British intelligence agency releases file on WW II astrologer

The British intelligence agency MI5 has released a file from the National Archives on astrologer Louis de Wohl, who was hired during World War II in an effort to second-guess what astrological information Hitler might have been getting and possibly acting upon.

Articles in The Guardian, The Times and in The Independent. A quick glance shows that the Independent article takes De Wohl's being the son of a Hungarian nobleman as fact, though the Guardian quotes an MI5 officer as saying that De Wohl didn't speak a word of Hungarian. The Times' article is the most acerbic of the three.

Concentration Camp Tarot Cards

Political prisoner Boris Kobe created tarot cards with images reflecting life in the concentration camp of Allach, a sub-camp of Dachau. The cards, done around 1945, are meticulous observations of individuals and groups.

The website of theCenter for Holocaust & Genocide Studies; at the University of Minnesota is hosting the images, the originals remain in Slovenia.

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