WI: Hitler pulls a L. Ron Hubbard

I'm not sure if this is plausible at all (and compatible with Hitler's personality), but would it have been possible for Adolf Hitler to found his own sect a la Scientology? If yes, what would this sect possibly look like?
 
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I'm not sure if this is plausible at all (and compatible with Hitler's personality), but would it have been possible for Adolf Hitler to found his own sect a la Scientology? If yes, what would this sect possibly look like?


Leaving aside questions like "wasn't his cult of personality a sect" or "isn't comparing the SAC* to Nazism a breach of Godwin's", I think Hitler promoting the virtues of and recruiting for the Thule society, or a variant thereof, could be a bit like Scientology-goes-to-hell-on-mescaline.

The Reich's enemies would say Germany under an LRH-style** Hitler had adopted satanism as its official religion.

Things get very interesting in the socio-political history of the world since '45 and the defeat of Inherently-Evil-Pseudo-Religious-Nazism.


*For some reason popular blogger and Hubbard-hater Andrew Sullivan compare Scientologists to characters in South Parks child-molesting safari hunting cabal, the Super Adventure Club, and not the 'Trapped in the Closet' episode.

**"Here's to you L[.] R[on] H[ubbard]," said the miniature film star in the popular viral video, whilst saluting a dead man on a giant video screen.
 
Well, basically my idea was Hitler become founder of the nicetanoyawhateverology sect/cult/religion instead of Führer of the Third Reich... ;)

In that case I would consider it be like several other cults that did develop in the 1920s and 1930s - such things usually happen during periods of socio-economic instability and hardship. One could probably see Hitler's cult as calling for the 'return to the path of Odin' or something like that. A lot of Teutonic themes, probably borrowing a lot from Wagner and Scandinavian mythology.
 
In that case I would consider it be like several other cults that did develop in the 1920s and 1930s - such things usually happen during periods of socio-economic instability and hardship. One could probably see Hitler's cult as calling for the 'return to the path of Odin' or something like that. A lot of Teutonic themes, probably borrowing a lot from Wagner and Scandinavian mythology.

The Ghost Dance movement, the last major Native American uprising of the 19th century, pretty much follows that same pattern: a people experiencing cultural and socioeconomic decline decide that returning to their roots is the way to restore their fortunes. A Confucian revival after the collapse of the Qing Dynasty was rooted in similar circumstances.

The question is, whether or not the Hitler religious mission follows the same trajectory as Hitler's political mission in OTL: does Hitler achieve secular power (de facto or de jure) as a result of his self-appointed status as prophet? Does Hitler expressly call for the elimination of all non-Aryan peoples, or does he publicly denounce attacks on Jews and others as 'the work of a few rogue elements' as a PR move while behind the scenes encouraging their activites?
 
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Didin't Germany under Hitler develop some... unusual mysticisms? Like the one where if you're bombed, the part of the wall still left standing would be the one with Hitler's painting on?

Possibly this, but in the war period : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esoteric_Nazism. It comes complete with its own emblem!

The Tempelhofgesellschaft (makes me think of the safe word in Eurotrip)

The older Tempelhofgesellschaft (THG) was build in the 80s by a few members of the nazi "Erbengemeinschaft der Tempelritter". The leader of this group is a old police man which is living in Germany / Homburg. The younger Tempelhofgesellschaft was founded in Vienna in the early 1990s by Norbert Jurgen-Ratthofer and Ralft Ettl to teach a form of Gnostic religion called Marcionism. This one was a part of the main THG / Homburg. The group identifies an "evil creator of this world," the Demiurge with Jehovah, the God of Judaism. They distribute pamphlets claiming that the Aryan race originally came to Atlantis from the star Aldebaran (this information is supposedly based on "ancient Sumerian manuscripts"). They maintain that the Aryans from Aldebaran derive their power from the vril energy of the Black Sun. They teach that since the Aryan race is of extraterrestrial origin, it has a divine mission to dominate all the other races.

That sounds comparable to Scientology.
 
I would imagine he would end up being one of the more memorable right-wing mystics that were sprouting up a lot in the 1900-1920s like mushrooms in a springtime rain. Maybe competing for a place in history against the likes of Alfred Rosenberg.
 
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