Levenda - Unholy Alliance: A History of Nazi Involvement with the Occult

The Historical Roots of Nazism Trilogy

PETER LEVENDA

Unholy Alliance

A History of Nazi Involvement with the Occult

(This Book)

Ratline

Soviet Spies, Nazi Priests and the Disappearance of Adolf Hitler

The Hitler Legacy

The Nazi Cult in Diaspora:

How it was Organized, How it was Funded, and
Why it Remains a Threat to Global Security in the Age of Terrorism

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Copyright 1995, 2002, 2019 by Peter Levenda

Foreword 2002 by Norman Mailer

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ISBN: 978-0-89254-190-4

Ebook: 978-0-89254-680-0

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Levenda, Peter, author.

Title: Unholy alliance : a history of Nazi involvement with the occult /
Peter Levenda ; with a foreword by Norman Mailer.

Description: New and Expanded Third Edition. | Lake Worth, FL : Ibis Press,
an imprint of Nicolas Hays, Inc., 2019. | Includes bibliographical
references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019021063 (print) | LCCN 2019022291 (ebook) | ISBN
9780892541904 (hc : alk. paper)

Subjects: LCSH: National socialism and occultism. |
Occultism--Germany--History. | Germany--Politics and
government--1933-1945. | Mythology, Germanic. | Secret
societies--Germany.

Classification: LCC DD256.5 .L49 2019 (print) | LCC DD256.5 (ebook) | DDC
133.0943/09043--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019021063

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To Rose and Vivica (Alex)
in lieu of the Citadel

W hen I first published Unholy Alliance in 1995, it was part of a much larger project (at least, in my mind). It had originally been conceived as a single chapter of a proposed volume on spiritual influences in history called Sinister Forces. As it happened, both Unholy Alliance and Sinister Forces were runaway trains and took off to stations unknown and unsuspected when I started them.

Now, twenty-four years later, what began as an inquiry into the degree to which religious and spiritual ideas and practices influence the lives of those who may not share those ideas or practices has turned into more than a dozen books on subjects ranging from alchemy and magic to doing business in China, religion, Freemasonry, Kabbalah, andof coursethe Nazis. I was even tapped to collaborate on a three-volume exploration of the UFO Phenomenon by Tom DeLonge, but that's another story.

In the years since the first edition of Unholy Alliance was published the world has gone through a lot of changes, but the more things changeas they saythe more they stay the same. The pernicious philosophy of Nazism is still with us, now more than at any time since the end of World War II. As I went on a global snipe hunt ten years ago for evidence that Adolf Hitler survived the war, what I discovered instead was incontrovertible evidence that the Nazi Party apparatus had indeed survived, and thrived, in spots as far away from Bavaria as Batavia (the present-day Jakarta). I wandered through a cemetery in Surabaya, looking for the remains of a man the locals believe is Hitler. I spent months in Singapore analyzing what I could of a dead Nazi's written record of his escape to Asia and of the friends he maintained while he lived in exile. And all the while I was doing that, the world around me became more and more violent, more and more angry, and more and more intolerant. I may not have found the corpse of Adolf Hitler, but I did find his ghost.

Unholy Alliance is the first volume of three that I have written so far on the Nazis, the other two being Ratline and The Hitler Legacy. There is much in these volumes you will not find anywhere else, at least not in English. Ratline describes my search for Hitler's proposed escape route to Southeast Asia and uncovers a very real Nazi and his wife who lived on a remote tropical island east of Java. The Hitler Legacy follows that up with the discovery of the Nazi's address book and includes, as an appendix, what seems to be Luftwaffe pilot and ODESSA personality Hans Ulrich Rudel's address book, complete with every address and phone number of his contacts throughout the world including the United States. Little did I realize it at the time, but these three volumes have a lot to say about what is taking place around the world as this third edition is being published. I'm not pleased by that, or proud, or even smug. I thought I was writing history, but it turned out I was writing current events.

Nevertheless, as I look back on these and the rest of my published work so far I can claim that I stand by every word. Where I speculated, I identified it as such. Otherwise, everything is based on documents and interviews, many of them published and available to anyone to cross-check. You may not agree with my conclusions (when I draw them) but at least I've given you a lot to work with!

My thanks go to Ibis Press for kindly agreeing to put this work back into circulation so quickly. My thanks also go to people from many countries who have contributed comments, additional information, and analysis and who wish to remain unidentified. I was contacted by several individuals with personal knowledge of some of the events in this book as well as in Ratline and The Hitler Legacy, all of whom have confirmed my data and supported my conclusions, for which I am forever grateful. Also, because of the world in which we now live, family and friends also wish to remain anonymous. Their names, however, are written in the Book of Life.

PETER LEVENDA
2019

U nholy Alliance is a stimulating book to read for anyone interested in Nazism, magic, the penetralia of history, the cults of the occult, and the present agonizing anxiety of our lives. It is as if something larger than our educations, our sense of good and evil, our lives themselves, seems to be constricting our existence, and this anxiety illumines Unholy Alliance like a night-light in some recess of the wall down a very long corridor.

If magic is composed of a good many of those out-of-category forces that press against established religions, so magic can also be seen, in relation to technology at least, as the dark side of the moon. If a Creator exists in company with an opposite Presence (to be called Satan, for short), there is also the most lively possibility of a variety of major and minor angels, devils and demons, good spirits and evil, working away more or less invisibly in our lives.