Category File
Nazi Occultism
2 documented theories filed under this subject.
- The Vril SocietyVril was invented by Edward Bulwer-Lytton for his 1871 novel The Coming Race. The society said to have pursued it in early twentieth-century Germany — psychic contact with Aldebaran, female mediums, subterranean beings, antigravity discs built for the Nazis — was assembled out of that fiction by later occult and conspiracy writing.
- The UFO and the Antarctica ConnectionA postwar theory holding that flying saucers operated from a hidden Antarctic base — Nazi-built, alien-inherited, or reached through an opening beneath the South Pole. Each anchor is real: a secret German expedition in 1939, two U-boats surrendering in Argentina in 1945, a 4,700-man American fleet in 1946, three classified nuclear detonations in 1958. The expedition was looking for somewhere to render whale oil, the submarines could not have reached the ice, and the famous Byrd quotation about craft flying pole to pole is a mistranslation of an interview in which he was warning about bombers.
- Base 211: The Nazi Antarctic BaseBase 211 is an alleged secret German base said to have been built under the Antarctic ice in Queen Maud Land during World War II. The theory grew out of Germany's real 1938-39 expedition to the region it named Neuschwabenland, the surrender of U-boats U-530 and U-977 in Argentina months after the war ended, and the US Navy's 1946-47 Operation Highjump. A 2007 study in Polar Record examined the underlying records and concluded no base was built; the claims continue to circulate.
- The Nazis Kicking Out Freemasons and the Occult from GermanyThis theory focuses on the Nazi regime’s campaign to purge Germany of independent esoteric, occult, and fraternal networks—especially Freemasons, astrologers, occultists, spiritualists, and related secretive circles. In conspiratorial interpretations, the purge was not simply ideological housekeeping, but a struggle for control over hidden knowledge, symbolic power, and underground influence. Some versions argue the Nazis wanted to destroy rival secret societies and occult authorities so that only state-controlled mysticism, racial mythology, and regime-approved esotericism would remain.