NOSTRADAMUS, ASTROLOGY AND THE BIBLE
SUBSTUDY "WORLD WAR II"
Information on dr. Elisabeth Noelle (prof. dr. dr. h.c. Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann)
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Index WORLD WAR II

Some facts about prof. dr. dr. h.c. E. Noelle-Neumann
Prof. dr. dr. h.c. Elisabeth Noelle, born in Berlin in 1916, married in 1946 with Erich Peter Neumann (1912-1973) studied history, journalistic ans philosophy. In 1940, she became doctor in philosophy in Berlin. Next, she worked as a journalist for various newspapers such as the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, das Reich and the Frankfurter Zeitung.  
In 1947, Noelle-Neumann and her husband founded the first German opinion research institute: the Institut für Demoskopie Allensbach - Gesellschaft zum Studium der öffentlichen Meinung mbH, the first German institute for opinion research. This institute, in Allensbach, exists until today.
In the '60's, Noelle-Neumann was appointed as professor at the Gutenberg-university in Mainz. From 1978 to 1991, she was professor at the university of Chicago. From the end of the '60's, she started to develop theories about public opinion. This culminated in the Schweigespirale, a theory in which it is stated that the more the opinion of the majority, spread by the mass media and especially by TV, becomes dominant,  the more those opinions who are opposing it, fall silent. 
Until today, her political attitude during World War II frequently has been a subject of discussion.

Noelle-Neumann on Nostradamus
In the period in which Noelle-Neumann worked as a freelance-journalist for the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, she wrote an article in which she stated that Nostradamus predicted the German invasion in France in 1940 and the capitulation of Paris. In 1998, she referred to this article in an interview with the German media scholar Wolfgang Hagen and told that by 1940, because of the Centuries, she already knew that Germany would lose the war. In 2003, she discussed her 1940-article in an article which was published by the German newspaper Die Welt and wrote that by 1940, because of the Centuries, she knew that World War II would be followed by a conflict with "the Arabs".
On this website, all these articles are discussed, due to a.o. the fact that the story, told by Noelle-Neumann in 1998, differed from the article she wrote in 2003.