Invisible Eagle

Conclusion: the myth machine - The Reality and Fantasy of Nazi Occultism

Occultism is a curious and fecund beast. Beliefs, and the events to which they give rise, have a frequently unfortunate habit of generating additional beliefs. If, as in the case of Nazi occultism, the initial beliefs were little more than crypto-historical idiocies, there can be little hope of improvement in their ideological progeny.

This book has been as much a history of belief about Nazi occultism as about Nazi occultism itself, and there is little doubt that the principal driving force behind the development of this belief is an attempt to explain the dreadful aberration that was the Third Reich.

Given that human beings have always been fascinated with the occult and the supernatural, precisely because they promise so much in offering the prospect of a higher meaning to the vagaries of existence, and given also our quest for an answer to the problem of evil, it is only to be expected that many should seek to explain Nazism in terms that transcend the merely human. We noted in the Introduction that some serious orthodox historians place Hitler outside the spectrum of human behavior - a spectrum that includes the most barbarous of crimes.

Hitler is seen by them as uniquely evil, wicked beyond even the human capacity for wickedness. Others, who are inclined to accept the reality of a cosmic evil originating beyond humanity, in some Outer Darkness eternally forsaken by God, see Hitler and the Nazis as examples of how, given the right circumstances, this Darkness can enter humanity, an 'eruption of demonism into history'.

Nevertheless, the demonic can easily be confused with insanity: one shudders to think of the number of unfortunates throughout history whose madness was mistaken by their fellows for possession by the forces of Darkness.

We have seen that the origins of National Socialism can be traced to volkisch occultists who believed wholeheartedly not only in the existence of a prehistoric Germanic race of superhumans but also that their very superiority had been transmitted through the ages to modern Germans by means of a magically active, pure Aryan blood.

The bizarre occult statements of Theosophists such as Madame Blavatsky, Rudolf Steiner and others seemed to offer evidence of the existence of a fabulous Aryan race that established great civilizations on the lost continents of Atlantis, Lemuria and the mythical island of Thule in the incredibly remote past.

The idea of genuine Nazi occult power (as opposed to Nazi belief in that power) seems to have arisen out of our own continuing fascination with the legends in which the volkisch and Pan-German occultists believed so fervently.

Belief in all aspects of the paranormal is extremely prevalent, whether it be belief in alien visitation, the spirits of the dead, dark and demonic forces from beyond the realm of humanity, or technologically advanced prehistoric civilizations such as those of Atlantis and Lemuria; and it seems to me that this belief lies at the core of the mythological development of Nazi occultism that has occurred in the second half of the twentieth century. For if the supernatural really exists, might not the Nazis have discovered a way to harness its power to further their dreadful ambitions?

The answer to this question must be negative: we have already seen that the evidence for Hitler's initiation into the mysteries of the black arts is non-existent, while the evidence for his utter contempt for mysticism of any kind (particularly that practised by Himmler in Wewelsburg, his sick joke of a Grail castle) is documented time and again. Indeed, such was Hitler's lack of interest in these matters that he never deigned even to visit Wewelsburg.

What of Himmler, then? Did he not practice dark rites with his SS Gruppenfuhrers in their Order Castle, attempting to contact the souls of long-departed Teutons?

The answer to this question is, of course, yes. However, occult-orientated writers have, over the years, continually made the same mistake in claiming that, because Himmler attempted to contact supernatural forces, those forces exist to be contacted. I consider myself a skeptic, rather than an incredulous doubter, [*] and so I cannot say that supernatural forces do not exist, any more than I can say that they do exist. In truth, no one can. But we must not allow ourselves to make any connection whatsoever between Himmler's ideas on the supernatural and the veracity of the supernatural itself.

(*) See the quote from Umberto Eco at the front of this book.

Ken Anderson makes an interesting point in his Hitler and the Occult:

From early in their rise to power Hitler and his Nazis were enveloped in an aura of mysticism almost despite themselves. This aura appears closer to the experience of occultism than any other major movement in the twentieth century. Hitler came to personify the invisible structure which became the occult myth dealt with here.

With the help of contemporary occult writers, the illusion is today more pervasive. We find no such occult mystique surrounding other aberrations of civilization ...'

To this we might add that the aura of mysticism surrounding the Nazis was enhanced and disseminated throughout German society by means of photography and cinema, notably Leni Riefenstahl's virulently propagandist films, which include Triumph of the Will and Olympia, and which glorify Germanness and emphasize the inherent superiority of the Aryan race.

