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{{Short description|Speculation about Nazism and occultism}}
{{this|occultism in historical Nazism|post-war religious beliefs in Neo-Nazism|Esoteric Neo-Nazism}}
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▲[[File:Black_Sun.svg|220x124px|thumb|right|The "[[Black Sun (symbol)|Black Sun]]" was a symbol used by the [[SS]]. It held esoteric and occult connotations, representing a mystical source of energy or power.]]
The association of [[Nazism]] with [[occultism]] occurs in a wide range of theories, speculation, and research into the origins of Nazism and into Nazism's possible relationship with various occult traditions. Such ideas have flourished as a part of [[popular culture]] since at least the early 1940s (during [[World War II]]), and gained renewed popularity starting in the 1960s.
Historian [[Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke]] analyzed the topic in his 1985 book ''[[The Occult Roots of Nazism]]'', in which he argued there were in fact links between some ideals of [[Ariosophy]] and Nazi [[ideology]]. He also analyzed the problems of the numerous popular occult historiography books written on the topic. Goodrick-Clarke sought to separate [[empiricism]] and [[sociology]] from the modern [[mythology]] of Nazi occultism that exists in many books which "have represented the Nazi phenomenon as the product of arcane and [[demon]]ic influence".<ref> Goodrick-Clarke 1985: 218–225.
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