Starborn Dragon
Captain
This is a book by Osprey publications that I've recently purchase and have been reading it.
Well, I've recently got this book called Nazi Occult that I've been reading about. In short, it is about the Nazi's research into occult powers and rituals and the groups that studied the occult, such as the Thule society and the Black Sun. It is an osprey publication.
Now, Nazi zombie armies are a fairly popular theme in games and popular entertainment. And i'd always thought that they had been a creation for games and movie by Hollywood and the gaming companies.
So imagine my surprise when I read this passage from the book:
So as it turns out, the Nazis really and truly did do research into ways to raise the dead and have that kind of soldier. for real.
Whether they actually did raise the dead, well, I don't know for certain so I really can't say. There is the possibility that they simply used clock work technology to make the bodies move and look like they were real undead creatures to scare people, but that too, is simple speculation.
But this was a huge surprise to me, and something I had never really known until I just read this passage in the book.
Well, I've recently got this book called Nazi Occult that I've been reading about. In short, it is about the Nazi's research into occult powers and rituals and the groups that studied the occult, such as the Thule society and the Black Sun. It is an osprey publication.
Now, Nazi zombie armies are a fairly popular theme in games and popular entertainment. And i'd always thought that they had been a creation for games and movie by Hollywood and the gaming companies.
So imagine my surprise when I read this passage from the book:
The Hügelgrabforschung (Burial Mound Research) group is better known by its nickname Die Todesbruderschaft: the Brotherhood of Death. Devotees of the Black Sun, the necromancers attached to this institute investigated barrows, kurgans, and burial mounds in occupied Norway and Ukraine. Their program to create an army of Nazi zombies never altered the war’s strategic balance: undead soldiers remained vulnerable to artillery and had none of the ability to react tactically required in modern warfare. Their tendency to experiment on the Waffen-SS’ own dead and dying also led to friction with supporting German units, as in the famous mass-trepanation incident near Nikolayev in 1944.
So as it turns out, the Nazis really and truly did do research into ways to raise the dead and have that kind of soldier. for real.
Whether they actually did raise the dead, well, I don't know for certain so I really can't say. There is the possibility that they simply used clock work technology to make the bodies move and look like they were real undead creatures to scare people, but that too, is simple speculation.
But this was a huge surprise to me, and something I had never really known until I just read this passage in the book.