NOSTRADAMUS, ASTROLOGY AND THE BIBLE
SUBSTUDY "WORLD WAR II"
Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn - Michel Nostradamus spreekt in 1558 over het verloop en den uitslag van dezen oorlog 
(A. de Tombre, Arnhem, 1941)
- T.W.M. van Berkel -

Index WORLD WAR II

General information
In 1941, Hijman, Stenfert Kroese & Van der Zande NV publishers in Arnhem, the Netherlands, published a national-socialist propaganda booklet, carrying the author's name A. de Tombre. On the cover, a sand-glass is depicted, floating in the sky. Underneath this sand-glass is a circle with thirteen symbols.
This booklet has several titles. On the top of the cover, it reads Staat onze toekomst vast? (tr.: Is our future fixed?). Underneath the sand-glass it reads Voorspellingen van Nostradamus uit het jaar 1558 over het verloop van den huidigen oorlog (tr.: Predictions of Nostradamus, dating from the year 1558, about the course of the present war). The backside of the cover contains the title De voorspellingen van Nostradamus (tr.: The predictions of Nostradamus). On the cardboard cover it reads Voorspellingen van Nostradamus uit het jaar 1558 (tr.: predictions of Nostradamus, dating from the year 1558), which is a part of the title underneath the sand-glass. On the title page it reads Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn - Michel Nostradamus spreekt in 1558 over het verloop en den uitslag van dezen oorlog (tr.: Predictions which are fulfilled - Michel Nostradamus speaks in 1558 about the course and the result of this war). 
On this website, this booklet is entitled Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn... This abbreviated titled is taken from the title page and fits with the title by which this booklet is listed in the online catalogues of e.g. the Royal Dutch Library, The Hague, NL and the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin.

Simon Hijman Juliuszoon (1871-1944)

Rudolf Julius Hijman (1903-1986)

Hijman, Stenfert Kroese & Van der Zande NV, Arnhem, the Netherlands [1]
Hijman, Stenfert Kroese & Van der Zande NV, booksellers and publishers in Arnhem, the Netherlands, was founded in 1919 as the result of a fusion between Simon Hijman Juliuszoon booksellers, seated in Arnhem, 64-65 Koningstraat, and Stenfert Kroese & Van der Zande booksellers, seated in Arnhem, 72 Bakkerstraat. The fusion was caused by the fact that in 1918, the Geldersche Credietvereeniging NV, seated in Arnhem, 70 Bakkerstraat, who owned the house in which Stenfert Kroese & Van der Zande was seated, decided to expand her office and thus ended the lease contract.  The office of Hijman in the Koningstraat became the office of the newly founded bookstore.
Simon Hijman Juliuszoon was born in Schiedam on January 12, 1871. He was the eldest of the two children of Julius Hijman and Annatje Gosschalk. His brother Bernard was born in 1876. 
On June 4, 1901, in Vlissingen, Simon married with Adèle Catharina Andriesse, born in Vlissingen on November 8, 1873. They got two children: a daughter, Annie Elisabeth (May 21, 1902 - March 29, 1970), and a son, Rudolf Julius (born on June 1, 1903 - deceased in 1986).

When Hijman studied in The Hague, he became in contact with young artists and authors like Louis Couperus, Willem Kloos and Willem Mesdag. On October 12,1895, Hijman opened a bookstore in the Broerenstraat in Arnhem. He turned out to be an advocate of the modern literature in his lifetime. Shortly after, he seated his bookstore in 64-65 Koningstraat, Arnhem, for reasons of expansion. Once he was seated in the Koningstraat, he took over the Arnhem Library and gave this library a literary direction. To its collection, which contained a.o. the complete works of Honoré du Balzac, Charles Dickens, Gustave Flaubert, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Heinrich Heine and William Shakespeare, he added books of the prominent authors of his lifetime, among which those of Ina Boudier-Bakker, Louis Couperus, Henrik Ibsen, Top Naeff and Arthur Schnitzler. 
Stenfert Kroese & Van der Zande booksellers was founded on January 1, 1873, when the Arnhem bookseller K.F.C.Th van der Zande took over the bookshop of W.H. Stenfert Kroese, also seated in Arnhem. In the course of the years, Stenfert Kroese & Van der Zande became one of the most reknown Arnhem booksellers. The most important newspapers had an agency at Stenfert Kroese & Van der Zande.
Hijman, Stenfert Kroese & Van der Zande NV published the Palladium series, in which in small, carefully printed editions the most beautiful texts of the young generations of authors and some classic authors were published. The Palladium series consisted of 21 volumes, published between 1920 and 1927. The first volume, Deirde en de Zonen van Usnach, was written by A. Roland Holst. The Palladium series also included works by a.o. J. Greshoff, J. van Looy, J. Luyken, R.N. Roland Holst, A. van Schendel and J. Slauerhoff. Hijman, Stenfert Kroese & Van der Zande NV also published Geschiedenis der Nederlandse letterkunde (J. Greshoff, J. de Vries, 1925), a compendium which for several decades was the leading guide in Dutch literature.
In the course of the years, Hijman, Stenfert Kroese & Van der Zande NV became a meeting centre of arts, culture, literature and science. She owned one of the largest Dutch collections of bibliographies. Year after year, the library collection was enriched with novels as well as books for children. In the course of the years, the works of the younger generation of authors became part of the collection.
On May 26,1941, Hijman, Stenfert Kroese & Van der Zande NV was confiscated by the Nazi's, in order to expel the Jews from the economic life, the so-called Entjüdung.[2] Hijman and his son, both directors of Hijman, Stenfert Kroese & Van der Zande NV, were fired. The management was taken over by the national-socialist Jacobus Gerardus van Ditmarsch, secretary of the national-socialist publishing company "Volksche Uitgeverij Westland". Hijman, Stenfert Kroese & Van der Zande NV was turned into a national-socialist branch office. The employees were told that resign would be seen as an act of sabotage and would be punished as such. As an act of resistance, they hided Hijman's collections of books in the attics in the house at the Koningstraat as well as books which the Germans considered to be not allowed.
On December 17, 1942, the superintendent of the municipal police in Arnhem issued a warrant of arrest against Hijman and his wife, who were hiding themselves. Being betrayed, they were  arrested by the Germans in a farm in Lathum, their cover address, on August 1, 1944, and deported to the prisoner's camp of Westerbork, NL. On September 3, 1944, they were deported to Auschwitz, where they died on September 6, 1944.
After the Battle of Arnhem, the municipalities had no transport capacity to evacuate Hijman's valuable collection of bibliographies. On April 30, 1945, Hijman's house at the Koningstraat completely burned out and the bibliographies, the stock of books, the library and all catalogues, among which the complete Brinkman-catalogue, went up into flames.
On September 30, 1945, Rudolf Julius Hijman resumed the activities of Hijman, Stenfert Kroese & Van der Zande NV with the help of the city of Arnhem. The bookstore/publishing house became seated in 15 Grote Oord, Arnhem, a former grocery store. Like before the war, the bookstore became a meeting centre for arts and literature. Until 1970, the company was owned by Rudolf Julius Hijman; from 1970 to 1982 by G.F.P.M. van der Hoeven and after 1982 by W. Dorman.
In 1974, Hijman, Stenfert Kroese & Van der Zande NV ended their publishing activities. The bookstore was continued under the name Hijman Boeken. In 2006, Hijman Boeken was bought by Everhard Arends, owner of Arends Boek en Kantoor, with the branch offices Presikhaaf (58-60 Hanzestraat, Arnhem) and Kronenburg (92 Kronenburgpassage, Arnhem). The name Hijman Boeken was changed into Boekhandel Hijman & Arends. Under the guidance of Arends, the bookstore was rebuilded and became a bookstore in the grand manner again. Frequently, there are literary activities and authors are treated like one of the family. The reminiscence to the former bookstore/publishing company is kept alive by a.o. a wall stone next to the entrance, with the logo of Hijman, Stenfert Kroese & Van der Zande.
15 Grote Oord, Arnhem, is owned by the widow of Rudolf Julius Hijman. The renting contract contains the clause that in 15 Grote Oord, Arnhem, a bookstore is seated, the name of which includes the family name of Hijman.

