As we have seen, this in turn gave rise to the idea that these disc-planes were used by high-ranking Nazis to escape from the Allies during the fall of Berlin. Once again, it is clear that the various outlandish claims of Nazi hideouts in Antarctica owe their inception to genuinely puzzling events such as Admiral Byrd’s apparently disastrous Operation Highjump, in addition to the indisputable fact that many Nazi war criminals did indeed escape from the ruins of the Third Reich to take up residence in various South American countries. All of this provides conspiracy theorists with a heady mixture of components with which to construct their nightmarish scenario of hideous clandestine forces maliciously pulling the strings on which we all dance. At the risk of offering a cliche, what we have here is a classic example of putting two and two together and getting five.
As we noted in the Introduction, with the passage of time and the deaths of important first-hand witnesses any chance of finding an adequate explanation of Nazism and the horrors it unleashed has now almost certainly been lost. We are left with the awful question that will continue to haunt us for as long as we remain human: why? The question is made more awful by the likelihood that the answer lies not in Outer Darkness, not in the ‘Absolute Elsewhere’, but much closer, in that most frightening and ill-explored of realms: the human mind.
Notes
1. Rosenbaum 1999, p. xiii.
2. Ibid, p. xvi.
3. Davies 1997, p. 40.
4. Ibid.
5. Godwin 1993, p. 63.
6. Trevor-Roper 1995, p. xxviii.
7. Rosenbaum 1999, p. xv.
8. Ibid., p. xxi.
9. Ibid., p. xxii.
10. Ibid., p. xxii.
11. Ibid., p xxiii.
12. Ibid., p. xxvii.
13. Ibid., p. xxxv.
14. Ibid., p. xliii. 15 Ibid., xliv. 16. Ibid., p. xlvi.
1. Goodrick-Clarke 1985, p. 7. Anyone attempting to examine the origins of Nazi occultism will necessarily owe a considerable debt to The Occult Roots of Nazism, a debt which the present author gratefully acknowledges. This is still by far the most level-headed, well-written and researched book covering this period; indeed, it remains the yardstick against which all writing on German occultism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries should be judged.
