The obscure mysticism of Steve Bannon

Article by Gavin Haynes, published in UnHerd

Lloyd George famously pronounced Hitler a reasonable man with reasonable aims. But had he spoken to him recently about how the Fuhrer used a dowser to scour the Reich Chancellery for “cancerous death rays”, or for that matter to Goebbels about Nostradamus?

The French soothsayer was Goebbels’ favourite nightstand reading. For his part, Himmler employed his own private sage, a tufty geriatric called Wiligut, who would provide him with stories of a time when “giants, dwarves and mythical beasts moved about beneath a sky filled with three sun”’. Hitler and Himmler would often lapse into heated conversation about “the World Empire of Atlantis, which fell victim to the catastrophe of the moons falling to Earth”. 

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