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| Written by Danny Penman | |
 British intelligence chiefs tried to guess Hitler's
plans by studying his horoscope, according to files released by the
National Archives.
Hungarian Ludwig von Wohl persuaded senior intelligence figures that he could replicate the forecasts of the Nazi leader's personal astrologer.
He claimed that if London knew what astrological advice Hitler was getting, then they would know his next move. But the security service MI5 had warned that von Wohl was a "charlatan".
Von Wohl, who was also known as Ludwig de Wohl, was a controversial figure. Although he was dismissed as a buffoon and a scoundrel by some of the military people he met, others suggested that he was extremely astute, with a keen insight into the thinking of leading Nazis.
Despite dismissing his claims of being from Hungarian nobility, MI5 hoped de Wohl could feed them information about his clients among the "great and the good".
But the Special Operations Executive (SOE) - the wartime sabotage organisation - recruited de Wohl for its SO2 propaganda section, giving him the rank of captain and an army uniform.
He is said to have loved to "strut" around London in his military clothes. In 1940 SOE sent de Wohl on a lecture tour of the United States aimed at convincing a sceptical public that Hitler could be defeated, and therefore that the US should enter the war.
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