8: Disruptive Potential: Therese Neumann of Konnersreuth, National Socialism, and Democracy

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I. Histories, 1890–1933
6. 1: Esoteric Alternatives in Imperial Germany: Science, Spirit, and the Modern Occult Revival 23
7. 2: An Elite Class of Thinkers: Monism between Science and the Spiritual in Wilhelmine Germany 42
8. 3: Max Hoelz Haunts the Vogtland: The Visible and the Invisible in Germany, 1914–21 65
9. 4: Siegfried Kracauer, Spirit, and the Soul of Weimar Germany 86
10. Part II. Realities, 1933–1945
11. 5: Pseudoscience Reconsidered: SS Research and the Archaeology of Haithabu 105
12. 6: Hitler’s Supernatural Sciences: Astrology, Anthroposophy, and World Ice Theory in the Third Reich 132
13. 7: Pragmatic Occultism in the Military History of the Third Reich 157
14. 8: Disruptive Potential: Therese Neumann of Konnersreuth, National Socialism, and Democracy 181
15. Part III. Legacies, 1945–Present
16. 9: A Messiah after Hitler, and His Miracles: Bruno Gröning and Postwar Popular Apocalypticism 205
17. 10: On All Channels: Hans Bender, the Supernatural, and the Mass Media 223
18. 11: Beyond Good and Evil: Nazis and the Supernatural in Video Games 248
19. 12: The Wewelsburg Effect: Nazi Myth and Paganism in Postwar European Popular Music 270
20. Notes on the Contributors 287
21. Index 291