Goebbels and Nostradamus: fool the people with Prophecies
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In 1940, Krafft was summoned to Berlin by Goebbels to look through the prophesies of Nostradamus and translate any of them that could be used as propaganda against the Allies. It was felt that these, if dropped into unoccupied areas, might well do something to persuade the people that government by the Nazis was in the natural order of things. And indeed, after some weeks' work, Krafft claimed to have discovered verses predicting the invasion of Holland and Belgium, and foreseeing the Third Reich and the Second World War. He produced a pamphlet based on forty quatrains of Nostradamus, designed for circulation in Belgium and France, and predicting the imminent downfall of Britain.
But in May of 1941, about three months later, Hess, second in command to Hitler (after Goering) flew to Scotland in an independent attempt to arrange a peace (see "FDR - Franklin Delano Roosevelt - my exploited father-in-law" by Col. Curtis Dall ) - an attempt rewarded by the Allies with over forty years' imprisonment. Martin Bormann decided that the best way of presenting the story to the German people would be to announce that Hess was actually insane, and shortly afterwards it was announced that he had been crazed by 'hypnotists, astrologers and so on'. In Britain, The Times actually reported that Hess had been Hitler's private astrologer!
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In this article, many things are mixed up without presenting what actually was going on.1. Krafft was summoned to Berlin in December 1939 in order to find out if he could write propaganda, based upon the Prophecies of Nostradamus. At that time, Krafft was working at Amt VII of the RSHA (Reichssicherheitshauptamt), a department in which an eye was kept upon cults and occult activities in Germany, and in which people were involved in psychological warfare2. In January 1940, Krafft and his wife moved from Urberg in the Black Forest to Berlin. Krafft kept on working at Amt VII and got his directions from one H. Fesel; he never met Goebbels3. By April 1940, Krafft had two conflicts with the RSHA, one about private correspondence, another one about an introduction to the Prophecies of Nostradamus which in the eyes of the RSHA contained too much stunning material, reason for them to censor it and to postpone its publication until October 1940. As a result, Krafft quitted his job at the RSHA and started to work as a translator at the Deutsche Nachrichtenbüro4. By the end of May, 1940, Krafft started to write a Nostradamusbrochure for the Information-IV department of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The German text was completed by the end of June, 1940; the final version by August 19, 1940, Krafft's translation into French in October 1940 and its publication in Brussels, entitled Comment Nostradamus a-t-il entrevu l'avenir de l'Europe? around April 1941, given the fact that April 18, 1941, is mentioned as the printing date. It is this brochure which is discussed in the above mentioned article. As you see, the contents have nothing to do with Goebbels and the brochure was not written by order of Goebbels.
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Mani 4 years ago
It's somewhat amazing how the Nazi's were so into the occult. There's a great website that deals with this: http://www.fiu.edu/~mizrachs/occult-reich.html. If you wish to know more just Google "Nazis and the Occult" and you'll have enough material to write a book. Great post, by the way