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show that it is to some extent a favored practice of the church on images of its saints
and so forth to illustrate the defeat of adversaries by [having them] step on them.
The referenced essay also mentioned that there are depictions of the serpent's head, as
the symbol of original sin, being stepped on [by the saints].
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These depictions are quite uncommonly prevalent. It is always Mary who treads on
original sin.
Now these pictures appear to me particularly interesting because the serpent refers to
an ancient symbol of Germanic belief. At the Battle of Hastings the flag of the Saxons
shows a golden serpent on a blue field ...
The Mary Statue at Paderborn was erected in the middle of the past century in the
courtyard of the former Jesuit College. As professor Alois Fuchs related several times
before in lectures concerning the Paderborn art monuments, the artist that created the
Mary Statue must have been a Protestant. This is for me completely proven because the
face in the moon-sickle in every case represents Luther.
It is well known that Rome and Judah, preferring thus to take advantage of their own
victims, created victory monuments for them. (36)
As Levenda notes, these motifs are common in the volkisch underpinnings of Nazism,
with the serpent, thought of as an archetype of evil in Christianity, considered sacred by
the Aryans. In addition, '"Rome and Judah" shamelessly exploited the suffering of their
own people by depicting them as heroes or as vanquishers of evil through their agonies
(thus reinforcing weak, non-Aryan suicidal tendencies among the oppressed populations
of Europe).' (37)
As we have noted, the Ahnenerbe received its official status within the SS in 1940, and
while other occult-oriented groups such as the Freemasons, the Theosophists and the
Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn were being suppressed, the Ahnenerbe was given
free rein to pursue its own line of mystical and occult enquiry, with the express purpose
of proving the historical validity of Nazi paganism. Its more than 50 sections covered
every aspect of occultism and paganism, including Celtic studies, the rituals surrounding
the Exsternsteine monument, Scandinavian mythology, runic symbolism, the World Ice
Theory of Hans Horbiger (which will be discussed in Chapter Seven), and an
archaeological research group that attempted to prove the geographical ubiquity of the
ancient Aryan civilisation. In addition, at the door of the Ahnenerbe must lie the
ineradicable iniquity of the medical experiments conducted at Dachau and other
concentration camps, since it was this organisation that commissioned the unbelievably
hideous programme of 'scientific research' on living human subjects.
The mental ambiguity of Heinrich Himmler - rational, obedient and totally desirous of
security on the one hand; immersed in the spurious fantasy of Aryan destiny on the
other - was demonstrated most powerfully in the final phase of the Nazi regime, when it
became obvious that Germany would lose the war and the 'Thousand-year Reich' would
become dust. From 1943 onward, Himmler maintained loose contacts with the
Resistance Movement in Germany, and in the spring of 1945 he entered into secret
negotiations with the World Jewish Congress. (By September 1944 he had already given
orders for the murder of Jews to be halted, in order to offer a more 'presentable' face to
the Allies, an order that was not followed). (38)
Himmler's actions at this time indicate what Fest calls 'an almost incredible divorce from
reality', one example being his suggestion to a representative of the World Jewish
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Congress that 'it is time you Jews and we National Socialists buried the hatchet'. (39) He
even assumed, in all seriousness, that he might lead a post-war Germany in an alliance
with the West against the Soviet Union. When the reality of the Third Reich's defeat
finally overwhelmed his fantasies and sent them to oblivion, and the idea of disguise and
escape finally presented itself to him, Himmler adopted perhaps the worst false identity
he could have chosen: the uniform of a sergeant-major of the Secret Military Police, a
division of the Gestapo. Such was his 'divorce from reality', even then, that it did not
occur to him that any Gestapo member would be arrested on sight by the Allies. This
indeed occurred on 21 May 1945.
Like their master, many SS men took their own lives in 1945, appalled less at Himmler's
betrayal of Hitler through his attempts to negotiate with the Allies than at his betrayal
of the SS itself and of the ideals that had given meaning (at least to them) to the
destruction they had wrought upon their six million victims. The collapse of this SS ideal
'left only a senseless, filthy, barbaric murder industry, for which there could be no
defence'. (40)
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7 - The secret at the heart of the world
Nazi Cosmology and Belief in the Hollow Earth
For readers encountering the field of Nazi Occultism (and its unholy spawn,
contemporary belief in genuine Nazi occult power) for the first time, the Hollow Earth
Theory may well prompt a sigh of exasperation. We have already examined a number of
esoteric concepts that may be more or less unpalatable to the modern mind; the realm
we are about to enter, however, may be considered both the most ridiculous and the
most sinister yet, since it constitutes both a synthesis and a further development of the
strange ideas promulgated by the volkisch occultists and, later, by the philosophers and
pseudo-scientists of the Third Reich. As we shall see in this chapter, the concept of the
hollow Earth -and the related notion of vast, inhabited caverns within a solid Earth -
have come to occupy a central position in the fields of ufology, conspiracy theory, fringe
science and Nazi-survival theories. Indeed, the relevance of these subjects to the belief
systems that define late-twentieth-century popular occultism may come as a surprise to
many readers.
The Provenance of the Hollow Earth Theory
Of all the strange and irrational beliefs held by the Nazis, the most bizarre is surely the
idea that our planet is not a sphere floating in the emptiness of space, but rather is a
hollow bubble, with everything - people, buildings, continents, oceans and even other
planets and stars - existing on the inside. The origin of this curious notion, which would
be developed and accepted in the twentieth century by people such as Peter Bender, Dr
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