In fact one of the series of shorts on Nostradamus dealt with his predictions regarding World War II. From predicting the history of his own time, and of his nation's history into the early 19th Century, Wilson had Nostradamus predict the rise of Germany, the First World War, the rise of Communist Russia, of Nazism and Fascism, and the rise of Adolf Hitler. In the end Wilson worked on five of these shorts, and kept pushing the envelope. Wilson pushed this view down the eager throats of depression America - starving for entertainment and something unusual to take their minds off their problems. Over the centuries many believe that Nostradamus predicted other events, such as the coming of the French Revolution, the death of King Louis XVI on the guillotine, and the Reign of Terror, and the rise of Napoleon. His most famous prediction is one that barely anyone would care about today, unless they are into 16th Century French history: he seemed to predict the death of King Henri II of France (in 1559) in a tournament (a lance belonging to the King's opponent shattered when hitting the king's helmet, and part pierced the King's eye entering the brain and killing him). But he became famous for a series of poetic writings called "quatrains" which are difficult to translate into English, and which predict (or seem to predict) events of his own century and country's history, and possibly future centuries. Born in France in 1503, his ancestry was Jewish (although he was a Catholic), and he became a physician. So it is to him that we are probably indebted to the the successful popularization of the name and career of Michel Nostradamus, as the premier prognosticator of events in history.
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Carey Wilson, who was the narrator, apparently had a great deal to do with the material used in the series, figuring that the movie audiences enjoyed a bit of arcane romance and twisty history.
The HISTORICAL MYSTERIES Series thrived on what are actually "urban legends", like the fate of the Dauphin or of Marshal Ney or of John Wilkes Booth or of Napoleon Bonaparte.
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