The Nazis were nothing if not masters of self-promotion.

Just as the early volkisch occultists took various elements of prehistoric mythology to construct a totally spurious history for the Germanic 'master race', so many occult-orientated writers have taken the image of the Nazi black magician and his diabolical allies and with it have attempted to create an equally spurious history of the Third Reich.

The insubstantial edifice of their wild speculations is 'supported' by the incorporation of Eastern mysticism, with its tales of hidden cities inhabited by ascended masters who are the real controllers of humanity's destiny on Earth. Whatever their veracity, these myths are exquisitely beautiful and elaborate, and it is something of a tragedy that they should have been hijacked by Western writers in their quest to connect Nazism with a putative source of genuine occult power in the East.

We have also seen how Nazi cosmology, with its utterly insane notions of 'World Ice' and the Earth as a bubble in an infinity of rock, arose from the grandiose but untenable cosmological theories of previous centuries. Moreover, after the end of the Second World War they became part of the twentieth-century fascination with alternative cosmologies, including the Hollow Earth theory, which has stubbornly persisted to this day.

Another example of how the Third Reich generated strange rumors can be seen in the concept of the Nazi flying discs, which arose partly from admittedly intriguing (but still inconclusive) evidence, and partly from the unassailable evidence that Nazi scientists were indeed experimenting with radical aircraft designs and weapons systems. Thanks to clever manipulators of public opinion such as Ray Palmer, the quite possibly genuine mystery of the UFOs was 'explained' in terms of the rumors that the Nazis had actually perfected high-performance disc-shaped aircraft.

As we have seen, this in turn gave rise to the idea that these disc-planes were used by high-ranking Nazis to escape from the Allies during the fall of Berlin. Once again, it is clear that the various outlandish claims of Nazi hideouts in Antarctica owe their inception to genuinely puzzling events such as Admiral Byrd's apparently disastrous Operation Highjump, in addition to the indisputable fact that many Nazi war criminals did indeed escape from the ruins of the Third Reich to take up residence in various South American countries.

All of this provides conspiracy theorists with a heady mixture of components with which to construct their nightmarish scenario of hideous clandestine forces maliciously pulling the strings on which we all dance.

At the risk of offering a cliché, what we have here is a classic example of putting two and two together and getting five.

As we noted in the Introduction, with the passage of time and the deaths of important firsthand witnesses any chance of finding an adequate explanation of Nazism and the horrors it unleashed has now almost certainly been lost.

We are left with the awful question that will continue to haunt us for as long as we remain human: why?

The question is made more awful by the likelihood that the answer lies not in Outer Darkness, not in the 'Absolute Elsewhere', but much closer, in that most frightening and ill-explored of realms: the human mind.

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Notes

Introduction: search for a map of hell

1. Rosenbaum 1999, p. xiii.
2. Ibid , p. xvi.
3. Davies 1997, p. 40.
4. Ibid.
5. Godwin 1993, p. 63.
6. Trevor-Roper 1995, p. xxviii.
7. Rosenbaum 1999, p. xv.
8. Ibid., p. xxi.
9. Ibid., p. xxii.
10. Ibid., p. xxii.
11. Ibid., p xxiii.
12. Ibid., p. xxvii.
13. Ibid., p. xxxv.
14. Ibid., p. xliii. 15 Ibid., xliv. 16. Ibid., p. xlvi.
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1 - Ancestry, blood and nature

