Dietrich Eckart - Portrayals in Popular Culture

Portrayals in Popular Culture

A fictionalized, female version of Eckart (Dietlinde Eckhart) appeared as the main villain and head of the Thule Society in the 2005 anime movie Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa.

In part 4, Phase 1 of the 2000AD story Zenith by Grant Morrison and Steve Yeowell Eckardt is referred to and depicted as the poet and mystic who initiated a German army corporal (Adolf Hitler) into the occult group called the Cult of the Black Sun after recognizing his potential as a medium. Eckardt and Haushofer put Hitler in contact with the Great Old Ones with their goal of helping the Nazis engineer superhuman bodies that could act as physical vehicles for these Dark Gods.

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