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Article: Research under dictatorship: the German Archaeological Institute 1929-1945.
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- Antiquity
- Article date:
- June 1, 1998
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The German Archaeological Institute (DAI: Deutsches Archaologisches Institut), founded in 1829, experienced the most critical phase of its history during the latter years of the Weimar Republic and the National Socialist era. The financial problems of the economic depression, and attempts to influence the Institute's fields of research during the Third Reich, posed a serious threat to its academic sovereignty, and indeed threatened its very existence. The following seeks to highlight the history of the Institute during this period of economic and political turmoil by looking at the policies adopted by the Zentraldirektion, the organization's ruling body, in order to ...