Joe Rogan Experience #2570 - Mystery Boys · Aired Oct 23, 2026
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Aleister Crowley claimed in his confessions that he made Nazi Germany fall apart by infecting the country with insanity.
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What the evidence shows
The reproduced Confessions passage concerns Crowley's work on The Fatherland, a pro-German publication during World War I. He claimed he undermined German propaganda by making it absurd. That is a different war and regime from Nazi Germany, and it is a claim about propaganda, not evidence that he caused a country to become insane or brought down the Nazi state. Crowley's own boast is not independent proof of its success.
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Is it true that Aleister Crowley claimed in his confessions that he made Nazi Germany fall apart by infecting the country with insanity?
Partly. The claim stretches what the evidence shows. The reproduced Confessions passage concerns Crowley's work on The Fatherland, a pro-German publication during World War I. He claimed he undermined German propaganda by making it absurd. Mystery Boys said it (matched by voice) on Joe Rogan Experience #2570 - Mystery Boys, aired Oct 23, 2026, at 44:59. The supporting source is aleistercrowleytimeline.com, linked below.
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