Nazi Occultism 4: The Indiana Jones Stuff | European History | Extra History

[@extrahistory]

You can watch Nazi Occultism 5 Right now here bit.ly/EHThorsHammer OR Watch Boomers here go.nebula.tv/boomers?ref=extrahistory Thanks for watching!

[@Random.dorkXD]

First reply!!!

[@sovietneB]

second reply

[@caterinagargiulo]

This is amazing

[@also_arles]

Another week of this series, another week of bird-brained maniacs! I'm kind of baffled that these guys REALLY wanted to be liked despite all of the genuinely sickening things they'd do to others. 😰 Great upload as always, though!

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Amazing work as always! EH IS THE BEST ❤❤❤❤❤

[@christianbuffum-robbins8904]

4:53 "As a result, Himmler quietly...'retired' Wiligut to put his focus on more serious scholars. For example, the Witch Division!" I'm loving this series.

[@KasumiRINA]

For extra context, most witches and clairvoyants are just con men. So what they did is looking at Roman trials of ancient equivalent of Ron Hubbard and Jim Jones, and try to find secret magic knowledge in their records. That's like future geniuses trying to browse Eric Dubay's articles for hidden truth on the shape of the Earth.

[@Josef-v8i]

Same.

[@wavejumper3]

"Aryan... why does it always have to be Aryan?" - an archeology student in that guy's class in Indiana Jones, I hope

[@alexthedemon2203]

Why exactly do you hope?

[@Verisimilitude-o3q]

@@alexthedemon2203 they're doing the "why does it always have to be snakes" line

[@alexthedemon2203]

@@Verisimilitude-o3q Then it should have been pluralized but i see it now thank you.

[@Tailikku1]

"Anhenerbe... very dangerous... you go first"

[@matthewluebbering7180]

TBF most archaeologists focus on one region It’s like asking an expert on the Sahara to explain the polar icecaps at a similar degree

[@Cityinlead]

I know this episode plays on Indiana Jones but that opening to a castle got me feeling more for Wolfenstein for a brief second

[@EchoByrnes]

Gotta love Billy Blazcowicz

[@MominEnjoyer]

​@@EchoByrnes *sees the real Blazcowizc kill an SS soldier* "JAA, SIE WERDEN MEIN BLAZCOWIZC"

[@karlgrimm3027]

Just replace Arian with Alien and you have the show “Ancient Aliens”.

[@KasumiRINA]

Yes all these theories basically are laundered NSDAP pseudoscience

[@djcfrompt]

The Ancient Aliens theory is just a reskin of Amcient Aryans, still fundamentally based around the deeply racist idea that any culture other than whites was too inferior to have achieved the engineering marvels that we clearly see they did, so it must have been aliens instead.

[@bawintermage8351]

You are making a joke, but unfortunately it's true....

[@ecurewitz]

@@bawintermage8351I thought they were serious

[@MrZauberelefant]

And now replace ancient with aryan.... Aryan Aliens!

[@ScaerieTale]

I can't help being reminded of how Alistair Crowley's greatest battle basically came down to two LARPers screaming "Fireball!" at each other until one kicked the other in the jaw (See ExtraHistory: Secret Societies playlist for more on that)

[@theotherohlourdespadua1131]

South Park did something like that with Cartman and the Psychics...

[@markuskristersson4663]

So you’re telling me that they were actually more nuts than in Indiana Jones? That’s nuts 🥜

[@shadiafifi54]

Nope, it's nuttier than a pecan-peanut sundae with pistachios sprinkled on the surface.

[@Catalyst375]

Reality is stranger than fiction.

[@Cyber_Cerealian]

​@Catalyst375 History doesn't have to make sense to work, fiction does.

[@ElizabethMcCormick-s2n]

Truth is stranger than fiction!

[@dirty_haute]

NVTS, nuts!!

[@timlamiam]

this highlights the dangers of engaging with history and science with your mind made up before the research phase.

