Ludwig Straniak

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Ludwig Straniak (1879-1951), was a German mysticist, Germanic revivalist and most notably a pendulum dowser. He was an architect and astrologer and was used by the German military in the Third Reich, not necessarily willingly.

Two of the more well known mysticists, other than Straniak, used in the Third Reich by Walter Schellenberg through Heinrich Himmler, whom had a great deal of interest in Germanic mysticism and revivalism, were Dr. Wilhelm Gutberlet, whom was a pendulum dowser, and astrologer Wilhelm Wulff.

Contents 1 Prinz Eugen incident 2 Pendulum dowsing 3 Nazism 4 Written works 5 See also 6 References 6.1 Books 6.2 Documentaries

[edit] Prinz Eugen incident

Straniak had a special gift for map pendulum dowsing. Straniak would dangle a pendulum over a given map and locate things. As a test, leaders of the German Navy requested him to locate the pocket battleship Prinz Eugen, then at sea. The Navy provided him with charts and were reportedly amazed that he had pinpointed the warship even through it was on a completely secret mission off the coast of Norway. This impressed the Navy leaders enough to take the workings of the occult unit of the SS more seriously.

[edit] Pendulum dowsing

According to Karl Spiesberger in his book Reveal the Power of the Pendulum, Straniak believed that brass was the most suitable material for all kinds of dowsing and that he discovered that even fruits such as apples, oranges, pears and lemons demonstrate a polarity at each end.

[edit] Nazism

In September of 1939 the Nazi government gathered together all of the best psychics, mediums, dowsers, and occultists into an organization to assist the war efforts against the West. They called this unit the Institute for Occult Warfare (IOW) of which Straniak was a member. [1]

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[edit] Written works

• Die 8. Gross-Kraft der Natur und ihre physikalischen Gesetze 1936, Huber, Diessen

[edit] See also

• Nazi occultism
• Pendulum
• Dowsing
• Karl Spiesberger

[edit] References

[edit] Books

• Reveal the Power of the Pendulum: Secrets of the Sidereal Pendulum, A Complete Survey of Pendulum Dowsing, by Karl Spiesberger - ISBN 0-572-01419-8 (Der erfolgreiche Pendel-Praktiker) - 1962 [2],English translation, pp. 13, 15, 73, 74, 75, 77, 78-82, 82, 83.
• Unholy Alliance: History of the Nazi Involvement With the Occult by Peter Levenda, (May 1, 2002, ISBN 0-8264-1409-5). pp. 230-232.
• Occult Reich by J.H. Brennen, pp. 111 and 112.

[edit] Documentaries

• Nazis: The Occult Conspiracy (1998), directed by Tracy Atkinson and Joan Baran, narrated by Malcolm McDowell.
• Decoding the Past Episode: "The Nazi Prophecies" by the History Channel [3] [4]
• Hitler and the Occult by the History Channel [5]