1. Goodrick-Clarke 1985, p. 7. Anyone attempting to examine the origins of Nazi occultism will necessarily owe a considerable debt to The Occult Roots of Nazism, a debt which the present author gratefully acknowledges. This is still by far the most level-headed, well-written and researched book covering this period; indeed, it remains the yardstick against which all writing on German occultism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries should be judged.
2. German Genealogy Habsburg Empire, from the German Genealogy Homepage at: http://w3g.med.uni-giessen.de/gene/reg/ahel814.html
3. Sowards, Twenty-Five Lectures on Modern Balkan History.
4. Davies 1997, p. 829.
5. Goodrick-Clarke 1985, p. 3.
6. Ibid., p. 4.
7. Ibid., p. 5.
8. Davidson 1997, p 11.
9. Ibid.
10. Ibid., p. 13.
11. Ibid., p. 14.
12. Ibid.
13. Goodrick-Clarke 1985, p. 10.
14. Ibid.
15. Davidson 1997, p. 11.
16. Goodrick-Clarke 1985, p. 12.
17. Ibid., p. 12.
18. Ibid.
19. Ibid., p. 13.
20. Maser 1973, p. 170.
21. Cited in Maser 1973, p. 170.
22. Baigent and Leigh 1997, p. 24.
23. Ibid.
24. Guiley 1991, pp. 259-60; Baigent and Leigh 1997, p. 22.
25. Washington 1996, pp. 29-31.
26. Ibid., p. 27.
27. Ibid., p. 51.
28. Ibid., p. 32.
29. Ibid., p. 33.
30. Wilson 1996, p. 111.
31. Goodrick-Clarke 1985, p. 21.
32. Ibid., pp. 22-23.
33. Ibid., p. 23
34. Ibid., p. 25.
35. Ibid., p. 28
36. Ibid., p. 56.
37. New Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology 1985, p. 248.
38. Goodrick-Clarke 1985, pp. 49-50.
39. Ibid., p. 50.
40. Ibid.
41. Kershaw 1998, p. 50.
42. Goodrick-Clarke 1985, p. 53.
43. New Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology 1985, pp. 248-9.
44. Goodrick-Clarke 1985, p. 54.
45. Kershaw 1998, p. 50.
46. Goodrick-Clarke 1985, p. 106.
47. Ibid., p. 108.
48. Runciman 1952, p. 127.
49. Daraul 1994, p. 40.
50. Guiley 1991, p. 416.
51. Daraul 1994, p. 40.
52. Guiley 1991, p. 416.
53. Ibid., p. 417.
54. Ibid.
55. Goodrick-Clarke 1985, p. 108.
56. Ibid., p. 109.
57. Ibid., p. 95.
58. Levenda 1995, p. 44.
59. Goodrick-Clarke 1985, p, 124, 60. Ibid.
61. Ibid., p. 125.
62. Payne 1995, p. 31.
63. Ibid.
64. Goodrick-Clarke 1985, p. 125.
65. Ibid., p. 126.
66. Ibid., p. 127.
67. Ibid., p. 128.
68. Ibid., p. 129.
69. Ibid., p. 130.
70. Ibid.
71. Ibid., p. 131.
72. Ibid., p. 133.
73. Davidson 1997, p. 137.
74. Godwin 1993, pp. 48-9.
75. Goodrick-Clarke 1985, p. 144.
76. Rudolf von Sebottendorff, Bevor Hitler kam (Before Hitler Came), 1934, p. 57. Quoted in Goodrick-Clarke 1985, p. 145.
77. Goodrick-Clarke 1985, p. 155.
78. Ibid., p. 157.
79. Ibid., p. 159.
80. Ibid., p. 161.
81. Ibid., pp. 161-2.
82. Ibid., p. 162.
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2 - Fantastic prehistory

1. Godwin 1993, p. 37.
2. Ibid., p. 38.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid., p. 39.
5. Ibid., p. 40.
6. Ernest Renan, Reves (Dreams), 1876, quoted in Godwin 1993, pp. 40-41.
7. Ibid., p. 27.
8. Ibid., p. 29.
9. Ibid., p. 30.
10. Ibid., p 32.
11. Ibid , p. 33.
12. Ibid., p. 34.
13. Blavatsky II 1999, p. 7.
14. Ibid., p. 8.
15. Ibid., pp. 8-9.
16. Ibid., p. 404.
17. Godwin 1993, pp. 20-21.
1. Ibid., p. 22.
2. Ibid., pp. 22-23.
3. Ibid., pp. 23-24.
4. Levenda 1995, p. 14.
5. Ibid., p. 15.
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid., p. 23.
8. Rosenbaum 1999, p. 55.
9. Levenda 1995, p. 24.
10. Hitler 1998, p. 279.
11. Rosenbaum 1999, p. 57.
12. Levenda 1995, p. 15.
13. Washington 1996, p. 283.
14. Levenda 1995, p. 16.
15. Godwin 1993, pp. 47-48.
16. Levenda 1995, p. 168.
17. Quoted in Levenda 1995, p. 170.
18. Speer 1998, p. 150.
19. Quoted in Godwin 1993, pp. 56-57.
20. Quoted in Levenda 1995, pp. 171-2.
21. Harbinson 1996, p. 247.
22. Godwin 1993, p. 146.
23. Ibid., pp. 146-7.
24. Ibid., p. 147.
25. Ibid., p. 148.
26. Ibid
27. Ibid.
28. Ibid., pp. 148-9.
29. King 1976, p. 116.
30. Anderson 1995, pp. 142-3.
31. Hitler 1998, pp. 451-2.
32. Anderson 1995, pp. 143-4.
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3 - A hideous strength

