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Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_archaeology
TIL that the Nazis believed strongly in the myth of Atlantis. Under the guidance of Heinrich Himmler, archeologists spread the idea that Germans were descended from a superior race of Antlanteans.
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their Occult stuff was bonkers. Every October on the Hitler channel there were some great shows.
Way down, below the ocean
This assumes that they believed what they say.
Nazi ideology was wacky. Feels like they just took a bunch of random ideas and mixed them together.
You’re just cracking the book on nazi weirdness
This is simply not true. Nazis were nordicists and thought they were descended from the hyperboreans.
Yup national socialists were filled with intelligent outside the boxcar thinkers
I mean, I’m not saying this isn’t true but I find it vaguely suspicious that the section on Atlantis in this wiki article has literally 0 citations. In fact, the entire page seems somewhat light on them and they were all published decades after WW2. I’d take some of the content here with a grain of salt.
Looks like they watched to much National Geographic, loonies
Well, it’s not as wacky as what L. Ron Hubbard proposed (volcanoes, aliens, etc.).
Well well well, so this is what happens if a whole country takes methamphetamine on a daily basis.