Unholy Alliance
by Peter Levenda

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Book Review: Pulp research...
Summary: 2 Stars

Levenda often juxtaposed Hitler with individuals involved in the early German/English occult movements of the 19th and 20th century without EVER clearly providing documented proof of their ACTUAL influence on Hitler as an individual or even as a hidden shadow policy behind the Nazis as a political force. If anything, those occultists close to Hitler often came to a bad end. Hanussen for example.

Are we to believe that Levenda could actually guess what Hitler was motivated by and thinking about in 1939 without this documentation? Lets not even mention all the secondary sources that were used to formulate many of his assertions.

I was so unimpressed with Levenda's approach in fact, that I found myself questioning even the smallest of his assertions from complete lack of trust in the author's bias. He seems to have gone into the research already knowing the answer, and after all that's not research, that's thesis padding. This book might as well have been written by Charles Berlitz for all its credibility.

Lots of smoke, very little fire. I think it would have been a much more satisfying book without all the conjecturing that was rampant throughout and in that case may have ended as a very short book.

Read it anyway though, since it does have some interesting tidbits, just don't take it as the definitive book on Nazi occultism since he draws very few empiric connections between the two camps beyond anecdotal similarities...

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