The Dresden Files > DF Spoilers

Heinrich Kramer

<< < (3/3)

Kindler:
The Thule Society is not nearly as interesting as sci-fi/fantasy writers make it out to be. Their real-world claim to fame is they started the whole Aryan Superiority thing in an organized way around 1918ish, and they were one of the organized sponsors of the party that became the Nazi party.

Thule's link to the occult is pretty lame. It's mostly that they believed in the Aryan ideal, pretty much worshiping the concept of Hyperborea. They therefore worshiped Odin (and it's why they played a lot of Wagner, who died like forty years before the Thule Society was created but who probably would've been happy to join). They were about as occult as people believe Freemasons are today. It also didn't last very long. It came and was dissolved in less than a decade, I think (someone can check the dates, I'm tired and ornery).

But yeah. They were the ones who put the antisemitism into politics in an organized way (it was already there, but obviously not to the extent that you see from Nazi Germany), and helped prop up the German Workers Party. When Hitler started taking control of the GWP and began turning into the National Socialist Party, he cut ties with the Thule Society. I think one of the founding members was even expelled from Germany under the same Aryan ideals the Thule Society promoted, which is funny until you realize how many other people had the same thing happen to them.

By the time Hitler was elected, the Thule Society had been gone for something like ten years (at least officially). I think I recall that Thule was an offshoot of a more occult-ish organization by one of the founders. But yeah, Thule was more Pagan than Occult. You frequently hear terms like "occult organization" and "mysticism" in connection with Thule, but I've never found any evidence of them doing anything even remotely connected with the Occult as I see the Occult. They weren't practicing magic. They were basically just racist Pagans who believed they could become Ubermensch through selective breeding and national pride.

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[*] Previous page