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Intrigued by a short clip from one of the director's films featured in the documentary, recently I managed to track down Timucin and had the chance to ask the Turkish-Irish filmmaker a few questions.

I first became interested in this area through my desire to make science fiction films.

Professor Schneider urged me to get an important point out in this story:

You need to “warn the public against believing the discipline during the Nazi period was uniform,” he said.

He wrote:

The study of the Ancient Near East as far as it relates to peoples of a foreign race, of a nature alien to us and thus impossible to comprehend fully in its peculiarity, is doomed to resignation as soon as the problems exceed what can be established rationally.

Therefore, it fails with regard to the new claim of values and losses its right to exist (...). Where the threshold of deeper questioning has been tred upon – as in Egyptology –, serious decisions have now to be taken.

Walther Wolf was an Egyptologist at Leipzig who had pro-Nazi leanings.

He is known for lecturing while wearing a SA uniform.

Wolf viewed Akhenaten to be a poor pharaoh because he 'Did not uncover ideas that were lying dormant in the depth of their Volkstum, and fight for their full potential of development.'

“This is clearly worded on the template of the role assigned to Hitler,” wrote Schneider.

Said Scharff of Wolf’s work:

In it the attempt is made to understand the Egyptian culture from a new angle of view which is apparently rooted in National Socialistic ideology (...). Such slogans of today which may have a predominant significance in other areas, are of little use with regard to Ancient Egypt.

In a 1935 letter to Adolf Erman, he lamented what was happening in Germany. He wrote-

The Nuremberg legislation has completely paralyzed us and cut our thread of life, it has annihilated our zest of life and my zest of work (...). I was always proud to be able to say "civis Germanus sum", and cannot bear it to be locked up in a ghetto.

Steindorff wrote in 1945, after he was safely in the United States that,

During my darkest days at Leipzig, some weeks after the pogrom of November, 1938, he came to our house in Leipzig and invited me and my wife to go with him and find asylum in his house at Bonn, though to give us sanctuary might well have resulted in his confinement in a concentration camp.

He wrote about Junker that,

It is very difficult to describe the character of this man because he has none. I have heard that it was rumored in England that Junker acted as a spy in Egypt.  I do not believe it.  He was too clever to compromise himself by such activity.  He played safe. 

Albert Einstein (then based in Berlin) and his colleage at Göttingen, Nobel Laureate James Frankh, both resigned in protest. They were hoping that other professors would resign in solidarity.

That didn’t happen.

Kees certainly didn’t hide his far-right views. On Akhenaten he wrote,

One is certainly wrong to portray Amenophis IV as a gushing idealist who wished to turn the world's quarrels to eternal peace by the gracious sermon of human reconciliation and who therefore declined any warfare abroad.

To be a great reformer, he lacked the creative force to anticipate, in the way of a seer, issues that were fermenting and wanted to take shape, and to shape them, and not the least did his personality lack authoritative charisma, carrying the stigma of repulsive ugliness.

He himself possessed too many traits that were contrary to the Ancient Egyptian ideal of a master race; he was licentious, effusive, led by emotions, morally debauched and obstinate.

Courtesy German Federal Archive and wikimedia. Photo of a model of "Germania" Hitler's revamped Berlin. It would have included a museum where Nefertiti's bust was close to Hitler's.

“This was, what I think, a decisive turning point in the international history of Egyptology,” Said Professor Schneider. 

“Germany lost its status and it has to struggle for many decades after the war until it again became recognized and appreciated (in) the discipline,” he said adding, “Germany had basically sacrificed, through the NS regime, its academic standing.”

Owen Jarus is a freelance writer based in Toronto ,Canada. He has written articles on archaeology for a variety of media outlets including The Canadian Press newswire (CP), U of T Magazine, The Mississauga News and The Guelph Mercury. Education: BA from the University of Toronto in History, Geography and Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations. BJourn in Journalism from Ryerson University.

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Banks will foreclose on thousands of small businesses.Massive corporate failures are inevitable.

These disasters will then rebound on the financial sector, as company bankruptcies
and plunging house prices force fresh balance sheet write-downs and yet more sackings.

The historical precedent is far from encouraging.

After the 1929 crash, the U.S. turned in on itself, resorting to protectionism.

"We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about
what is best for society." ..Hillary Clinton 

"... "you f****** Jew bastard".  .. "
..Hillary Clinton

http://www.rense.com/general2/hillh.htm

SIXTH

Because
it cannot be imagined that "the people" would willingly subject
themselves to the kind of economic exploitation envisioned in step five (above),
the elites are forced to employ:

SEVENTH

As unions are busted, corporate power strengthened, workers
reduced to a state of penury, divisiveness in the over-all
population encouraged, etc., the elites begin to promote
an obsession with crime and punishment as a ruse
behind which they can bring to bear the authority of the
state against their political opposition under color of
the criminal code.

EIGHTH

As the elites continue down their undemocratic path, fraudulent
elections increase.

NINTH

As the power of the elites grows ever more autocratic and undemocratic, the
elites are forced to resort to sources other than "the
people" to justify their continued rule.

TENTH

As religion is ever more pressed into service by the elites to justify their
undemocratic rule, rampant sexism becomes the norm:

ELEVENTH

As religion continues to be pressed into service by the elites to justify
their increasingly autocratic rule, those who fall outside the parameters
of the state's religion and culture are identified as enemies and scapegoats.

This usually translates into an unremitting persecution of -



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  Racial minorities.

  
  
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  Ethnic minorities.

  
  
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  Religious minorities.

  
  
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  Liberals.

  
  
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  Communists.

  
  
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  Socialists.

  
  
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  The gay and lesbian community.

TWELFTH

As the state gradually takes on a homogenous religious and cultural hue, a
powerful nationalism begins to take hold on "the
people."

THIRTEENTH

Protection of the "homeland," the culture," and the country's
religion become paramount - which leads to an obsession
with national security.

FOURTEENTH

Out of the religious atmosphere that the state fosters, it is inevitable that
a cult-like messiah figure will emerge surrounded by a
cadre of cult-like followers.

S.R. Shearer,

Antipas Ministries