NOSTRADAMUS, ASTROLOGY AND THE BIBLE
substudY "WORLD WAR ii"
Nostradamus - Der Prophet der Weltgeschichte
(dr. N. Centurio [dr. phil. A.M. Centgraf], Berlin, 1953)
- T.W.M. van Berkel -

General information
In 1953, Richard Schikowski publishers in Berlin published the first edition of Nostradamus - Der Prophet der Weltgeschichte - erste deutsche Gesamtausgabe der Vorhersagen zeitnah übersetzt und gedeutet von Dr. N. Centurio. The name "Dr. N. Centurio" is one of the author's pseudonyms of dr. phil. Alexander Max Centgraf (1893-1970); the word Centurio is a latinization of the word Centuries.[1] Prof. dr. Wolfgang Goetz (Leipzig, 1885 - Berlin, 1955), honorary president of the Berliner Schriftstellervereinigung, wrote an introduction. On page 268 of the first edition of Nostradamus - Der Prophet der Weltgeschichte is mentioned that prior to publication, a certain Thomas Johanssen, lector, went through the text of Nostradamus - Der Prophet der Weltgeschichte and made a number of remarks. On the same page, Centgraf expressed his thanks to those who helped and encouraged him in the process of writing.
Nostradamus - Der Prophet der Weltgeschichte is a clothbound book with dust jacket. On the front flap, it reads that a respected historian and philologist who already has stepped forward with important publications, now presents the sensational results of his study which took many years. The famous and so far most controversial book in the world literature now shines a bright light upon the present and the future up to 2000. On the back flap, it reads that with the publication of the first German anthology of the Centuries, one of the most wanted books of the world literature is available again and comprehensible for modern man. This old prophetic book now brings comfort and hope for the coming years and distinguishes itself from all other books in this field because of its scheme. On the linen cover, the family crest of the Notre Dame family is printed in gold: two double crosses and two eagle' heads. The only illustration in Nostradamus - Der Prophet der Weltgeschichte is a picture of an astrological chart, erected for the Full Moon of August 7, 1846, to which Nostradamus was supposed to refer in quatrain 04-33, which Centgraf linked to the discovery of Neptune.
Schikowski also published the second, revised edition (1955), the third and the fourth and last edition (1960, once more revised) of Nostradamus - Der Prophet der Weltgeschichte, which in 1966 was completely sold and in 1968 succeeded by Nostradamus - Prophetische Weltgeschichte, published by Turm publishers in Bietigheim. Centgraf characterized Nostradamus - Prophetische Weltgeschichte as a continuated, concentrated version of Nostradamus - Der Prophet der Weltgeschichte. Therefore, the first edition of Nostradamus - Prophetische Weltgeschichte was numbered as the fifth edition, revised and enlarged edition. I don't know why in 1966 Nostradamus - Der Prophet der Weltgeschichte was not reprinted. To the fourth edition, a picture of a portrait of Nostradamus was added, copied from Nostradamus (Eugène Bareste, Parijs, 1840) and an analysis of the birth chart of Nostradamus (Saint-Rémy de Provence, December 14, 1503, 12.00 TLT) by Willy Bischoff.
Richard Schikowski publishers/booksellers, founded in 1951 and specialized in esoteric and occult literature, exists up to today and is seated in Berlin, 30 Motzstraße.

Text division of Nostradamus - Der Prophet der Weltgeschichte
Centgraf's letter from May 22, 1950, to the German author Hermann Hesse, at that time residing in Switzerland, shows that in 1950, Centgraf had a printable manuscript on Nostradamus and the Centuries. Its contents were divided into three parts: (1) an extensive introduction to the work of Nostradamus, (2) the translation of and comments upon his predictions and (3) a prophetic concordance of world history for the period between 1550 to 2200. Nostradamus - Der Prophet der Weltgeschichte can be divided into (1) treatises on the life of Nostradamus, his expressions, the future up to the 21st century and the warnings in the predictions, addressed to rulers and prominent persons, (2) the translation of and comments upon the Preface to Cesar, the Epistle to Henry II, the Centuries, the Sixains, leftover quatrains and the Présages and (3) an addendum with a bibliography of Century-editions and Century-comments, a discussion of systems with which a number of Century-scholars had tried to arrange the Century-quatrains in order of fulfilment, Centgraf's arrangement of quatrains which according to him were fulfilled between 1900 and 1950 and an index of persons and geographical names.
For his discussion of the predictions in the Centuries, Centgraf used the 1940-Krafft-copy of the Centuries (Frankfurt am Main), a photocopy of a 1568-B.Rigaud-edition of the Centuries. For his discussion of the Présages, the Sixains and the leftover quatrains, he used the 1605-Sève-edition of the Centuries.

