Zodiac and Swastika is a book by Wilhelm Wulff. Originally published 1968 in Germany by Bertelsmann Sachbuchverlag as Tierkreis und Hakenkreuz: Als Astrologe an Himmlers Hof, it was released in 1973 in the USA by Coward, McCann & Geoghegan and in the United Kingdom by Arthur Barker Limited of London.

The exact English title is Zodiac and Swastika: Astrologer to Himmler's Court or Zodiac and Swastika: How Astrology Guided Hitler's Germany. The English edition also has a foreword by Walter Laqueur

Walter Laqueur

Walter Zeev Laqueur is an American historian and political commentator. He was born in Breslau, Germany , to a Jewish family. In 1938, Laqueur left Germany for the British Mandate of Palestine. His parents, who were unable to leave, became victims of the Holocaust...

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Apparently, this book is the most important source for Heinrich Himmler

Heinrich Himmler

Heinrich Luitpold Himmler was Reichsführer of the SS, a military commander, and a leading member of the Nazi Party. As Chief of the German Police and the Minister of the Interior from 1943, Himmler oversaw all internal and external police and security forces, including the Gestapo...

's interest in astrology

Astrology

Astrology consists of a number of belief systems which hold that there is a relationship between astronomical phenomena and events in the human world...

. Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke

Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke

Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke B.A. , D.Phil. is a professor of Western Esotericism at University of Exeter and author of several books on esoteric traditions....

 takes it as evidence that Wulff was consulted by Himmler in the last weeks of the war (The Occult Roots of Nazism

The Occult Roots of Nazism

thumb|right|Cover of the 1992 editionThe Occult Roots of Nazism: Secret Aryan Cults and Their Influence on Nazi Ideology: The Ariosophists of Austria and Germany, 1890-1935 is a book by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke. It is the "seminal work" on Nazi occultism and Ariosophy. The book also includes some...

, p.165). However, Goodrick-Clarke does not deal with Wulff's claim that as early as 1943 he got the assignment to locate Benito Mussolini

Benito Mussolini

Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was an Italian politician who led the National Fascist Party and is credited with being one of the key figures in the creation of Fascism....

, who had disappeared after being ousted from power.

Wulff claims that Arthur Nebe

Arthur Nebe

SS-Gruppenführer Arthur Nebe was a member of the NSDAP party with card number 574,307. In July 1931, he joined the SS and his membership number was 280,152. His early career included the Berlin position of Police Commissioner in the 1920s...

 and Walter Schellenberg

Walter Schellenberg

Walther Friedrich Schellenberg was a German SS-Brigadeführer who rose through the ranks of the SS to become the head of foreign intelligence following the abolition of the Abwehr in 1944.-Biography:...

 had assigned him various astrological tasks. He also mentions that they had used pendulum dowsers

Dowsing

Dowsing is a type of divination employed in attempts to locate ground water, buried metals or ores, gemstones, oil, gravesites, and many other objects and materials, as well as so-called currents of earth radiation , without the use of scientific apparatus...

 like Ludwig Straniak

Ludwig Straniak

Ludwig Straniak , 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....

 for similar purposes.

At least one other book also makes allegation that a pendulum dowser called Dr. Wilhelm Gutberlet had been one of Aolf Hitler's closest friends. These claims, however, strongly appear to be just another example of the modern mythology of Nazi occultism.