[@timothystamm3200]

It's almost like that's not how you're supposed to do it. Maybe you're supposed to doubt until you find something that is not reasonably doubted and construct knowledge from there.

[@tincat2347]

@@timothystamm3200Yes, quite, what an idea, right? Looking at the facts to find your opinion? How quaint; now, where the blazes is my monocle?

[@robertdowling4673]

I now get where the high from Man in the High Castle came from.

[@Thecontentmustflow]

Good show. I enjoyed the first 2 seasons at least.

[@robertdowling4673]

@@Thecontentmustflow Never finished it unfortunately. Became really depressed so I stopped enjoying tv and life. Still really great. I've heard the ending was a bit of a letdown though.

[@RKNYC]

@@robertdowling4673hope your doing better ❤

[@ghostwriterj9421]

Nah bro. That's all the meth they were on 🤣

[@bthsr7113]

@@ghostwriterj9421 There were other things, but yeah, that was the most widely used.

[@fischX]

"7 yeats in Tibet" movie hits different with some background - also no Savitri Devi so far that's the really steamy weird and occult part

[@GamesbiteRtDL]

I love that movie! Really like the monotone style of the protagonist talking in between longer time periods, it's incredibly calming.

[@roseandsword.]

Miguel Serrano too.

[@HistoryMonarch1999]

2:13 and that’s why they hate jojo rabbit but love inglorious bastards. Because of how they are depicted

[@FakeBlocks]

Please do the 1821 Greek Revolutionary War against the Ottoman Empire next! I've been asking for this since the first episodes of the Sengoku Jidai!

[@GamesbiteRtDL]

Sounds interesting

[@Rudnaz_127]

Damn, that's a long time with a lot of asking.

[@MothOnWall]

They can't. As interesting as it is, they really can't.

[@iapetusmccool]

​@@MothOnWallwhy can't they?

[@موسى_7]

That sounds very interesting - from Iraq

[@uria3679]

Still no Wolfenstein reference

[@Cityinlead]

Well it did open on a castle, so there's something I guess

[@Kuzeyman09]

What you waited, Machinen-Soldats from the game?

[@michaeljebbett160]

Pretty sure we live in Wolfenstein now

[@stevecooper7883]

"MEIN LEIBAN!"

[@edwardnygma8533]

​@@Kuzeyman09 iirc the original games did have a bit more of an occult twist to them.

[@silveryuno]

I knew this was gonna get dark, very dark, yet it still hit me.

[@NosAltarion]

9:20 Tbf, gifting to your boss a leathered report of one work you think is top notch is pretty neat as a show of dedication and a show of how much you think about the importance of your job.

[@valeoncat13]

It is, but I think that also just goes to show how much of the entire movement was built on lies. It didn't actually matter what you did, as long as it made the party look good in the end. Even actual dedicated lies, were failures if they weren't grand enough.

[@kineuhansen8629]

this video belongs in a museum

[@extrahistory]

😂

[@ianschmutzler8177]

SO DO YOU!

[@modernbunny06]

These guys should’ve tried LSD, the theories would go crazy

[@yonizaslavsky4246]

Meth

[@PhilosopherScholarPoet6272]

What makes you think they didn’t?

[@censusgary]

They did try LSD, and just about every other drug known at the time.

[@merwynabraham5326]

Love the work you guys have been doing. Genuinely helps people to understand the past and the world we live in

[@animationlover219]

6:42 You pronounced all the letters in “Antarctic”. I bow to you in gratitude for the solace you have given my ears. You are truly a rare and precious American.

[@edencollier3212]

7:16 Weirdly that's reminded me that I've heard about Ernst Shaffer before. It was a random episode of Kevin Smith's podcast like 10-15 years ago. I think they were talking about an article called 'the Ironman of Tibet' or something.

