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. 

 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) [5]
• Le profezie del Maestro Michele Nostradamus anno 1558 (Genoa)
• Nostradamus spådomar om kriget (Stockholm, 1940) [6]
• 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) [7]
• Sma nai gonosu 1940? Odgovara nam cuveni fransuski astrolog Nostradamus u svome depu "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) [8]

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 Foreign Office. [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 Jean François Pasteur is a fictitious name. [text]

6. This brochure carries the name Norab. This name is 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]

7. This brochure, published like an edition in the series Prédictions, carries the name of Ant. Rossier, the author and publisher of this series. [text]

8. This brochure carries the name Norab. This name is 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]

9. This brochure is the Dutch translation of a text, written or finished between June 1941 and December 1941 by dr. Alexander Max Centgraf. [text]

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