The disciplines of prehistorical and early archaeology were given massive support by the National Socialist state, for example through the establishment of countless new professorships. The present volume examines the work of ten typical university teachers; it is not, however, primarily concerned with their biographies and political conduct, but uses a critical reading of their academic publications to approach the question of how they thought before, during and after the Third Reich and how they formulated their research findings.

What transpires is that both the academic paradigms, questions and accounts from earlier epochs of pre-history and early history and the linguistic vocabulary were developed long before 1933, going back to the 19th and early 20th centuries, and that the language did not change until long after the end of the War.

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The editor is professor of Ancient History at the University Freiburg/Breisgau