Nostradamus, astrology and the Bible: World War II: De Wohl et al: Nostradamus prophezeit den Kriegsverlauf

Nostradamus prophezeit den Kriegsverlauf is a British brochure, written in German, which in 1943 was spread in Germany. On page 224 in Die schwarze Propaganda (Berlin, 1983, a translation of The black game, London, 1982, the British researcher Ellic Howe, who back in those days had printed this brochure, wrote that the text of Nostradamus prophezeit den Kriegsverlauf was written by either the author/astrologer Louis de Wohl, who in the fourties worked for section 1 of the Special Operations Executive, an office which was occupied with psychological warfare, or one Rene Hakets. One year later, in Astrology and the Third Reich (London, 1984; translated in 1995 into German, entitled Uranias Kinder: Die seltsame Welt der Astrologen und das Dritte Reich) he wrote nothing about the involvement of Hakets and stated that De Wohl was the principal author. In this article, it is assumed that De Wohl has been the principal author of Nostradamus prophezeit den Kriegsverlauf.
Nostradamus prophezeit den Kriegsverlauf consists of 123 pages. On the cover, an abstract figure is depicted. On the title page, which contains the title Der Kriegsverlauf prophezeit von Nostradamus, an ornament is depicted which looks like a vase from which flames rise. There are no other illustrations in Nostradamus prophezeit den Kriegsverlauf.
In Uranias Kinder... and Die schwarze Propaganda, Howe reported extensively about the printing of Nostradamus prophezeit den Kriegsverlauf, a job which for him was quite a relief in the midst of his daily routine such as the printing of false German provision coupons. For the text of the introduction, Howe used the Antiqua font. The quatrain texts in the introduction and their German translations were printed in the italic Antiqua font. The French quatrain texts in the five chapters of the propagandistic part of Nostradamus prophezeit den Kriegsverlauf were written in calligraphy by a certain "miss Elisabeth". With the reproduction of these handwritten texts, Howe wanted to suggest that these texts were reproduced from an ancient manuscript, to which was referred in the introduction. The German translations of these quatrain texts were printed in Fracture; the comments upon these quatrains in Antiqua. Howe used the thinnest Bible paper which at that time was available. As a result, despite its rather big size, the weight of Nostradamus prophezeit den Kriegsverlauf was less than 30 grams.
In Uranias Kinder..., Howe did not mention the number of copies of Nostradamus prophezeit den Kriegsverlauf.

Camouflage
Nostradamus prophezeit den Kriegsverlauf is "black propaganda", i.e. propaganda which among the target group, in this case the Germans, had to make the impression that it originated from themselves, i.e. written by a German and produced and spread in Germany. Besides being written in German, other measures were taken to give Nostradamus prophezeit den Kriegsverlauf a German look:

In the colophon of Nostradamus prophezeit den Kriegsverlauf, the typography was in the name of one Paul George. This name was a fictitious name; actually, it was Ellic Howe who took care of the typography. According to Howe's Die Schwarze Propaganda, page 224, the name "dr. Heinrich Lesse" probably also was a fictitious name.
In Die schwarze Propaganda, which was published a year before Astrology and the Third Reich (its German translation: Uranias Kinder...), Howe wrote on page 224 that it was also possible that Nostradamus prophezeit den Kriegsverlauf was written by one Rene Hakets. On page 291 of Uranias Kinder... however, he clearly mentioned De Wohl as the principal author; he did not mention the name of Rene Hakets.

Dating
On the title page of Nostradamus prophezeit den Kriegsverlauf, the year 1943 is mentioned. The introduction part is dated on October 1942. In the colophon, it is mentioned that the printing was finished on March 15, 1943.
In this article, it is supposed that the text of Nostradamus prophezeit den Kriegsverlauf in most early december 1942 was finished. In the comment upon quatrain CXXV, De Wohl c.s. seem to have referred to the battle in North-Africa between German and Italian forces and Allied forces after the landing of Allied forces in North-Africa on November 7, 1942. The most recent event to which De Wohl c.s. referred in Nostradamus prophezeit den Kriegsverlauf, was the attack on the French fleet in Toulon in November 1942. This reference can be found in the comment upon quatrain XCIX, which was not only linked to the attack on the French fleet in November 1942, but also to a previous attack in June 1940.[2]
In Uranias Kinder..., Howe did not mention in what period of World War II Nostradamus prophezeit den Kriegsverlauf was spread in Germany. According to the colophon, the printing was finished on March 15, 1943. Whether this is a fictitious date or not, can not be answered, but it makes no sense to spread a brochure in a period before the day on which the printing is finished. Therefore, it is supposed in this article that Nostradamus prophezeit den Kriegsverlauf was spread after March 15, 1943.

