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TheHipcrimeVocab t1_je7rxyz wrote

Reply to Gods, tombs and Nazis: the Third Reich’s bad relationship with Egyptology by MeatballDom

Cool article. The British controlled Egypt in 1936, so it would be impossible for a massive German excavation to take place just outside of Cairo. But, hey, it's a movie!

I found this odd: "The sadistic Sturmbannführer Arnold Toht (the surname is an Egyptian wink, recalling the name of the scribe god Thot..." First, I've never heard him given a first name, so I don't know where that came from. Second, I'm pretty sure his name is related to the German word for death (e.g. Tohtenkopf; "Death's Head"), not an Egyptian god.

This article talks about how burials in Northern Europe were used for propaganda purposes by the Nazis:

>The ideology of 1930s Germany helped shape scholars’ initial interpretation of the grave. Discovered barely a year and a half after the Nazis took power, politics quickly became enmeshed in the skeleton’s story. Archaeologists were a fundamental part of Adolf Hitler’s nation-building program, which sought to locate physical evidence of the original Aryans, who the Nazis believed were blond-haired and blue-eyed and came from northern Europe. Hoping to support this idea, another archaeologist on the scene—who was a member of the Amt Rosenberg, a cultural policy and surveillance body within the Nazi party—proclaimed the grave that of an ur-Aryan based on the presence of the single stone ax and microliths. “The Nazis thought the burial belonged to a white man from the Neolithic,” says Harald Meller, director of the State Museum of Prehistory, an erroneous and dangerous conclusion that was part of a larger campaign to prove that the German “race” had been in northern Europe for thousands of years.

https://www.archaeology.org/issues/501-2303/features/11195-germany-mesolithic-shaman-burial

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EvanNaumenko t1_je7pchg wrote

Reply to Bookclub and Sources Wednesday! by AutoModerator

I need a hand finding sources for the Serbian Black Hand terrorist group.

I’m currently in the process of writing a university research paper on the Serbian Black Hand as a terrorist group, but I’m having serious difficulties finding scholarly sources that discuss them SPECIFICALLY - as most sources just discuss the origins of the First World War and the role the group played. Any help would be appreciated. If any of you know of specific articles or sources that I can use, please let me know. Thanks!

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LlamarSalai t1_je7jnhh wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Gods, tombs and Nazis: the Third Reich’s bad relationship with Egyptology by MeatballDom

The way they were running the domestic economy was a) not sustainable and creating huge debt, b) the local economy was reliant on war machine to funnel supplies from the countries they were annexing, and c) they were doing genocide and eugenics to murder MILLIONS of innocent people and funnel their property and use these people as slave labour for the state.

I know you don’t mean bad, I just think there’s a lot more to it than this statement. I hope you have a great day!

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