Nazi mysticism: Encyclopedia II - Nazi mysticism - In fiction

Nazi mysticism - In fiction

Nazi occult-hunters have been featured in the Indiana Jones films.

Occult-obsessed Nazis have long been a staple of superhero comic books:

• In the 1980s, DC Comics writer Roy Thomas invented a retcon to explain why Superman, the Spectre, and the Justice Society of America had been unable to defeat the Nazis: Hitler possessed the Spear of Destiny (Spear of Longinus) which gave him magical control over any superheroes who ventured into his territory.
• The Hellboy comic books and movie also portray the Nazis and the Thule Society as powerful occult figures; in that universe, Hitler lived until 1958 and waged a “secret war” from South America after the collapse of the Third Reich.
• David Brin’s short story “Thor Meets Captain America” and graphic novel The Life Eaters center on this theme, as well.
• The Danger Girl comic book features as its villains a modern-day Nazi group called 'The Hammer', which intends to use occult artifacts from Atlantis to establish a Fourth Reich.

The computer game Wolfenstein 3D and its sequel, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, featured plotlines involving Nazi obsession with the occult.

The video game BloodRayne involves a plotline concerning the Thule society and its members, and features a lot of in-game Thule society imagery.

Katherine Kurtz’s novel Lammas Night presents Nazis as powerful magicians who must be opposed by British witches.

The villians of Clive Cussler's novel Atlantis Found are modern Nazis who operate out of a secret base in Antartica who are linked to the ancient culture of Atlantis.

The Thule Society (including some of their most known members) plays an important role in the Fullmetal Alchemist movie.

The Island of Thule is an important location in the Silver Age Sentinels superhero role playing game and collections of short stories based upon the game. It was raised from the Atlantic Ocean by Kreuzritter (“Crusader”), a Nazi superhuman who wears a mystical suit of armor made by a long-disappeared Aryan culture.

The manga series Hellsing features the Millennium, a reich of the Nazis which was to have survived for a thousand years. This organization is heavily mystical, including among its number those who are Werwolf and a battalion of vampires known as the Letzte (“Last”) Battalion. The stated objective of Millennium is the pursuit of absolute war. It is led by a former SS officer.

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