Revisiting the “Nazi Occult”: Histories, Realities, Legacies (Camden House, 2015) is a volume Eric Kurlander and I co-edited.

There is a long-standing idea—in popular culture and beyond—that certain esoteric or occult philosophies, "secret cults,” or millenarian networks influenced the history of Nazism. The volume’s contributors explore some of the sources of this "Nazi occult" idea, ask what realities lie behind it, and inquire into the forms it might have taken after 1945. The volume also goes a step further, examining the present-day obsession of some people—among them, video game designers and popular musicians—with the "Nazi occult."

Eric and I hope the volume prompts a reconsideration of the idea that there is some connection between Nazism and the occult by expanding on and also transcending the traditional range of themes and fields of inquiry associated with this topic. The volume's perspectives have been shaped by many influences, but all reflect a greater sensitivity to historical context than the subject has tended to receive.