The Thule Society and the Dark Origins of Nazism: Munich's Occult Incubator
In the chaotic winter of 1918, amid the smoldering ruins of the German Empire and the street warfare of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republic, an ominous clandestine salon convened inside Munich’s upscale Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten. Calling itself the Thule-Gesellschaft (Thule Society), this secret order presented itself as a literary-historical group studying Germanic antiquity. Beneath this aristocratic veneer, however, lay a radical incubator of Ariosophic occultism , hyper-nationalist fervor, and violent anti-Semitism that directly midwifed the birth of the Nazi Party. +---------------------------------------------------------+ | THE THULE SOCIETY (1918) | | Founded by Rudolf von Sebottendorff (Munich) | +----------------------------+----------------------------+ | Blended +-----------------------+-----------------------+ v ...