We all know the Nazis embraced a bunch of dumb - awful - ideas. But their ideas about how the universe worked? Well that was sincerely whackadoo...

Will tells Rod the story!

The Wholesome Show is Dr Will Grant and Dr Rod Lamberts, proudly brought to you by The Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science!

Sources
Willy Ley: Pseudoscience in Naziland, http://www.alpenfestung.com/ley_pseudoscience.htm
Christina Wessely: Cosmic Ice Theory—Science, Fiction and the Public, 1894–1945. https://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/research/projects/DeptIII-ChristinaWessely-Welteislehre
Eric Kurlander: Hitler’s Monsters
Eric Kurlander: A Song of Ice and Fire https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/song-ice-and-fire
Philip Ball: How 2 Pro-Nazi Nobelists Attacked Einstein’s "Jewish Science" [Excerpt]: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-2-pro-nazi-nobelists-attacked-einstein-s-jewish-science-excerpt1/
The Occult Bistory of the Third Reich: Horbiger http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.com/2011/07/

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