Dr. Alexander Max Centgraf, author of the German source text of Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn... 
Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn... carries the name of A. de Tombre. 
After World War II, the Dutch parapsychologist dr. W.H.C. Tenhaeff did research on what people "saw" about the war by means of proscopy (experiencing or observing future events by means of ESP). He published his findings in his book Oorlogsvoorspellingen - een onderzoek m.b.t. proscopie in verband met het wereldgebeuren (Den Haag, 1948 [1947]). On page 211, he characterized De Tombre as a national-socialist gentleman who was disposed to Germany. His discussion of Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn... shows that he considered this brochure to be a Dutch brochure, written by De Tombre. Actually, Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn... is a Dutch translation of a German text, written by dr. Alexander Max Centgraf (1893-1970), a preacher who in 1935 became an author, who also was a philologist and historian, who was a member of the SA from October 1933 and who was a member of the NSDAP from May 1937.
On July 9, 2005, the German Century-scholar Ulrich Maichle, who is doing archive reserach on the use of the Centuries for national-socialist propaganda, communicated that the title page and the back of the title page of a copy of Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn..., owned by the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, contained notes which showed that Centgraf was the author of Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn... At the bottom of the title page, there is a stamp of the Preußische Staatsbibliothek Berlin with the year 1941/2 (the numbers 1 and 2 are mixed). Underneath the publisher's name is a note, which reads verfasst von Dr. Alexander Centgraf Berlin W.30 Hohenstaufenstr. 35. On the back of the cover is written: Der Preußischer Staatsbibliothek als Geschenk überreicht vom Verfasser Dr. Centgraf. According to the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn... became part of the collection in 1941, which means that Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn... was published in 1941.[3] In 1942 and 1943, Centgraf lived in Berlin W.30, 35 Hohenstaufenstraße.[4]
Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn... does not contain the name Centgraf. The Inleiding contains a remark which might point towards him. On the pages 7 and 8, the author claimed that from his youth, he was clairvoyant. He wrote: Ik heb wel eens gehoord, dat zij, die, zooals ik, in Maart geboren zijn, van de Voorzienigheid dit bijzonder charisma (= genadegift) ontvangen hebben (tr. I once heard that Providence gave this special charisma (blessing) to those who, like me, were born in March).[5] Centgraf was born in Thale (Harz) on March 8, 1893.[6]
In the article Nostradamus und Berlin - und andere Weissagungen, published in Der Kurier on July 10, 1949, Centgraf discussed several quatrains, among which quatrain 03-11. This quatrain contains the word Hadrie. In his comment on quatrain 03-11, Centgraf characterized this word as an anagram and wrote: 

An der Hand einer Reihe anderer Vierzeiler, die sich mit unserem Schicksal im letzten Kriege beschäftigen, habe ich erkannt, daß Nostradamus das Wort "Hadrie" als Kryptogramm für Hitler gebraucht. Man lese einmal das Wort so, wie ich es jetzt trenne: H (Hitler) Ad (Adolf) Adrie = Adria, der südliche Schwerpunkt der Achsenpolitik des Diktators.

With einer Reihe anderer Vierzeiler (tr.: a series of other quatrains), Centgraf meant the quatrains 01-08, 02-55 and 10-38 in Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn. On page 47 of Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn..., the word Hadrie was explained as follows: 

Hier wil ik slechts dit zeggen, dat het woord "Hadrie" de beginletters van den voor- en achternaam van Adolf Hitler bevat en tevens het woord Adria. Dit laatste woord is echter een verwijzing naar de as tussen Duitschland en Italië, die zijn zuidelijke zwaartepunt heeft in de Adria (de Adriatische Zee).