Text division
The text of Nostradamus prophezeit den Kriegsverlauf is divided into an untitled introduction, five chapters (Teil) and a colophon.

Nostradamus prophezeit den Kriegsverlauf does not contain a bibliography. De Wohl c.s. mentioned only one title of the Century-comments they used. On page 4 of Nostradamus prophezeit den Kriegsverlauf, they discussed an edition of the Centuries by the physician dr. De Garencieres, published in 1672. This is The true Prophecies or Prognostications of Michael Nostradamus, physician to Henry II, Francis II and Charles IX, kings of France, and one of the best Astronomers that ever were - a work full of curiosity and learning. This book contains an English translation of the Preface to Cesar and the Epistle to Henry II and (in French and English) the Centuries 1 - 10, including duplicate quatrains and additional quatrains to the Centuries 6, 7, 8 and 10; the Centuries 11 and 12 and the Sixains. The letter, in the name of Vincent Sève, which in 1605 accompanied the Sixains, is given n English. De Garencieres annotated all quatrains and Sixains and explained them the way he saw it.
On page 4, De Wohl c.s. quoted De Garencières' French text of the duplicate-quatrain 07-41 which contains the word Nizaram, an anagram for Guilio Raimondo Mazarino (1602-1661), later known as cardinal Mazarin, and his comment upon this quatrain.[3] De Wohl c.s. used De Garencières' English translation of this quatrain as a source text for their translation into German.
The Century-comment of De Garencieres was also mentioned on page 49 in their comment upon quatrain C. According to De Wohl c.s., De Garencieres explained the word Ausonne in the fourth line as a reference to Bordeaux, the residence of the ancient Roman poet Ausonius, a contemporary of emperor Valentinianus. Actually, this explanation by De Garencieres can be found in his comment upon for example the quatrains 02-63 and 03-86, but not in his comment upon quatrain 05-76, of which quatrain C was a propagandistically perverted version. De Wohl c.s. changed the fourth line of quatrain 05-76 (Barbare Armee viendra Venise craindre) into Sa vaste armee Ausonne trestout va craindre; they replaced the name of the city of Venise by the word Ausonne, which they explained as an ancient Roman name for Italy.[4]

De Wohl c.s. had attributed Nostradamus prophezeit den Kriegsverlauf to dr. Bruno Winkler and had mentioned Regulus publishers in Görlitz as the publisher and Hans Kretschmer printing-office in Görlitz-Biesnitz as the printer. The names of the publisher and the printing office appear in Winkler's Nostradamus-novel Und dies geheimnisvolle Buch...!, published in 1937. This means that De Wohl c.s. copied bibliographical data from Und dies geheimnisvolle Buch...!. They also copied a number of comments upon quatrains, among which the comment upon quatrain 06-63, which Winkler had linked to the reign of Cathérine de' Medici.
From Und dies geheimnisvolle Buch...!, also a number of French quatrain texts are copied. In for example the fourth line of the French text of quatrain 01-35 on page 6 of Nostradamus prophezeit den Kriegsverlauf, it does not read puis, as in the version of De Garencieres, but pour. In his discussion of this quatrain on page 99 of the scientific edition of the 1555-Bonhomme-edition of the Centuries, Brind'Amour did not mention this variant. The word pour can be found in the version of quatrain 01-35 as given in Und dies geheimnisvolle Buch...!; Winkler copied this version from the 1650-Leiden-edition. This means that De Wohl c.s. ran through the French quatrain texts in Und dies geheimnisvolle Buch...!. For the German translation of quatrain 01-35, they used the English translation by De Garencieres as a source text.
De Wohl c.s. did not copy material from Nostradamus und seine Prophezeiungen für das zwanzigste Jahrhundert, in which Winkler wrote words of praise about Hitler. Neither did they copy material from Englands Aufstieg und Niedergang nach den Prophezeiungen des großen französischen Sehers Michel Nostradamus aus den Jahren 1555 und 1558, in which Winkler, basing himself upon the quatrains 02-83, 03-57 and 10-100, announced that through Germany, England would fall.

