Erik Jan Hanussen: Hitler's Jewish Clairvoyant

• Erik Jan Hanussen: Hitler's Jewish Clairvoyant

Format: ca. 16,3 x 23 cm, 273 Seiten, Feral House, CA, USA, 2001, gebunden, mit Umschlag

Umschlagtext:
This is the first English-language biography on the Houdini-like seer who dazzled Central Europe in the '20s and early '30s. Born Herschmann Chaim Steinschneider, Hanussen was a protean figure who worked the carnival and music-hall circuits of Austria and Germany as a master hypnotist, mind-reader, and telepathic clairvoyant. Hanussen also achieved fame as a "psychic detective" for European police bureaus and edited a popular occult newspaper and journal in Berlin during the last years of the Weimar Republic.
Mel Gordon chronicles Hanussen's extraordinary stage career, reveals the sources of his magic and psychic stunts, divulges his relationship with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, and explores the circumstantial links of the Jewish mentalist to the Mysterious Reichstag Fire and the imposition of Hitler's Third Reich.
Included within the Text of "Erik Jan Hanussen" are over twenty documents and articles from contemporary German accounts and materials from Hanussen's own tabloid publications.