The Thule Society to whom Hitler came ?
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The Thule Society was founded by Baron von Sebbetendorf during the First World War. He enlisted 250 members in München and another 1,500 elsewhere in Bavaria. Among the members were journalists, poets, professors, and Army officers. The membership list included political theorist Gottfried Feder, Dietrich Eckart, an elder journalist and poet (a central figure in Hitler's entourage during 1919-1923, and who introduced the phrase Deutschland erwache!), Rudolf Hess, a member of the NSDAP from 1920 on; and Alfred Rosenberg, the woolly-minded Nazi 'philosopher.' The objectives of the society were mainly völkisch, embracing especially the concepts of racial superiority and anti-Semitism. The group supported the Pan-German dream of a new, powerful German Reich. Like other such societies in Bavaria and Germany as a whole, the Thule Geßellschaft used mystical symbols such as the fylfot (swastika, hooked cross) and elborate semi-occultist rituals. Its motto was: "Gedenke, dass Du ein Deutscher bist. Halte dein Blut rein!" ("Remember that you are a German. Keep your blood pure!")
In a book written in 1933 "Bevor Hitler Kam (Before Hitler Came)" Baron von Sebbetendorf claimed that the Thule Society was of great importance to the founding of Hitler's National Socialist movement. He wrote:
"It was Thule people to whom Hitler first came and it was Thule people who first united themselves with Hitler. The armament of the coming Fuhrer consisted, besides the Thule itself, of the German Workers' Society, founded in the Thule Society by brother Karl Harrer and the German-Socialist Party led by Hans Georg Grassinger, whose organ was the Munchener Beobachter, later the Volkische Beobachter. From these three sources Hitler created the National Socialist German Worker's Party."
Sebottendorf may have exaggerated his own significance. Nevertheless, the German Worker's Party, which Hitler joined and later renamed, was founded by Anton Drexler early in 1919 under the chairmanship of Karl Harrer, a member of the Thule. In fact, the German Workers' Party had a number of close links with the Thule society. Hitler also had intimate ties with Thule members. Dietrich Eckart, whom Hitler accepted as his mentor and praised as the original father of the Nazi movement, Alfred Rosenberg, eventually the Nazi party's ideologist, and Rudolf Hess, Hitler's future second-in-command, were all members of the Thule Society. Sebottendorf's Thule Society, with its occult, racist ideas is, regardless of any exaggeration in Sebottendorf's claims, connected to the beginning of Hitler's National Socialism.
Horalius 3 years ago
"The armament", as:1. A body of forces equipped for war; -- used of a land or naval force. "The whole united armament of Greece." --Glover.
Not the actual arms, i.e. weapons, as a modern reader could at first misinterpret the meaning of a 1933 book.
If the reader is wondering about weapons, Hitlers' money, the largest sums from 1929 to 1933, amounted to 32 million USD, (in 1930's US Dollars, worth over 500 million in todays' devalued USD paper currency) came via the Rothschild monopoly banks, physically via the Warburgs, from the Federal Reserve Bank system in America controlled by the Rothschild Group. Yes, the enormous wealth of the U.S.A., stolen in 1913, was used to fund Hitlers' Rise to Power.
An HTML copy of the book about this amount and the transfers of money is here: http://yamaguchy.netfirms.com/vegyes_/sidney.html
Keeping in mind, although Hitler was descended from a Rothschild (1930's official Austrian Government Report), he also had personal reasons for his animosity against ethnic Kazar rulers, and broke from their control system in 1935 with a production of a Rothschild-free currency.