2. German Genealogy Habsburg Empire, from the German Genealogy Homepage at:
http://w3g.med.uni-giessen.de/gene/reg/ahel814.html
3. Sowards, Twenty-Five Lectures on Modern Balkan History.
4. Davies 1997, p. 829.
5. Goodrick-Clarke 1985, p. 3.
6. Ibid., p. 4.
7. Ibid., p. 5.
8. Davidson 1997, p 11.
9. Ibid.
10. Ibid., p. 13.
11. Ibid., p. 14.
12. Ibid.
13. Goodrick-Clarke 1985, p. 10.
14. Ibid.
15. Davidson 1997, p. 11.
16. Goodrick-Clarke 1985, p. 12.
17. Ibid., p. 12.
18. Ibid.
19. Ibid., p. 13.
20. Maser 1973, p. 170.
21. Cited in Maser 1973, p. 170.
22. Baigent and Leigh 1997, p. 24.
23. Ibid.
24. Guiley 1991, pp. 259-60; Baigent and Leigh 1997, p. 22.
25. Washington 1996, pp. 29–31.
26. Ibid., p. 27.
27. Ibid., p. 51.
28. Ibid., p. 32.
29. Ibid., p. 33.
30. Wilson 1996, p. 111.
31. Goodrick-Clarke 1985, p. 21.
32. Ibid., pp. 22–23.
33. Ibid., p. 23
34. Ibid., p. 25.
35. Ibid., p. 28
36. Ibid., p. 56.
37. New Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology 1985, p. 248.
38. Goodrick-Clarke 1985, pp. 49–50.
39. Ibid., p. 50.
40. Ibid.
41. Kershaw 1998, p. 50.
42. Goodrick-Clarke 1985, p. 53.
43. New Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology 1985, pp. 248-9.
44. Goodrick-Clarke 1985, p. 54.
45. Kershaw 1998, p. 50.
46. Goodrick-Clarke 1985, p. 106.
47. Ibid., p. 108.
48. Runciman 1952, p. 127.
49. Daraul 1994, p. 40.
50. Guiley 1991, p. 416.
51. Daraul 1994, p. 40.
52. Guiley 1991, p. 416.
53. Ibid., p. 417.
54. Ibid.
55. Goodrick-Clarke 1985, p. 108.
56. Ibid., p. 109.
57. Ibid., p. 95.
58. Levenda 1995, p. 44.
59. Goodrick-Clarke 1985, p, 124,
60. Ibid.
61. Ibid., p. 125.
62. Payne 1995, p. 31.
63. Ibid.
64. Goodrick-Clarke 1985, p. 125.
65. Ibid., p. 126.
66. Ibid., p. 127.
67. Ibid., p. 128.
68. Ibid., p. 129.
69. Ibid., p. 130.
70. Ibid.
71. Ibid., p. 131.
72. Ibid., p. 133.
73. Davidson 1997, p. 137.
74. Godwin 1993, pp. 48-9.
75. Goodrick-Clarke 1985, p. 144.
76. Rudolf von Sebottendorff, Bevor Hitler kam (Before Hitler Came), 1934, p. 57. Quoted in Goodrick-Clarke 1985, p. 145.
77. Goodrick-Clarke 1985, p. 155.
78. Ibid., p. 157.
79. Ibid., p. 159.
80. Ibid., p. 161.
81. Ibid., pp. 161-2.
82. Ibid., p. 162.
1. Godwin 1993, p. 37.
2. Ibid., p. 38.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid., p. 39.
5. Ibid., p. 40.
6. Ernest Renan, Reves (Dreams), 1876, quoted in Godwin 1993, pp. 40–41.
7. Ibid., p. 27.
8. Ibid., p. 29.
9. Ibid., p. 30.
10. Ibid., p 32.
11. Ibid, p. 33.
12. Ibid., p. 34.
13. Blavatsky II 1999, p. 7.
14. Ibid., p. 8.
15. Ibid., pp. 8–9.
16. Ibid., p. 404.
17. Godwin 1993, pp. 20–21.
18. Ibid., p. 22.
19. Ibid., pp. 22–23.
20. Ibid., pp. 23–24.
21. Levenda 1995, p. 14.
22. Ibid., p. 15.
23. Ibid.
24. Ibid., p. 23.
25. Rosenbaum 1999, p. 55.
26. Levenda 1995, p. 24.
27. Hitler 1998, p. 279.
28. Rosenbaum 1999, p. 57.
29. Levenda 1995, p. 15.
30. Washington 1996, p. 283.
31. Levenda 1995, p. 16.
32. Godwin 1993, pp. 47–48.
33. Levenda 1995, p. 168.
34. Quoted in Levenda 1995, p. 170.
35. Speer 1998, p. 150.
36. Quoted in Godwin 1993, pp. 56–57.
37. Quoted in Levenda 1995, pp. 171-2.
38. Harbinson 1996, p. 247.
39. Godwin 1993, p. 146.
40. Ibid., pp. 146-7.
41. Ibid., p. 147.
42. Ibid., p. 148.
43. Ibid
44. Ibid.
45. Ibid., pp. 148-9.
46. King 1976, p. 116.
47. Anderson 1995, pp. 142-3.
48. Hitler 1998, pp. 451-2.
49. Anderson 1995, pp. 143-4.
1. See The Morning of the Magicians by Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier, a fascinating, hugely entertaining (but not terribly reliable) book, which more or less single-handedly launched the European occult revival in the early 1960s. Part Two is entitled ‘A Few Years in the Absolute Elsewhere’, and deals extensively with the idea of genuine Nazi occult power. To the authors, the ‘Absolute Elsewhere’ denotes the realm of extreme notions, where we encounter the Hollow Earth Theory, Horbiger’s World Ice Theory, lost prehistoric civilisations, and so on.