''The Occult Roots of Nazism: The Ariosophists of Austria and Germany, 1890–1935'' is a book about

Nazi occultism The association of Nazism with occultism occurs in a wide range of theories, speculation, and research into the origins of Nazism and into Nazism's possible relationship with various occult traditions. Such ideas have flourished as a part of popul ...

and

Ariosophy Armanism and Ariosophy are esoteric ideological systems that were developed largely by Guido von List and Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels respectively, in Austria between 1890 and 1930. The term 'Ariosophy', which means the wisdom of the Aryans, was i ...

by historian

Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke (15 January 195329 August 2012) was a British historian and professor of Western esotericism at the University of Exeter, best known for his authorship of several scholarly books on the history of Germany between the W ...

, who traces some of its roots back to Esotericism in Germany and Austria between 1880 and 1945. The foreword is by Rohan Butler, who had written ''The Roots of National Socialism'' in the 1930s. The book is based on Goodrick-Clarke's 1982 Ph.D.

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''The ariosophists of Austria and Germany 1890-1935: Reactionary political fantasy in relation to social anxiety''. This book has been continually in print since its first publication in 1985, and has been translated into twelve languages, including Spanish, French, Polish, Italian, Russian, Czech, German and Greek.German edition, front jacket It was republished as a paperback by

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Press in 1992 (), and more recently republished by I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd (). The German edition features a preface and an additional essay ''Nationalsozialismus und Okkultismus'' (''National Socialism and Occultism'') (15 pages) by H.T. Hakl.

Publication history

The exact title of the book changed in the 1992 edition. Foreign language editions are also (partly) listed: :Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke 1985: ''The Occult Roots of Nazism: The Ariosophists of Austria and Germany, 1890–1935'',

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, England: The Aquarian Press. . ::1992: ''The Occult Roots of Nazism: Secret Aryan Cults and Their Influence on Nazi Ideology'', New York:

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::2004:
The Occult Roots of Nazism: Secret Aryan Cults and Their Influence on Nazi Ideology
', (Expanded with a new Preface) I.B. Tauris & Co. . :Spanish edition 2005: ''Las Oscuras Raíces del Nazismo''. Buenos Aires: Editorial Sudamericana :French edition 1989: ''Les racines occultistes du nazisme: Les Aryosophistes en Autriche et en Allemagne 1890–1935'' . :Russian edition 1993: ''Оккультные корни нацизма'' :German edition 1997: '' Die okkulten Wurzeln des Nationalsozialismus''. Graz, Austria: Stocker . ::2. German edition 2000: Graz: Stocker . ::3. German edition 2004:

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: Marix-Verlag . :Greek edition 2006: ''ΟΙ ΑΠΟΚΡΥΦΙΣΤΙΚΕΣ ΡΙΖΕΣ ΤΟΥ ΝΑΖΙΣΜΟΥ'' :Czech edition 1998: ''Okultní kořeny nacismu: Rakouští a němečtí ariosofisté 1890-1935: Tajné árijské kulty a jejich vliv na nacistickou ideologii''. Prague: Votobia ::2. Czech edition 2005: ''Okultní kořeny nacismu: Tajné árijské kulty a jejich vliv na nacistickou ideologii''. Prague: Eminent :Polish edition 2001: ''Okultystyczne źródła nazizmu''. Warsaw: Bellona ::2. Polish edition 2011: ''Okultystyczne źródła nazizmu''. Warsaw: Aletheia ::3. Portuguese edition: ''Raízes Ocultistas do Nazismo: cultos secretos arianos e sua influência na ideologia nazi'', Lisboa, Terramar, Agosto 2002.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Occult Roots of Nazism, The 1985 non-fiction books Books about Nazism Books by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke History books about Nazi Germany Occultism in Nazism 20th-century history books New York University Press books Books about the far right