Desperate for a glimpse into Adolf Hitler’s mind, British spies hired an astrologer during World War II to write horoscopes for him and other Nazi leaders, declassified documents show.
The file released to Britain’s National Archives also catalogs the frustrations of MI5 handlers as they tried to prevent the astrologer, Louis de Wohl, from embarrassing high-ranking officials.
This didn’t keep de Wohl from winning a temporary rank as a British army captain. He was sent by Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who did not believe in astrology, to the U.S. to convince Americans that the Nazis would lose within months if they entered the war.
His specific task was to counter a U.S. convention of pro-German astrologers that had predicted Hitler would win. Billing himself as “The Modern Nostradamus,” de Wohl proclaimed the stars showed the opposite.
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