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?
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?
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?
Himmler, and other Nazi leaders, attempted to.
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.
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 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.
The Tempelhofgesellschaft (makes me think of the safe word in Eurotrip)
That sounds comparable to Scientology.