Preface; Egyptologists, Nazism and Racial "Science"; Imperialism and Racial Geography in James Henry Breasted's Ancient Times, a History of the Early World; Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Bissing im Blickpunkt ägyptologischer und zeithistorischer Forschungen: die Jahre 1914 bis 1926; Ägyptologen im Dritten Reich: Biographische Notizen anhand der sogenannten Steindorff-Liste"; Manfred Mayrhofer's Studies on Indo-Aryan and the Indo-Aryans in the Ancient Near East: A Retrospective and Outlook on Future Research; Index of Names
Summary
Only recently has Egyptology started examining ideology and its implications for our self-understanding and understanding of ancient Egypt, Egyptology, and the past as a whole. This edition presents aspects of ideology, scholarship, and individual biographies from World War I to the ""Third Reich""