Henry the Fortunate
In Nostradamus - Der Prophet der Weltgeschichte, Centgraf described in his comments upon the predictions of Nostradamus which events would occur in Europe in the years until 2050. The key figure in these events is Henry the Fortunate (Heinrich der Glückliche), who will be born in Bretagne in July 1999. Henry the Fortunate will be the first president of the United States of Europe and will deliver Europe from all external powers. In 2035, after having seized power in the Mediterranean Sea in a great navy battle near Marseille, where a nuclear bomb will cause millions of casualties and heavy damage, he successfully will attack England, which no longer will dominate Europe and which will become one of the states of the United States. Next, he will put an end to the anarchy in Italy and will bridle Germans, Austrians and Swiss. He also solves the Arab-Jewish problem. In 2045, he will bring peace to the world for about 57 years. In that year, in Germany, which for many years was subordinated to the Western Allies, the "holy Empire" begins, which will take the place of England as the dominant power and which will learn the world humanity and compassion.
In the letter he wrote to Hesse on May 22, 1950, Centgraf presented a similar future perspective.
In Nostradamus - Prophetische Weltgeschichte (Bietigheim, 1968) Centgraf took January 21, 1981 as the birth date of Henry the Fortunate. He based this new assumption upon the assumption of the Austrian astrologer dr. Wilhelm Kestranek that the birth date of Henry the Fortunate was mentioned in quatrain 05-41 and his hour of birth in quatrain 10-71.
Henry the Fortunate is also the main character in the brochure Die Wahrheit über Heinrich den Glücklichen - Nostradamus Prophezeiungen entschlüsselt, written by the German astrologer Ingrid Beikirch (Gifhorn, 1986), who besides Centgraf's Die großen Weissagungen des Nostradamus also consulted Loog's Die Weissagungen des Nostradamus (Pfullingen in Württemberg, 1921) and Allgeier's Die großen Prophezeiungen des Nostradamus in moderner Deutung (Munich, 1982). According to Beikirch, Henry the Fortunate is a woman, announced in Revelations 12, who will renew christianity.

Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn...
Between June and August 1941, in his capacity as a volunteer of the Antikomintern, a section of the Ministry of Propaganda which was occupied with the production of anti-Russian propaganda, Centgraf either wrote or completed the text of a national-socialist, propagandistic Nostradamusbrochure, aimed against the British, the communists and the Jews. In January 1945, as a token of esteem, he was decorated with the Kriegsverdienstkreuz II. Klasse ohne Schwerter.  
In the second quarter of 1940, the text of a Nostradamusbrochure, written in the Ministry of Propaganda, aimed against England and meant for spread in the neutral countries, was translated into eight languages. From the brochure which Centgraf wrote or completed in 1941, only one translation is known: Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn - Michael Nostradamus spreekt in 1558 over het verloop en den uitslag van den huidigen oorlog (Hijman, Stenfert Kroese & Van der Zande NV, Arnhem, NL, alternative title: Staat onze toekomst vast? Voorspellingen van Nostradamus uit het jaar 1558 over het verloop van den huidigen oorlog). This translation carries the name of A. de Tombre, who according to a reader of the Dutch newspaper Het Vrije Volk was a fascist astrologer. It is also possible that the name "A. de Tombre" is a fictitious name, like the name Jean François Pasteur in the national-socialist Nostradamusbrochure Hoe zal deze oorlog eindigen?, discussed elsewhere on this website.[2]
The following facts show that Centgraf has been the author of the German source text of Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn...:

1. In 1941, in the copy of Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn... which Centgraf in 1941 gave to the Preussische Staatsbibliothek in Berlin, nowadays preserved in the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (catalogue number Na 7716/50), it was written twice that he was the author. On this website, these notes are interpreted as notes which mean that Centgraf was the author of the German source text of Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn...

2. On page 7 of Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn..., it reads: Ik heb wel eens gehoord, dat zij, die, zooals ik, in Maart geboren zijn [...] (tr.: I have heard that those who, like I, are born in March [...]). This is Centgraf's reference to his birth date, March 8, 1893.