1. See The Morning of the Magicians by Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier, a fascinating, hugely entertaining (but not terribly reliable) book, which more or less singlehandedly launched the European occult revival in the early 1960s. Part Two is entitled 'A Few Years in the Absolute Elsewhere', and deals extensively with the idea of genuine Nazi occult power. To the authors, the 'Absolute Elsewhere' denotes the realm of extreme notions, where we encounter the Hollow Earth Theory, Horbiger's World Ice Theory, lost prehistoric civilisations, and so on.
2. Maclellan 1996, pp. 100-101.
3. See Julian Wolfreys's Introduction to the Alan Sutton edition of The Coming Race.
4. Bulwer-Lytton 1995, p. 20.
5. Ibid., p. 53.
6. Ibid., p. 26.
7. Ibid., p. 111.
8. Ibid., p. 120.
9. Maclellan 1996, p. 90.
10. Ibid., p. 84.
11. Ibid., p. 103.
12. Pauwels and Bergier 1971, p. 195.
13. Ibid., p. 193.
14. Goodrick-Clarke 1985, p. 221.
15. Kershaw 1998, p. 248.
16. Ibid., p. 240.
17. Pauwels and Bergier 1971, p. 198.
18. Maclellan 1996, p. 107.
19. Willy Ley 1947: 'Pseudoscience in Naziland', Astounding Science Fiction 39/3 (May), pp. 90-98. Quoted in Godwin 1993, p. 53.
20. Godwin 1993, p. 54.
21. Ibid.
22. Maclellan 1996, p. 109.
23. Ibid.
24. Ibid., pp. 109-110.
25. Quoted in Maclellan 1996, p. 111.
26. Kershaw 1998, p. xiv.
27. Quoted in Maclellan 1996, p. 113.
28. Ibid., pp. 113-14.
29. Levenda 1995, pp. 173-4.
30. Ibid., p. 175.
31. Ibid.
32. Quoted in Levenda 1995, pp. 176-7.
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4 - The phantom kingdom

1. Godwin 1993, p. 79.
2. Tomas 1977, p. 25.
3. Ibid., pp. 25-6.
4. Ibid., p. 32n.
5. Ibid., p. 32.
6. Le Page 1996, p. 4.
7. Ibid., p. 7.
8. Le Page 1996, p. 110.
9. Ibid., pp. 110-11.
10. Quoted in Maclellan 1996, p. 72.
11. Roerich 1930, p. 211.
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid, p. 212.
14. Ibid, p. 215.
15. Ibid.
16. Ibid, p. 222.
17. Tomas 1977, p. 42.
18. Ibid, pp. 42-3.
19. Godwin 1993, pp. 80-81.
20. Ibid, p. 81.
21. Ibid.
22. Childress 1999, p. 304.
23. Quoted in Maclellan 1996, pp. 63-4.
24. Quoted in Maclellan 1996, pp. 64-5.
25. Maclellan 1996, p. 69.
26. Ibid.
27. Godwin 1993, p. 83.
28. Ibid, pp. 83-4.
29. Godwin 1993, p. 87.
30. Childress 1999, p. 322.
31. Ibid, p. 323.
32. Ibid, p. 324.
33. Ibid.
34. Ibid, p. 325.
35. Ibid, p. 327.
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5 - Talisman of conquest

