I agree with Eco, but this point needs a big asterisk and footnote. A lot of the Nazi-sanctioned “tradition” was invented, at the outside, a hundred years before their inception. The occult elements they leaned on were presented as traditional, but were invented or highly distorted for their own ends.
Runes are a great example. The Vikings got them from the Phonecians, but the Nazis preferred to ignore that part of their history because it links runes with Africa.
