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Much of the Nazi Party's iconography was adopted from pseudoscientific, ideologically driven reconstructions of ancient civilizations, including the infamous Swastika emblem seen in inscriptions such as these on the 9th-century Sæbø sword

Nazi archaeology was a field of pseudoarcheology led and encouraged by various Nazi leaders and Ahnenerbe figures, such as Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Himmler, which directed archaeologists and other scholars to search Germany's archeological past in order to find material evidence supporting an advanced, Aryan ancestry as alleged and espoused by the ultranationalist Nazi Party.