The Occult Roots of Nazism
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'''''The Occult Roots of Nazism''': Secret Aryan Cults and Their Influence on Nazi Ideology : The Ariosophists of Austria and Germany, 1890-1935'' is a book by [[Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke]]. It is the "[[wikt:seminal|seminal]] work"<ref>Statement by [[Antoine Faivre]] (on the back cover of the 2004 edition)</ref> on [[Nazi occultism]] and [[Ariosophy]]. The book also includes some valuable information on [[Esotericism in Germany and Austria]] between 1880 and 1945.
[[Rohan Butler]], who had written ''The Roots of National Socialism'' in the 1930s, wrote the foreword.
First published in 1985, it was republished as a paperback by [[New York University]] Press in [[1992]] (ISBN 0-8147-3060-4), and more recently republished by [[I.B. Tauris|I.B. Tauris & Co]] Ltd (ISBN 1-86064-973-4).
The book has been translated into French, Italian, Russian, Czech, German and Greek.<ref>German edition, front jacket</ref>
The German edition features a preface and an additional essay ''Nationalsozialismus and 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'', Wellingborough, England: The Aquarian Press. ISBN 0-85030-402-4.
::1992: ''The Occult Roots of Nazism: Secret Aryan Cults and Their Influence on Nazi Ideology'', New York: New York University Press ISBN 978-0814730607
::2004: ''The Occult Roots of Nazism: Secret Aryan Cults and Their Influence on Nazi Ideology'', (Expanded with a new Preface) I.B. Tauris & Co. ISBN 1-86064-973-4.
:French edition 1989: ''Les racines occultistes du nazisme: Les Aryosophistes en Autriche et en Allemagne 1890-1935'' ISBN 2867140692.
:Russian edition 1993: ''Оккультные корни нацизма''
:German edition 1997: '' Die okkulten Wurzeln des Nationalsozialismus''. Graz, Austria: Stocker ISBN 3-7020-0795-4.
::2. German edition 2000: Graz: Stocker ISBN 3-7020-0795-4.
::3. German edition 2004: Wiesbaden: Marix-Verlag ISBN 3937715487.
:Greek edition 2006: ''ΟΙ ΑΠΟΚΡΥΦΙΣΤΙΚΕΣ ΡΙΖΕΣ ΤΟΥ ΝΑΖΙΣΜΟΥ'' ISBN 960-8345-85-5
== References ==
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== External links ==
* [http://www.lapismagazine.org/content/view/54/2/ Article by Goodrick-Clarke]
* [http://www.ewtn.com/library/NEWAGE/NAZIOCCU.TXT Magic Realism - A book review] by William Main, taken from the December 1994 issue of "Fidelity" Magazine
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