A review by fyodoralekseyev
Hitler and the Occult by Ken Anderson

informative fast-paced

3.25

This is a strange book. It is more of a metanalysis of what other authors have to say about the subject than any original ideas. Many authors/ideas are brought up for a sentence and then never mentioned again: the one which sticks in my mind being, during a chapter about Hitler's Viennese days, the quotation of some random author who says that opera is inherently homosexual, and interlaced with the culture. This idea is not touched on after the sentence. I can confirm that opera is not inherently homosexual.

Anderson spends most of the book debunking another book, "The Spear of Destiny", by Terry Ravenscroft, who I have not read but from the snippets provided seems highly untrustworthy. The second half is mostly about astrology and how many dates happened to line up with astrological things. I don't know anything about astrology so I cannot confirm whether these analyses are accurate.

I probably wouldn't read this book.