I was rather disappointed about this book. I expected a more detailed and sordid tale than the bland overview this book offers. When you speak of a psycho like Hitler and his heavy dabbling in the occult, I was expecting some diary entries about his crazy rants from those close to him or even fanciful rumors, albeit with a large disclaimer about lack of verifiable authenticity attached. It was super boring. How does one make Hitler boring? This book was mostly "X went here looking for Atlantis but Y author thought it was over here and sent X there when his first expedition failed to locate it." No details about why they thought it was there or who they contacted. No journal entries or stories from relatives. Just boring.
However, there was one great aspect of this book. The author details the finer points of how Hitler got involved in all that crap and how it obviously shaped his views and plans. Who he met and the ideas he absorbed from these people were paramount to the stances he too. He took ideas of hidden evil and horoscopes and the German superiority complex from these people he met prior to his political career. I had always wondered how this messed up little man had cultivated such grand ideas about himself and the German peoples, this was it. All the secret societies and left overs from the occult obsession of the late 1800's solidified into a political platform in Nazi Germany, which ironically, lead to their destruction too. So overall, read the first third of this book and forget about the rest..
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