Nate Cull (.social)The life of Houston Stewart Chamberlain, the English aristocrat who helped build Nazi antisemitism, is a fascinating / terrifying glimpse into how cultlike ideologies can form
Also the Aufbau Vereinigung (Reconstruction Organisation), a German group of White Russians (ie: anti-Communist, not racially white supremacists, though they were also that) who influenced Nazi doctrine
Some very uncomfortable parallels there with both Ayn Rand and the post-1989 Russian oligarchs backing Trump.
Russian anti-Communism manifesting as international fascism has not gone away.
Some of this found via
https://info-buddhism.com/Nazis-of-Tibet-A-Twentieth-Century-Myth_Engelhardt.html
which is an interesting deconstruction of the 'Nazism backed by Tibetan Supergurus' myth, which also has not gone away - tldr, there was no actual Nazi-Tibet link BUT many influential Nazis and proto-Nazis (see eg Houston Stewart Chamberlain) were SUPER INTO the idea of ancient Aryan Supermen from India and Tibet - as were many Western Theosophical groups - so some of them WANTED to believe in Indian/Tibetan supergurus.
Hence the swastika.
This, sadly, isn't just weird Indiana Jones history, because if you search for 'shambala' you will find a bunch if weird (and very active) organised alt-right groups smelling strongly of Nazism who are ALSO super into Tibetan Buddhism (and 'moral/cultural decay of the West') for some reason
So don't think the past has necessarily gone away. Some of it's coming back for another go.
(Like some of the Nazis were also AGAINST Tibetan Buddhism for the same reason others were for it - they saw it as some kind of power center, but maybe they just got all that from Theosophy - the D&D / Lord of the Rings fanfic of its era, only taken seriously -which had a huge, badly confused, Tibet fixation as MYSTEERIOUS LAND O' MYSTERY!!!and secret headquarters of all the WORLD CONSPIRACIES that weren't run by 1. Jews, 2. Masons or 3. Catholics)
But anyway, the more I read about he origins of Nazism the more it feels terrifying like today's social media conspiracy memes.
Eventually people who believed the wildest conspiracy stories got elected, and once in office...
Yeah. It's got a REAL familiar smell to it.