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After you've learned about this war on the occult, head over to Nebula and get Nebula for 40% off https://go.nebula.tv/extrahistory where you'll see Extra History episodes 1 week early, watch them without ads and get exclusive content! Watch Nazi Occultism 5 Right now: https://bit.ly/EHThorsHammer OR Watch Boomers: https://go.nebula.tv/boomers?ref=extrahistory In this episode, we delve into the bizarre yet chilling reality behind Nazi archaeology. Inspired by Heinrich Himmler’s SS-backed Ahnenerbe Institute, the Third Reich sought to prove Germans were descended from a “superior” ancient race and the founders of all culture. This led them on global expeditions—from Finland and Sweden to Tibet and even Antarctica—to gather “evidence” supporting their theories. * Watch Extra History ad-free & get 1-week early access on *NEBULA* https://go.nebula.tv/extrahistory * Suggest & Vote on our next episodes, get exclusive content & 24-hour early access on *PATREON* https://bit.ly/EHPatreon * Show off your fandom with *MERCH* from our store! http://extracredits.store/ * Interested in sponsoring an episode?* Email us: extracredits@standard.tv https://twitter.com/extracreditz | https://www.facebook.com/ExtraCredits/ | http://instagram.com/extracredits | https://www.tiktok.com/@extracreditz GAMING: https://www.youtube.com/@extracredits | http://www.twitch.tv/extracredits/ https://bsky.app/profile/extracredits.bsky.social *Miss an episode in our Nazi Occultism Series?* Part 1 - https://youtu.be/TokYUITs6zs Part 2 - https://youtu.be/6MEzUovLTMs Part 3 - https://youtu.be/06fXIstwddk Part 4 - https://youtu.be/Tg8CpKzcFm8 Part 5 - https://youtu.be/1H-z5Dhy5c8 Series Wrap-up & Recommended Reading / Lies Episode - Release Date: Nov, 30th BIBLIOGRAPHY Walter C., Breintenfeld. “Nazi Liturgy,” Blacfriars 27 (1946): 44-50. DOI: https://www.jstor.org/stable/43701291 Ian Kershaw. Hitler: A Biography (W.W. Norton and Company, 2010) https://a.co/d/9sNkRi3 Erick Kurlander. Hitler’s Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017) https://a.co/d/6zEO2Hh Erick Kurlander. “The Nazi Magicians’ Controversy: Enlightenment, ‘Border Science,’ and Occultism in the Third Reich,” Central European History 48 (2015): 498-522. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43965203 Heather Pringle. The Master Plan: Himmler’s Scholars and the Holocaust (Hyperion, 2006). https://a.co/d/eMgAE9v Samuel Koehne. “Were the National Socialists a ‘Völkisch’ Party? Paganism, Christianity, and the Nazi Christmas,” Central European History 47 (2014): 760-790. DOI: https://www.jstor.org/stable/43965085 Manfred Nagl. “SPF, Occult Sciences, and Nazi Myths,” Science Fiction Studies 1 (1974): 185-197. DOI: https://www.jstor.org/stable/4238861 Leo Pavlát. “The Jewish Museum in Prague During the Second World War,” European Judaism: A Journal for the New Europe Vol. 41, No. 1 (2008), 124-130. DOI: https://www.jstor.org/stable/i40070460 Stanley Stowers. “The Concepts of ‘Religion’, ‘Political Religion’ and the Study of Nazism,” Journal of Contemporary History (2007): 9-24. DOI: https://www.jstor.org/stable/30036425 Dorothy Thompson. “Culture under the Nazis,” Foreign Affairs (1936): 407-423. DOI: https://www.jstor.org/stable/20030741 Volker Ullrich. Hitler: Ascent 1889-1939 (Vintage, 2017) https://a.co/d/cnvJN2d Jeb J. Card. Spooky Archaeology: The Myth and Science of the Past. (University of New Mexico Press, 2019). https://a.co/d/0riHwxR Thanks for the high-quality conversations & for following our community guidelines here: https://bit.ly/ECFansRNice Artist: Ali R Thome | Writer: Robert Rath | Researcher: A. Siso | Showrunner & Narrator: Matthew Krol | Video Editor: Devon House Creative | Audio Editor: Clean Waves | Studio Director: Geoffrey Zatkin | Social Media: Kat Rider | ♪ Music by Demetori: http://bit.ly/1EQA5N7 | ♪ "4,000 Miles" by Tiffany Roman #ExtraHistory #WorldWar2 #History