Speaking of Haithabu ... any questions?

... is a travesty (= comical satirical transformation of serious content) on 100 years of archaeological work at the medieval settlement site of Haithabu near Schleswig, where in 1979 the only known Viking ship on German soil was recovered - a magnet also for non-scientific, political desires. The oldest film footage used in it are copies of a privately owned 16 mm B/W film and date from the 1930s, when the SS-Ahnenerbe, under the direction of SS-Obersturmbannführer Dr. Herbert Jankuhn of the CAU Kiel, carried out large-scale excavations on the site of the old settlement within the semicircular rampart from 1930 onwards and unearthed a wealth of significant finds. Further photographs come from the excavation of the 1960s under the direction of Dr. Kurt Schietzel (CAU Kiel).