Nordic giant stone graves

Nordic giant stone graves is an expression of the research history that Ernst Sprockhoff coined in the course of the "language cleansing" under the National Socialists as a Germanization for the Scandinavian megalithic graves. He attributed this to the Germans .

literature

Reena Perschke: The German Megalithic Grave Nomenclature - A contribution to dealing with ideologically loaded technical terminology. In: Archaeological Information . Volume 39, 2016, pp. 167-176, ( online ).

Individual evidence

↑ Ernst Sprockhoff: On the origin of the Germanic peoples. In: Helmut Arntz (ed.): Germanic and Indo-European. Ethnicity, language, homeland, culture. Commemorative publication for Herman Hirt . Volume 1: Results of cultural history and anthropology (= Indo-European Library. Department 3: Investigations. 15, 1, ZDB -ID 843760-9 ). Winter, Heidelberg 1936, pp. 255–274, here p. 260.

[1] Ernst Sprockhoff: On the origin of the Germanic peoples. In: Helmut Arntz (ed.): Germanic and Indo-European. Ethnicity, language, homeland, culture. Commemorative publication for Herman Hirt . Volume 1: Results of cultural history and anthropology (= Indo-European Library. Department 3: Investigations. 15, 1, ZDB -ID 843760-9 ). Winter, Heidelberg 1936, pp. 255–274, here p. 260.