Not so long ago, we talked about the mystical side of the life of the leader of the USSR, Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin. But various kinds of occult and paranormal stories are also associated with the lives of other significant politicians of the 20th century, both Russian and foreign.
Deal with the devil and the consequences of reincarnation
The real champion of this kind of stories, perhaps, became the leader of the German Nazis, Adolf Hitler. I must say that for some reason they always wrote and write more about Nazi occultism than about Bolshevik occultism. But here, and there, a similar mixture of real facts with fantastic and unsubstantiated conjectures is noted. The story about the deal with the devil, which Hitler allegedly made in the early 30s, was especially popular in the press. The situation here was outlined traditionally: it seems that the prince of darkness bestowed political power on the Fuhrer for 13 years, and then he had to take his soul. Perhaps this fable is especially tenacious due to the fact that both figures in it seem to be of equal size: the very personality of the leader of the German Nazis, in essence, is demonic. But the matter is by no means limited to such fables.
The book “The Spear of Destiny” by Trevor Ravenscroft, a writer close to the Freemasons, has become especially famous in wide readership circles, translated into Russian. In it, Ravenscroft views Hitler as the reincarnation of Landolph Kapuansky, better known as Klingsor, one of the heroes of Wolfram von Eschenbach's medieval novel Parsifal. The writer claims that the Nazi leader passionately wanted to find a trace of his previous incarnations and saw in this novel about the Grail some kind of prophetic prediction of events that occur a thousand years later. The Fuehrer allegedly believed that all the characters of the 9th century were embodied in other physical bodies in the 20th century.
I must say that Ravenscroft paints something even stranger in his work. He tells how a certain hereditary village clairvoyant, Hans Lodz, prepared a special herbal infusion for Hitler, with which he carried out his first transcendental experience. And all would be fine, but for some reason this infusion contained the roots of the peyote cactus. Have mercy, where does such exotic come from in the German countryside of the early 20th century! It seems that Ravenscroft paid tribute to the fashion for Carlos Castaneda, and by no means the search for truth.
Gargoyle House
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Of course, it is hardly possible to check whether such stories are real, but in the stream of mind-blowing tales of the occult, no, no, and something more reliable will flicker. Ulrich von Krantz, an Argentine of German descent, quotes in one of his books an excerpt from a letter from Hitler dated 1938. The Fuehrer wrote in illegible handwriting about his childhood literally the following: “I never loved this house. Big and heavy - inside and out - he always put pressure on me and made me feel deep remorse and guilt for something incomprehensible. Several times I experienced the deepest attacks of terror, during which I wanted to run away from there. It seemed to me that every hour someone was watching my every step … From the corner of my room, I clearly saw the half-beaten paw of a stone gargoyle,hanging down from the ridge of the roof and as if trying to grab me when I went to bed. As a child, it scared me very much, and I must admit that even now I feel uncomfortable when I remember her."
The thing is that in Braunau. Hitler's hometown, there is a house in which, as you know, the future Fuhrer lived in childhood. But this house has never been decorated with a gargoyle. Von Krantz conducted a targeted search with one of his fellow writers. They managed to find out that the house with the gargoyle had really existed on the outskirts of Braunau for a very long time and at the same time always enjoyed a bad reputation. During the war years, the house was guarded by the SS department, and in 1946 one of the neighbors set fire to it. The ruins of the building are still being guarded. Around there is a fence with video cameras, and at night a huge dog runs around the territory, which hides in no one knows where during the day.
City of mediums
I must say that Braunau am Inn is a special city. At first glance, it is just a small tourist center with a population of about ten thousand people, famous for its medieval ruins and old houses. But for people dedicated to Braunau it is an amazing place, a real capital of the occult, a nursery for mediums. Frau Mokhammes, who in 1920 in Vienna married a relative of Kaiser Wilhelm II, was especially famous among the spiritualists from this town. Regarding this misalliance, despite the beauty of the bride and the free-thinking of that era, it was said that the matter was not without witchcraft.