[@mr.factoid105]

I think 7 Years in Tibet is also based on it

[@connormcnulty6377]

The fact that Matt can say literally any of this with a straight face is amazing. I tried summarizing this to a friend and ended up laughing halfway through.

[@Wolfiyeethegranddukecerberus17]

E. Kiss sounds like he needs A. Hug

[@ChilleBruh]

*rimshot*

[@otaconz1147]

Let's be honest: the years between 1910 and 1950 were undeniably difficult and challenging for many, yet they were also an incredibly exciting and transformative period in history.

[@robertdowling4673]

The world wars where very unique. They where in many ways the climax of human history. I don't think any conflict like them was fought before nor again.

[@sinistertwister686]

@@robertdowling4673 lets hope you are right and no war on this scale will happen ever again!

[@capnsteele3365]

@@sinistertwister686 the second congo war was the biggest war on earth since ww2

[@Hyperlaser_Merc]

Doomsday weapons are the reason why there wasn't a WW3​, @@sinistertwister686. Yet

[@Packless1]

@@robertdowling4673 ...climax...? 🤔 ...more of a lowpoint...! 😱

[@ErichdeSade]

The occultism part is fascinating but I blame Dumézil's Trifunctional Hypothesis he was working on in the 1930s for a lot of the weird things happening at this time (and of course previous works by amongst other Olaus Rudbeck with Atlantica in 1677). Don't mind me too much, I'm just ranting a bit.

[@GeneralLuigiTBC]

10:08 Ukrainians are welcome to correct me if I'm mistaken, but I've heard and read that it was inappropriate to refer to Ukraine as "the Ukraine." I'm guessing based on what I know of the EH team's political views that this was not intentional, though.

[@zesky6654]

Ukraine as a sovereign country didn't exist at the time, so they might be excused for calling it "the Ukraine". But it is still pretty sus.

[@joeyjojojrshabadoo7462]

This is attempting to force a linguistic debate into a political one, neither Russia and Ukraine use a definite article.

[@KasumiRINA]

We actually don't care, but can play grammar NS just to mess with people, as long as you don't claim the invaders are "brotherly people" anything goes. Except humanizing those who colonized us.

[@Oh_the_humanity]

@@KasumiRINA did bro just say grammar national socialist

[@ferretyluv]

It’s really not a big deal, especially before independence.

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

The animation and narration are second to none! You guys always knock it out of the park! Hearth please ❤❤❤❤❤

[@extrahistory]

Thank you!

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

@@extrahistory np! And thanks

[@AG-fs8yn]

6:46 Scandinavian Antarctic? I didn’t know about Swedish Antarctic claims before, but it makes more sense than most other countries wanting to be there

[@oliwierbroda2575]

Norway has claims there and they are rather massive.

[@jmalmsten]

I'm guessing it was mainly a "because noone stopped us". Until the continent unfreezes, we can't really do anything with that claim outside of actual science stuff.

[@TheThim86]

Since I live only 15 km away from the Wewelsburg, this is the closest I will ever be to actually being in a Extra History episode😂

[@MrXaladin]

Moin schön das man ein uas der Heimat unter ein englisch sprachigen Kanal trift ^^

[@LurkerintheLibrary]

Wow! You know, I have been with you guys since the early days, and I'll be honest with you, nebula wasn't ever on my mind.... But with all the stuff you're offering, heck yeah. I think imma sign.

[@extrahistory]

Thank you so much for your support!

[@LurkerintheLibrary]

@@extrahistory Heck yeah 👍 Education is important... I definitely feel like if more of us spent more time learning about history we could avoid a lot of the issues of today... But that looks less and less likely with recent events with our leadership...

[@jroden06]

Goodness! I can't imagine a world where "alternative facts" are believed over provable science. That would be so silly!

[@KasumiRINA]

Keanu Reeves has a role in the second season of the most popular ancient Aryans themed show. Watch Milo Rossi's debunking of Ancient Apocalypse seasons 1, it's GLORIOUS!

