Ancient Near Eastern ‘Aryans’ and the Third Reich

2021/03/11 by Beckman, Gary
#FOS: Humanities #Fascism #History of Assyriology #Humanities #Middle Eastern #Near Eastern and North African Studies

paper · doi:10.7302/272

Abstract

A survey of the role of the concept of 'Aryan' in the Assyriology of Germany during the Nazi period.

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