Ectoplasm

[Paul Mackin]

> Interestingly, Hitler banned Lanz's writings in 1933.  Had he really   
> rejected his former mentors?  Or did he decide the, ahem, intellectual   
> roots of Mein Kampf were better buried in a trench somewhere?

This snippet from Jan's excellent post rang a bell for me.
Had just been reading a selection from a 1940 A.H. speech
at a Berlin armament works (outa that old college textbook).
H. apparently preferred to see his weird ideas as deriving 
exclusively from his own imagination.

"Should any one say to me: 'These are mere fantastic dreams,
mere visions,' I can only reply that when I set out on my course
in 1919 as an unknown, nameless soldier I built my hopes of the
future upon a most vivid imagination. Yet all has come true."

On a slightly disquieting note, the speech very much recalls
to mind that  H. saw his movement as a counterforce
against, in many respects, the same powers Roger, Pirate, Katje
and Osbie were fighting in Part 4 (controllers of British, French and
American capitalism). Germany was a 'have-not' nation and Adolph
was a "have-not" member of it.

"All my life I have been a 'have-not.' At home I was a 'have-not.'
I regard myself as belonging to them [read Us] and have always
fought exclusively for them. I defended them and, therefore, I stand
before the world as their representative. I shall never recognize
the claim of the others [read Them] to that which they have
taken by force . . ."

(Does this sound like something somewhere in GR?)

A  big difference was our favorite four didn't include the Jews
in their paranoia.

				P.





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> From: Jan Klimkowski <jan.klimkowski at bbc.co.uk>
> To: 'pynchon-list' <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Subject: Ectoplasm
> Date: Monday, February 17, 1997 11:22 AM
> 
> 
> Had a coupla queries on the nature and source of that ectoplasm -   
> amusing, but not really to the point. Which, IMHO, is briefly as follows:
> 
> The Nazi state was led by a bunch of wackos with unlimited power, money   
> and hubris.  The entire paraphernalia of Nazism is occult, from the SS   
> symbol to the Swastika, and the thinking is occult racist-eugenic right   
> down to the Blicerian sexuality.
> 
> Hitler dedicated "Mein Kampf" to Dietrich Eckart - mentioned in my   
> earlier ectoplasmic post - and once called him "my John the Baptiser".   
>  Indeed, shortly before his death in 1923, Eckart wrote to a friend:
> "Follow Hitler! He will dance, but it will be to my tune. We have given   
> him
> the means to maintain contact with them [meaning the Masters of the Other   
> World]. Don't grieve for me for I have influenced history more than any   
> other German"
> 
> Other key occult influences on Uncle Adolf were Guido von List   
> (1848-1919), whose Wotanist obsessions are responsible for all those damn   
> Nazi runes, and Jorg Lanz von Liebenfels (1874-1954), whom Hitler first   
> met in Vienna in 1909.    Lanz wrote: "Hitler is one of our pupils...   
> through him we will one day be victorious and develop a movement that   
> makes the world tremble".
> 
> Interestingly, Hitler banned Lanz's writings in 1933.  Had he really   
> rejected his former mentors?  Or did he decide the, ahem, intellectual   
> roots of Mein Kampf were better buried in a trench somewhere?
> 
> Certainly, much of the occultist agenda was achieved by the Nazis.  For   
> instance, in the occult journal "Ostara", Lanz proposed that   
> 'unsatisfactory' racial types be eliminated by abortion, sterilization,   
> starvation, forced labor and other means. He also recommended Aryan   
> breeding farms where a master race, destined to control the world, could   
> be hatched. Of course, the Nazis went on to give us the Aryan breeding   
> colonies of Lebensborn - the details of which have never been properly   
> historically documented.
> 
> The Nazi seances so wonderfully described by Pynchon are poetic   
> reworkings of a piece of real history.  Sure, Nazis still think like   
> Nazis when They enter the Other World, but where did They learn to think   
> like Nazis in the first place, heh-heh....
> 
> Paranoically yours
> jan
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