1. Ravenscroft 1982, p. xviii.
2. Ibid, pp. ix-x.
3. Ibid, p. xii.
4. Ibid, p. xv.
5. Ibid, p. 50. (See also Goodrick-Clarke 1985, pp. 221-2.)
6. Ibid, p. 40.
7. Ibid, p. 48.
8. Ibid, p. 49.
9. Anderson 1995, p. 47.
10. Ravenscroft 1982, p. 9.
11. Ibid, pp. 63-4.
12. Ibid, p. 64.
13. Anderson 1995, p. 147.
14. Ibid, p. 148.
15. Ravenscroft 1982, p. 318.
16. Godwin 1993, p. 99.
17. Anderson 1995, p. 49.
18. Ibid.
19. Ravenscroft 1982, pp. 11-12.
20. Anderson 1995, p. 52.
21. Ibid, pp. 78-9.
22. Ibid, p. 79.
23. Ibid, p. 80.
24. Ibid, pp. 80-81. See also Ravenscroft 1982, p. 13.
25. Ibid, p. 81. See also Smith 1971, p. 325.
26. Ibid, p. 85.
27. Ibid, p. 86.
28. Ibid.
29. Ibid, p. 88.
30. Ibid, p. 96.
31. Ibid, p. 97.
32. Ravenscroft 1982, pp. 315-16.
33. Fest 1974, pp. 548-9.
34. Ravenscroft 1982, p. 316.
35. Ibid.
36. Anderson 1995, p. 149.
37. Ibid, pp. 149-50.
38. Ibid, p. 151.
39. Ibid.
40. Ravenscroft 1982, pp. 103-5. See also Goodrick-Clarke's essay 'The Modern Mythology of Nazi Occultism' (Appendix E in The Occult Roots of Nazism); his demolition job on such lurid fantasies is as economical as it is eloquent.
41. Speer 1998, p. 147.
42. Ibid, p. 148.
43. Ibid, p. 183.
44. Langer 1972, p. 32, quoted in Anderson 1995, p. 224.
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6 - Ordinary madness

1. Goodrick-Clarke 1985, p. 177.
2. Ibid, p. 179.
3. Ibid, p. 180.
4. Ibid, p. 181.
5. Ibid, p. 182.
6. Levenda 1995, pp. 195-6.
7. Ibid, p. 196.
8. Goodrick-Clarke 1985, p. 184.
9. Ibid, p. 185.
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid., p. 186.
12. Ibid., p. 188.
13. Levenda 1995, p. 187. 14 Ibid., p. 189.
15. Ibid.
16. Ibid., pp. 189-90.
17. Goodrick-Clarke 1985, p. 189.
18. Ibid., p. 190.
19. Ibid., p. 191.
20. Fest 1979, p. 178.
21. Ibid.
22. Ibid., p. 179.
23. Payne 1995, p. 184.
24. Fest 1979, pp. 180-1.
25. Goodrick-Clarke 1985, p. 178,
26. Levenda 1995, p. 153.
27. Ibid.
28. Ibid., p. 154.
29. Ibid.
30. Ibid., p. 155.
31. Padfield 1990, p. 248, quoted in Levenda 1995, p. 156.
32. Fest 1979, p. 173.
33. Levenda 1995, p. 156.
34. Ibid., p. 157.
35. Quoted in Levenda 1995, pp. 158-9.
36. Quoted in Levenda 1995, pp. 159-60.
37. Levenda 1995, p. 160.
38. Payne 1995, p. 375.
39. Fest 1979, p. 189.
40. Ibid., p. 190.
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7 - The secret at the heart of the world

