"I see three armoured columns advancing from the east to the west, as far as the Rhine and the Ruhr; they reach it in a single day. From the east it teems with caterpillars (tanks), one almost squeezing the other. "

"Three great cities will be ruined: one destroyed by water, the second standing so deep in the sea that only the church tower is visible, and the third collapses. "

"Three white aircraft drop a yellow substance; a line forms from Prague to the bay. Where it falls nothing lives any more — no man, no animal, no tree; everything turns black and withers. "

"The Third World War will begin in the Balkans: the murder of a great man will be the spark, and armies from the East will roll west as far as the Rhine. "