Movies like "Hellboy" and "Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark" describe Hitler as "obsessed with the occult" is there any historical basis for this trope? | AskHistorians Archive Observer

Movies like "Hellboy" and "Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark" describe Hitler as "obsessed with the occult" is there any historical basis for this trope?

by foxxguthy

SubjectToReality

See this thread answering the same question: https://amp.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/4b3vgw/how_interested_was_hitler_in_the_occult/

Rlyeh_Dispatcher

Also see this recent thread: https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/eqfg9t/did_the_nazis_look_for_mythological_artifacts/