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Zodiac and Swastika

Zodiac and Swastika is a book by Wilhelm Wulff

Wilhelm Wulff

Wilhelm Theodor H. Wulff, born March 27, 1893 in Hamburg, was a Germany astrologer.In The Occult Roots of Nazism , he is mentioned marginally twice....
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Originally published 1968 in Germany by Bertelsmann Sachbuchverlag as Tierkreis und Hakenkreuz: Als Astrologe an Himmlers Hof, it was released in 1973 in the USA by Coward, McCann & Geoghegan and in the United Kingdom by Arthur Barker Limited of London. The exact English title is Zodiac and Swastika: Astrologer to Himmler's Court or Zodiac and Swastika: How Astrology Guided Hitler's Germany.

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Zodiac and Swastika is a book by Wilhelm Wulff

Wilhelm Wulff

Walter Laqueur

Walter Zeev Laqueur is an United States historian and political commentator.He was born in Breslau, Germany , to a Jewish family. In 1938 Laqueur left Germany for the British Mandate of Palestine....
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Apparently, this book is the most important source for Heinrich Himmler

Heinrich Himmler

Heinrich Luitpold Himmler was a Nazi Germany German politician and head of the Schutzstaffel. He was one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany, competing with Hermann G?ring, Martin Bormann and Joseph Goebbels....
's interest in astrology

Astrology

Astrology is a group of systems, traditions, and beliefs which hold that the relative positions of astronomical object and related details can provide useful information about personality, human affairs, and other terrestrial matters....
. Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke

Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke

Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke B.A. , D.Phil. is a professor of Western Esotericism at University of Exeter and author of several books on esoteric traditions....
takes it as evidence that Wulff was consulted by Himmler in the last weeks of the war (The Occult Roots of Nazism

The Occult Roots of Nazism

The Occult Roots of Nazism: Secret Aryan Cults and Their Influence on Nazi Ideology: The Ariosophists of Austria and Germany, 1890-1935 is a book by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke....
, p.165). However, Goodrick-Clarke does not deal with Wulff's claim that as early as 1943 he got the assignment to locate Mussolini who had disappeared after being ousted from power.

Wulff claims, that Arthur Nebe

Arthur Nebe

Arthur Nebe was a Gruppenf?hrer in the Schutzstaffel . Other positions included Berlin Police Commissioner in the 1920s, an early member of both the Sturmabteilung and President of Interpol ....
and Walter Schellenberg

Walter Schellenberg

Walter Friedrich Schellenberg was a Germans Nazism who rose through the SS to become, following the abolition of the Abwehr in 1944, head of foreign intelligence....
had assigned him with various astrological tasks.

He shortly mentions that they had used pendulum dowsers like Ludwig Straniak

Ludwig Straniak

Ludwig Straniak , was a German Mysticism, Germanic Germanic neopaganism and most notably a pendulum dowser. He was an architect and astrologer and was used by the German military in the Third Reich, not necessarily willingly....
for similar purposes.

At least one other book also makes allegation that a pendulum dowser called Dr. Wilhelm Gutberlet had been one of Hitler's closest friends. These claims, however, strongly appear to be just another example of the Modern Mythology of Nazi Occultism.

Zodiac and Swastika

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