About this episode
Erik Jan Hanussen was a psychic, hypnotist, astrologer, amateur detective and publisher of tabloids and born Herschmann-Chaim Steinschneider in 1889 in a Viennese jail cell and murdered in Berlin in 1933 on the orders of SA officers who owed him money. His remarkable life is the subject of Berkeley professor Mel Gordon's Erik Jan Hanussen: Hitler's Jewish Clairvoyant. Mel joins us in this episode to tell us why a Jewish entertainer with psychic gifts would choose to align himself with a regime that would ultimately lead to his death... Mel Gordon: https://www.amazon.com/Erik-Jan-Hanussen-Hitlers-Clairvoyant/dp/0922915687