Reply #38: I linked to that Edwin Black article in post 24 edwardlindy [View All]

and I've read "War Against The Weak" as well as the literature of many related subjects.

Yet the conceptual roots of these hateful philosophies are thousands of years old-that's what influenced people like Charles Benedict Davenport and Heinrich Himmler.

When it comes to the powerful role of pseudoscience supporting the race policies in the Third Reich I again would suggest Max Weinreich's 1946 work "Hitler's Professors".

In this post another powerful support besides pseudoscience (yet intertwined with it) will be noted-the ancient belief systems of secret societies, cults and esoteric religions in giving identity as a member of a "superior" group and assigning a less than human designation to "enemies" of those outside the group.

The global war on terror involves all of those belief systems including many military/religious orders waging "jihad", "Holy War", "a Crusade", "clash of cultures" etc.

These military/religious orders are everywhere, including the Pentagon.

That the ideologies of these military/religious orders are very much with us today, particularly in our national security and defense organizations, has been commented on by people like Chris Hedges, Jeff Sharlet, William Arkin, Naomi Klein, Seymour Hersh and many others.

The private military contractors/mercenaries have been utilized to circumvent Constitutional and other legal prohibitions against theocracy by a criminal administration that has made statements that the Constitution is nothing more than "a god damn piece of paper".

These are essentially the same views that were present in late 19th and early 20th century Austria, Germany, Prussia-the only things that have changed are technology, the locations of extreme nationalism, militarism, and the identities of the "good" and the "evil"--because the entire conceptual framework of these systems are evil, and dependent on secrecy (literally the occult).

The pseudosciences and eugenics of those who are still powerfully influenced by ariosophy (wisdom of the Aryans-the spiritual fountain of the Third Reich) urgently needs to be addressed, because they have been expanded and adapted pragmatically.

That is what this thread is about, paradoxically, (because some DUers with spiritual and religious beliefs include many of these ancient conceptual foundations-which is a right of all to believe or disbelieve) there often is controversy and deletion of posts or locking of threads by demand of reactionaries.

That being said, below is a link that follows along the work of people like Oxford historian Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke (authored "Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of Identity" NYU Press 2002), the aforementioned Edwin Black, Heather Pringle (authored "The Master Plan" Hyperion 2006, a work about the Ahnenerbe SS) and others.

"Secret Societies Influencing the Third Reich" (from shoaheducation.com)
http://www.shoaheducation.com/secret.html

Who else would like to discuss the military/religious order dimension of pseudoscience from the Third Reich to our Pentagon Prayer Team?