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Title: Unholy Alliance by Peter Levenda ISBN: 0-380-77722-3 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: December, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.11 (9 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Pulp research...
Comment: While I found this book slightly entertaining and the subject itself bouyant enough to support volumes of this kind of literature I'm afraid I found the aim of the thesis weak and uncompelling.
Levenda often juxtaposed Hitler with individuals involved in the early German/English occult movements of the 19th and 20th century without EVER clearly providing documented proof of their ACTUAL influence on Hitler as an individual or even as a hidden shadow policy behind the Nazis as a political force. If anything, those occultists close to Hitler often came to a bad end. Hanussen for example.
Are we to believe that Levenda could actually guess what Hitler was motivated by and thinking about in 1939 without this documentation? Lets not even mention all the secondary sources that were used to formulate many of his assertions.
I was so unimpressed with Levenda's approach in fact, that I found myself questioning even the smallest of his assertions from complete lack of trust in the author's bias. He seems to have gone into the research already knowing the answer, and after all that's not research, that's thesis padding. This book might as well have been written by Charles Berlitz for all its credibility.
Lots of smoke, very little fire. I think it would have been a much more satisfying book without all the conjecturing that was rampant throughout and in that case may have ended as a very short book.
Read it anyway though, since it does have some interesting tidbits, just don't take it as the definitive book on Nazi occultism since he draws very few empiric connections between the two camps beyond anecdotal similarities...
Rating: 5
Summary: People Must Know!
Comment: I have read Mr. Levenda's book several times. It is my "Bible" in regard to the occult background of the Third Reich. I am sure that any book that presents a side of history that some people would rather hide (modern Theosophists, Wiccans, New Agers, etc.) is likely to be controversial. However, Levenda has presented vast documentation of the roots of Nazism as a "cult" as well as a political movement. I agree with the previous reviewer that this information should be taught in schools alongside dates, battles, and the usual "stuff."
Rating: 2
Summary: Interesting yet personally biased
Comment: With Unholy Alliance, Mr. Levenda chronicles how esoteric andoccult books as well as organizations influenced Hitler and the ThirdReich in their relentless quest to create an elite, Aryan superrace.While the material is exhaustingly detailed and concise,Peter's leftism tends to rear it's ugly head one too many times.For example, while he villifies Hitler for being the monster that he was,people like Mao and Che Guevera are painted as heroes in addition to his sympathy for the Communist ideology.Indeed, one is at times almost reminded of Noam Chomsky when Peter criticizes U.S intervention in Latin America even though the U.S was their to help rather than hinder. At best, Peter Levenda is an occult expert who really doesn't tell you anything that a true occultist would already know. At worst, he sounds just like another whining leftist who's upset that Communism has been battled and defeated all over the world by right wing groups.
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