The past as propaganda: totalitarian archaeology in Nazi Germany,

@article{Arnold1990ThePA,
  title={The past as propaganda: totalitarian archaeology in Nazi Germany,},
  author={Bettina Arnold},
  journal={Antiquity},
  year={1990},
  volume={64},
  pages={464-478}
}
An important element to the future of archaeology in the ex-Communist countries of central Europe will be the freeing of archaeological ideas from the constraints of a particular set of social theories built into the fabric of the state, as Milisauskas noted in the last ANTIQUITY (64: 283–5). This is a timely moment to look at the interference of a different set of social theories in the same region some decades ago 
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