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Study of Bayeux Tapestry

Germany · Warfare / World War, 2nd. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Chronological records

1941

Herbert Jankuhn1941

Bayeux · Warfare / World War, 2nd

Jankuhn directed Nazi-sponsored research into the embroidery's supposed Germanic and ancestral significance.

Names involved

Herbert Jankuhn

Provenance

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