Hitler’s Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich Audiobook

Quotes

• “A fascinating look at a little-understood aspect of fascism, with a nod to how ‘shadowy conspiracy theories’ and supernatural thinking continue to play out in politics today.”

  — Kirkus Reviews

• “Eric Kurlander’s provocative new study offers compelling reasons to take a critical look at the neglected history of occultism in Nazi Germany. It should spark renewed attention to the topic and more informed debates about its significance.”

  — Peter Staudenmaier, author of Between Occultism and Nazism

• “In this thought-provoking and original book, Kurlander explores the monstrousness of Hitler’s Germany by taking seriously the demons, vampires, witches, and werewolves that populated the Nazi world and made possible the building of a Third Reich right in the middle of the twentieth century.”

  — Peter Fritzsche, author of An Iron Wind

• “Until now, no one has offered a sustained treatment of the links between Nazism and occultism. Eric Kurlander has unearthed myriad examples of these links, and in fields as diverse as agriculture, archaeology, and armaments manufacture. Their cumulative effect in Hitler’s Monsters is positively jaw-dropping.”

  — Monica Black, author of Death in Berlin

• “In this stunning new book, historian Eric Kurlander shows how the Third Reich was monstrous in more ways than commonly supposed. The regime’s modern planning and methods of conquest and biopolitics were shot through with the search for esoteric pagan, even supernatural knowledge. We cannot think of ‘racial science’ in the same way again.”

  — A. Dirk Moses, author of German Intellectuals and the Nazi Past