1. Godwin 1993, p. 106.
2. Ibid., p. 107.
3. Ibid., p. 108.
4. Childress 1999, p. 238.
5. Michel Lamy: Jules Verne, initie et mitiateur La cle du secret de Rennes-le-Chateau et le tresor des Rois de France, Paris, Payot, 1984, p. 194. Cited in Godwin 1993, pp. 108-9.
6. Godwin 1993, p. 109.
7. Ibid.
8. Quoted in Godwin 1993, pp. 109-110.
9. Gardner 1957, p. 20.
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid.
12. Quoted in Godwin 1993, p. 117.
13. Childress 1999, p. 239.
14. Ibid., pp. 239-40.
15. Gardner 1957, pp. 23-4.
16. Ibid., p. 24.
17. Quoted in Godwin 1993, pp. 116-7.
18. Gardner 1957, p. 25.
19. Godwin 1993, p. 117.
20. Gardner 1957, p. 26.
21. Quoted in Childress 1999, p. 240.
22. Childress 1999, p. 241.
23. Gardner 1957, p. 37.
24. Ibid.
25. Pauwels and Bergier 1971, p. 154.
26. Ibid., pp. 38-41.
27. Quoted in Gardner 1957, p. 41.
28. Ibid.
29. Pauwels and Bergier 1971, p. 185.
30. Quoted in Pauwels and Bergier 1971, pp. 185-6.
31. Pauwels and Bergier 1971, p. 186.
32. Ibid., p. 188.
33. Ibid., p. 189.
34. For a detailed description of Byrd's life and expeditions, see the polar explorers' Internet pages at http://www.south-pole.com/home-page.html, from which this account is borrowed.
35. Harbinson 1996, p. 209.
36. Giannini 1959, p. 14.
37. Harbinson 1996, p. 210.
38. Ibid.
39. Ibid., p. 211.
40. Ibid.
41. Quoted in Childress 1999, p. 258.
42. See Bruce Lanier Wright's piece, 'From Hero to Dero' in Fortean Times No. 127 (October 1999), pp. 36-41.
43. Childress 1999, p. 218.
44. Ibid.
45. Ibid., p. 219.
46. Ibid., p. 220.
47. Quoted in Childress 1999, pp. 221-2.
48. Quoted in Childress 1999, p. 214.
49. Fortean Times 127, p. 38.
50. Quoted in Childress 1999, pp. 222-3.
51. Childress 1999, p. 223. 52 Shaver, 'Thought Records of Lemuria', Amazing Stones, June 1945, quoted in Peebles 1995, p. 5.
53. Fortean Times 127, p. 39.
54. Ibid.
55. Ibid.
56. Quoted in Childress 1999, p. 224.
57. Peebles 1995, p. 6.
58. Childress 1999, p. 229.
59. Fortean Times 127, p. 40.
60. Quoted in Childress 1999, p. 229.
61. Childress 1999, pp. 232-3.
62. Quoted in Childress 1999, p. 233.
63. Fortean Times 127, p. 41.
64. Childress 1999, p. 244.
65. Ibid., p. 245.
66. Ibid.
67. Ibid., p. 246.
68. Ibid., p. 247.
69. Ibid.
70. Ibid., p. 249.
71. Ibid., p. 251.
72. Ibid.
73. Ibid., pp. 251-2.
74. Ibid., pp. 293-4.
75. Ibid., p. 295.
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8 - The cloud Reich

1. Brookesmith 1984, p. 202.
2. Cited in Sagan and Page 1996, pp. 207-8.
3. Cited in Harbinson 1996, pp. 45-6.
4. Cited in Vesco and Childress 1994, p. 79. The vast majority of this book is actually the work of Renato Vesco, with a small amount of additional material by David Hatcher Childress. The original work was entitled Intercettateh Senza Sparare, and was published in an English translation by Grove Press, New York in 1971 under the title Intercept But Don't Shoot.
5. Hough and Randies 1996, p. 46.
6. Ibid., p. 47.
7. Vesco and Childress 1994, p. 84.
8. Vesco and Childress 1994, pp. 80-81.
9. Ibid., p. 81.
10. Quoted in Vesco and Childress 1994, p. 82.
11. Hough and Randies 1996, p. 50.
12. Ibid., p. 83.
13. Vesco and Childress 1994, p. 82.
14. Ibid., p. 83.
15. Ibid, p. 84.
16. Good 1996, p. xxviii.
17. Ibid., pp. xxviii-xxix.
18. Jones 1998, p. 510.
19. Ibid., p. 511.
20. Ibid.
21. Ibid., p. 512.
22. Good 1996, p. xxxiii.
23. Ibid.
24. Harbinson 1996, p. 61.
25. Vesco and Childress 1994, p. 85.
26. Ibid, pp. 85-6.
27. Ibid, p. 86.
28. Ibid.
29. Ibid, p. 113n.
30. Ibid, p. 157.
31. Quoted in Harbinson 1996, p. 72.
32. Ibid, p. 73.
33. Vesco and Childress 1994, pp. 255-6.
34. Harbinson 1996, p. 74.
35. Ibid.
36. Vesco and Childress 1994, p. 244.
37. Ibid.
38. Hogg 1999, p. 52.
39. Marrs 1997, p. 69.
40. Ibid.
41. Ibid, p. 70.
42. Ibid.
43. Vesco and Childress 1994, p. 252.
44. Ibid, pp. 252-3.
45. Ibid, p. 253.
46. Ibid.
47. Ibid, p. 255.
48. Ibid, p. 258.
49. Ibid, pp. 259-60.
50. Ibid, p. 262.
51. Good 1996, p. 228.
52. Peebles 1995, p. 113.
53. Evans and Stacy 1997, p. 136.
54. See Jacobs 1994, pp. 49-236.
55. Quoted in Harbinson 1996, p. 172,
56. Ibid, p. 173.
57. Ibid, p. 175.
58. Ibid., p. 177.
59. Ibid.
60. Ibid., pp 179-80.
61. Ibid., p. 180. 62 David Guyatt, 'Police State of Mind1, Fortean Times No, 95, p. 35.
63. Ibid., p. 38.
64. Ibid., p. 36.
65. Quoted in Constantine 1995, pp. 2-3.
66. Guyatt, p. 36.
67. Ibid., pp. 36-7.
68. Constantine 1995, p. 4.
69. Guyatt, p. 36.
70. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) report, quoted in Guyatt, p. 37.
71. Constantine 1995, p. 9.
72. See Vallee 1993.
73. Constantine 1995, p. 18.
74. Ibid.
75. Ibid.
76. Ibid.
77. Ibid., p. 19.
78. Ibid., p. 26.
79. Sid Que, 'Radio Head', Fortean Times No. 113, p. 39.
80. Ibid., p. 37.
81. Ibid.
82. Constantine 1995, p. 40.
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9 - Invisible Eagle