There are indications that De Wohl c.s. also copied material from Nostradamus or the future foretold (James Laver, London, 1942). It is not imaginary that De Wohl was familiar the contents of Nostradamus or the future foretold: at the time Laver did his research for Nostradamus or the future foretold, De Wohl explained to him the ABC of astrology.[5]
Laver was the first Century-scholar who considered the word Hister in the quatrains 02-24, 04-68 and 05-29 as an anagram for Hitler en thus dissociated from the meaning of Le Pelletier that this word was derived from either the Latin word Ister, the ancient name of the Danube, or the Etruscan word hister, meaning actor or comedian. According to De Wohl c.s., the pun Hister - Hitler is remarkable because, as they wrote, Ister was the ancient Roman name of the Danube, a remark which can be traced back to Nostradamus or the future foretold.[6] In Nostradamus prophezeit den Kriegsverlauf, De Wohl c.s. ignored quatrain 04-68 and perverted the quatrains 02-24 and 05-29. In their comment upon these two quatrains, they did not copy elements from Laver's comment.
The comment of De Wohl c.s. upon quatrain 03-57, in which they wrote that before the rise of Napoleon, seven changes occurred in England, can be traced back to either Nostradamus or the future foretold or to Winkler's Und dies geheimnisvolle Buch...!. According to Laver, this quatrain had a time span from 1500 to 1790; the first change in England took place in 1532, when Henry VIII became the Head of the Anglican Church, and the last one in 1714, when George I became king of Great-Britian. According to Winkler, the first change in England occurred in 1461 (the succession of the House of Lancaster by the House of York) and the seventh and last change in 1714 (the succession of the House of Orange by the House of Hannover).[7]
The fact that in Nostradamus prophezeit den Kriegsverlauf only the first line of quatrain 09-49 (Senat de Londres mettront a mort leur Roy) is quoted, can also be traced back to Nostradamus or the future foretold, since Laver only quoted the first French line of this quatrain.[8]
Some other comments in the introduction in Nostradamus prophezeit den Kriegsverlauf also appear in Nostradamus or the future foretold.

In the comment upon quatrain XLIII (Une nouvelle secte de philosophes...), an almost word-by-word quotation of quatrain 03-67, De Wohl c.s. referred to a number of German authors who linked this quatrain to the foundation and the financial support of the NSDAP. De Wohl c.s. did not mention the names of these authors, nor the titles of their publications. Perhaps they referred to the brochures Die Prophezeiungen des Nostradamus en/of Der Seher von Salon, volumes 18 and 38 van de national-socialist propaganda series Informations-Schriften. In Die Prophezeiungen des Nostradamus, quatrain 03-67 was linked to the rise of national-socialism. In Der Seher von Salon, the remark was made that in Europe, the national and social problems were solved by fascism and national-socialism, and it was attributed to Nostradamus that he knew about the program of the NSDAP and explained its principles in kwatrijn 03-67. In a letter, published #50, 1940, of the national-socialist weekly Der Reichswart, the German Century-scholar Carl Loog also pointed to the linking of quatrain 03-67 to national-socialism.[9]

The propaganda message and its aimed impact
In the discussion of the dating of Nostradamus prophezeit den Kriegsverlauf, it was mentioned that the text of this brochure was finished in most early December 1942.
According to Howe, the aimed impact of Nostradamus prophezeit den Kriegsverlauf was to set rumours going in Germany.[10] He did not write about the motive to produce this brochure of if this brochure was part of a military campaign. Perhaps the writing and the spread of Nostradamus prophezeit den Kriegsverlauf was related to the landing of American and British troops in North-Africa in November 1942 and the purpose was to try to undermine German morale by profiting from a development in the war which was unfavourable for Germany - and Italy.
De Wohl c.s. wanted to show their readers that in the Centuries, Nostradamus predicted countless facts and events of which a great number, among which the birth and rise of Hitler and his military successes, already took place, and another one would take place in the near future, beginning with an Allied invasion in Italy, next air raids on Berlin, the fall and death of Hitler and the end of the Third Reich. In the introduction, which was closed with the wish that "the wisdom of the Prophet would give comfort", it was supposed that the German nation was strong enough to face the truth about the the war.

