![]() ![]() He was recruited initially by Sir Charles Hambro, then running the Special Operations Executive, to devise black propaganda for use against Germany, and allegedly as an informant because he was casting horoscopes for people of interest to MI5. ![]() Wohl worked as an astrologer for the British intelligence agency MI5 during World War II. Some sources claim that he there had a wife named Alexandra, who fled to Santiago, Chile, where she claimed to be a Romanian princess and was known as "La Baronessa." In 1935, he emigrated to England due to his objections to the Nazi regime. When he was only 17 years old, his mother pushed him into an apprenticeship to a banker, from which he was dismissed in 1924, at the age of 21. Wohl was born in Berlin to a poor family, with a Hungarian father and Austrian mother of Jewish ethnicity. His later novels are literary hagiographies of notable Roman Catholic saints and of different periods of the Bible. Sixteen of his popular pre-war novels were the basis of movies. Louis de Wohl (earlier Ludwig von Wohl, born Lajos Theodor Gaspar Adolf Wohl) was a German-born Catholic author, and had served as an astrologer notable for his work with MI5 from England during World War II. ![]()
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