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In 1914, an unidentified Frenchman was captured by German forces. During questioning, the man made a number of quite extraordinary prophecies …
Andreas Rill, a carpenter from Untermühlhausen on active service in Alsace, wrote two letters to his family in Bavaria, Germany, in August 1914. In these letters, he told how he and another soldier had captured a ‘Frenchman’ (who spoke several languages) proved to be a somewhat unusual prisoner. After the man had been taken prisoner, he was questioned all through the night; and during the questioning, he began to speak about the future of the war. In his first letter, Rill wrote that the Frenchman was a “strange holy man who said incredible things. If we knew what would happen during the years to come, we would throw away our weapons today.” Then the carpenter reported what their unusual prisoner told them: that the war was going to last for five years and Germany was going to lose it; after which there would be a revolution. Everyone would become a millionaire; and there would be so much money that it would be thrown out of windows; but no one would bother to pick it up. At this time also the antichrist would be born – he would be a tyrant and pass new laws every day. People would become poor without even realizing it. With that, the Frenchman foretold the rule of the National Socialists, the next war, the collapse, that things would become known that are simply inhuman and Germany would be torn apart. “When there is a 4 and a 5 in the year (1945), Germany will be pressed from all sides and totally plundered and destroyed.” Foreign powers would then occupy Germany. But, by virtue of its resourcefulness, Germany would recover. In the first letter, Andreas Rill noted further that “Italy will be against us in this war within a year and will be on our side in the second war.”
Here, the author of the letter remarked: “Ridiculous!”
A third war beginning with an invasion by Russia of south-east Germany was to happen during 1947 or 1948. During that war, “the mountains will spit fire between the Danube and the Inn everything will be erased; streams are so shallow that no bridges will be need to pass” further, in Russia rulers would be killed and there would be so many dead people that there would be no one to bury them.
At first sight, Rill’s two letters are astonishing. The details in them are indeed extremely accurate, even down to dates. The documents aroused suspicion of their authenticity among the researchers including Dr. Hans Bender. Criminology experts of the Freiburg Institute for Border Areas of Psychology and Mental Hygiene testified that the two letters of Andreas Rill were authentic and no even a detail in them was altered after they were written. They contained true words of the unidentified French prisoner, but no one was able to establish the true identity of the mysterious prophet, whose prediction began to be fulfilled one after another. Dr. Bender also interviewed son of Andreas Rill, Siegmund Rill who told him that everyone in the neighborhood remembered the letters well and that the senior Rill often told the story in the local pub until the predictions started coming true after which he started to become blasé and fatalistic in nature.
Who was the prophet?
Dr. Bender decided to launch investigation as to the identity of the prophet. A careful tracing of the Rill family and analysis of the war journal of the company in which Rill served was thought to perhaps reveal the exact location of where the “Frenchman” was captured. Rill’s son further added that the visionary was a wealthy man who gave away all of his resources and joined a monastery in Alsace. He allegedly belonged to a freemason’s lodge in Colmar in Alsace. Research pointed to Rill’s company being around Colmar at the time of the interview and that they were housed at a Capuchin monastery about six miles from Colmar. Rill’s son did mention that his father went on foot to the monastery to look for the prophet a second time but was told he had died.
A check of the inhabitant list of the Capuchin monasteries in the area revealed that in Sigolsheim monastery, a Frater Laicus Tertiarius died sometime after 1917 but before Rill’s second visit. This person was not a member of the monastery but a guest who lived there. Whether he was a former wealthy man and freemason remains unknown. Even more mysterious is the question of why the ‘Frenchman’ would tell his visions to German captors in the first place.
It must be noted the prophecy about a third world war (1946-48) was not accurate. Or was it? Could this have been due to language barrier between the Frenchman and his captors or was he picking up on post WWII anxiety?
Sources:
http://duddeglobal.com/en02/en0202/en0202001.htm
The Unknown Prophet, Mysteries of Mind Space and Time, Vol. 10, pgs. 1142-1145
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