"We know that in 1933 not a single academic staff member [at University of Tuebingen] was a member of the #Nazi Party. However, between 1933 and 1935 things started to change very quickly. The authorities ordered the university to make structural changes. The university soon lost its administrative authority. Amongst the professors, or amongst the academic subjects the Nazis were obviously most interested in taking over subject areas that were most closely linked to their ideology, for example, life sciences and in particular medicine. At the same time, they wanted to promote research into their idea of the Germanic peoples and the Aryan race and everything that was associated with that. They wanted to create a scientific background to this, and archaeology was an important subject in this respect."
Prof. Hans-Joachim Lang (translation in subtitles)
This section starts around 16:50 in
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usXzv3n7IZk
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