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Nazis and the occult.

Learn on the television and you won't have to wait long before a show comes up, purporting

to be a documentary of the deep occult roots of Hitler and the Nazis.

It seems to be a perfect explanation for how a group of human beings could be so cruel.

Only the dark influence of demonic powers and religious extremism could explain something

as unspeakable as the Holocaust.

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