Author: Reinerth, Hans ; editor: [ Reichsbund für Deutsche Vorgeschichte ]
Title: Germanen-Erbe: Monatsschrift für deutsche Vorgeschichte. 4. Jahrgang, Heft 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10/12 [1939]
Description: Leipzig, J. Barth, 1939. orig.wrappers. 30x21cm, One issue lacks rear cover. NINE ISSUES: Lacking one issue [Heft 8 - August 1939], otherwise complete for this period.. Textual illustrations.. Minor wear. Some have torn spines. Good. ¶ Subtitled: "Amtliches Organ des Reichsbundes für Deutsche Vorgeschichte und des Amtes für Vorgeschichte des Beauftragten des Führers für die gesamte geistige und weltanschauliche Schulung und Erziehung der NSDAP". A popular periodical promoting Nazi archeological theories issued under the auspices of Alfred Rosenberg's Amt Rosenberg. ["Hans Reinerth was the main archaeologist Rosenberg used. Reinerth is famous for his excavations at the Federsee and he saw the Nazi Party as a tool he could use to work his way up in society. This is just what occurred, and in 1934 Rosenberg appointed him to the position of “Reich Deputy of German Prehistory”. This made him the spokesman for the “purification and Germanisation of the German prehistory". Reinerth was an adherent of Hitler’s theory of German racial purity. Though this theory never really came into full effect, Reinerth pushed it heavily as Reich Deputy, and encouraged archaeological exploration. His archaeological group, along with the Ahnenerbe organisation, was used to the Nazis' full advantage since it was ' professional'" - wikipedia].

Keywords: Germany 1933-1945, National Socialism, Germany, German Ethnology, Archeology, Political History, Nazi Archaeology, Historiography, Political