Original quatrains, perverted quatrains and invented quatrains
According to Die schwarze Propaganda (1983 [1982]), the author of Nostradamus prophezeit den Kriegsverlauf " composed "about one hundred typical Nostradamus-quatrains". In Uranias Kinder... (1995 [1984]), Howe wrote that in Nostradamus prophezeit den Kriegsverlauf, the propaganda venom was hidden in the comment upon the German translation of fifty false Nostradamus-quatrains. The qualification "false Nostradamus-quatrains" does not clearify the way in which De Wohl c.s. in the parts 1 - 5 of Nostradamus prophezeit den Kriegsverlauf perverted Century-quatrains and made propaganda. In the study of Nostradamus prophezeit den Kriegsverlauf upon which this article is based, it became clear how they worked.
The parts 1 - 5 of Nostradamus prophezeit den Kriegsverlauf contain fifty of the about one hundred composed French quatrain texts, meaning that half of the supplied material was used. These quatrain texts carry Roman numerals. According to the introduction, these quatrain texts were reproduced from a manuscript, which means that in that manuscript, the quatrains were numbered with the numbers, given in Nostradamus prophezeit den Kriegsverlauf.
The quatrain numbers form a rising series. The first quatrain in part 1 carries the number XXXVII (37), next comes quatrain XXXVIII (38), next quatrain XLIII (43) etc. until the last quatrain in part 5, which carries the number DCCLII (752). This way of numbering has nothing to do with the way of numbering in the Centuries.

Constructions in the propaganda
In several ways, De Wohl c.s. seem to have tried to present the message of Nostradamus prophezeit den Kriegsverlauf as a message by Nostradamus himself.

The introduction
In the introduction, the readers were made familiar with the extraordinary qualities of Nostradamus, who as an astrologer distinguished himself from his colleagues by mentioning the names of important persons in past and present, among which the names of general Franco and Hitler, and by the fact that many quatrains, among which quatrains, dealing with cardinal Mazarin, Henry II, Charles IX, Cromwell, Louis XVI, Napoleon Bonaparte, general Franco and Edward VIII already were fulfilled. This discussion was done by means of original quatrain texts or original quatrain fragments and comments upon them, copied from a.o. Und dies geheimnisvolle Buch...! and Nostradamus or the future foretold. The total number of comments was nineteen; nine of them contained complete, original French quatrain texts and the corresponding translation into German. The quatrain texts did not carry quatrain numbers.
In the introduction, the readers were told that the Centuries were a kind of astrological history book, first published in 1555 by Macé Bonhomme and containing predictions about the future of the world, starting from 1555. In order to protect himself, Nostradamus wrote his predictions down in the form of rebuses. The practice, for example in the case of De Garencieres and his comment upon the "Mazarin"- quatrain, showed that only when the predicted event actually happened, the meaning of the prediction became clear.
As a code-key, the Arabian astrology with her planetary cycles and lunar houses was mentioned.
In the introduction, it further read that the author, dr. Bruno Winkler, had managed to analyse the period 1880-1950 and by doing so clearly could explain the course of the war, including the beginning and the end. We note that the year 1880 must have been related to the fact that Hitler was born in 1889. The year 1950 implies that the readers were told that by 1950 the war would be over. In their comment upon quatrain C, De Wohl c.s. wrote about Churchill that he would be Prime Minister for seven years. In 1940, Churchill was appointed as Prime Minister and was in charge of a war cabinet. One could derive from this comment that in 1947, the war would be over.
Some elements in the introduction return in the propagandistic comments, such as the rebus form "anagram", planetary positions, Arabian astrology and the division of the 20th century in three periods, two of them specified: the periods 1900-1933 and 1933-1967. In other words: the theory in the introduction can be found in the practice of the propagandistic comments and the readers who wanted to verify these comments found their confirmation in the introduction.

