Hexenkartothek

The Hexenkartothek was an investigation into witch trials led by SS-Untersturmführer Rudolf Levin under the orders of Heinrich Himmler.[1]

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.[2][3] This prompted Stuart Clark to dub the Nazi regime "Europe's first and only 'pro-witch' government."[4] One pamphlet, 1935's The Christian Witch-Craze,[5] claimed that the witch-hunts were an attempt to exterminate "Aryan womanhood".[6]

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References
  1. Harrington, Joel (September 2019). "Himmler's Witch Hunt". History Today. 69 (9).
  2. Badger, William; Purkiss, Diane (2017). "English Witches and SS Academics: Evaluating Sources for the English Witch Trials in Himmler's Hexenkartothek". Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural. 6 (1): 125–153. doi:10.5325/preternature.6.1.0125.
  3. 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.
  4. Clark, Stuart et al. The Period of the Witch Trials p. 14
  5. Friederike Müller-Reimerdes. Der christliche Hexenwahn. Gedanken zum religiösen Freiheitskampf der deutschen Frau.
  6. Magic and Superstition in Europe, Michael David Bailey, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc, 2006, pp. 236-238
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