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Black Sun

World War II • 1h 29m

Directed by Rudiger Sunner • Documentary • 2009 • 90 minutes

For more than sixty years, thousands of historians, political scientists, psychologists and others have attempted to explain the murderous ideology of National Socialism-in particular the theories of its founders Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler and Alfred Rosenberg-and their dreams of a 'Thousand-Year Reich' of Aryan world domination, which led to the Holocaust, war crimes and other atrocities.

BLACK SUN sheds new light on the sources of Nazi ideology by examining its occult roots in the world of myths, symbols and fantasies. The film uses interviews, rare archival footage and contemporary scenes to chronicle how the Nazis used these mythological foundations to develop Nazism as a political religion, with the SS conceived as a 'Holy Order' defending 'Aryan light' from the 'Jewish-Bolshevik darkness.'

While BLACK SUN documents the nationalist mystical beliefs that infused National Socialism, the film also reveals the disturbing perpetuation of these beliefs among certain cult groups in Germany today, reflecting an ongoing search for salvation, inspiration and messianic leaders.

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