Layout of the parts 1 - 5

In the parts 1 - 5 of Nostradamus prophezeit den Kriegsverlauf, fifty quatrains are discussed: seven in part 1, eleven in part 2, eleven in part 3, nine in part 4 and twelve in part 5.
The introduction was made up in the form of a continuous text, in which the quatrain texts were printed in italics. IN the parts 1 - 5, the quatrains, the translations and the comments each had their specific place on the pages.
Each part of the parts 1 - 5 began on an even page, which contained the title of the part. Consequently, the quatrain texts and the corresponding translations were printed on the uneven pages. As a result, they were consequently on the left side of the brochure. The corresponding comments were consequently printed on the even pages and therefore on the right side of the brochure. In all cases, the size of the comments did not exceed the page. Like this, the German readers would recognize the French quatrain, the corresponding translation and the corresponding comment at the first glance
It has already been discussed that in the parts 1 - 5 of Nostradamus prophezeit den Kriegsverlauf three font types were used. The French quatrains were reproductions of texts, written in calligraphy, in order to suggest that these texts were reproductions of an old manuscript; the corresponding translations were printed in Fracture and the corresponding comments in Antiqua. It looks as if De Wohl c.s. wanted to create a series of recognition points with this consequent kind of typography and thus wanted to "guide" the eyes of their readers, in order to give the greatest amount of impact to their propaganda..

Centurical elements
De Wohl c.s. did everything to give a Century-look to the French quatrains in the parts 1 - 5 in Nostradamus prophezeit den Kriegsverlauf.

1. Rhyme scheme
Almost all quatrains in the parts 1 - 5 in Nostradamus prophezeit den Kriegsverlauf, also the ones they themselves invented, have the rhyme scheme a-b-a-b, which is also present in the major part of the Century-quatrains. De Wohl c.s. did not always manage to formulate the lines in such a way that they always consisted of ten stressed syllables, another feature of most of the Century-quatrains.

2. Anagrams
In the introduction, it was stated that the extraordinary quality of Nostradamus was his ability to mention names of persons, among which Franco and Hitler, who in the future would play an important part. In the parts 1 - 5, this reoccurred in the form of anagrams.
The first propagandistic quatrain in Nostradamus prophezeit den Kriegsverlauf in which De Wohl c.s. presented an anagram, was quatrain LXXXVIII. This quatrain contained the word Lerbin, which according to them was an anagram for Berlin. De Wohl c.s. themselves had invented this anagram. In their comment upon quatrain LXXXVIII, they noted that anagrams frequently occurred in the Centuries. They referred to Nizaram, mentioned in the introduction, Chiren (Henri) and Rensaf (France). In the quatrains LXXXVIII and DLVIII, Berlin was also indicated with the word Lerbin.
Quite well-known is the picture in Uranias Kinder... and her English source texts of page 112 of Nostradamus prophezeit den Kriegsverlauf, on which the first line of quatrain DC reads: Hister quen luitte et fer au fait bellique. This quatrain is a perversion of quatrain 03-30, which De Wohl c.s. copied word-by-word except for the first line, which reads: Celuy qu'en luitte & fer au fait bellique. In their perverted version, De Wohl c.s. replaced the word Celuy by the word Hister, about which they told that it was an anagram for Hitler. They also did this in the quatrains CXXIX, DXXI, DLXIII and DCXXXIV.

3. Symbolic indications
De Wohl c.s. had developed a range of symbolic indications for nations and persons, something which is also done in Century--quatrains. They copied some of these indications from Century-comments and invented other indications themselves. In their comments, they gave the "clues". Thus, Germany c.a. Hitler's Germany was indicated with the words Aigle, Aquilon and Grand Germanie; Great-Britain with the words Grand Neptune and Lyon; Hitler with Le Grand, Italy with the words Ausonie and Les Hesperies; Mussolini with Le Noir and Russia c.q. the communists with Les rouges.