1. Trevor-Roper 1995, p. 43.
2. Marrs 1997, p. 72.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid., p. 73.
5. Quoted in Pool 1997, pp. 31-2.
6. Marrs 1997, p. 73.
7. Higham 1983, quoted in Marrs 1997, p. 73.
8. Ibid.
9. Quoted in Marrs 1997, p. 74.
10. Ibid.
11. World Press Review, vol. 41, no. 11, November 1996. Quoted in Marrs 1997, pp. 74-5.
12. Trevor-Roper 1995, pp. xxxvii-xxxviii.
13. Ibid., p. xxxviii.
14. Ibid., p. xi.
15. Ibid., p. xii.
16. Ibid.
17. Keith 1994, p. 30.
18. Ibid., p. 31.
19. Ibid., p. 33.
20. Harbinson 1996, p. 219.
21. Ibid.
22. Ibid., pp. 219-20.
23. Ibid., p. 220.
24. Ibid., p. 221.
25. Marrs 1997, p. 75.
26. Vesco and Childress 1994, pp. xv-xvi.
27. Ibid., p. xvi.
28. Godwin 1993, p. 105.
29. Ibid.
30. Ibid., p. 63.
31. Ibid., p. 64.
32. Ibid.
33. Ibid., p. 66.
34. Translated by Godwin, ibid., p. 65.
35. Ibid., p. 67.
36. Ibid.
37. Ibid., p. 68.
38. Ibid.
39. Harbinson 1996, p. 248.
40. Ibid., p. 249.
41. Quoted from a reproduction of the Samisdat newsletter, available on the Nizkor Website. Nizkor is an educational organisation dedicated to providing accurate information on the Holocaust and related Holocaust studies. One of its laudable objectives is to expose and dismantle the despicable arguments of Holocaust deniers such as Ernst Zundel. At the risk of patronising the reader (which is by no means my intention), I must state that anyone with the slightest suspicion that the Holocaust did not take place should visit this excellent Website, which will immediately set them straight. The Nizkor Project Remembering the Holocaust can be reached at http://www.nizkor.org/
42. See 'Giving the Devil His Due: Holocaust Revisionism as a Test Case for Free Speech and the Skeptical Ethic' by Frank Miele, reproduced on the Nizkor Project website.
43. Ibid.
44. Godwin 1993, p. 70.
45. Ibid.
46. Ibid.
47. Ibid., pp. 70-71.
48. Ibid., p. 71.
49. Ibid.
50. Ibid.
51. Ibid., p. 72.
52. Ibid.
53. Ibid., p. 73.
54. Ibid.
55. Quoted in Godwin 1993, p. 73.
56. Ibid., p. 127.
57. Ibid.
58. Fortean Times No. 121 (April 1999), p. 29.
59. Watkins and Ambrose 1989, pp. 99-100.
60. Ibid., p. 207. 61 Ibid., p. 106.
62. Ibid., p. 214.
63. Hitler 1998, pp. 120-6.
64. Ibid., pp. 121-2.
65. Ibid., p. 122.
66. Ibid., pp. 126-7.
67. Ibid., p. 131.
68. Ibid., p. 348, quoted in Keith 1994, p. 152.
69. Keith 1994, pp. 152-3.
70. Quoted in Keith 1994, pp. 30-31.
71. Keith 1994, p. 148.
72. Ibid., p. 153.
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1. Anderson 1995, p. 233.

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