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 | | In The Occult Roots of Nazism Goodrick-Clarke convincingly argued that the most powerful appeal of National Socialism lay in its essentially religious millenarian and occultist elements, especially as derived from the turn-of-the-century German Ariosophists, in particular von List (1848 - 1919) and von Liebenfels (1874 - 1954). |
 | | The Ariosophists' doctrines advocated rule by gnostic elites and orders, a hierarchical society based upon racial purity and occult initiation, and the founding of a pan-German world empire involving the ruthless conquest and eventual extermination of non-German inferior races. |
 | | Nazi anti-Semitism was rooted in this apocalyptic demonology, which blamed the Jews for all ills, including liberalism, communism, the corruption of morals, and the downfall of a traditional world. |
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