Karl Ernst Krafft’s astrological work under National Socialism

Record summary

Karl Ernst Krafft was a Swiss-born astrologer whose claims about planetary configurations attracted attention in German political and propaganda circles during the Second World War. Accounts connect him with interpretations of Adolf Hitler’s horoscope and with a 1939–1940 episode involving a purported warning about danger to Hitler. He was subsequently detained and died in the Buchenwald camp system in 1945. This lead is valuable for comparing astrology, state security, propaganda, and retrospective claims of prediction. The documentary record is fragmented, and anecdotes often exceed what archival evidence establishes.