- His book, Myth of the 20th Century (published in 1930), sold 1.1 million copies in Germany between 1933 & 1945. This despite the fact that it was privately mocked & looked down on by both Joseph Goebbels & Adolf Hitler
- Appointed Reich Minister for the Occupied Eastern Territories after the invasion of the Soviet Union
- His first child with Hedwig, a son, died in infancy
- His second child with Hedwig; a daughter, Irene, born 1930
- One of the Nazi defendants at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials conducted after WW II. Charged with crimes against humanity, he was convicted and sentenced to death by hanging, which was carried out in 1946.
- Believed in Paganism, to the disapproval of Adolf Hitler.
- Wrote the book Der Mythus des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts [The Myth of the Twentieth Century]. The titular "myth" (in the special Sorelian sense) is "the myth of blood, which under the sign of the swastika unchains the racial world-revolution. It is the awakening of the race-soul, which after long sleep victoriously ends the race chaos.".
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