[@fetijajasari9522]

Yes, and I'm glad he watched it for us. The snippets of Hancocks theories alone makes you want to beat something!

[@wonderingmind28]

​@fetijajasari9522 i whole heartedly agree!

[@Aethylwood]

Austrian Painter making fun of Himmler for his research of ancient Germans will never not be funny to me

[@ArkadiBolschek]

The fact that he was actually the _least_ unhinged in the whole gang is pretty mind-blowing.

[@Josef-v8i]

Same.

[@prestonjones1653]

​​@@ArkadiBolschek Which is honestly saying something considering one conversation with the painter made Mussolini feel like he stepped into an alternate dimension of Crazy Town.

[@Aethylwood]

@@prestonjones1653 yeah during their first meeting he said that the Italians were an inferior race because of mixture with Africans 💀

[@ArkadiBolschek]

@@prestonjones1653 Ah, yes. The Fez-Wearing Italian Man.

[@berniethekiwidragon4382]

I am simultaneously watching Professor Dave Explains' debunk videos. All this sounds similar to the tactics of science charlatans today.

[@willieclark2256]

Ah yes, prof Dave: preoccupies more with charlatans than scientists. Sure to end well.

[@berniethekiwidragon4382]

@willieclark2256 The vast majority of his content are still tutorials. As for his debunks, they are also very wholesome. He digs into what they get wrong, and talks to actual scientists about where the charlatans go wrong, as seen in his correspondences with them and even interviewing them. Go back to the first video of this arc, and you will hear the lament at the torrent of disinformation we are swimming in today. Those charlatans are responsible for this. Scientists and science communicators are right to be worried about this, and that so many people are falling for the lies.

[@ArkadiBolschek]

1:51 Kudos to the EH team for using the image of the Holy Chalice of Valencia! 😃👏💪

[@ArkadiBolschek]

(And again at 3:30!) 😋

[@kingalexander8152]

I literally just spent my entire day watching so many shorts from this channel

[@Charity4Chokora]

There might have been an Indias valley origin at a point as well.

[@thecoffeesloth]

Makes me want to want to watch some Indiana Jones this morning!

[@JetsFittedUp]

"The Indiana Jones Stuff" Finally lmao

[@plcthelegacy4131]

Disgusting fact about Heinrich Himmler. He got so far into occultism that he believed he was the reincarnation of a Danish prince and dressed up as a knight in a castle.

[@dispensergoinup]

larpers wanna larp

[@101Mant]

It's silly but compared to other things he ordered the SS to do probably the least disgusting. I mean if all he had done was play dress up nobody would care.

[@andersbjrnsen7203]

On the scale of disgusting and/or disturbing facts about Himmler I would rank that pretty low. Still interesting!

[@Oxtocoatl13]

Of all the disgusting stuff HH got up to, that one doesn't make it to top 100. It is hilarious, though.

[@موسى_7]

Disgusting? Nah that's just silly. Racism is what's disgusting.

[@thearcanian5921]

2:12 This really makes it sound like Nazium was a cultural version of narcissism. Which, ya, sounds about right. Though less effective than being a CEO inside Capitalism.

[@Niels_Larsen]

Edmund Kiss... I was wondering when he would show up.

[@athena8534]

Your page is about to become soooooo important now, even colonial williamsburg has already bowed down to Project 2025 and their idea of a purified American history where nothing bad really happened there

[@05Matz]

Yeah, the purified mythohistory thing is a thing empires try to do to consolidate the power of their elite against criticism sometimes. Never a sign of good times coming; quite the opposite in fact.

[@ryotanada]

7:10 "Ornithologist" birds, enter left.

[@MisterOcclusion]

It sounds like the Soviet approach to mainstream religion, but with extra steps.

[@JaimeNyx15]

This series started hitting different after this past week.

