A. Royden D'souza

While the rise of fascism and the failure of Versailles dominate the political narrative, the true catalyst for global collapse was an economic heart attack that began in Vienna and Wall Street and spread like gangrene through a weakened world.

The group called the Thule Society began in Munich around 1918 as a small völkisch/occult study circle that promoted racialist mythology and anti-Marxist politics.