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Sparta and the Nazis

The Ancients

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Sparta and the Narcissus

Many leading figures in the nazy regime saw sparta as some kind of paradime that germany could learn from. The peasants of schleswig holstein cooked a black broth that was must be similar to spartan soup, and things like this. Hitler himself even had the belief that you could prove connections between ancient germany and sparta vicars. They were obviously very tenuous, but they were trying to make all of these racial connections.

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