It was from Braunau that Baron Schrenck-Notzing, the famous parapsychologist, brought himself the best partners, among whom was Hitler's cousin.
It is known that the future Fuhrer was nursed by the same nurse as Willie Schneider, a famous medium who traveled around the world with his brother Rudy. The aforementioned Schrenk-Notzing watched the brothers for several years, but was never able to convict Willie and Rudy of fraud. There was no rational explanation for their abilities. Or the baron was looking for him badly.
Thule: perfume or intelligence?
Adolf Hitler was allegedly also a medium. According to one version, his rise began with the fact that the corporal, endowed with unusual abilities, was noticed by people from the secret society "Thule". Hitler began to entertain the aristocrats and ministers of the muses, who were keen on occult historical research, with his sessions of communication with the spirits of Hyperborean ancestors, and they helped him realize himself as a novice, but promising politician, giving rise to the NSDAP. However, in many ways this is just a myth.
Andrei Vasilchenko, now a leading Russian specialist in the field of national occultism, dedicated the first separate book in Russian historiography to the Tula Society. True, Vasilchenko generally prefers not to mention any occult studies of society, referring this subject to the field of rumors and gossip. However, as a branch of the Germanen Order, the Thule society really studied Edda (the main work of German-Scandinavian mythology) and Germanic mythology in general, and the head of the society, Rudolf von Sebotten-dorf, was fond of astrology. “Thule” was interested in the theosophy, which was fashionable at that time, but, unlike the “Germanen of the Order” itself, it was hardly engaged in Ariosophy, a racist science created by Guido von List and Lanz von Liebenfels.
At the same time, people from "Tula" paid tribute not only to theory, but also to practice, real politics. The society in Munich had its own militant group, one of the main tasks of which was the fight against communist influence. The group had its own intelligence unit, which included Corporal Hitler. This unit, in particular, was engaged in collecting information about the political parties operating in Munich, that is, Hitler, within its framework, could do the same thing that at that time was doing in the Reichswehr (German armed forces). Communication with otherworldly forces in this case, as they say, was of no interest to Hitler.
Conversations that never happened
Authors writing about national occultism highly value the book of Hermann Rauschning “Conversations with Hitler. A beast from the abyss. " Especially often they quote this passage: “Hitler woke up in the middle of the night, emitting terrible screams. He called for help. He reclined on the bed and seemed paralyzed, from time to time he began to tremble with horror, which was so strong that the bed itself began to tremble with him … Another time Hitler stood in the middle of the bedroom and turned around in fear. “This is Him, this is Him! He came here!”- groaned Hitler. His lips were blue and sweat dripped down in large drops. Suddenly he began to pronounce some strange words, incomprehensible sound combinations, suddenly he began to shout: “There… In the corner… Who is this? Who is it?". He kicked the floor and howled wildly … ". However, Vasilchenko here does not leave a stone unturned from the terrible stories. Hermann Rauschning lived for many years in the free city of Danzig (Gdansk), was the president of the Senate there, from where he moved to Poland, and then to Switzerland, Great Britain and the USA. Visiting various kinds of party events of the NSDAP, he saw the Fuehrer live only four times. As for long and confidential conversations, there is no question of such. Rauschning was advised to write a book about Hitler by journalist Emery Reves, close to Winston Churchill. The book was so successful that Rauschning was granted British citizenship in 1940. At the same time, the British began to use excerpts from it in radio broadcasts that were broadcast on the territories occupied by the Nazis. It turned out something like Kukryniksy in English - with a sharp occult flavor. Already after the end of the war, Rauschning came under fire and, finally, in the fall of 1951, declared,that his book was not written in the wake of his conversations with Hitler, but, "of course," became "a reconstruction that was undertaken on the basis of various materials, including genuine ones." I guess comments are superfluous here.
Andrey Chinaev