As early as the 1900s, numerous occult and neo-Germanic groups emerged in Germany and Austria, claiming the dominance of the "Aryan race" on the basis of misunderstood legends and symbols. Several Nazi celebrities found additional confirmation for their world view in this. By means of rhetoric, sacral architecture and spectacular mass stagings, such as torchlight marches and solstice bonfires, such pseudo-religious content was also sunk into the subconscious of the masses. The film's central anchor point is the symbol of the "black sun," which shows the floor ornament of a hall in a so-called SS-Ordensburg near Paderborn. This symbol is still used today by many right-wing extremist groups and individuals as a sign of identity. "SCHWARZE SONNE (Black Sun) makes it unmistakably clear what a central role irrationalism and anti-modernism played in Nazi ideology: In combination with the belief in one's own racial superiority and missionary zeal, they contributed significantly to the fact that the path from 1933 onward led not "into the Aryan light" but straight into barbarism." (epd Film)
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The film BLACK SUN illuminates the importance of myths and occult beliefs in the ideology of the "Third Reich".
As early as the 1900s, numerous occult and neo-Germanic groups emerged in Germany and Austria, claiming the dominance of the "Aryan race" on the basis of misunderstood legends and symbols. Several Nazi celebrities found additional confirmation for their world view in this.
By means of rhetoric, sacral architecture and spectacular mass stagings, such as torchlight marches and solstice bonfires, such pseudo-religious content was also sunk into the subconscious of the masses.
The film's central anchor point is the symbol of the "black sun," which shows the floor ornament of a hall in a so-called SS-Ordensburg near Paderborn. This symbol is still used today by many right-wing extremist groups and individuals as a sign of identity.
"SCHWARZE SONNE (Black Sun) makes it unmistakably clear what a central role irrationalism and anti-modernism played in Nazi ideology: In combination with the belief in one's own racial superiority and missionary zeal, they contributed significantly to the fact that the path from 1933 onward led not "into the Aryan light" but straight into barbarism." (epd Film)