3. On page 47 of Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn... it reads that the word Hadrie contains the initials of Adolf Hitler as well as the word Adria, an allusion to the axis between Germany and Italy, which has its south end in the Adriatic Sea. In his article Nostradamus und Berlin - und andere Weissagungen (in: Der Kurier, July 10, 1949), Centgraf wrote that he had discovered that the word Hadrie in a.o. quatrain 03-02 is an encrypted reference to: H = Hitler, Ad = Adolf and Adrie = Adria, the south end of the Axis-politics of the dictator. This remark is a silent reference to the German source text of Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn. 
   In his comment upon the quatrains 03-06, -07, -08 and -09 on page 70 of the first edition of Nostradamus - Der Prophet der Weltgeschichte, Centgraf wrote, in connection with an event which took place in the winter of 1939/'40, that he had discovered that the word Hadrie in quatrain 01-08 was an encrypted allusion to Hitler. This remark too is a silent reference to the German source text of Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn...

During the writing of Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn..., i.e. its German source text, Centgraf copied some comments and explanations from Die Prophezeiungen des Nostradamus (Informations-Schriften, Berlin, 1940, # 18), Die Weissagungen des Nostradamus: erstmalige Auffindung des Chiffreschlüssels und Enthüllung der Prophezeiungen über Europas Zukunft und Frankreichs Glück und Niedergang, 1555-2200 (C. Loog, Pfullingen in Württemberg, 1921) and Nostradamus und seine Prophezeiungen für das zwanzigste Jahrhundert (dr. B. Winkler, Görlitz, 1939). Most of the comments, among which the explanation that the word Hadrie was an encrypted allusion to Hitler and the axis Germany-Italy, originate from Centgraf himself.
The key figure in Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn... is Adolf Hitler, the Führer of the Third Reich. According to Centgraf, it was under his leadership that in 1939, the dominating role of England in the world came to an end. England would have to make way for Germany. The Jews will be expelled from Europe. By 1944, communism will come to an end. As a result of Hitler's ingenious tactics, a period of peace will begin which will last for 57 years, in which Europe will flourish by means of strong German leadership. Germany is the "holy Empire" which Nostradamus had predicted.

Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn... versus Nostradamus - Der Prophet der Weltgeschichte
In Nostradamus - Der Prophet der Weltgeschichte, Centgraf discussed the 942 Century-quatrains, using the 1940-Krafft-copy. All 73 quatrains which he discussed in Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn..., are included in the 1940-Krafft-copy, which in Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn... served as a source of quotes and illustrations. 
In various ways, the comments, given in Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn..., emerge in Nostradamus - Der Prophet der Weltgeschichte. Compared with the comments in Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn..., 20 comments remained unchanged. In most cases, these are comments in which quatrains were linked to events during World War I and the preceding centuries, such as the invention of the air balloon. In Nostradamus - Der Prophet der Weltgeschichte, like in Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn..., quatrain 03-58 is linked to the birth and rise of Hitler (in which Centgraf copies Winkler). In both publications, the quatrains 03-07 and 03-50 are linked to the German march to Paris in 1940; quatrain09-48 is linked to the German air raids on London in 1940.
Compared with the quatrains in Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn..., 14 quatrains in Nostradamus - Der Prophet der Weltgeschichte are linked to other events. In may cases, the nature of these events corresponds to some extent with the nature of the events, mentioned in Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn... These changes seemed to have been induced by the course of history. Quatrains 10-100, which contains an allusion to a more than 300 year lasting period of British supremacy, is a good example. In Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn..., this period ran from 1649 (which year according to Centgraf, copying Loog's comment upon quatrain 03-57, marked the beginning of the time span of 290 years, given in quatrain 03-57) until 1939 (the year in which Germany invaded Poland and in which the decline of England began, again a copy of Loog's comment upon quatrain 03-57). In Nostradamus - Der Prophet der Weltgeschichte, Centgraf situated the decline of England in the period 2040-2050 (in which Henry the Fortunate attacks England); the 300 year period of British supremacy began in 1763. In Nostradamus - Der Prophet der Weltgeschichte, the quatrains 02-68, 02-100 and 08-60 are not only linked to World War I like in Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn..., but also to World War II. In Nostradamus - Der Prophet der Weltgeschichte, the first two lines of quatrain 05-94 are linked to the German march in 1940, like in Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn... Like in Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn..., the last two lines are linked to Stalin, but not to the Molotov - Von Ribbentrop pact which Stalin according to Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn... was about to break up, but to the march in 1945 of Russian troops to Berlin and Vienna. The link between quatrain 05-51 and the "new Entente" was also present in Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn...; the remark in Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn... that England would lose Gibraltar, is of course no longer present in Nostradamus - Der Prophet der Weltgeschichte. In Nostradamus - Der Prophet der Weltgeschichte, it is explained in the comment upon quatrain 01-08 that the word Hadrie is an allusion to Hitler. Therefore, this quatrain, line in Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn..., is linked to the capitulation of Paris in 1940. However, in Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn..., Hitler was presented as the one who saved Paris, while in Nostradamus - Der Prophet der Weltgeschichte the comment read that because of Hitler's march to Paris, Paris was re-enforced so that it could overcome the German occupation.
In Nostradamus - Der Prophet der Weltgeschichte, more than half of the quatrains of Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn..., 39, to be precisely, were linked to events which had a different nature and a different year of fulfilment. This goes a.o. for all quatrains in Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn... which come next to quatrain 02-05. This series of quatrains ends with quatrain 10-42, the last quatrain which in Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn... is discussed. In the comments in this part of Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn..., Russia c.q. bolshevism was warned: in 1944, bolshevism would come to an end. In Nostradamus - Der Prophet der Weltgeschichte, this future perspective no longer returns. In Nostradamus - Der Prophet der Weltgeschichte, quatrain 01-35, in Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn... linked to the imminent defeat of England by Germany, is linked to the death on July 10, 1559, of the French king Henry II. Quatrain 02-55 is not linked to Hitler's last campaign, resulting in his final victory, as explained in Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn..., but to his suicide and the suicide of his wife, Eva Braun. Quatrain 02-53, in Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn... linked to Hitler's attacks on England, was linked in Nostradamus - Der Prophet der Weltgeschichte to a plague in London in 1665 and the great fire, one year later. Quatrain 03-13 is no longer linked to the attacks of German submarines on England in 1940/'41 like in Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn..., but to attacks on England by submarines of Henry the Fortunate in 2040. According to Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn..., quatrain 07-13 indicated that Germany was about to occupy England for 14 years. According to Nostradamus - Der Prophet der Weltgeschichte, this quatrain indicates the 14 years during which Napoleon Bonaparte ruled. In Nostradamus - Der Prophet der Weltgeschichte, the quatrains 10-31, 10-42 and 10-89 are not linked to the final German victory in the fourties like in Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn..., but to the final victory of Henry the Fortunate in 2050 and the foundation in Germany of the "holy Empire". 
In the table below, the correspondences and differences between the links in Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn... and Nostradamus - Der Prophet der Weltgeschichte are listed briefly.

