===Paganism===
Some modern historians attempt to link Nazism to Christianity. This however, is lacking any true historical basis. In ''The Occult Causes of the Present War'', historian Lewis Spence notes the overbearing pagan and satanic ideological that drove the Nazi Party. Nazis frequently engaged in the "replacement of the cross by the Swastika" in churches and that their party leaders had resurrected the worship of the fertility goddess Holle.<ref>[https://www.historynet.com/book-review-hitlers-monsters-eric-kurlander.htm Hitler’s Monsters]</ref> Another tenet of occultist activity was the belief in Irminism, which is was a current within Ariosophy<ref>[https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Return_of_Odin/ft0zDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PT202 The Return of Odin, The Modern Renaissance of Pagan Imagination]</ref> that held that the Bible was written in Germany and the Germanic God of 'Krist' was co-opted by Christians.<ref>[https://www.google.com/books/edition/Forgotten_Worlds/21koDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PT98 Forgotten Worlds]</ref> Other mystical and pagan beliefs that dominated their ideology included a focus on the lost city of Atlantis and Welteislehre, or World Ice Theory.<ref>[https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/nazis-and-the-dark-arts Nazis and the dark arts]</ref>
===Hitlerian socialism===