01-07-08, 09:46 AM
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The truth is always stranger then fiction - and once upon a time there was a guy who said, that it shall make you free...at least that's what is written... 
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Adolf Josef Lanz (aka Jörg Lanz), who called himself Lanz von Liebenfels (July 19, 1874 - April 22, 1954) was an Austrian publicist and journalist.
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In 1904, he published his book Theozoologie ("Theozoology") in which he advocated sterilization of the sick and the "lower races" as well as forced labour for "castrated chandals", and glorified the "Aryan race" as "Gottmenschen" ("god-men"). Lanz justified his neognostic racial ideology by attempting to give it a biblical foundation; according to him, Eve, which he described as initially being divine, involved herself with a demon and gave birth to the "lower races" in the process. Furthermore, he claimed that this led to blonde women being attracted primarily to "dark men", something that only could be stopped by "racial demixing" so that the "Aryan-Christian master humans" could "once again rule the dark-skinned beastmen" and ultimately achieve "divinity". A copy of this book was sent to Swedish poet August Strindberg, from whom Lanz received an enthusiastic reply in which he was described as a "prophetic voice".
One year later, in 1905, he founded the magazine "Ostara, Briefbücherei der Blonden und Mannesrechtler", of which he became the sole author and editor in 1908. Lanz himself claimed to have up to 100,000 subscribers, but it is generally agreed on that this figure is grossly exaggerated. Readers of this publication included Adolf Hitler and Dietrich Eckart, among others. Lanz claimed he was once visited by the young Hitler, whom he supplied with two missing issues of the magazine.
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After Hitler's rise to prominence in the 1920s, Lanz tried to be recognized as one of the ideological precursors to Adolf Hitler. In the preface of issue one in the 3. series of Ostara, c. 1927, he wrote for example: "Es sei daran erinnert, daß die 'Hakenkreuz-' und Faschistenbewegungen im Grunde genommen, nur Seitenentwicklungen der Ostara-Ideen sind."[1] (Translation: "One shall remember that the swastika- and fascist movements (he is obviously referring to the Nazi party) basically are just side-developments of the Ostara-ideas.") After Austria had been annexed by Nazi Germany in 1938, Lanz hoped for Hitler's patronage, but Hitler may have felt embarrassed by this early connection. Hence, Lanz was banned from publishing his writings. Most notably copies of Ostara were removed from circulation. After the war, Lanz accused Hitler of having not only stolen but corrupted his idea and also of being of "inferior racial stock". An alternative view is that Hitler was simply embarrassed by Liebenfels himself. There is no strong evidence that Hitler had ever had more than a casual interest in Liebenfels's work, nor with the occult movement as a whole, though the association has been repeatedly made by critics and occultists during and after the Third Reich.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanz_von_Liebenfels
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I know that other Liebenfels readers where Lord Kitchener and Lenin...but I don't know about Tolkien.
Last edited by Smaragdadler; 01-07-08 at 09:59 AM.
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