Hexenkartothek Explained

The Hexenkartothek (known as the "H-special order" project[1]) was an investigation into witch trials led by SS-Untersturmführer Rudolf Levin under the orders of Heinrich Himmler.[2] [3]

Himmler organised a team of SS researchers to collect historical records of witch trials with the goal of proving that the Catholic Church had used the trials to eliminate the German heritage.[4] [5] This prompted William Monter to dub the Nazi regime "Europe's first 'pro-witch' government."[6] One pamphlet, 1935's The Christian Witch-Craze,[7] claimed that the witch-hunts were an attempt to exterminate "Aryan womanhood".[8]

According to Himmler the information gathered during the nine-year investigation was to be assembled into a propaganda book. No book was produced and Levin's habilitation thesis was rejected by the Munich University in 1944.[1]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Kloth . Hans Michael . ZEITGESCHICHTE : Wo die Raben kreisen - DER SPIEGEL 2/2000 . www.spiegel.de . 9 December 2020 . 10 January 2000.
  2. Harrington . Joel . Himmler's Witch Hunt . History Today . September 2019 . 69 . 9.
  3. Book: Himmlers Hexenkartothek : das Interesse des Nationalsozialismus an der Hexenverfolgung . 2000 . Verlag für Regionalgeschichte . Bielefeld . 9783895343131 . 2. Aufl.
  4. Badger . William . Purkiss . Diane . English Witches and SS Academics: Evaluating Sources for the English Witch Trials in Himmler's Hexenkartothek . Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural . 2017 . 6 . 1 . 125–153 . 10.5325/preternature.6.1.0125. 157526828 .
  5. Hans Sebald, "Nazi ideology redefining deviants: Witches, Himmler's witch-trial survey, and the case of the bishopric of Bamberg" in: Levack (ed.), New Perspectives on Witchcraft, Magic, and Demonology (2001), pp. 113ff.
  6. Book: Monter, William. Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, Vol. 4: The Period of the Witch Trials. University of Pennsylvania Press. 2002. Ankarloo. Bengst. Philadelphia. 14. Witch Trials in Continental Europe, 1560-1660. Clark. Stuart.
  7. Friederike Müller-Reimerdes. Der christliche Hexenwahn. Gedanken zum religiösen Freiheitskampf der deutschen Frau.
  8. Magic and Superstition in Europe, Michael David Bailey, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc, 2006, pp. 236-238

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