MI5

An astrologer, Hitler, and MI5

How’s that for a headline? Today, the National Archives released MI5 documents showing how Britain hired a flamboyant, cross-dressing German astrologer named Louis De Wahl in an attempt to exploit what they suspected was a weakness of Hitler’s — a belief in the paranormal. At first, I thought that sounded pretty cool. If Hitler believed in astrology, a “psychic” who…