Hitler’s Ghostwriter: The Life and Doctrine of Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels.

di Arthur Vance Sterling (Autore)

Arthur Vance Sterling Publishing, 2025

Do we truly understand the source code of history's greatest horror? For decades, the narrative of the Third Reich has focused almost entirely on one man: Adolf Hitler. But what if the toxic, pseudo-religious engine that powered Nazism—the twisted theology of racial superiority, the obsession with eugenics, and the very concept of the Führer—was not Hitler's original design? What if the architect of that ideological blueprint was a disgraced, fanatical Cistercian monk weaving a lunatic doctrine of race war years before Hitler entered politics? Arthur Vance Sterling's groundbreaking work, "Hitler's Ghostwriter: The Life and Doctrine of Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels," rips away the conventional narrative to reveal this forgotten prophet of hate, whose esoteric racism formed the essential pre-packaged mythos the Nazi Party adopted wholesale. Sterling takes you deep into the heart of fin-de-siècle Vienna, a cauldron of cultural brilliance and corrosive anti-Semitism, where Lanz established the Ordo Novi Templi (Order of the New Templars) at a crumbling Danube castle. Here, he fused Gnosticism, Theosophy, and vile sexualized eugenics into his doctrine of Ariosophy. This book is not speculation; it is a meticulously researched historical excavation, charting the specific connections between Lanz's obscure magazine, Ostara, and the young, struggling Hitler who was an eager reader and admirer. You will see, chapter by chilling chapter, how Lanz's theoretical call for the extermination of the "Tschandalas" became the chilling organizational principle of the Holocaust. "Hitler's Ghostwriter" is a mandatory read for anyone seeking to understand the deep, ideological roots of modern political extremism. It moves past simple biography to expose the terrifying mechanism by which arcane, crackpot theories can be weaponized into genocide. Discover how Lanz co-opted the swastika, laid out the racial prerequisites for the state, and established the cult of the Aryan leader—concepts that key Nazi figures like Heinrich Himmler and Rudolf Hess would later operationalize. This is the missing link in Holocaust studies, the uncomfortable truth about the ideological inheritance of the Third Reich that has been hidden in plain sight. Prepare to have your established perspectives shattered. Sterling forces us to confront the reality that the monstrosity of Nazism was not sui generis, but was instead the culmination of a well-documented, meticulously constructed religious and racial psychosis conceived by an obscure monk. This book is a dark journey into the origins of pure ideological evil, offering unparalleled insight into how the most grotesque ideas are incubated, disseminated, and finally executed. If we choose to ignore the full history of hate, are we truly capable of defeating it?

• Autore: Arthur Vance Sterling
• Anno edizione: 2025
• Editore: Arthur Vance Sterling Publishing
• Formato: EPUB3 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798232496456