Marginal notes
Unfortunately, I do not have German articles, books, letters or government documents, dating from the period 1943-45, in which Nostradamus prophezeit den Kriegsverlauf is discussed in one way or another. Therefore, it is not possible to discuss the impact of this brochure in the period 1943-45. With a certain degree of restriction - today is a different era than the era of World War II - some marginal notes can be placed in connection with the design of this brochure and the camouflage measures.
De Wohl c.s. took many measures to give Nostradamus prophezeit den Kriegsverlauf the look of an authentic German brochure, which was the result of a meticulous study of the Centuries. One of the features of Howe's work for the Psychological Warfare Executive was that he went out of his way to get that kind of paper and that kind of ink which matched with what was used in Germany.[12] De Wohl c.s. did not content themselves with the announcement of the decline of nazi-Germany, but embedded their message in on the one hand comments upon original quatrains which were presented as being fulfilled and on the other hand propagandistic comments upon quatrains - either perverted or invented - in which the readers were told that Nostradamus predicted the rise of Hitler and his military success. A British or a French commentator would not appraise Hitler in such a way, therefore, Nostradamus prophezeit den Kriegsverlauf had to be of German origin.

Some camouflage measures were not that perfect. In 1943, Winkler did not reside in Weimar, but in Bühl. At the time of the spread of Nostradamus prophezeit den Kriegsverlauf, Regulus publishers no longer existed. In 1941, this company was closed by the Gestapo due to the Aktion-Heß, the raid in Germany among astrologers and occultist because of the passage in May 1941 of Rudolf Heß to England. In Nostradamus prophezeit den Kriegsverlauf, the logo which Regulus publishers had in 1937 and which was printed on the title page of Und dies geheimnisvolle Buch...!, a triangle with the zodiacal signs, was not present. Those who were familiar with the Centuries, would raise there eyebrows, seeing the way in which in the parts 1 - 5 of Nostradamus prophezeit den Kriegsverlauf the quatrains were numbered. Further, a comparison between the quatrain texts in parts 1 - 5 with quatrain texts in French editions, would show inexorable that De Wohl c.s. perverted and invented quatrain texts, albeit because of the hight frequency of the word Hister in Nostradamus prophezeit den Kriegsverlauf, five times, since it only occurs thrice in the Centuries. All these imperfections might have had a negative influence on the propagandistic impact of Nostradamus prophezeit den Kriegsverlauf but also could have remained unnoticed, since some people, when in hard times they have a feeling of impending disaster, turn to superstition which under these circumstances seems to have a kernel of truth, and are not aware of the fact that the brochure they read is not a genuine study, but a piece of propaganda.

