Saturday, January 30, 2010  "Hitler was not an occultist": Mitch
Horowitz is right but his sourcing is all wrong (Nazis &
Christians & Pagans, Part Four)  A post ("Author Mitch Horowitz
Says Adolf Hitler Was Not An Occultist") over at the always
interesting blog Prometheus Unbound drew my attention to
Alexander Zaitchik's recent review of Mitch Horowitz's book
Occult America: The Secret History of How Mysticism Shaped Our
Nation. Here is a direct link to Zaitchik's review: "Into the
Weird" (originally posted at Killing the Buddha, but also found
at Alternet as well as The Witches Voice).  Of course Horowitz
is absolutely right that Adolf Hitler was not an Occultist, and
also that left/progressive movements in the US have had strong
links with Esotericism (which I think is a better term that "the
occult"). And Zaitchik is right to praise Horowitz for saying
that. But it turns out there is a serious problem with how
Horowitz supports what he says about the Nazi/Occult connection.
Here is what Horowitz says in