In other words: in Nostradamus und Berlin - und andere Weissagungen, Centgraf claimed he was the one who linked the word Hadrie to Hitler and the Axis-powers, based upon a series of quatrains which were linked to World War II, a linking which can be traced back to the discussion of the quatrains  01-08, 02-55 and 10-38 in Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn... and the discussion of the meaning of the word Hadrie on page 47 of this booklet.[7] 
The notes on the title page and the back of the cover of the Berlin copy of Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn..., the resemblance between March as a month of birth, mentioned on page 7 in Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn... and March 8 1893, the birth date of Centgraf, and the fact that the series of quatrains which contained the word Hadrie, to which Centgraf referred in Nostradamus und Berlin - und andere Weissagungen can be traced back to three quatrains, discussed in Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn... clearly prove that Centgraf was the author of what on this website is called the German source text of Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn...  
According to Maichle, the name De Tombre is a pseudonym of Centgraf, something which is also thought by the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. On this website however, it is maintained that A. de Tombre was a fascist astrologer, a fact, communicated by P. Heil to the editors of the Dutch newspaper Het Vrije Volk.[8] Therefore, on this website, it is maintained that De Tombre is the translator of the German source text of Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn..., which was written by Centgraf. 
Centgraf also wrote Nostradamus - der Prophet der Weltgeschichte (Schikowski, Berlin, 1953), Nostradamus - prophetische Weltgeschichte (Turm Verlag, Bietigheim, 1966) and Die großen Weissagungen des Nostradamus - prophetische Weltgeschichte bis zum 2050 (Goldmann Verlag, München, 1977), books which were re-issued a number of times. In 1981, Nostradamus - prophetische Weltgeschichte was translated into Dutch and published as De profetieën van Nostradamus (Veen, Utrecht). In all of these publications, Centgraf used the pseudonym dr. N. (Alexander) Centurio. In the Polish translation Przepowiednie Nostradamusa, he is named Aleksander N. Centurio.

Dating of Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn...
The statement of dr. W.H.C. Tenhaeff on page 210 in Oorlogsvoorspellingen... that shortly after May 1940, Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn... was published, is not correct. The German source text of Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn... is, as can be derived from its translation, finished between June 22, 1941 and December 7, 1941, which means that at the time of publishing Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn..., Hijman, Stenfert Kroese & Van der Zande NV publishers were already confiscated by the Nazi's. 
Chapter IV of Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn... begins with the remark that in the preceding chapters those predictions of Nostradamus were discussed, which history marked with truth and fulfimment.[9] This means that the predictions which are discussed in the chapters I to III, were linked to the past. Paragraph III.5 deals with what Nostradamus, according to Centgraf, wrote about the catastrophy of bolshevism.[10] In this paragraph, quatrain 05-26 is linked to the origins of bolshevism and quatrain 01-14 to the persecution of the Church by the Bolshevists. Quatrain 08-15 is linked to the German-Russian battles in World War I as well as to the Anschluß in 1938 of Austria. Quatrain 01-99 (erroneously numbered as quatrain XI-XCIX) is linked to the pact between Germany, Italy and Japan as a counter-react against bolshevism. The remark on page 85 in Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn... that far-sighted French politicians considered this pact to be dangerous for France's future, implies that Centgraf referred to the Antikomintern-Pact, signed by Germany, Italy and Japan on November 6, 1937. The period of 27 years, mentioned in the second line of quatrain 08-72, is commented as an allusion to the existence of bolshevism. This comment implies that by 1944, bolshevism will come to an end.
The first line of quatrain 07-07 (Sur le combat des grands chevaux legiers) is vertaald in Met het oog op de snelle vooruitgeschoven troepen (tr.: In connection with the fast troops, moved ahead). As a whole, this quatrain is linked to "the lightning German attack which will destroy bolshevism". This appears to be a reference to the German invasion in Russia on June 22, 1941, also known as Operation Barbarossa. The first months of this invasion were succesful for the Germans. The Russian army could not withstand and Leningrad and Moscow were under fire after a couple of months. 
There is no reference in Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn... to the German and Italian declaration of war to the United States on December 7, 1941, following the Japanese attack on the US-Navy base Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.
If the German source text of Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn... is finished between June 22, 1941 and December 7, 1941, or completely written in that period, is something which cannot be ascertained yet. 

Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn... and the Antikomintern [11]
In 1933, dr. Eberhard Taubert, an employee of Goebbels' Ministry of Propaganda, founded the Gesamtverband Deutscher antikommunistischer Vereinigungen e.V., an organization, known as the Antikomintern. The purpose of the Antikomintern was to unite all organizations and persons who were hostile to Russian communism in order to fight communism in the ideological field. Moreover, a strong German anti-Russian propaganda should raise more sympathy for Germany as a defender of Europe against communism. The Antikomintern appeard to be a private organization. Actually, her activities were financed by the Ministry of Propaganda. In 1934, Taubert became the head of the Nibelungen-Verlag, a publishing company, founded by the Ministry of Propaganda, which would publish material, produced by the Antikomintern.
When on August 23, 1939, Germany and Russia signed a non-aggression pact (the Molotov - Von Ribbentrop pact), the Ministry of Propaganda forbade articles, books, lectures and movies which were hostile to communism. The Antikomintern was closed. The title of its magazine was changed from Contra-Komintern into Die Aktion - Kampfblatt gegen Plutokratie und Völkerverhetzung. Taubert, however, was not shunted on to a siding; he kept on working for the Ministry of Propaganda. In December 1939, he was involved in the production of national-socialist propaganda, based upon the Centuries and/or Century-comments; he compiled chain-letters and a brochure.[12] He also wrote the scenario of the anti-Semitic movie Der ewige Jude and was responsible for the propaganda in Norway, occupied by Germany. Taubert was also responsible for the propaganda among those Germans who settled themselves in the new Polish corridor, in order to make them settle in the country instead of in the city.
From April 1941, Taubert and a small staff worked on propaganda instructions for the campaign against Russia. Their first concrete action was the production of flyers which had to be spread among both German and Russian troops. Four weeks after the German invasion in Russia, the Nibelungen Verlag published the book Warum Krieg mit Stalin?; its number of circulation was 450.000 copies.  
After the German invasion in Russia on June 22, 1941, the prohibition of anti-communist propaganda was lifted. It looks as if from that time, the Antikomintern resumed her activities, since on January 5, 1945, it was decided to give decorations to two of its participants. One of them was Centgraf who, according to the text of the decree, worked since a couple of years for the Antikomintern on a voluntary basis and participated in special campaigns which were very important for the course of the war, such as "the Nostradamus-Aktion". Centgraf carried out his tasks with an extreme ability and ardour and with the discretion which was required.[13] 
On this website, it is taken into consideration that the spread in the Netherlands of Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn... was a part of the Nostradamus-Aktion, mentioned in the decree of January 5, 1945,, but I have to admit that I know nothing about the details of this campaign or about whether or not Taubert and/or Goebbels were involved in it. Neither the Goebbels diaries, dealing with 1941, neither the minutes of the secret daily propaganda meetings in the Ministry of Propaganda in 1941 contain notes in connection with a Nostradamus-campaign in that year. Neither the Antikomintern, nor Centgraf is mentioned.
In 1940-1941, three national-socialist Nostradamus-brochures were spread in several languages. In November - December 1939, Herwarth von Bittenfeld, Bömer and Gutterer,  managers in the Ministry of Propaganda, wrote a national-socialist text, using a number of Century-comments, which was brought into circulation in the second quarter of 1940 in eight languages:  Croatian, Dutch, English, French, Italian, Rumanian, Serb and Swedish. In some of these translations, paragraphs were added in connection with the countries in which those translations were about to be spread.[14] The national-socialist propaganda series Informations-Schriften, produced in 1940-1941 under the auspices of the German Foreign Office, was published in eleven languages: Bulgarian, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Portuguese, Rumanian, Spanish and Swedish.[15] Nostradamus sieht die Zukunft Europas, written in 1940 by the Swiss astrologer Karl Ernst Krafft, who from January 1940 was involved in the production of national-socialist propaganda material, based upon the Centuries, has been translated into Danish, French, Hungarian, Portuguese, Rumanian and Spanish. I do not know if the German source text, written by Centgraf, has been translated into several languages. The collections of the great libraries, do not contain other translations than the Dutch one.

