Engagingly written; Unholy Alliance is a comprehensive; popular history of the occult background and roots of the Nazi movement; showing how the ideas of a vast international network of late 19th- and early 20th-century occult groups influenced Nazi ideology. Levenda takes readers through the teachings of Madame Blavatsky; Aleister Crowley; the Thule Gesellschaft - the occult secret society that formed the ideological heart of the early Nazi Party - the Order of the Golden Dawn; and the Order of the Eastern Temple and demonstrates how each influenced Nazi ideology. He also details the expedition to Tibet of the Ancestral Heritage Research and Teaching Society; comprised of the same SS officers who would later be involved in grisly medical experiments on concentration camp prisoners. Levenda traces the Nazis' movements as they continued their activities after the war or morphed into neo-Nazi; skinhead; and satanic groups; such as the Christian Identity and White Aryan Resistance movements. Levenda's is not only a "major work of investigative reporting;" but also the striking story of the unholy alliance between politics and religion - or politics and occultism - that has dominated events in Europe and the Americas since World War I; with all its implications for continuing racial and religious violence in Europe; Asia; and the Americas.
#5040855 in Books 2016-09-27Original language:English 9.00 x .90 x 6.00l; .0 #File Name: 0826221165288 pages
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Not the rich history I was hoping for!By MarilynUnfortunately the book (I bought it for a book club read) reminded me too muchof the begats in the Bible....the author spent pages going over the inner workings of the professors/teachers of Lincoln U ; listing each one; where they came from; the classes they taught;who they married; the positions they held and dates and too little time giving us how blacks really lived or information about their culture and social structure. I was especially interested in the story of Toad; a black gentleman who lived in a small town near the one I lived in as a child--but the author only mentioned in the book he talked to him--no other detail about his life. So disappointing.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. I thoroughly enjoyed the bookBy Larry Delano ColemanGary R; Kremer is undoubtedly the foremost historian of African American history in Missouri now living; quite possibly who has ever lived. This book; as rich as it is; merely samples the breadth and depth of his ever-evolving understanding of that historically potent subject. I thoroughly enjoyed the book; as I have all others that he has written on this subject from James Milton Turner to George Washington Carver and beyond. Read it and rejoice with me in the riches of its historical excavations.
