The Nazi Seance: The Strange Story of the Jewish Psychic in Hitler's Circle

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World War I left Berlin and all of Germany devastated. Charlatans and demagogues eagerly exploited the desperate crowds. Fascination with the occult was everywhere in private sances personalized psychic readings communions with the dead as people struggled to escape the grim reality of their lives. In the early 1930s the most famous mentalist in the German capital was Erik Jan Hanussen a Jewish mind reader originally from Vienna who became so popular in Berlin that he rubbed elbows with high ranking Nazis became close with top Storm Troopers and even advised Hitler. Called Europes Greatest Oracle Since Nostradamus Hanussen assumed he could manipulate some of the more incendiary personalities of his time just as he had manipulated his fans. He turned his occult newspaper in Berlin into a Nazi propaganda paper personally assured Hitler that the stars were aligned in his favor and predicted the infamous Reich