New religions and the Nazis / Karla Poewe.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-212) and index.

1 Introduction -- General Remarks -- Looking for Examples of a New Beginning (Anfang) -- National Socialism -- Controversies -- Youths Against Weimar -- Clash of Cultures and Faith-Worlds -- The 'Other' as Tool to attack the 'Own' -- Anti-Semitism -- Method -- Organization -- 2 An Overview -- Introduction -- Hauer in the existing Literature -- Hauer's life according to Junginger, Cancik, Rennstich and Hauer himself -- Developing a German Faith -- Hauer's Deceit -- Conclusion -- 3 Hauer and the Bünde: becoming a National Socialist -- Popular Politics and the Bünde Environment -- Hauer and Bünde Attitude (Haltung) -- The Volunteer Corps (Freischar) -- Toward National Socialism and New Religion -- Choosing Whom And When To Tell -- 4 The Push toward Nazism: Youths and Leaders -- Introduction -- The Hauer - Mande Correspondence -- Conclusion -- 5 Hauer's View of Religion -- Introduction -- Influence of India and Loss of Christian Authority -- Junginger's and Dierks' views of Hauer's Approach to Religion -- German Faith (Deutscher Glaube) -- German Faith in Hauer's Journal -- How German is Hauer's Faith? -- 6 The Germanic-deutsch Leg of Hauer's German Faith -- Klages, Biocentrism and the Pre-Modern -- The German Beholder -- Hauer's Nazi Book -- 7 Organizational Help from Wehrwolf. and the SS -- Groups and Numbers -- Help from Wehrwolf -- SS Help in Stuttgart -- Women -- Intellectuals, Writers, and Media -- 8 Hauer and the War of Attrition against Christianity -- Introduction -- Grabert, Hauer, and the Deutsche Christen -- Members -- Conclusion -- 9 Werner Best: Hauer's Reciever in the SS -- Best and the War Youth Generation -- The Free Religious -- Usefulness of the Free Religious for the Fight against Catholicism -- Hauer on Jews and Zionism -- Conclusion -- 10 The Faith of the Nationalists: Narrative and the Third Reich -- Introduction -- The Writers -- Development of the New Faith: Not Christ but the Third Reich -- Hitler and Goebbels as Writers -- Conclusion -- 11 Scientific Neo-Paganism and the Extreme Right Then and Today -- Introduction -- Mohler and Links to the New Right -- Mathilde Ludendorff (1877-1966) -- The Bund für Gotterkenntnis (Mathilde Ludendorff) -- Translated excerpts from Mathilde Ludendorff's book -- Some of Ludendorff's "Basic Findings" -- (a) The meaning of Human Life -- (b) The meaning of Todesmuss, or the Necessity of Death -- Sigrid Hunke (1913 - 1999) -- Deutsche Unitarier: Their Self-portrayal -- The Thought of Sigrid Hunke -- Conclusion -- 12 Conclusion