take a guess at which countries he expects to have violent people (hint: it’s none of the white ones).

The Nazis and the Occult The Dark Forces Unleashed by the Third Reich