Discussion

Concerning Hitler and the occult, a most interesting article,

• Poltergeist over Europe,' appeared in the Guardian for July 25, 1941.
  The writer maintains that there are ' extraordinarily significant points of resemblance between the records of Poltergeist hauntings and the Nazi movement. Both are manifested in a subconscious uprush of desire for power ... both suck, like vampires, the energies of adolescents; both issue in noise, destruction, fire and terror.... Hitler speaks best in a state of semi-trance. ...
  Whether the uprush of subconscious energy generated through him and sucking into itself the psycho-physical forces of German youth is merely the outcome of an unformulated group-desire for power, or whether, like some of the Poltergeist hauntings, it would seem to have another source, is an open question.' Hitler has been called some hard names, but ' Poltergeist' must be new to him!