[@hollowednight5290]

That poor kid holding the backpack. They really dragged them around the globe XD

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Awesome series! EH is the BEST history channel 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@malcolmthorne9779]

Say what you will, but germans under any regime are fantastic at organizing. And the fruits of discipline are many. Even when said regime is absolutely batshit crazy.

[@jojob8112]

6:46 ah yes, the scandinavian antarctic

[@aaronbugher5862]

That's why the boats were upside down. 6:27

[@KesselRunner606]

Scandinavian penguins are the deadliest of all penguins.

[@wanna-be-thinker2377]

Looks like the next episode will show what happens when insanity leads to something nightmarish-ly horrific.

[@grindsaur]

@6:29 Ehm, those petroglyphs (helleristninger in Danish), are kinda upside down... they're depictions of bronze age boats and ships.

[@nickloughren1919]

One of the many groups in Tibet another groups wrote a book which became a movie called 7 years in Tibet

[@Starbean89]

I think of Lupin every time he mentions the group he’s covering .

[@Limubi1]

I've been loving this series

[@sourwinee]

4:04 LOL I recognise that design of the pope xd it was used in the Eleanor of Aquitaine series

[@faceoctopus4571]

Your use of the term Awful Archeology last week made me hopeful that this episode would be a collab with Milo Rossi / Miniminuteman. Disappointed.

[@Fabio-Jose-DragonKing]

Thanks For this Guys! EH IS AWESOME 😊😊😊😊❤❤❤

[@davebo9615]

"Respect, legitimacy, image was super important to them." I'm sorry was this describing 2024 or 1934?

[@wanna-be-thinker2377]

Both!!! Also, everything between, before and possibly after.

[@josephholland1427]

What are some of the books you guys got your information from? I'd love to read some of those books to dig deeper into this topic.

[@StefanKoran]

Oh the word is Ahnenerbe. Which roughtly translates to Ancestral heritage.

[@grapeshott]

Psychopaths when they get power....

[@lc8199]

What about Major Rudolf Von Stroheim and his discovery of the Pillar Man, the fight against the vampires, and the ultimate life form?

[@GallowglassVT]

I can kinda see where the roots of modern historical conspiracy theories started. Seriously, if I was Graham Hancock, I'd be ashamed.

[@Lucas-df4ht]

In the current circumstances facing the free world, it would be cool if you could start focusing on stories about the collapse of democracies throughout history and the rise of fascism.

[@bthsr7113]

Yes, though they do need some things to break it up so we don't get too depressed and dark. Though I definitely stories of guerillas, partisans, and resistance movements.

[@caterinagargiulo]

Amazing work

[@thefattymcgee5801]

This is a solid series. I would say though, it is important to mention that the germanic people did have a religion pre Christianity. Other than that love this series great work

[@ferretyluv]

They did, but it was most certainly not Aryan, as Tolkien mocked them.

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Thanks For this Guys! You always make My day ❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@caterinagargiulo]

This is interesting to learn about

[@ChristianDall-p2j]

5:59 emphasis on the Word TRYING Here! Though that probably shouldent have to be Said! Or at least it HOPEFULLY Shouldent!

[@rachelabraham9917]

What is the spelling of the organisation that Himmler created Extra History

[@UseZapCannon]

"Ahnenerbe"

[@Jaydon_Perez]

7:17 the dude studied zoos? Wild

[@HungryLoki]

Yes, this is what the word zoology means, the study of zoos, definitely NOT the study of animals.

[@caterinagargiulo]

This is magical

[@stephengasaway3624]

Scandinavian "antartic"?

[@natheriver8910]

Very fascinant 👏 🔥 👏 🔥

[@willbleed550]

Anyone else feeling bad for the bag boy, kid seems to be the pack mule no matter where he goes.

[@ArkadiBolschek]

Beats the Eastern front, I guess?

[@timmysvensson4902]

Graham Hancocks grandfather

[@powerist209]

Part of me wonder if Edmund Kiss was influence on Conan the Barbarian. Even if it kinda changed Atlanteans from kingdom to tribal society.

