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Title: Himmler's Crusade : The Nazi Expedition to Find the Origins of the Aryan Race by Christopher Hale ISBN: 0-471-26292-7 Publisher: Wiley Pub. Date: 03 October, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.6 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Chilling and Compelling Account of a Nazi Obsession
Comment: This is a gripping historical account of a little known chapter of Nazi history. "Raiders of the Lost Ark" was indeed based on truth stranger than fiction. Hale details the Nazi quest for the origins of the "Aryan master race" in a German led expedition to Tibet in 1938 supported by nut-bar extraordinaire, mass murderer and head of the S.S., Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler himself.
Hale brilliantly documents from a wide range of sources a strange brew of bizarre Nazi race theories, poisonous ambition and swashbuckling adventures in China and Tibet ending in the horrors of Auschwitz.
In a time of when the shameless Madame Blavatsky is still taken seriously and the outer fringes of New Age ideas verge on the lunatic- David Ick et al- this book is a powerful reminder of the requirement for clear-headed rational scientific thinking.
Bravo to Christopher Hale for writing a story that needed to be told!
Rating: 5
Summary: a compelling book
Comment: I found this account of the Himmler sponsored expedition to find the mythical origins of the Aryan race utterly absorbing, not only because it sheds light on one of the odd, yet central strands of the Nazi cosmology but also because of the ways in which it was observed by the British. I had little idea that Tibet formed the locus of Western spiritual projections over so many decades.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Brilliant Account of History
Comment: This is a brilliant and incredibly well researched book analyzing a little known, but powerfully important, part of Nazi history. I picked the book to read because it received such a stellar review by Michael Burleigh, the most renowned international authority on the Third Reich. Immediately, I was entranced by every aspect of Hale's account of an SS-sponsored expedition to Tibet in 1938-39. Hale goes way beyond doing a comprehensive book study of the subject. He actually conducted his own expedition to Tibet, retracing the steps that the SS-sponsored expedition leaders took and interviewing individuals who were either part of the expedition or who were associated with it. For example, throughout the book Hale provides astonishing information from his interviews with Bruno Beger, an anthropologist and SS member who would later be brought to trial and imprisoned for selecting over 100 inmates for "study" at Auschwitz (all of whom were gassed). I would recommend Hale's book for anyone interested in the origins and perpetuation of Nazism. Himmler's Crusade is already a classic in the field.
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Title: Unholy Alliance: History of the Nazi Involvement With the Occult by Peter Levenda ISBN: 0826414095 Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Arktos: The Polar Myth in Science, Symbolism, and Nazi Survival by Joscelyn Godwin ISBN: 0932813356 Publisher: Adventures Unlimited Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 1996 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Occult Roots of Nazism: Secret Aryan Cults and Their Influence on Nazi Ideology : The Ariosophists of Austria and Germany, 1890-1935 by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke ISBN: 0814730604 Publisher: New York University Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1994 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Hitler's Priestess: Savitri Devi, the Hindu-Aryan, Myth and Neo-Nazism by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke ISBN: 0814731112 Publisher: New York University Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: The Secret King: Karl Maria Wiligut, Himmler's Lord of the Runes by Stephen Flowers, Michael Moynihan, Karl Mari Wiligut ISBN: 1885972210 Publisher: Dominion Pub. Date: 12 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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