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The Nazi party directly used archaeology to justify many of their worst atrocities.
In 1935, Heinrich Himler founded a group called the Ahnenerbe explicitly focused on conducting archaeological work and related racist science tied to the goals of the party. The Ahnenerbe later became a wing of the SS showing how central to the party these activities were
The Ahnenerbe conducted excavations in many parts of the world including, for example, Czechoslovakia with the goal of tracking "Germanic" culture to justify geopolitical moves like invasions as "retaking" land that belonged to their "Germanic" forebears
They also sent expeditions to Iceland, the Canary Islands, Bolivia, Finland, Tibet, and many other locations with the goal of making claims about the history of heritage and race throughout the world to justify their political aspirations beyond the boundaries of Germany.
The Ahnenerbe also tied their work to broader mythic histories including Atlantis and the parallel story of Hyperborea in the north Atlantic. The Nazi party created a institute expressly for the study of Atlantis
he Ahnenerbe was directly responsible for some of the worst atrocities during WWII. For example, Wolfram Sievers was an archaeologist with the Ahnenerbe who went on to supervise human medical experiments at Dachau. He was convicted of war crimes and executed in 1948.
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WOW! These people have a very imaginative mind that seems "normal" and logical on the surface but take their understand of the world to a evil and illogical extreme.
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