Their Finest Hour- Magic in Nazi Germany

As the western world crumbled to the economic collapse of the 30s, German fascism rose and certain unconventional theories about Vril rose with it. Nazi science rejected quantum mechanics and sought forgotten magical traditions. The Nazi’s rebuilt Germany’s Aluminate Churches in their image and expelled the Guild in 1935. The Ahnenerbe (a division of the SS dedicated to race theory and research) holds total control of magical practices in the Third Reich. Sigil scribes openly craft runes, but only with the properly Germanic Futhark sigil alphabet. Nazi occultists at the top (including Heinrich Himmler and Rudolf Hess) embrace petty conjuring as “the one true Volkish magic, long suppressed by the Western Inquisition (the Hermetic Guild)”. Ruthless Conjurors leverage their new prestige, foster an occult air to their enchantments, and climb into the highest ranks of the Wehrmacht, Ahnenerbe or SS.

Until 1935, the German branch of the Guild instructed all Thaumaturgists. After Hitler dissolved the Guild in Germany, most fled the country. The remaining thaumaturgists joined the Ahnenerbe under threat of death to teach their skills to a new generation of young magicians loyal to the Führer. While the Nazi regime embraces many fringe mystical theories and pseudosciences, their tyranny leaves no room for magic practitioners outside the approval of the state.

At the center of the Reich’s occult politics sits the mysterious Vril Society. In 1919, the progenitors of the National Socialist German Worker’s Party (the Nazi Party) gathered with occultists to communicate with the unknown. Two beautiful young women named Maria and Sigrun led the men in a séance and shared wonderful and terrible truths from primeval earth. The participants of that séance formed the Vril Society (also known as the Luminous Lodge) to guide German fascism to their secret ends or the ends of their secret masters. The Vril Society hosts demonstrations open to the public with slide shows depicting artist's imaginings of ancient civilizations from the lost continent of Thule and promises to awaken the magnetic abilities inherent to all Aryan people. Before the war, the Vril Society even performed demonstrations in London. Members of the Vril Society holds key positions in the German government, industry, and military, but no one outside their membership can explain the vast amounts of money and war materials funneled into the society by the Führer.

When the German army triumphantly marched into Austria, the international community gasped at the incredible strength of Vril at their disposal. Nazi magicians performed with ease wonders the world had not seen in 200 years! Lindwyrms bore swastika-laden banners through the skies! Skilled spells singers, known as Fächer, dispersed clouds and split open hills to make way for marching platoons of soldiers! The world saw this same show of strength in Czechoslovakia, Poland, Luxembourg, and France. The Axis war effort overcame whatever universal law dwindles magic. None of the Allies know the source of this endless  antediluvian energy, but European refugees and Whitehall politicians share plenty of theories: 

-During the 1939 German expedition to Tibet, Nazi mystics learned ancient forgotten methods to harness Vril from an ascended Master in Shamballa known as “the King of the World”.

-Nazi scientists and musicologists discovered the potent mythic reality suggested by Wagner’s operas. Through their fanaticism and skill they draw strength from Nordic myth cycles and Aryan folksongs.

-The SS breeds magically adept children through the Lebensborn (Fountain of Life) project. SS officers kidnapped Polish and Russian children gifted with psychical abilities from occupied territories adding to their breeding stock.

-An Ahnenerbe archeological team uncovered or “recovered” an ancient artifact out of Aluminate legends. In Hitler’s hands, it acts both as a symbol of power as a source of power.

-During the séance at the founding of the Vril Society, Atlantean sorcerers living beyond the physical world outlined an ancient machine from the lost continent of Thule in minute detail. German industrialists developed blueprints from the description and developed a strange bell-like device kept in a secret location.