Quatrains in *Nostradamus prophezeit den Kriegsverlauf*
Introduction
Quatrain		Link
07-41		Garencières: Mazarin
01-35		Decease of Henry II
09-49		Beheading of Charles I
08-76		Rise of Cromwell
08-37		Arrest of Charles I, his imprisonment in his own castle
09-20		Flight of Louis XVI to Varennes
09-34		Arrest of Louis XVI
?		French civil war
04-47		The "Bartholomy night"
06-63		Rulership of Cathérine de' Medici
03-57		Seven changes in the British government
01-60		Birth and rise of Napoleon Bonaparte
08-57		Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte
08-59		Napoleon Bonaparte defeated near Elba and Waterloo
?		Invention of the tank
04-15		Invention of the submarine
?		Invention of the airplane
09-16		1936: revolution by Franco
10-22		Edward VIII renounces to be a king
Erster Teil: Hitlers Geburt - Die Anfänge der Bewegung
De Wohl	Quatrain	Link
XXXVII	03-35	Birth of Hitler
XXXVIII	00-00	The Versailles Treaty: the peace which is not a peace
XLIII	03-67	Not the foundation of the NSDAP, but the foundation around 1950 of a philosophical movement
XLIV	03-76	Paganist organizations such as the Tannenberg-Bund of Erich and Mathilde Ludendorff
XLV	05-26	Hitler
XLVI	08-78	The militant Church, lead by the Pope
XLVII	08-104	Great-Germany: the Sudete-problem, Czechoslovakia, Poland, the Netherlands, Belgium
Zweiter Teil: Ausbruch des Krieges bis zum Fall von Frankreich
De Wohl	Quatrain	Link
LXXVII	08-77	1939: the outbreak of the war
LXXXVIII	03-53	The German victory in Poland
XC	03-37	The Maginot-line passed by the Germans
XCV	02-89	The Axis-powers Germany and Italy
XCVI	05-51	Cooperation between Poland and Bohemia, Polish, Bohemian and Serb troops join together in the battle in Africa
XCVII	02-94	Evacuation of the British expeditionary forces from Dunkirque
XCVIII	03-49	De Gaulle's flight; Pétain's collaboration
XCIX	02-59	June 1940: British attack on the French fleet near Mers el Kebir; November 1942: second British attack on the French fleet
C	06-75	May 1940: Churchill, Navy minister, becomes Prime Minister
CXIII	05-69	England, defeated on the European continent, concentrates itself on Africa
CXIV	06-07	Pact between Norway, Yugoslavia and Great Britain; Mussolini achieves some of his ambitions; June 1940: German-France armistice in Compiègne
Dritter Teil: Die Belagerung Englands - Technische Prophezeiungen
De Wohl	Quatrain	Link
CXXV	05-73	Polish and Arabic troops fight side by side in North-Africa
CXXIX	05-29	Hitler, Italy, the French Republic
CXXXI	05-94	Great-Germany conquers Brabant, Flanders, Brugues and Boulogne. An attack on Vienna and Cologne is predicted
CXLII	02-05	Battle of the submarines
CL	02-68	August 1940: beginning of the German air raids on England
CLII	02-83	British trade traffic blocked; air raids on London with fire bombs
CLIX	03-71	German siege of England, famine in England
CCCLXVII	02-54	1941: revolution of the Iron Guard; flight of the Rumanian king Karol
CCCLXXXV	01-74	Spring 1941: Hitler gets support from Serbia and Bulgaria
CDXXXII	09-90	The affaire-Heß
CDXLI	00-00	The end of the German campaign in Greece; king Constantin flees to Egypt, helped by the British
Vierter teil: Der Krieg im Osten und Süden
De Wohl	Quatrain	Link
DV	08-19	German invasion in Russia
DXII	00-00	June 22, 1941: German invasion in Russia
DXXI	00-00	German campaign in Russia
DXXV	04-15	Submarine war against England
DXXVI	07-06	Prediction of a British invasion in Italy
DXXVII	05-99	Prediction of a British campaign in Italy against Italian and German troops
DXXVIII	04-50	England will conquer the Italian airspace
DXXIX	09-95	Mussolini will be arrested
DXXX	00-00	Hitler will fall
Fünfter Teil: Ausgang des Krieges - Zukunft Deutschlands und der Welt
De Wohl	Quatrain	Link
DXLVI	02-91	Air raids on Berlin
DXLVII	00-00	Hitler's campaign in Russia will fail, he has to withdraw his troops from Russia and eventually will be driven out from France
DLIII	00-00	Prediction of a British invasion in Bretain
DLVI	03-97	The United States join the war in order to put an end to the New Order in Europe
DLVIII	00-00	1942/43: air raids on Berlin
DLXIII	02-24	Hitler loses his grip upon the German people and will meet his end
DC	03-30	Hitler will be murdered
DCXX	00-00	The "black Nero" (Mussolini) will lose his power
DCXXXIV	00-00	Hitler is defeated, national-socialism is broken, Germany returns to Christianity
DCLXXXIX	00-00	The rise of a French-Spanish union
DCCXXXII	10-100	Great Britain and the United States will dominate the world for more than 300 years
DCCLII	00-00	National-socialism is expelled, the world faces a period of great prosperity

00-00   original quatrain
00-00   quatrain, perverted by De Wohl c.s.
00-00   quatrain, invented by De Wohl c.s.

De Meern, the Netherlands, October 10, 2007
T.W.M. van Berkel
actualized on October 21, 2007

For this article, a photocopy of the brochure Nostradamus prophezeit den Kriegsverlauf has been used. The original is part of the collection of the Imperial War Museum, Lambeth Road, London SE1 6HZ, UK (internet: www.iwm.org.uk).