British intelligence studied Hitler's horoscope in order to predict his steps

The leadership of British intelligence tried to predict the steps of Adolf Hitler during the Second World War, studying his horoscope, BBC reports with reference to the published documents from the British State Archive .

Hungarly born in Berlin, Ludwig von Vol, claimed that Hitler allegedly believed in the power of astrology and his military plans were drawn up on the basis of the predictions of personal astrologer, Swiss Karl Ernst Kraft. Von Volume convinced high -ranking British intelligence officers that he was able to give the same astrological forecast that Hitler himself receives.

Thus, von Volol said, in London they will know every next move of the head of Nazi Germany. True, now historians say that Hitler paid no attention to astrological forecasts.

British intelligence used von Volya not only as an astrologer, but also as a propagandist: he was assigned to the USA to convince the United States to enter the war. However, the British counterintelligence Mi5 believed that von Volla was a charlatan. With great distrust of it was also treated in Mi6 (Secret Intelligence Service).

Also known as Ludwig de Vol, he was an ambiguous figure. Some of the military he met considered him a clown and a scum. Others believed that he was a very insightful person who was able to understand the course of the thoughts of the Nazi leadership.

One of the employees of MI5 said that none of the prophecies of de Volya came true - with the exception of the prediction of Italy entry into the war, which was done at the moment when, according to the mi5 employee, such a development of events was obvious to everyone.