Nazi Occultism: Documented and Invented

A small Berlin vril group did exist, publishing Vril: Die kosmische Urkraft in 1930; Pauwels and Bergier's Le Matin des magiciens (1960) inflated it into a key Nazi order.

Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, Black Sun (2002), on Willy Ley's 'Pseudoscience in Naziland' (1947), the 1930 Vril brochure and Pauwels and Bergier (1960); Bulwer-Lytton, The Coming Race (1871).

Documented völkisch occultism around early Nazism, beside the post-war myth of secret Nazi orders.

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Primary source

Willy Ley, Pseudoscience in Naziland, Astounding Science Fiction 39.3 (May 1947), 1947, article begins p. 90Ley's report of a Berlin 'Society for Truth' that sought vril on the strength of Bulwer-Lytton's novel.
next group was literally founded
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The Coming Race, 1871, chapter on Zee's account of the vrilVril as the all-pervading force of the subterranean Vril-ya in the 1871 novel.
exact synonym for vril. I should call it electricity, except that it

Scholarship

Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of Identity, 2002A small Berlin vril group around Wilhelm Becker existed and published in 1930; Ley recorded it; Pauwels and Bergier inflated it into the Vril Society, an important Nazi organisation.
brochure Vril: Die kosmische Urkraft (1930), which described the Atlanteans
Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, The Occult Roots of Nazism, 1985List's Armanen priest-kings and his reading of the runes as the occult doctrine of a rediscovered Wotanism.
was the intellectual estate, a body of priest-kings, that formed the basis