''Ostara'' or ''Ostara, Briefbücherei der Blonden und Mannesrechtler'' (Ostara, Newsletter of the Blonde and

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) was a

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nationalist Nationalism is an idea and movement that holds that the nation should be congruent with the state. As a movement, nationalism tends to promote the interests of a particular nation (as in a group of people), Smith, Anthony. ''Nationalism: The ...

magazine founded in 1905 by the

occult The occult, in the broadest sense, is a category of esoteric supernatural beliefs and practices which generally fall outside the scope of religion and science, encompassing phenomena involving otherworldly agency, such as magic and mysticism a ...

ist

Lanz von Liebenfels Lanz may refer to: Places * Lanz, Brandenburg, a municipality in Brandenburg, Germany * a village in the municipality Störnstein in Bavaria, Germany * Lanz, German name from Lomnice, a village in Sokolov District, Czech Republic * Lanz Peak ...

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, and in which he published

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and '' Völkisch'' theories. Lanz derived the name of the publication from the reconstructed

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goddess name ''* Ôstarâ''. Lanz claimed that the

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s and the nation of

(

: ''Österreich'') were

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ically named after this goddess. In his study of Lanz von Liebenfels, the Austrian psychologist

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states that "most likely this is even greater nonsense." According to von Liebenfels, the magazine had a peak circulation of 100,000 and appeared in three series; the first series included anywhere from 89 to 100 issues between 1905 and 1917, the second series had only one issue, and the third series included 20 issues published c. 1930–1931.For a complete list see .

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was reportedly one of the publication's readers in his late teens, and there is speculation that it served as a catalyst for his antisemitism. After Hitler's rise to prominence in the 1920s, Lanz tried to be recognized as one of his

ideological An ideology is a set of beliefs or philosophies attributed to a person or group of persons, especially those held for reasons that are not purely epistemic, in which "practical elements are as prominent as theoretical ones." Formerly applied prim ...

precursors. In the preface of issue one in the 3rd series of ''Ostara'', c. 1927, he wrote: Hitler, however, refused to acknowledge any debt to Lanz and his paper. After Austria was

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in 1938, Lanz hoped for Hitler's patronage, but Hitler banned him from publishing his writings, and most notably copies of ''Ostara'' were removed from circulation. After the war, Lanz accused Hitler of having not only stolen but corrupted his idea, and also of being of "inferior racial stock".

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