Abstract
This book deals primarily with the life of two Czech hermeticians, Jan Kefer and Jiří Arvéd Smíchovský, on the background of their relation to occultism and Nazism. In addition to describe the lives of both persons, with a closer focus on their fates during the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, the book also brings a chapter on the almost unknown Nazi action against the secret sciences and occultists which took place in the territory of the Protectorate in 1941.
At the beginning of the text, reader gets familiarized with some basic concepts from occult science and the relationship between Nazism and occultism in general. Then follows the aforementioned chapter on the occultist's persecution in the protectorate.
The main pillars of the book are the biographies of J. A.
Smíchovský and J. Kefer which focus more closely on the Protectorate period.
This publication is based on the number of sources, especially from historical sources stored in state and private archives or interviews with a witness. The contribution of this book is collecting a number of sources to the fate of both persons and comprehensive description of their lives, as well as the above-mentioned chapter on the Nazi action against occultists in the Protectorate which has not yet been professionally elaborated.