UK in astrology plot against Hitler

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Britain's spymasters became convinced that astrology could hold the key to the defeat of Adolf Hitler during the Second World War, it has emerged.

Secret files released by the National Archives show how intelligence chiefs were hoodwinked into recruiting a bogus Hungarian nobleman to study the Nazi leader's horoscope in the hope of penetrating his military plans.

Despite warnings from the Security Service, MI5, that Louis de Wohl was a "charlatan", he managed to persuade senior figures in the intelligence world that he could replicate the forecasts of Hitler's own personal astrologer.

De Wohl claimed that as Hitler relied heavily on the predictions of the Swiss stargazer Karl Ernest Krafft, they could gain a unique insight into his thinking if they knew the astrological advice he was receiving.

The plan appealed to some leading figures, including the Director of Naval Intelligence Admiral John Godfrey, who found Hitler's erratic strategic moves hard to fathom. The scheme was, however, fatally flawed as historians now say that Hitler took no notice at all of astrological forecasts.

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http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=109834&in_page_id=34&in_a_source=

The DU method of espionage. 

[DumbAss Tanker]

It was all part of his cunning Nazi plan.