The contents of Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn...
Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn... consists of 102 pages. It is divided in an introduction, four chapters, an appendix with photocopies of 15 French quatrain texts, according to a statement copied from the "original first edition of the Centuries" and a table of contents.

Design and illustrations
Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn... is designed exuberantly. The chapter titles are printed with decoration characters. On the top of each text page, an ornament is printed, consisting of birds and leafs. At the end of the introduction ans the appendix, a triangular ornament is printed, consisting of leafs. The characters in the text are varied with sizes. The quatrain texts and quotes are printed with a left indent and italic letters are used. In order to emphasize, quatrain texts, quotes and some other parts of the text are printed with a wider letter space. The discussed quatrains are numbered with Roman numbers. On page 62 for example is quatrain 03-50 numbered as III, L.
Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn... contains three illustrations. According to the letterpress, the picture of the title page of the "original edition of Nostradamus' predictions", depicted on page 9, is taken from the 1568-Lyon-edition. Apparently, Centgraf meant the what is known as the first "complete" edition fo the Centuries, which contains the Preface to Cesar, ten Centuries and the Epistle to Henry II, since there is also a 1555-Bonhomme-edition, carrying the year 1555 as year of issue, and 1557-Du Rosne-editions, carrying the year 1557 as year of issue.
According to the letterpress, page 10 contains a picture of the title page of the jubilee-edition of Nostradamus' predictions, published in Amsterdam. Centgraf meant the 1668-Amsterdam-edition, published by J.J. van Waesberge. His suggestion that this was a jubilee edition was founded on the year of issue, 1668, which is 100 years later then the year of issue of the 1658-B.Rigaud-edition, which he presented as the first "complete" edition.
On page 20, a copy of a portrait of Nostradamus is depicted. According to the letterpress, this copy originated in the first edition of his "Predictions", published in 1568 in Lyon. Underneath this portrait, it reads: Vera loquor, nec falsa loquor sed munere coeli. Qui loquitur Deus est non ego Nostradamus. This portrait does not occur in any of the 1568-Lyon-editions; in fact, these editions do not contain any portrait of Nostradamus. It has been copied from the 1668-Amsterdam-edition.[16]

De Tombre, p.9 title page "Lyon-1568"	De Tombre, p.10 title page "Amsterdam-1668"	De Tombre, p.20 portrait "Lyon-1568"

Source material
Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn... does not contain a bibliography of consulted works. In the paragraph Design and illustrations is described that two illustrations in Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn... were copied from the 1668-Amsterdam-edition. During the literature study upon which this article is based, it became clear that Centgraf, while writing the German source text of Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn..., used a number of publications.

a. The 1940-Krafft-copy
According to the information in Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn..., the French quatrain texts in the appendix were copied from "the original first issue of the Centuries".[17] This is a reference to an edition which carries the year 1568 and which is published by the Lyonese publisher Benoist Rigaud. In Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn..., the cover of this edition is depicted on page 10.
During the literature study upon which this article is based, the French quatrain texts in the appendix were compared with corresponding quatrain texts in the 2000-Chomarat-facsimile, a re-issue of a 1568-B.Rigaud-edition. The comparison showed a great number of differences. In seven quatrains in the appendix, the words differed from the corresponding words in the 2000-Chomarat-facsimile. Further, the letter space between the words cité and solaire in quatrain 01-08 in Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn... is wider than in the 2000-Chomarat-facsimile, the second line of quatrain 03-58 in Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn... is ended with a point instead of a colon and the character of the double -s- in quatrain 08-15 in Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn... have not the same size, whereas in quatrain 08-15 in the 2000-Chomarat-facsimile the characters of this double -s- have the same size..

The German Century-scholar Wilhelm Zannoth observed resemblances between the French quatrain texts in the appendix in Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn... and the corresponding quatrain texts in the photocopy of a 1568-B.Rigaud-edition, produced by Krafft in 1940, who also wrote an introduction to it.[18] Back in 1940, this photocopy was produced in the limited number of 299 copies, not meant for free selling. In Nostradamus - prophetische Weltgeschichte, Centgraf wrote that this copy was the source text of his translation of the quatrains.[19]  
In this article, it is supposed that a number of quatrain texts in the 1940-Krafft-copy were copied and used as illustration material in Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn... In connection with Centgraf's remark in Nostradamus - prophetische Weltgeschichte that the 1940-Krafft-copy was his source text, I consider the possibility that Centgraf had a copy at his disposal when he wrote the German source text of Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn... 

b. National-socialist propaganda, based upon the Centuries and/or Century-comments
The literature study upon which this article is based, showed that Centgraf assimilated parts of the national-socialist brochure Hoe zal deze oorlog eindigen? (or the German source text of this brochure) and the brochure Die Prophezeiungen des Nostradamus, volume 18 in the series Informations-Schriften.

