Rudolf Elmayer von Vestenbrugg (

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1881 -

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1970), also known als Elmar Brugg, Rudolf Elmar von Vinibert or Elmar Vinibert von Rudolph, was a technical engineer and a prolific Nazi-writer from

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, who published several popular surveys on the work of

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and his now-defunct Cosmic Ice (''Glacial Cosmogony'') Theory, as well as a range of popular antisemitic and

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books, including a biography of the antisemitic politician

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. Up to 1938 Elmayer lived in Graz, where he later returned. During the War he was a SA-lieutenant colonel (''Obersturmführer'') and a military trainer, stationed in Slovenia. After 1945 he wrote on several other subjects, but he stayed true to his former political beliefs. He published a national-socialist novel and a 1958 dissertation on the ''

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'' as a Germanic text.Jan M. Ziolkowski,
The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity, Vol. 6: War and Peace, Sex and Violence''
Cambridge 2018, Ch. 3. His last book ''Eingriffe aus den Kosmos'' (Interventions from Outer Space) was published posthumously in 1971 by

Hans Schindler Bellamy Hans Schindler (19 March 1901 – Vienna, 12 December 1982), authornames H.S. Bellamy and Hans Schindler Bellamy, was an English professor in Vienna and an author on pseudoarchaeology. His books investigate the work of Austrian engineer Hanns Hörbi ...

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