[@Jadaei1016]

Best history channel

[@Josef-v8i]

How the hell is the mad Furher the same one in this situation?

[@leonardvicari2857]

Awesome occult and mysticism

[@nathanielcurtis6213]

With this series it feels like I have to pauses the video every soften just to let the insanity on this info sink in and even then just ???😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

[@vitalyalx]

13:05 Your English sounds like fluent, why in the world are you saying "the Ukraine"?

[@RickJaeger]

Bruh, "the Ukraine" was a normal English phrase before the war. It's only become politically charged in the Anglosphere since the invasion. You can forgive an incidental archaism.

[@carlarmstrong7328]

​But it was only made normal because of the Soviet Union insisting that the world use the Russian versions of Ukrainian place names which includes a false etymology that suggests that Ukraine means "borderland" instead of "in our country". It ignores the fact that Ukraine was named in Ukrainian and not in Russian. It supports the false narrative that Ukraine is a Russian border state.

[@RickJaeger]

I'm aware of all that. Nevertheless, it's hardly worth getting in a tizzy over, much less implying that people are Russian agents, as OP is, when someone says The Ukraine instead of Ukraine-or The Sudan instead of Sudan.

[@Game_Hero]

@@RickJaeger it was always politically charged, since it implies Ukraine is simply a geographic region, not a national homeland like the others.

[@RickJaeger]

@@Game_Hero "in the Anglosphere." Do kindly use your eyes and brain to read the things you are responding to.

[@jeterdemerice6677]

Thank you for making this video so that algorithms don’t have to think I’m anti-Semitic for trying to know about this

[@Fabio-Jose-DragonKing]

You always make My day 😊😊😊❤❤❤❤

[@williamdavid3933]

Growing up Indiana Jones was my #1 job choice !

[@JayTheKaiser1871]

Love your content. :)

[@jackiecooper9439]

Angry moustache man hated all this. He once said that Kim ler keeps digging huts in search of a civilization and hurting the myth.

[@ImagenLmao]

Show of hands who thought this would be a crossover with miniminuteman.

[@wyastonhypatia23]

The petroglyphs appear to be upside-down.

[@wanna-be-thinker2377]

10:38 - 10:51 Yup, YT's basically going after every single history and educational channel. All because they want 'safe,' "Advertiser friendly" entertainment videos.

[@jononpaper]

These expeditions somehow sound really fun

[@Greecenumber1]

Silly Germans, didn't they know the Greeks are the root of all culture

[@Game_Hero]

"b-b-but Greeks Aryan!" they'd reply. Also, the root of all cultures is humanity, around the world, simply.

[@Т1000-м1и]

11k 47 mins the balls on that titling

[@benanimates3348]

Indiana Jones x extra history

[@Spencer-g7v]

PLEASE COLAB WITH MINIMINUTEMAN (Milo Rossi)

[@stephweasenforth7891]

Keep in mind that the Germans were so superstitious that a group of Soviet female pilots and bomber crews gave them nightmares in WWII Yes, I’m talking about the Night Witches

[@stef-3103]

Well, keep in mind that those women were genuine badasses. They risk a lot by killing the engins of the aircrafts they flew in time to maximise stealth. So being afraid of thèse brave women was les a sign of superstition but a realistic assessment of the threat they posed.

[@stephweasenforth7891]

@ there was a touch of superstition, but like you said. The majority of it was just genuine pants shitting “we’re screwed” fear. And I enjoy every time I read up on them

[@jtilton5]

I find it funny that before the video, I got an ad for BMW.

[@puppylord3247]

Very cool

[@Leon_K_24]

You just wanted to draw Indiana Jones lol

[@ViveLRoi]

Wish you'd taken time in the recent one on Nebula to make it clear that most neopaganism ISN'T racist or folkish

[@FaithChen-on6ks]

Do Hamilton