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Writings on Irish Folklore, Legend and Myth (Penguin Modern Classics)

William Yeats

This collection brings together all of W. B. Yeats’s published prose writings on Irish folklore, legend and myth, with pieces on subjects including ghosts, kidnappers, fairies, ancient tribes, precious stones and Gaelic love songs. Through his researches on Irish folklore, Yeats attempted to create...

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Behind the Bastards

It was a book by Alfred Rosenberg that was heavily influenced by Helena Blavatsky's 'The Secret Doctrine' and became a best-selling book in Nazi Germany, promoting the concept of an Aryan master race and the myth of Hyperborean Atlantis, a key element of Nazi ideology.

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Alfred Rosenberg's book, The Myth of the 20th Century, which he publishes in 1930, is the second best selling book in Nazi Germany under Mein Kampf.

— Episode: Part Four: Helena Blavatsky: the woman w...

Episode: Part Four: Helena Blavatsky: the woman who inspire...

It was a book by Alfred Rosenberg that was heavily influenced by Helena Blavatsky's 'The Secret Doctrine' and became a best-selling book in Nazi Germany, promoting the concept of an Aryan master race and the myth of Hyperborean Atlantis, a key element of Nazi ideology.

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Alfred Rosenberg's book, The Myth of the 20th Century, which he publishes in 1930, is the second best selling book in Nazi Germany under Mein Kampf.

And his whole book is a plagiarism of the secret doctrine.

He opens the book by restating the myth of a Hyperborean Atlantis and insisting that the existence of a, quote, prehistoric Nordic cultural center was the basis of all Nazi race science.

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