Hitler’s Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich with Eric Kurlander

My guest today is Dr. Eric Kurlander, the author of Hitler's Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich. Eric is a professor of history at Stetson University and holds a Bachelor's degree from Bowdoin College as well as a Master's degree and Doctorate from Harvard University. An expert on modern Germany, he has published extensively on the Third Reich, including The Price of Exclusion: Ethnicity, National Identity, and the Decline of German Liberalism, 1898-1933 and Living with Hitler: Liberal Democrats in the Third Reich. Eric joined me today to talk about the prevalence of supernatural beliefs and occultist practices in Central Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and how these concepts were adopted by the Nazi regime.

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