Historians, political scientists & philosophers form studied Nazism with the specific focus on its religious in addition to pseudo-religious aspects. It has been debated if Nazism would equal a political religion, and there has also been research on the millenarian, messianic, and occult or esoteric aspects of Nazism.
Credited retrospectively with being the founder of "Esoteric Hitlerism", and certainly a figure of major importance for the officially sanctioned research and practice of mysticism by a Nazi elite, was Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler who, more than all other high official in the Third Reich including Hitler was fascinated by pan-Aryan i.e., broader than Germanic racialism. Himmler's capacity for rational planning was accompanied by an "enthusiasm for the utopian, the romantic and eve the occult."