The Secret of the Famous Magician

Erik Jan Hanus was looking in the crowd of confused, startled faces and he knew that he had their attention. In the mid-1920s, Hanus was doing his shows in front of a large audience in Berlin. Hanus turned his attention to a woman in the crowd and said that she has a broken mirror in her bag, and then he said the address of the house in which she lives. The confirmed both statements.

He had the help of his associates who worked on the collection of tickets and they managed to peer into the bag of this woman. After this they compared the number of tickets with the address and that was it. Two very precious information that experience magician knew how to use in the best possible way.

The confidence of Adolf Hitler

However, Hanus was not satisfied only with the wealth and fame. He has already felt the impact of the Nazi Party in that time. In order to ensure the favor of the new government, he had to somehow find his place in the system and win the confidence of Adolf Hitler. His ego told him he has to manipulate as it has done so far. However, his plan had one fatal flaw: he was a Jew. If someone knew everything about his origin, nothing would help him to get out of the trouble.

Erik Jan Hanus was born into a poor Jewish family in Vienna in 1889. During his childhood, he showed a loop of clairvoyance, so as a teenager began to work in the circus. During World War, Hanus changed his name when he appeared at Vienna with a small theater troops and wanted to avoid to go to war. During the war, he was impressed by the soldiers with alleged knowledge of the content of letters, disclosure of confidential information, and so it is by his will that the soldiers could bring news from home.

The Nazis looked at sympathetically Hanus, because of his alleged Danish origin and because of his wealth. Hanus entertained Nazis during their days off, limousines and house partiesIn his letters to the weekly praised Hitler's power and goodness and Nazi officers. "The stars tell us that Hitler's days are coming," stood in one publication.

The Nazis liked Hanus because of one more thing. They loved gambling, but were often in debt, and they often borrowed money from him.

He met Hitler at the hotel restaurant Kaserhof where. Given that he got rid of his Jewish name, his friends officers could not wake up any doubts. According to some data on the period of 1932-1933 he met with Hitler a couple of times and on that occasion he was reading from the Firer’s palm and assured the dictator that his coming to power is inevitable.