Books: Wulff! Wulff!

ZODIAC AND SWASTIKA: HOW ASTROLOGY GUIDED HITLER'S GERMANY by WILHELM WULFF 192 pages. Coward, McCann & Geoghegan. $5.95.

The title is somewhat misleading. This is not a serious study of how the Nazi leaders were influenced by their credulous trust in occultism, but the autobiography of a septuagenarian astrologer who occasionally was summoned to deliver prophecies. He is a man of such solemnity about his craft that he is capable of writing a sequence of sentences like this: "Not long afterward the Nazis were to take over completely. These circumstances had a profound...

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