Hoe zal deze oorlog eindigen? (The Hague, 1940; German source text: Berlin, 1939)
Page 8 in Chapter I in Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn... contains a reference to "the deceased Jean François Pasteur, who in a small brochure, entitled Hoe zal de oorlog eindigen? dealt with the predictions of Nostradamus about the present situation". Actually, this brochure is entitled Hoe zal deze oorlog eindigen? It is the Dutch translation of the national-socialist propaganda text, written in November - December 1939 by Herwarth von Bittenfeld c.s.[20]  
On the pages 27 to 30 in Hoe zal deze oorlog eindigen?, quatrain 03-57 is discussed. In connection with this quatrain, Herwarth von Bittenfeld c.s. wrote that for many decades, the German Century-Scholars Kritzinger and Loog, the French Century-scholars Amiaux, De Fontbrune, Piobb and Rochetaillée and the Englishman Taylor independent from each other calculated that the year 1939 would be the fatal year for England.
Herwarth von Bittenfeld c.s. mentioned Kritzinger because of his discussion of quatrain 03-57 on page 136 in M(Berlin, 1922 [1921]). Actually, Kritzinger did not do any calculations in connection with quatrain 03-57; he discussed the comment on quatrain 03-57, given by Loog in Die Weissagungen des Nostradamus .[21]  
At the end of page 53 in Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn... and the beginning of page 54, one can find the remark that long before the beginning of the war, the Century-scholars Loog and Kritzinger predicted that quatrains 03-57 would be fulfilled in 1939. In this article, it is assumed that Centgraf copied this from (the German source text of) Hoe zal deze oorlog eindigen?, althoug it cannot be excluded that he actually read the comments on quatrain 03-57, given by Loog and Kritzinger, and thought that Kritzinger in Mysterien von Sonne und Seele had presented the results of his own calculations in connection with quatrain 03-57.

Die Prophezeiungen des Nostradamus (Informations-Schriften, Berlin, 1940)
It can be demonstrated that Centgraf copied two paragraphs from Die Prophezeiungen des Nostradamus (Brochure-18-DE), volume 18 in the national-socialist series Informations-Schriften. The first paragraph deals with the year 1792, mentioned in the Epistle to Henry II, which in Brochure-18-DE is linked to the Republican Calendar, introduced in France in 1792. On page 7 of Die Prophezeiungen des Nostradamus, it reads:

Im Jahre 1792 wird man sich einbilden, daß das Zeitalter sich erneuere.

Onp page 11 in Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn... it reads that in 1792 the French Revolutions was "politically documented". According to Centgraf, Nostradamus wrote in "the preface of his book":

In dit jaar zal men zich inbeelden, dat er een nieuwe tijd ingeluid wordt. (tr.: In this year, one will imagine that a new era is ushered in).

The second paragraph deals with " a game of thousand obscure verses". On page 23 in Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn..., it reads that Nostradamus, as he says in his prologue, wanted to keep the nations and the people in a state of uncertainty by means of "a game of thousand obscure verses". This "game of thousand obscure verses" occurs in a six-line verse, originally written by Edouard Roesch in Die erstaunlichen Bücher des Grossen Artztes, Sehers und Schicksals-Propheten Nostradamus in’s Deutsche übertragen und dem Verständnisse aufgeschlossen (Stuttgart, 1850). The Noah-version of this verse is quoted on page 1 in Brochure-18-DE (Noah: Nostradamus - prophetische Weltgeschichte von 1547 bis gegen 3000, Berlin, 1928). According to Brochure-18-DE, this verse was at the beginning of the book Hundertschaften und Prophetien; the first volume of this book was published in 1555 in Lyon. On this website, it is assumed that Centgraf copied his remark about the game of thousand obscure verses, described by Nostradamus, from Brochure-18-DE.
The link of quatrain 05-93 to the German invasion in Belgium and the Netherlands can be traced back to the comment on quatrain 05-94 on page 13 in Brochure-18-DE.

c. Century-comments
During the literature study upon which this article is based, it became clear that Centgraf not only copied from propaganda material, but also from a number of Century-comments. In a number of cases, he elaborated the copied paragraphs. In most cases, he did not mention the source of his final text.

Die Weissagungen des Nostradamus (C. Loog, Pfullingen in Württemberg, 1921 [1920]) [22] 
Centgraf took much material from Loog's Die Weissagungen des Nostradamus. Sometimes, he elaborated Loog's text. 

Quatrain 05-94 (Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn..., p. 28)
In his comment on quatrain 05-94, Centgraf wrote that count Zeppelin, the inventor of the zeppelin, had said that in the West, Boulogne had to be the last outpost of the German Empire. Boulogne is mentioned in the second line of quatrain 05-94. Cengraf's remark can be traced back to page 91 of Die Weissagungen of Nostradamus. Loog had written that it was remarkable that Nostradamus, anticipating on an idea of count Zeppelin, qualified Boulogne as the last outpost of the German navy. However, Loog thought that quatrain 05-94 would be fulfilled around 2100; Centgraf linked this quatrain to the German invasion in the Netherlands, Belgium and the north of France in May 1940.

Quatrain 05-51 (Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn..., p.43)
The Dutch translation of quatrain 05-51 in Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn... corresponds almost perfectly with the German translation on page 66 in Loog's Die Weissagungen des Nostradamus. In his translation, Centgraf does not translate the word Barcins. In his comment, he interprets this word as an allusion to Baroe in Cyrenaica and, in combination with Tyrrhania, to Italy as an ally of Germany.
The third line in the Dutch translation contains the words uit te komen, which are a literal translation of the German word hinauszukommen.
In Die Weissagungen des Nostradamus, Loog linked this quatrain to the cooperation after World War I between England, Bohemia, Poland and Rumania. He supposed that in the third and the fourth line, a battle was predicted, connected with the free passage through the Street of Gibraltar. Centgraf copied this comment and elaborated it by writing that it was predicted in the third line that through Italy, England would lose Gibraltar, which was part of the war politics of Germany and Italy.
In the article Prophete rechts - Prophete links - War Nostradamus wirklich Scharlatan und Betrüger? (in: Der Reichswart #50, Berlijn, December 12, 1940), on this website entitled Nostradamus Scharlatan?, Loog revised his comment on quatrain 05-51 and linked it to the Sudetenland crisis (Bohemia, 1938), the German invasion in Poland (1939) and the assignment of Rumanian regions to the Soviet-Union and Italy (1940). In this revised comment, Loog wrote nothing about a conflict in relation with Gibraltar..[23] It is not clear if Centgraf ignored this revised comment or did not know it.

