
Conspiracy: the lost civilisation of Atlantis
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Is There Sometimes a Racial or Racist Element to This?
The Atlantis idea from Ignatius Donnelly that I described in 1882, it was picked up by the Theosophical Society and then from there into kind of the spiritual ideas of many people in Nazi Germany. And they actually founded the Institute for Atlantis Studies, where a segment of these Nazis believed that Aryans were descended from Atlantides. This also has a deep history as well. So yeah, it's very tied in. Even though I don't want to say everybody that believes it, subscribe to those ideas, because that would be false.
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