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    The document discusses the Nazi SS's use of dowsing, or divination using a pendulum, to locate Benito Mussolini after he was deposed as leader of Italy in 1943. It describes how SS officer Otto Skorzeny was tasked with rescuing Mussolini. When they did not know Mussolini's location, the Nazis turned to dowsers who attempted to pinpoint his location through pendulum divination. Though their initial indications proved incorrect as Mussolini was moved, the dowsers eventually determined he was being held at a hotel in the Gran Sasso mountains, allowing Skorzeny to successfully carry out the rescue mission.

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    The document discusses the Nazi SS's use of dowsing, or divination using a pendulum, to locate Benito Mussolini after he was deposed as leader of Italy in 1943. It describes how SS officer Otto Skorzeny was tasked with rescuing Mussolini. When they did not know Mussolini's location, the Nazis turned to dowsers who attempted to pinpoint his location through pendulum divination. Though their initial indications proved incorrect as Mussolini was moved, the dowsers eventually determined he was being held at a hotel in the Gran Sasso mountains, allowing Skorzeny to successfully carry out the rescue mission.

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    Ancient Mysteries no. 17, October 1980, pp. 58-60.

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    The document discusses the Nazi SS's use of dowsing, or divination using a pendulum, to locate Benito Mussolini after he was deposed as leader of Italy in 1943. It describes how SS officer Otto Skorzeny was tasked with rescuing Mussolini. When they did not know Mussolini's location, the Nazis turned to dowsers who attempted to pinpoint his location through pendulum divination. Though their initial indications proved incorrect as Mussolini was moved, the dowsers eventually determined he was being held at a hotel in the Gran Sasso mountains, allowing Skorzeny to successfully carry out the rescue mission.

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    DOWSING – Secret Weapon of the Nazi S.S.

    Nigel Pennick

    Source: ​Ancient Mysteries no. 17, October 1980, pp. 58-60.

    It is often stated in materialist histories that the Nazi use of paranormal


    phenomena as part of their wartime armoury is an indication of the evil or
    demonic nature of National Socialism. Whilst the crimes of this latter-day
    manifestation of Prussian militarism are not disputed, the dismissal of their
    other arts as evil does not withstand logical analysis. Interest in geomancy
    in Germany was at its height in the Nazi period and <in> the
    occult-mindedReichsführer-SS (Imperial Leader of the Defence Corps)
    Heinrich Himmler and so it was natural that dowsing should be given its full
    place in the military arts, for, just like their counterparts in Britain, German
    militarists recognized that dowsing, especially that of the remote or ​{59}
    ‘map’ kind<, might be useful>. As Heinrich Himmler had set up, under the
    auspices of the SS, an institute for map dowsing, it was natural that the art
    should be used to find missing persons. One such person was Benito
    Mussolini, the deposed Fascist dictator of Italy. On July 25th, 1943, King
    Victor Emmanuel III had dismissed the dictator who had ruled Italy since
    1924.

    When news reached Hitler at his base in East Prussia, the Wolfsschanze
    (Fort Wolf) at Rastenburg*, he made immediate plans to liberate his former
    ally. Hauptsturmführer SS Otto Skorzeny, the man whom Himmler had
    approached to steal the Holy Grail for the SS, was sent for. At a private
    meeting with the Führer, Skorzeny was given the task of rescuing the
    erstwhile dictator from his imprisonment.

    * Hitler’s famous headquarters at Rastenburg, the Wolfsschanze, was on a


    geomantically-defined position, having been constructed on the site of a spa.
    More at a later date.

    But the Nazis did not know where Benito Mussolini was being held, so they
    turned to the pendulum men. Skorzeny meanwhile flew to Italy to await
    instructions. Given information that Mussolini was on the island of
    Maddalena, Skorzeny and his men landed only to find that Mussolini had
    been moved. This happened several times, the dowsers pinpointing the
    place, but the Italians moving him before Skorzeny’s men could arrive.

    Finally it was found that Mussolini had been moved to the Gran Sasso
    mountain, in the hotel Albergo-Rifugio, reached only by a passenger
    cableway. Skorzeny took the mountain by an aerial landing and rescued the
    Duce, gaining a place in the military hall of fame. But had it not been for the
    dowsers back in Berlin, it could never have happened.

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