Quatrain 03-67 (Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn..., p.46)
The Dutch translation of quatrain 03-67 in Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn... corresponds almost completely with the German translation on page 67 in Loog's Die Weissagungen des Nostradamus, except for the second line, in which in Loog's version the word or is not translated, and the fourth line, which in Centgraf's version is arranged in a different way.
Loog situated quatrain 03-67 in the years next to World War I. In Nostradamus Scharlatan?, he did not want to discuss the link between this quatrain and national-socialism.[24]

Quatrain 02-100 (Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn..., p.72)
Centgraf's comment on quatrain 02-100 in Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn... contains the remark that nothing about England's fears may become known. This remark can be traced back to Loog's remark in his comment on quatrain 02-100 on page 71 in Die Weissagungen des Nostradamus, that the world will not register anything about the events, predicted in quatrain 02-100, and that England will keep everything secret which might damage her prestige

Quatrain 02-76 (Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn..., p.77-78)
The linking of quatrain 02-76 in Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn... to the long-distance cannons with which the Germans in 1918 fired at Paris and to the French abbot Cochin, who informed the German army command about the impact of the granates, can be traced back to Loog's comment on quatrain 02-76 on page 53 in Die Weissagungen des Nostradamus. In connection with Cochin, Loog wrote that the third line of quatrain 02-76 contained an allusion to him, but that it was unknown if Cochin had become paralysed. Centgraf wrote about Cochin that nothing was known about his walking with a limp; the allusion to this in quatrain 02-76 could also be an allusion to Cochin's qustionable attitude. 

Nostradamus und seine Prophezeiungen für das zwanzigste Jahrhundert (dr. B. Winkler, Görlitz, 1939 [1938])
From Winkler'; s Nostradamus und seine Prophezeiungen für das zwanzigste Jahrhundert, Centgraf copied three quatrains which according to Winkler dealt with the birth and rise of Hitler, national-socialist politics in Germany and the legislation by Hitler. Centgraf discussed these quatrains in the order in which Winkler had discussed them; he copied Winkler's comments and elaborated them in some points.

Quatrain 03-58 (Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn..., p.48-49)
The link of quatrain 03-58 in Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn... to the birth and rise of Hitler can be traced back to Winkler's comment on the pages 37 and 38 in Nostradamus und seine Prophezeiungen für das zwanzigste Jahrhundert. Centgraf copied Winkler's opinion that this quatrain had predicted the birth and rise of Hitler. 
In his comment on quatrain 03-58, Winkler quoted two lines from a poem by Conrad Ferdinand Meyer: Was langsam reift, das altert spat. Wenn andre welken, werden wir ein Staat! He linked these lines to the second line in quatrain 03-58, which contained an allusion to a nation "which came too late", in other words: raised lately. In Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn..., Centgraf wrote about Meyer that he was a clairvoyant Swiss poet, something which Winkler had not mentioned. Centgraf also wrote that these lines came from a poem of Meyer about Ulrich von Hutten. Winkler had not mentioned this either.
In Nostradamus und seine Prophezeiungen für das zwanzigste Jahrhundert, quatrain 03-58 was numbered erroneously as II, 58. This error occurs in most translations of the German source text, written by Herwarth von Bittenfeld c.s., which implies that they copied this error. Centgraf, however, gave the correct quatrain number. 

Quatrain 04-15 (Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn..., p.49-50)
The link between quatrain 04-15 in 04-15 in Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn... to the national-socialist politics in Germany can be traced back to Winkler's comment on page 38 inNostradamus und seine Prophezeiungen für das zwanzigste Jahrhundert. 
Winkler wrote: 

Der Hunger kam von der Arbeitsfrage, nämlich von der mangelnden ARbeitsgelegenheit; die Sättigung kommt ebenfallsvon der Arbeitsfrage, nämlich von der wiedergeschaffenen Arbeitsgelegenheit. Statt das Auge gierig auf das Meer zu richten: statt das Volk durch überseeische Einführ zu ernähren, wie es die Systemregieringen taten, wird einder dem andern Öl und Brot geben, wird ein Volksgenosse den andern durch seine Arbeit ernähren.

 In Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn..., this was described as follows:

De honger komt door de werkloosheid en de verzadiging door den arbeid. In plaats van nu gefascineerd naar het oog van de zee te staren - bedoeld is de overzeesche invoer - geeft de een den ander olie en brood, d.w.z. gelegenheid tot arbeid.

Quatrain 05-79 (Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn..., p.50)
The linking of quatrain 05-79 in Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn... to the formal ceremonies in Germany because of Hitler, the great legislator, can be traced back to Winkler's comment on page 39 in Nostradamus und seine Prophezeiungen für das zwanzigste Jahrhundert. Winkler wrote that the flags with festal splendour saluted Hitler and that the whole country changed into a sea of flags. In Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn... it reads that one literally can hear the noise of a sea of flags.

The comments on the quatrains 08-60 and 06-64 can also be traced back to Nostradamus und seine Prophezeiungen für das zwanzigste Jahrhundert.

Quatrain 08-60 (Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn..., p.35-36)
In Nostradamus und seine Prophezeiungen für das zwanzigste Jahrhundert, Winkler, following Bruno Noah, the author of Nostradamus - prophetische Weltgeschichte von 1547 bis gegen 3000, wrote on page 34 about a connection between quatrain 08-60 and the end of World War I, where Germany had to hand over Lorraine to France. In Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn..., Centgraf copied this comment. The Dutch text of quatrain 08-60 in Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn... corresponds in many ways with Winkler's German version. 

