"And then there was this man, whose real name was Ludvig von Wohl, who said 'I know what makes him tick. Yet they did not know what made him tick. De Wohl soon played a key role in Britain's fight against the Nazis.Ĭhristopher Andrew, a Cambridge Professor who is writing the official history of MI5, says at one point Britain knew more about Adolf Hitler than it had never ever known about any other enemy. He said he could use Hitler's stars to the Allies' advantage. Louis de Wohl, a bogus Hungarian nobleman who arrived in the UK in 1935 from Germany, convinced Britain's intelligence community that Hitler was superstitious and he made no decisions without consulting his horoscope first. The Service hired the man, who claimed to be Hungarian, and put him up in one of London's best hotels while he churned out astrological charts supposedly duplicating the information Hitler was receiving from his fortune tellers. Secret wartime documents which have just been declassified in Britain reveal how a con man convinced the British Secret Service that Adolf Hitler relied on astrology. It seems former US President Ronald Reagan wasn't the first to be accused of using astrology to make key foreign policy decisions.
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