The origin history of Nostradamus - Der Prophet der Weltgeschichte
The future perspectives in Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn... and Nostradamus - Der Prophet der Weltgeschichte contain identical elements: powerful leaders (Hitler, Henry the Fortunate) who settle Europe's affairs and who will put an end to British supremacy. Under the inspiring leadership of these powerful leaders, who have an ingenious military tactic, Europe will know a peace period which will last 57 years. In this period, Germany will change into a "holy Empire", which will replace England as the world's leading nation. 
Is is quite possible that Centgraf copied the figure of Henry the Fortunate from Loog's Die Weissagungen des Nostradamus, the first Century-comment which Centgraf read in 1939 and which, according to his article Nostradamus und das jüngste Weltgeschehen (Zürich, 1959), was reason for him to deepen himself into Nostradamus and the Centuries. According to Loog, Henry the Fortunate would be the greatest king of France, invincible. He linked Henry the Fortunate to a.o. quatrain 10-72. According to Loog, Henry the Fortunate would become a world leader. Centgraf thought that in quatrain 10-72, the birth of Henry the Fortunate was announced and also held him for the future world leader. The addition the Fortunate to the name of Henry is a translation of the Latin word secundus, which also can be translated into the second. The address of the Epistle to Henry II reads
In connection with the future perspectives and the way in which the comments in Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn... emerge in Nostradamus - Der Prophet der Weltgeschichte, the question is what has been the origin history of Nostradamus - Der Prophet der Weltgeschichte. Centgraf wrote that in 1939, he began to study the Centuries. In Nostradamus - Der Prophet der Weltgeschichte, he gave to understand that in 1939, he had discoverd that the word Hadrie was an encrypted allusion to Hitler. In Nostradamus und Berlin - und andere Weissagungen, Centgraf wrote about this discovery without dating it. I don't know if prior to the German invasion in Poland in September 1939, Centgraf wrote books or articles about Nostradamus and the Centuries. Between June and December 1941, he either wrote or completed the German source text of Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn... In July 1944, he wrote the brochure Nostradamus and England, an anti-British brochure to which Goebbels seems to have referred in his diary, which finally was not spread. I therefore presume that the German source text of Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn... has been Centgraf's first publication about Nostradamus and the Centuries and that his research was a politically one, i.e. national-socialistic, propagandistic.
In his letter to Hesse of May 22, 1950, Centgraf presented himself as a historian and author who most notably studied the sixteenth century, beginning in 1940 with Luther and in "the past years" with Nostradamus.[3] As far as I am concerned, the words "the past years" indicate that it was after World War II when Centgraf began with the writing of the manuscript which in 1953 was published as Nostradamus - Der Prophet der Weltgeschichte, and in which he partly copied, partly changed what he had written about Nostradamus and the Centuries in the German source text of Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn... and gave a new fulfilment date to the perspective that Germany as a "holy Empire" would replace England as the world's leading power, i.e. 2040 instead of around 1940, as in Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn... Centgraf's remark in his letter to Hesse about the poverty of him and his wife after the war and the hardships they went through, as well as his remarks about being arrested, raise the idea that after the war, Centgraf was unemployed for some time and - as would turn out later, quite successfully - tried to earn his daily living by writing books and articles about Nostradamus and the Centuries and by giving lectures. In connection with this, it must be noted that in 1945/'46 and 1951/'52 his requests to resume his work as a preacher were rejected. In 1935, due to the rais of extra-marital children, he was no longer allowed to work as a preacher.

The success of Nostradamus - Der Prophet der Weltgeschichte; the rise of Centgraf as a Century-scholar
In the Nachtrag to the fourth edition (1960) of Nostradamus - Der Prophet der Weltgeschichte, Centgraf wrote that from the appearance in 1953, Nostradamus - Der Prophet der Weltgeschichte had a worldwide acclaim. From numerous countries, people sent him reactions and comments. For important and esteemed contemporaries, Nostradamus - Der Prophet der Weltgeschichte was reason to devote their life to the study of Nostradamus and the Centuries instead of studying it for pleasure.
In the course of the years, a number of prominent persons wrote contributions to Nostradamus - Der Prophet der Weltgeschichte. Among them were prof. dr. Hans-Hermann Kritzinger, qualified by Centgraf as the "Nestor" of Nostradamus research, and count Carl Ludwig Friedrich Otto von Klinckowstroem, the author of Die ältesten Ausgaben der “Propheties” des Nostradamus, ein Beitrag zur Nostradamus Bibliographie (Zeitschrift für Bücherfreunde, Leipzig, 1913), one of the first German Nostradamus-bibliographies. Von Klinckowstroem's contribution to Nostradamus - Der Prophet der Weltgeschichte was a bibliography of early Century-editions. Another prominent was Willy Bischoff, one of the founders in 1947 of the Deutsche Astrologen-Verband e.V. For the fourth edition of Nostradamus - Der Prophet der Weltgeschichte, he wrote an analysis of the birth chart of Nostradamus. 
The issues 41, 45 and 46 of volume 84 (1959) of the weekly Sonntagspost (Winona, Minnesota, USA) contained articles on Nostradamus, written by the German Century-scholar Alexis von Sabler. According to Von Sabler, a Century-scholar had to be a historian as well as a philologist and had to have a thorough knowledge of things. In his eyes, Centgraf had all of these qualities.