Quatrain 06-64 (Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn..., p.45-46)
On page 40 in Nostradamus und seine Prophezeiungen für das zwanzigste Jahrhundert, Winkle linked this quatrain to the fights in Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War. According to Winkler, this quatrain contained an allusion to the characterless way in which the Red were fighting. He translated the fourth line of quatrain 06-64 into Barcelona herrscht über die Arbeiterklasse. Centgraf carried on writing about this. On page 45 in Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn..., it reads that Barcelona is in a terrible situation, because the industrial  arbeidersklasse (tr.: labour classes) who rules Barcelona, restrains the city from peace and an armistice. 

The foregoing shows that Centgraf, while writing the German source text of Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn... used the following publications:

• Europa-Verlag (publisher): Die Prophezeiungen des Nostradamus (deel 18 uit de serie Informations-Schriften). Berlin, 1940.

• Krafft, K.E.: Les Propheties de Maistre Michel Nostradamus, Bildgetreuer, vergrösserter Abdruck einer Ausgabe der "Prophéties", erschienen bei Benoist RIGAUD Lyon unter dem Datum 1568. Frankfurt am Main, 1940.

• Loog, C.: Die Weissagungen des Nostradamus: erstmalige Auffindung des Chiffreschlüssels und Enthüllung der Prophezeiungen über Europas Zukunft und Frankreichs Glück und Niedergang, 1555-2200. Pfullingen in Württemberg, 1921 [1920].

• "Pasteur, J.F.": 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; German source text: Berlin, 1939.

• Waesberge, J.J. van (publisher): Les vrayes centuries et prophéties de maistre Michel Nostradamus. Amsterdam, 1668.

• Winkler, dr. B.: Nostradamus und seine Prophezeiungen für das zwanzigste Jahrhundert. Görlitz, 1939 (1938).

The propaganda message of Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn...
In Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn..., the end of the war is announced, an end which according to Centgraf's comment on quatrain 01-89 will be the beginning of a 57-year period of peace in which, according to his comment on quatrain 10-42, a new and happy Europe will be realized under strong, i.e. German, leadership.
According to his comment on quatrain 07-13, England will be occupied for 14 years. After 27 years of existence, bolshevism will come to an end because of the German Blitzkrieg, explained in the comment on quatrain 08-72. Centgraf's propaganda meant that Germany would fight successfully at two fronts. The Jews, the sterile people, as written in the comment on quatrain 08-96, would be expelled from Europe, the Arabs would humiliate them even more.
Centgraf had several ways to convince his readers that his message was credible. The first way, quite normal, was to link quatrains to past events. These links had to raise the impression that quatrains which in Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn... were linked to the future, also would be fulfilled. This can be observed in the title of chapter III: Nostradamus is talking: fulfilled predictions as a guarantee for the future. However, Centgraf did not discuss events which took place very long ago. He emphasized World War I and post-war events and linked a number of quatrains to inventions which in one way or another were connected with warfare such as the invention of the submarine, the long-distance cannon and the airplane. The reader had to understand that Nostradamus gave detailed descriptions of great wars.
The second way consisted of paragraphs in which Centgraf dealt with fate and freee will and in which he explained that he was clairvoyant and therefore acquainted with phenomenas like clairvoyance and prophecy. On page 13, he urged his readers to accept fate with love; not only the past was fixed, the future also was fixed. On page 17, one could read:

Het lot beveelt, wij moeten gehoorzamen
(tr: Fate commands, we must obey).

Centgraf exposed a great involvement in Nostradamus. Not only had his brochure the task to unveil a fabulous view on the future for his compatriots (read: the Dutch) but also a spiritual monument for Nostradamus in a way the 1668-Amsterdam-edition was a jubilee edition of the Centuries.[25] Further, Centgraf presented himself as an autonomic Century-scholar. His opinion about the future was quite different from the opinion of "Le Peletier", Moura, "Louvé" en Piobb. He also dissociated himself from Loog, Kritzinger, Noah en "Winckler", who thought that the political situation in Europe only would change about one hundred years later. According to Centgraf, their scientific-historic way of research failed, whereas his own research was based upon intuition, with which he aligned himself to Nostradamus..[26]
In order to strengthen his propaganda further, Centgraf wrote that by 1939 his study of the Centuries enabled him to construct the course of the war and doubted for a long time if he should publish his findings or not. He wrote that the unbelief of his compatriots (in the case of Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn...: the Dutch) restrained him from publication. However, because of the actual situation at the time of the issue of Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn..., this brochure was the right guid to the future.[27] 
Centgraf also tried to convince his readers by presenting arguments in which the history of Europe was discussed. In chapter II (tr.: The future of the Netherlands - Three concentric circles of history: France, England, Germany) he argued that it could be observed in the Centuries that from the moment Cromwell seized power in England, England replaced France as a leading power. England could maintain this position for about 300 years and would be succeeded by Germany, to which Nostradamus often referred with the words "Great-Germany".
Another strengthenment of Centgraf's propaganda message was to link four quatrains to Hitler in quite a concrete way. In Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn..., three quatrains are discussed which contain the word Hadrie: the quatrains 01-08, 02-55 and 10-38. As described already, Centgraf presented this word as an anagram, which he explained as an allusion to Hitler and Germany and Italy, the Axis-powers. It was Centgraf himself who invented this comment. The link of quatrain 03-56 to the birth and rise of Hitler was taken from Winkler's Nostradamus und seine Prophezeiungen für das zwanzigste Jahrhundert. If we add the quatrains 05-94 and 09-90, which contains the words Grande Germanie, and quatrain 10-31 in which it is written that the Holy Empire will come to Germany, we see that the reader is told with force that in the Centuries, it is described loud and clear that Germany is about to play a prominent, dominant role in Europe. The word Hadrie was also mentioned in quatrain 03-11, but in Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn..., this quatrain was not at all discussed in whatever way. In the article Nostradamus und Berlin - und andere Weissagungen, published on July 10, 1949, in the Sunday supplement of the Berlin magazine Der Kurier, Centgraf linked this quatrain to Hitler's death. Apparently, he could not use this quatrain at the time of writing the source text of Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn..., so he simply ignored it. 
In a number of cases, Centgraf mutilated quatrains. The third line of quatrain 06-25 for exemple, discussed on page 39, reads: Ieune noir rouge prendra la hierarchie. The word ieune means: young. Centgraf's translation reads: Black red yellow will seize hierarchy. With his comment, he wanted to demonstrate that Nostradamus foresaw the colours of the German flag and their order. Therefore, he translated Ieune into yellow, perhaps also suggesting that in the original text, it should have read Iaune.
Another case is the translation of quatrain 10-100, which deals with a period of British supremacy for more than 300 years. This duration is given in the second line of this quatrain, which reads le pempotan des ans plus de trois cens. On page 25 in Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn..., the Dutch translation reads De almachtige gedurende 300 jaren. In other words: Centgraf did not present a period of more than 300 years, but a period of 300 years. He synchronized this quatrain with quatrain 03-57, about which he wrote that there it was predicted that the end of the British supremacy had begun in 1939, and quatrain 03-57 referred to a 290-year period of British supremacy, which started in 1649. 
In contrast with Herwarth von Bittenfeld c.s. and the compilers of Brochure-18-DE, Centgraf himself linked quatrains to the future; he did not copy those links from other publications. A remarkable link is the link on the pages 90-91 of quatrain 01-35 to the perspective of Germany defeating England. According to Centgraf, the words lyon jeune (young lion) point to Germany and the words le vieux to England. This is a remarkable comment, since this quatrain traditionally is linked to Henry II's lethal injury during a tournament on June 30, 1559.

