Eric Jan Hanussen: Hitler's Jewish Clairvoyant

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Perhaps this was the reason Istvan Szabo's cinematic treatment of the Hanussen tale conveniently omits Hanussen's Jewishness. And it could account for the dearth of information on Hanussen in English-language texts. However, Gordon, who is himself Jewish, asserts his belief that Hanussen somehow participated in a plot to set fire to the Reichstag. Nearly as soon as World War I ended, Adolf Hitler made friends with a doctor named Wilhelm Gutberlet. By day, Gutberlet was an ordinary, mild-mannered physician. But by night, he used his secret, mystical powers to detect Jews.

While utilized as Kaiser Wilhelm's underhanded advisor and The Shepherd's puppet in The King's Man, the real Erik Jan Hanussen was a far less straightforward figure. Heralded with acclaim by many during his lifetime as a hypnotist, occultist, and astrologer, Hanussen was active in Weimar Republic Germany and also played a key role at the beginning of Nazi Germany as Adolf Hitler's public speaking coach in Munich. Hanussen's powers of clairvoyance were well known across post-World War I Germany, with Hanussen accurately predicting local elections, sporting results, and even the untimely death of a racecar driver between 1931 and 1933.The Nazis had other reasons to favor Hanussen: They liked gambling, and they were often in debt. One officer, Count Wolf-Heinrich Graf von Helldorf, was named on several IOUs held by Hanussen, who had loaned the head of the storm troopers a considerable sum to cover his gambling losses. In doing so, Hanussen felt he could grease the wheels with Helldorf in the event Berlin was consumed by either the Jewish-loathing Nazi party or the communist opposition that incited violence.

Hanussen wasn’t Hanussen at all. His true name was Hershmann Chaim (later Hermann) Steinschneider. He was born in Vienna in 1889, the son of Siegfried Steinschneider, a ne’er-do-well Jewish vaudevillian and travelling salesman. Herschmann’s birth was registered in Prossnitz (today Prostejov in the Czech Republic), the Moravian town which was the traditional home of the Steinschneiders. The family and the place have interesting histories. Gordon, Hanussen, 252. After the Nazis came to power, Cannon (and maybe Crowley) helped Thoma emigrate to Britain.

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Walter C. Langer, A Psychological Profile of Adolf Hitler: His Life and Legend. Washington, DC: Office of Strategic Services [1943], 9. www.nizkor.org/hweb/people/h/hitler-adolf/oss-papers/text/profile-index.html (3 April 2014). Hitler had no idea that the man was Jewish—but Hanussen definitely knew that Hitler was planning on using his race as a scapegoat. He figured, though, that he could charm the anti-Semitism right out of Hitler. “Hitler just needed friendship,” he insisted, “to learn that there were good people everywhere.” A more historically realistic version of Hanussen was depicted in the Werner Herzog film Invincible (2001) where Hanussen (as played by Tim Roth) is seen as nasty and bullying. Herzog’s film concerns the also true character of a Jewish-Polish strongman that is hired as part of Hanussen’s act but caused a sensation when he refused to deny his ethnicity. Prossnitz,” The Jewish Encyclopedia (1906), www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/12394-prossnitz (10 April 2014). The sect name is also commonly rendered Sabbatean. There were other reasons why the Nazis wanted Hanussen dead. Goebbels and Goering both saw him as an interloper and a potential rival for the Führer's attentions, and there was the little matter of all those IOUs Hanussen had collected. Hanussen also, supposedly, had film footage of SA members involved in homosexual orgies. But perhaps more than anything, it was his Jewishness that made him a liability. The communist press had long published reports that Hanussen was Jewish, but it wasn't until the Reichstag fire bequeathed totalitarian powers to the Nazis and allowed them to eliminate the communists as a threat that they had the time to focus on Hanussen's bloodline.

A single shot experiment in which stop motion pixilation is employed to move an individual around a garden location in ways that wouldn’t be possible in real time, a work “inspired by the master of minimalistic film, Peter Kubelka.” Having played such games with 8mm cameras and the single frame function in my art school days, I found this rather fun. At the age of 21, Hanussen became a chief reporter for the newspaper Der Blitz [4] :207 He was later drafted into the army during World War I. [4] :207 During this time, he used mentalism to entertain the other troops. In 1917, he adopted the name Erik Jan Hanussen, or sometimes Erik van Hanussen, and joined a circus. [4] :208 He soon wrote two booklets dealing with subjects including telepathy, clairvoyance, and mind-reading, which he labelled as fraudulent practices. [4] :208 However, he later treated these practices as genuine and claimed to have supernatural abilities. [4] :208 It really differs in style from the other two: Where the first two were unrestrained and fun, this one takes itself more seriously than I would have liked. There is a huge drop off in humor compared to the other two, and when the movie does attempt to be funny it falls flat. The lead protagonists are very admirable and responsible people, so much so that they are also a little boring and their dialogue is at times corny. With the exception of Rasputin, the cast as a whole is fairly bland. There are a couple of memorable fight scenes, while others are more cliche. The movie also tries to do a lot and is rushed to get everything done in a film that feels a little long. Erik Jan Hanussen, born Hermann Steinschneider (2 June 1889 – 25 March 1933), was an Austrian Jewish publicist, charlatan and clairvoyant performer. Acclaimed in his lifetime as a hypnotist, mentalist, occultist and astrologer, Hanussen was active in Weimar Republic Germany and also at the beginning of Nazi Germany. He is said to have instructed Adolf Hitler in performance and the achievement of dramatic effect. [1] Early years [ edit ] In Austria, Dzino fell on hard times and eked out a living as croupier. He became possessed by jealously which drove Grace to flee. In September 1937, he talked her into a reunion where he shot her, their four-year-old son and then turned the gun on himself. Hanussen’s prediction came true.In terms of working with such an infamous world leader, Vaughn went on to discuss how Hitler's powers of oration were what drew him to including him in the future. With Adolf Hitler swaying quite a huge group of people in his early career, including some of the English aristocracy, showing all the angles of his rise is a component that a King's Man sequel is sure to include. Though he also mentioned that Winston Churchill and the Kingsman Agency's resistance to such ideas could also factor into the overall story. Jouko Ahola – Zishe Breitbart. A Jewish strongman who works in a Berlin occult cabaret. The character is based loosely on Zishe Breitbart. Poté, co byl 23.března 1933 zatčen komandem SA, byly Hanussenovy tělesné pozůstatky nalezeny až 8.dubna 1933 a policejní pátrání bylo předčasně ukončeno. Jedním zmotivů usmrcení Hanussena je skutečnost, že ve svých věštbách předvídal požár Říšského sněmu. Z pozůstalosti zmizely směnky vystavené některými členy SA, zůstaly jen jeho dluhy ve výši 150 000 marek.