Nazis: The Occult Conspiracy, directed by Tracy Atkinson and Joan Baran, narrated by Malcolm McDowell

Malcolm McDowell

Malcolm McDowell is an English actor with a career spanning over forty years.McDowell is principally known for his roles in the controversial films If...., O Lucky Man!, A Clockwork Orange and Caligula...

, is an English language 1998 Discovery Channel

Discovery Channel

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 documentary regarding Nazi occultism.

Soundtrack

The film discusses Wagner's

Richard Wagner

Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, conductor, theatre director, philosopher, music theorist, poet, essayist and writer primarily known for his operas...

 opera Parsifal

Parsifal

Parsifal is an opera in three acts by Richard Wagner. It is loosely based on Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival, the 13th century epic poem of the Arthurian knight Parzival and his quest for the Holy Grail, and on Chrétien de Troyes' Perceval, the Story of the Grail.Wagner first conceived the work...

while the soundtrack plays the "Funeral March" from Götterdämmerung

Götterdämmerung

is the last in Richard Wagner's cycle of four operas titled Der Ring des Nibelungen...

.

Television and DVD release

The documentary was originally shown on television and subsequently released on VHS in the USA on April 6, 1999 by the BMG Distribution and in the UK on 20 Jan 2003 by the Lace International Ltd studio. The running time is 90 minutes.

In Italy the documentary was released on DVD under the title Nazismo: La Cospirazione Occulta in 2003 by Medusa Video.

In Germany the documentary was released on DVD under the title Nazis: Die okkulte Verschwörung on the 8th November 2005 by M.I.B. - Medienvertrieb in Buchholz. The documentary was also shown on TV in a shortened version called Hitlers Mystiker.

See also

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• Guido von List
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• Karl Spiesberger
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• Wilhelm Wulff
• Savitri Devi
• Ostara (magazine)
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   and Lanz von Liebenfels
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• Montségur
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• Otto Rahn
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• Karl Maria Wiligut
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• Externsteine
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• Nostradamus
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   and Karl Ernst Krafft
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• Louis de Wohl
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