AJ

Hitler delivered it.

That was more than a prophecy.

It was a promise.

And Goebbels made sure everyone in Germany understood.

Hitler wasn't just predicting the future.

He was creating it.

Prophecy became policy.

Prediction became propaganda.

And Goebbels was about to weaponize it on a scale the world had never seen.

Josef Goebbels established an entire department dedicated to one purpose, weaponizing Nostradamus.

The propaganda ministry hired scholars to comb through the prophet's quatrains, not to study them, to edit them.

They printed millions of forged pamphlets, each one carefully crafted to look like authentic 16th century prophecies, each one predicting inevitable German victory.

Nazi planes dropped them over France and England by the thousands.

The Allies found them everywhere, in the streets, in fields, tucked into mailboxes.

Then the British responded with their own forgeries.

Both sides manufactured prophecies, dropping them from the sky like propaganda bombs.

I can't argue with that.

For three years, this prophecy war worked.

The German people believed.

Victory was written in the stars, ordained by ancient seers.