In the substudy "World War II", the origins are discussed of propaganda during World War II as far as based upon the Centuries, Century-comments or the reputation of Nostradamus as an astrologer, prophet or seer who predicted important political events for the years until the end of times. Books and newspaper articles are discussed which date from the period 1939-1945 (studies, national-socialist propaganda, Allied counter-propaganda) and post-war publications which have a connection with the fortune of the Centuries in World War II, Century-comments or the reputation of Nostradamus. Further, brief biographies are presented of a number of authors whose publications have been studied as well as brief information on magazines and newspapers.

Disclaimer
It is not the purpose of this section to promote or spread fascist, national-socialist, anti-Semitic, racist and/or revisionist ideas. T.W.M. van Berkel, the author of the articles in this section, explicitly dissociates himself from the opinions, expressed in the publications which are discussed in these articles.

 GENERAL 

Translations/versions:

• De voorspellingen van Nostradamus (Brochures ter informatie #18, Berlin, 1941) [2]
• Les prophéties de Nostradamus (Information Universelle #18, Paris, 1940) [3]
• Les prophéties de Nostradamus (Paris, 1940) [4] 
• Gibt es Propheten? (in: Der Märkischen Adler #1, January 3, 1941)

Translations: 

• Hoe zal deze oorlog eindigen? een belangwekkende en actueele beschouwing op grond der voorspellingen van Michel Nostradamus gegeven in "Les vrayes Centuries et Prophéties"; samengesteld uit de nagelaten geschriften van Jean François Pasteur (The Hague, 1940) [6]
• Le profezie del Maestro Michele Nostradamus anno 1558 (Genoa)
• Nostradamus spådomar om kriget (Stockholm, 1940) [7]
• Que se passera-t-il entre le printemps 1940 et le printemps 1941? La réponse est donnée par: Les vrayes centuries et prophéties de Maître Michel Nostradamus (Geneva, 1940) [8]
• Sta nam donosi 1940? Odgovara nam cuveni fransuski astrolog Nostradamus u svome delu "Les vrayes Centuries et Propheties" (Belgrade, 1940)  
• What will happen in the near future? For an answer we must turn to "Les vrayes Centuries et Prophéties de Maistre Michel Nostradamus" -  The prophecies of the ancient French astrologer Michel Nostradamus and the present war (Stockholm, 1940) [9]

Translations:

• Comment Nostradamus a-t-il entrevu l'avenir de l'Europe? (Brussels, 1941)
• Nostradamus forudser Europas Fremtid (Copenhagen, 1941)
• Nostradamus predice el porvenir de Europa (Madrid, 1941)

Notes

1. The publisher's name Europa Verlag is a fictitious name. Actually, this brochure was published by the Deutsche Informationsstelle, 27 Rauchstraße, Berlin W35, a department of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs. [text] 

2. This brochure carries the fictitious publisher's name Europa-Uitgeverij. [text]

3. This brochure carries the fictitious publisher's name Éditions Européennes. [text]

4. This brochure, its contents almost identical with volume 18 in the series Information Universelle, is printed by F. de Beroud, Paris, and is not part of this series. [text]

5. The name Dr. de Fontbrune is the pseudonym of the French physician and Century-scholar dr. Max Pigeard de Gurbert. [text]

6. The name Jean François Pasteur is a fictitious name. [text]

7. This brochure carries the name Norab, a pseudonym of the Swedish baron dr. Lage Fabian Wilhelm Staël von Holstein (Maichle: Die Nostradamus-Propaganda der Nazis, 1939-1942). Staël von Holstein translated and sometimes revised the German source text. [text]

8. This brochure, published as an issue in the series Prédictions, carries the name of Ant. Rossier, the author and publisher of this series. [text]

9. This brochure carries the name Norab, a pseudonym of the Swedish baron dr. Lage Fabian Wilhelm Staël von Holstein (Maichle: Die Nostradamus-Propaganda der Nazis, 1939-1942). Staël von Holstein translated and sometimes revised the German source text. [text]

10. The name Salamar is the author's pseudonym of an unknown Century-scholar. [text]

11. According to a letter, published in the edition of December 24, 1966of the Dutch newspaper Het Vrije Volk, A. de Tombre was a Dutch fascist astrologer. [text]

12. Dutch translation of a text, written or finished between June 1941 and December 1941 by dr. phil. Alexander Max Centgraf. [text]

13. The name mr. dr. W.L. Vreede is a pseudonym of mr. dr. H. Houwens Post. [text]