Lanz claimed that the Ostrogoths and the nation of Austria (German: Österreich) were matronymically named after this goddess.
[1] In his study of Lanz von Liebenfels, the Austrian psychologist Wilfried Daim states that "most likely this is even greater nonsense.
[3] Adolf Hitler was reportedly one of the publication's readers in his late teens, and there is speculation that it served as a catalyst for his antisemitism.
[4] After Hitler's rise to prominence in the 1920s, Lanz tried to be recognized as one of his ideological precursors.
After the war, Lanz accused Hitler of having not only stolen but corrupted his idea, and also of being of "inferior racial stock".