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Historian Michael Fitzgerald explores the intersection of Nazi ideology and occultism, focusing on secret societies like the Thule and Vril. These groups blended nationalism, racism, and esoteric beliefs—ranging from subterranean ancestors to extraterrestrial energy—to seek political domination and technological superiority, eventually influencing the Nazi party's pursuit of unconventional weaponry.
Michael Fitzgerald is an author and historian who is an expert on Nazi occult activities
and secret societies. He spent decades investigating and researching one of the
most powerful groups, the Thule Society, and their activities. The Thule Society was
occult overtones but they were always primarily politically orientated. They wanted to make
their racist and nationalist dreams come true through using occult methods among other things.
There was all this foment of a strange romantic mixture of medieval grail stories,
Germanic folklore and bits of science fiction, all melded together with politics and with this
huge desire to pull themselves out of this morass of both kind of stagnation and despair
that the German people were in behind somebody who would be a focus. You're walking a fine line
here in terms of occult beliefs and occult societies and hidden and secret societies.
When you're talking about societies like Thule, are they secret societies? Yes. Are they occult
societies? Are they esoteric? Well, that depends on the society. That depends on what their purpose
for existence is. The Thule Society visualized their enemies as dead and they used this technique
to considerable extent. That was their primary thing that they tried to do. Obviously, they also
used physical means to try and encourage that and they did do a great number of murders themselves.
The Thule Society members included the ruling elite of the Nazi party at the time,
including well-known philosophers Alfred Rosenberg and Dietrich Eckart.
Eckart believed that the material world was evil and it was our duty to escape from it,
so he and Rosenberg were very much on that wavelength. They believed in a higher spiritual
realm that it was our duty to aspire towards. Their perception of that world was very bizarre
because they thought human suffering on this realm was unimportant. This was the realm of illusion.
The realm of reality was up there. They believed that their ancestors lived underground
and were ruling the world from underneath the ground. Now, when the time is right,
they would come back and make their rightful claim to society and rule the world above ground once
more. The Four Seasons Hotel in Munich was one of the main meeting places for another important
Nazi secret society known as the Vril. Like the Thule Society, their members were the leading
lights in the Nazi party. About a dozen men would meet together in total secrecy to carry out the
secret agenda and rituals of the society. In the late 1930s, this would have included plans to
The term Vril actually came from a novel written in the 19th century by
novelist Lord Lytton called The Coming Race. He had this concept of underground dwellers
who lived beneath the earth and they had this power called Vril.
This ancient culture, very advanced technological culture, is displaced by a cataclysm
and is forced to flee the surface of the earth and creates a world within the earth
powered by a black sun. People believed that there was a doorway into this hidden world
in the North and South Pole, that it was possible to get into these great subterranean cities.
That attracted these guys who actually literally believed that Vril existed and was a real power
that could be manifested and used to achieve domination over people and even domination over
the material world. It's all there. It's all there in his books that were admired by these
high Nazi leaders. Vril as a power, as a life source. They totally bought into this.
The idea of this extraordinary force that was sort of almost occult, it was mysterious,
but it was very real in its outcome. It appealed to the German people and certain thinkers in particular.
Andrew Goff has found evidence of a top secret Vril society meeting
that took place outside Munich before the war. What occurred was truly bizarre.
So imagine the scene deep in the Bavarian forest in a country house. Here, the event
that would serve as the genesis for the formation of the most evil society in modern times
would be a séance. In attendance are representatives of the elite from Munich,
but more importantly, all the secret societies are there. Thule, Vril, Brothers of the Black Stone,
and the Black Sun, which is sort of the elite of the Thule society. The atmosphere of the night
would have been tense. The ambience would have been full of anticipation. Just who
was going to be this mysterious guest? Who is this? Who is this woman in the black veil?
She would reveal that she has been in contact with a planet called Alderbaran, which is 64
light years away in the constellation of Taurus. And she's already channeled information in two
different languages, one of which appears to be a German Templar script, but the other
is ancient Sumerian. And what they present to the group is that they have been given a blueprint
for an advanced spacecraft that uses free energy. They would call it Vril energy.
According to records, documents, and declassified footage from the time,
the Nazis took this connection to UFOs very seriously, even it said building their own
flying craft. But from 1933 onwards, they gave huge priority to unconventional types of aircraft
machine. The Germans were leading the world in rocketry. They were leading the world in
unconventional anti-gravity research, and they were leading the world in unconventional
propulsion systems. There were certainly prototypes, there were plenty of blueprints,
and there appears to have been one successful flight, short and not very far,
but still a successful test flight.