National-socialism, racism and anti-Semitism
In national-socialist brochures like Hoe zal deze oorlog eindigen?, its German source text dating from November - December 1939, and Brochure-18-DE, dating from the summer of 1940, the coming fall of England is announced and the settlement of the "Holy Empire" in Germany. The compilers of these brochures directed their campaign against England and wanted to drive a wedge between England and the European continent. They did not describe concretely what this "Holy Empire" would look like. National-socialist elements such as the "New Order" did not occur in these brochures; there were also no attacks on Jews and communists. On this website, it is assumed that Goebbels, when he wrote in his diary in February 1940 that the Nostradamusbrochure was a splendid brochure, meant for the neutrals, completely double-faced and virtuous, he referred to the contents of the German source text of a.o. Hoe zal deze oorlog eindigen?, which did not contain even the slightest allusion to national-socialism. Hitler was presented as a person, Germany as a country at war with England in a gigantic struggle.[28]
Presumably, the German source text of Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn... is either finished between June 22 and December 7, 1941, or entirely written in this period. At that time, Europe was in war for about two years. From July until October 1940, the British and German air force fought the Battle of Britain, which eventually was settled in British advantage. From autumn 1940, it was not England which was Hitler's target, but Eastern Europe. In a small campaign which took place from April 6 to April 17, 1941, Yugoslavia was invaded. On June 22, 1941, the Germans invaded Russia.
In the occupied countries, the Germans implied their racial laws. Jews and Romanies were expelled from public life, brought into getto's and finally deported to concentration camps where they had to do hard labour, mostly until this resulted in their death, or where they were murdered, mostly by gas. The cultural and social life in the occupied countries became based upon national-socialism. In other words: national-socialism openly showed her face. This was echoed in Centgraf's propaganda.
Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn... contains a number of anti-ethnic and/or anti-Semitic paragraphs. In the comment on page 54 on quatrain 03-57 for example, it is written that the people to which Nostradamus referred as "bastard people", did not consist of one nationality, but of several nationalities. According to this comment, the word Aries in the fourth line of this quatrain was an allusion to the Aryans, the Germans. The words pole Bastarnan, which also can be found in the fourth line, were translated into Polish bastard. On page 54, it reads that actually, the Polish state consisted of Polish, Germans, Ukrainians and numerous Jews. On page 55, it reads that in Poland, there was a strong merge between the Slavic parts of the Polish people and the Jews.
The words La teste raze in the second line of quatrain 07-13 on page 75 in Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn... were translated into  het leidende ras (tr.: the leading race). In the comment, it reads that with this allusion, which had to be read as the main race, nothing else was indicated but Germany.
According to Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn..., Nostradamus was not pleased with the Jews, In quatrain 08-96, which in Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn... was numbered erroneously as VII, XCVI, Nostradamus had referred to them with the words "The Synagoge, which became completely sterile". According to Centgraf, this was truly a good characterization of Jewish sterility.
In the comment on quatrain 05-94 op page 27 in Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn..., the words Grande Germanie were translated into groote Germaansche levensruimte (tr.: great German living area). On page 57, this was used once again. On page 92, the German Empire was presented.

Allusions to the Netherlands
Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn... had to raise the impression to be written by a Dutch Century-scholar. The basis for this mystification was made in the first pages of this booklet. On page 6, it was written about the Century-scholars Loog, Kritzinger, Noah and Winkler that they came from Germany. A German author would have referred to them with the word "compatriots". On page 8, the author had written that in early November 1939 in Rotterdam, he had a vision about great eagles, flying above the city in great numbers. Seven months later, he continued, the German airplanes were flying over Rotterdam. Next, he mentioned the title of the brochure Hoe zal deze oorlog eindigen?. Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn... had more to offer: a fabulous future perspective of world history and a spiritual monument for Nostradamus.
On page 11, it is written in a footnote in connection with the discussion of the 1668-Amsterdam-edition, that a copy of this edition is part of the collection of the Amsterdam University Library. A catalogue number was also given. This footnote might have been meant to strengthen the mystification that Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn... was written by a Dutchman.
The end of chapter I contains the remark that in 1939, basing himself upon the Centuries, the author already constructed the course of the war. Because of the unbelief of his compatriots (Dutch, of course), he kept his discoveries secret. The actual situation brought him to publish them in order to show his readers the right way into the future. 
The mystification of the Dutch nationality of the author was continued in chapter II. In the first line of this chapter, it read that the author, in order to satisfy the curiosity of his compatriots, quoted one of Nostradamus' predictions from which one easily could draw conclusions in connection with the future of the Netherlands. This remark was the introduction to quatrain 05-94, which was linked to the occupation of the Dutch regions in May 1940, including Boulogne.
In the last line of chapter IV, it reads that "our native country", (the Netherlands, TvB), will take her place under the sun in the new Europe.
The comment on quatrain 05-94 is the only comment in which the Netherlands are discussed. 

Notes to the list of discussed quatrains

1. In Voorspellingen die uitgekomen zijn..., this quatrain has been numbered erroneously as II, VII. [return<