Fans of the unusual and sensational will find plenty to captivate them: Himmler’s Witch Project, the Hollow Earth Theory, or the so-called World Ice Theory, whose “moons” supposedly flooded Atlantis. These weren’t just legends—some top Nazis genuinely believed in them, no matter how unbelievable they seem today.
The Nazi era has often been described as a rupture in space and time, a period that some authors call “The Absolute Elsewhere.” Over nearly twelve years, one of Europe’s most advanced and industrialized nations descended into a reality that defied contemporary moral, philosophical, and religious norms. Many peculiar and little-known historical facts about Nazi oddities remain absent from mainstream history books.
Occult practices did exist in Nazi Germany, though they were far from widespread. They were largely confined to Himmler and his inner circle, yet as Reichsführer of the SS, he had immense power to integrate esoteric rituals into the training of his elite forces—most famously at Wewelsburg Castle. He also founded the Ahnenerbe, a semi-occult, pseudo-scientific institute that sent expeditions to Tibet and searched for the Holy Grail in southern France. Himmler was even fascinated with medieval witch hunts.
After the war, fantasies, urban legends, and outright fabrications proliferated, particularly from the 1960s onward. Books linking Nazis to the Occult, Satanism, UFOs, or secret treasures sold in droves. Among the opportunistic storytellers were fanatics who used these myths to construct a semi-religious version of Nazism—a framework that still underpins many neo-Nazi movements today. Concepts such as the Black Sun or the Vril force became central to these ideologies.
This book seeks to distinguish historical facts, strange and esoteric as they may be, from postwar inventions and commercial myths. Yet for lovers of mystery and dark secrets, the truth alone is often more incredible than fiction.