The Man Who Predicted World War II: How Did He Know War Would Begin by September 1, 1939

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In 1937, American educator and political analyst Arthur Taubeneck reportedly predicted that the leading nations of the world would be at war by September 1, 1939. Two years later, Germany invaded Poland on September 1, triggering the European war that became World War II. But was this an extraordinary prediction, or an informed forecast based on the political and military tensions already building across Europe? Taubeneck himself rejected astrology and described his forecasting as an attempt to apply a methodical analysis to human affairs. How could he identify the timing so precisely? What information was available to observers before the war? And how many other predictions from the same period were completely wrong? This episode revisits the remarkable 1937 forecast, the political climate before WWII, and the unsettling question of whether some “prophecies” are actually predictions based on patterns that others failed to see.

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