A questionable Century-scholar
On this website, it is assumed that after the German invasion in Poland in September 1939, Centgraf started to study Nostradamus and the Centuries, i.e.Loog's Die Weissagungen des Nostradamus and probably most notably his comment upon quatrain 03-57, which at that time was quite sensational because of being linked to the German invasion in Poland. The critical remarks of the German philosopher dr. Max Dessoir in Vom Jenseits der Seele about Nostradamus, the Centuries and the Century-comments made him, as he wrote, to compare the predictions in the Centuries with the course of history. 
By the end of 1939, according to his information, Centgraf warned compatriots against the risks of a lightning war against France. Perhaps his study was focused upon fathoming the military and political situation in Europe. In the summer of 1940, he was upset when he noticed that national-socialists used his link of a couple of quatrains to such a kind of war for propaganda purposes. In the summer of 1944, he wrote, he tried to achieve peace in Europe by telling Hadamovsky, a prominent national-socialist, that one of the quatrains in the Centuries fitted to such an event. He also would have tried to improve the circumstances of some of his friends who were interned in a concentration camp. Centgraf's information on these points contains incorrect facts and does not show that in World War II, Centgraf, who in 1933 became member of the SA, in 1937 member of the NSDAP, was an esteemed national-socialist activist who wrote anti-Semitic brochures and used the Centuries and Century-comments for propagandistic purposes by writing the German source text of Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn... and the brochure Nostradamus and England, with which in the summer of 1944 the British had to become demoralized. 
According to the future scenario in Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn..., England would fall, Germany, lead by Hitler, would become the leading power in Europe (the Holy Empire) and the world would be in peace for 57 years. In Centgraf's post-war publications about Nostradamus and the Centuries, Henry the Fortunate, president of the United States of Europe, would give the world a peace period for 57 years in 2040, Germany will play a leading part (the Holy Empire) and England would become a part of the United States of America, and as such lose her leading position in the world. This raises the question if Centgraf in 1940/'41 wrote a number of texts and a future scenario, which in 1941 he changed for propaganda reasons and after war brought back in its original state, or if the German source text of Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn... was his first text about Nostradamus and the Centuries, which he changed after the war. For the moment, I cannot answer this question, which is an important one since it is hard to imagine that someone who wants to hide his propagandistic activities in 1941/'44, dates the beginning of his study in 1939. It is a matter of fact, however, that in his post-war publications about Nostradamus and the Centuries, beginning with the article Nostradamus und Berlin - und andere Weissagungen, Centgraf included texts which can be traced back to the German source text of Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn... Neither in his post-war publications, nor in public, he dissociated himself or apologized for what he had written in the German source text of Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn...: comments which had to frighten people and to demoralize them, which were aimed against Jews and communists and which demonstrated that for decades, national-socialism would be the leading power in Europe. On the contrary, he presented himself as a Century-scholar who comforts his readers. In Nostradamus - Prophetische Weltgeschichte, his second book about Nostradamus and the Centuries, which he finished two years before his death and which until today is reprinted, he added, compared with his first book about Nostradamus and the Centuries (Nostradamus - Der Prophet der Weltgeschichte) new elements which can be traced back to Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn...
For many years, my colleague Ulrich Maichle occupies himself with research on the activities of Centgraf / Centurio. His website Die Nostradamus-Propaganda der Nazis 1939 - 1942 contains numerous transcripts of documents which shows Centgraf's involvement in national-socialism. Maichle had a discussion with Random House publishers in Munich in order to stop further selling of Die grossen Weissagungen des Nostradamus, a license edition of Nostradamus - Prophetische Weltgeschichte. I invite you to deepen yourself in the oeuvre of Centgraf / Centurio, the articles about his books on www.nostradamusresearch.org and Maichle's findings. If you think that the oeuvre of Centgraf / Centurio is politically contaminated and that his book Die grossen Weissagungen des Nostradamus has to be taken from the market, you can address yourself to Random House or to Turm publishers, the company which up until today publishes Nostradamus - Prophetische Weltgeschichte.

De Meern, the Netherlands, April 10, 2010
T.W.M. van Berkel
updated on July 12, 2010

Expression of thanks
The author expresses his thanks to Ulrich Maichle for sending a copy of the letter which Centgraf in 1950 wrote to Hesse.

Notes

1. Van Berkel: Information on dr. phil. A.M. Centgraf alias dr. N. Alexander Centurio. See also: Maichle: Die Nostradamus-Propaganda der Nazi's, 1939-1942. [text]

2. Van Berkel:
   - Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn... (A. de Tombre, Arnhem, 1941);
   - Hoe zal deze oorlog eindigen? (Den Haag, 1940). [text]

3. In den letzten Jahren habe ich nun zum ersten Mal das Werk eines andern grossen Mannes aus dem 16.Jahrhundert ins Deutsche übertragen und kommentiert (Centgraf to Hesse, May 22, 1950, p.1). [text]