Studies in Anti-dudeism

[DigitalBuddha]

Studies in Anti-dudeism

We have talked a lot on the forum here on Dudeism, but sometimes it is important to study the opposites of Dudeism, or what could be called, in this case, "Anti-Dudeism." One form is of course is nazism (very undude), the rat bastards!

Check out - Nazism - The Occult Conspiracy - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4kwoIUsuuE&feature=g-vrec

[meekon5]

I'm afraid this takes the very poor line of research that "The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail" and Dan Abnet took.

There was a division in the SS called the Ahnenerbe, Hitler was involved with the "Thule" society. But there is little proof of actual occult practices.

I have to quote myself from my blog posting "The Good, The Bad, and The Pagan."

The Thule Society and the Nazis.

I am now going to have to step into the realms of Indian Jones.

By the early to middle of the twentieth century The Theosophists  and a number of other groups had made eastern philosophy, religious  ideas, and texts, widely available in Europe. Though this created a new interest in spirituality, the pervading nationalist ethos moved   groups dedicated to investigating these religious areas in the direction of attempting to re-create national, more ethnic orientated religious practice, usually based on Renaissance, and Victorian romanticised recreations. This was a pan-European phenomenon  giving rise to all sorts of attempts to return to ideas of more native traditions, and an attempt to return to a more nature orientated, healthier, point of view. One of the major groups in these Volkisch movements that sprung up In Germany was the Thule Society.

The Thule Society was a German occultist and v?lkisch group in Munich, named after a mythical northern country from Greek legend.

The Thule Society was originally a "Germanic study group" headed by Walter Nauhaus, to be a cover-name for the Munich branch of the Germanenorden (or "Order of Teutons"), a secret society founded in 1911. But events developed differently as a result of a schism in the Order. In 1918, Nauhaus was contacted in Munich by Rudolf von Sebottendorf (or von Sebottendorff), an occultist and newly-elected head of the Bavarian province of the schismatic offshoot, known as the Germanenorden Walvater of the Holy Grail. The two men became associates in a recruitment campaign, and Sebottendorff adopted Nauhaus's Thule Society as a cover-name for his Munich lodge of the Germanenorden Walvater at its formal dedication on 18 August 1918.

Anton Drexler, and the Thule Society's Karl Harrer, established the Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (DAP), or German Workers' Party. By the end of February 1920, the DAP had been reconstituted as the National Socialist German Workers' Party, generally known as the "Nazi Party". Adolf Hitler joined this party later in 1919. Early in 1920 Karl Harrer was forced out of the DAP as Hitler moved to sever the party's link with the Thule Society, which subsequently fell into decline and was dissolved about five years later, well before Hitler came to power.

I mention the Thule society because it did have a number of major Nazis as members including Hess, and other members of Hitlers early entourage. Though Hitler severed ties with the group in 1920 there have been a number of suggestions (unproven) that it influenced the  Ahnenerbe.

The Ahnenerbe was a Nazi German think tank that promoted itself as a "study society for Intellectual Ancient History." Founded by Heinrich Himmler, Herman Wirth, and Richard Walther Darr?, the Ahnenerbe's goal was to research the anthropological and cultural history of the Aryan race, and later to experiment and launch voyages with the intent of proving that prehistoric and mythological Nordic populations had once ruled the world.

It's this group that is usually accused of undertaking occult and pagan rituals, and attempting to create a new Aryan religion, though their main function was one of historical investigation in an attempt to prove Aryan superiority, and mastership of certain regions of Europe. Though ostensibly set up as a linguistic and historical study foundation a branch called the Institute for Functional Research in Military Science did eventually become entwined in activities involving the death camps and creating statistics of the perfect Aryan physique.

It's a mixture of misrepresentation of both these groups that leads to their inclusion in the Indiana Jones films, and the likes of Dennis Wheatley's ?They Used Dark Forces?. Otto Rahn who Indiana Jones is allegedly based upon actually joined the SS (encouraged by Himmler himself) to get funding for his search for the Holy Grail.

[cckeiser]

LOL! You really want a good read try the Talk page on Wikipedia for the Thule Society! It's a hoot!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Thule_Society

[DigitalBuddha]

The "Thules" were pretty nuts for sure (and a fad of the early 20th century), but I think I would say that there is some connection between nazism and occult practices. At least some of it's leaders were affected by some occult beliefs.

Check out - The Occult History of the Third Reich - Part 1: The Enigma of the Swastika - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR4VO4JWwYw&feature=relmfu