Nazis: the occult conspiracy

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1. Bookmarked for future reference

It's a lot of material, but all very, very interesting.

Thanks!

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2. The first video is a bit uneven and contains, with useful info, some woo here and there

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4. I'll keep that in mind

skeptic that I am...

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5. It mainly appears now and then in the second half during discussions of nazis and astrology,

at which point some current astrology bigwig (President of the British Society of Astrologers or some such) appears intermittently on screen while the narrator with great gravitas tells us about how nazi astrologers' predictions came true

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3. That's what I'm doing.

I'll watch them when the History Channel's showing infomercials.

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6. I saw that documentary where

the Nazis dug up the Lost Ark.
I think it ended up in a warehouse in the desert.

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7. Yeah, I think I saw that too, mebbe twenty-five years ago. None of these is quite

that entertaining

The first video mainly discusses Himmler's bizarre occult beliefs, including the commissioning of Otto Rahn to seek the holy grail

The second considers the Chiemsee cauldron found about a decade ago by a lake bottom diver: it's twenty-some pounds of 20th century gold pounded into a forgery of an ancient Celtic urn and seems to have been commissioned for the Nazis

The third considers the so-called Vinland map, that appeared after WWII, and makes the case that the map is a 20th century forgery, likely constructed from pages lifted out of ancient manuscripts Enzo Ferrajoli (an Italian fascist who fought against the Republican side in the Spanish civil war) stole from the Cathedral Library in Zaragoza: the connection to the Nazis here is less clear, though it has sometimes been the subject of some speculation