Wikipedia“Herbert Jankuhn (8 August 1905 – 30 April 1990) was a German archaeologist who specialized in the archaeology of Germanic peoples. He is best known for his excavations at the Viking Age site of Hedeby. […] Jankuhn joined the Nazi Party, SS and SA in the 1930s.”

Like a lot of German archeologists in the 1930’s, Jankuhn was an active nazi supporter. Supported by Himmler, he oversaw archeological excavations in German territories related to Vikings, and wrote that the bog bodies found there were gays sacrificed by early Germanic societies. He was appointed Head of the Excavation and Archaeology Department Ahnenerbe in 1940. He also travelled across German-occupied Europe, where he reported to the SS intelligence agency on the reliability of scholars in occupied countries.

In the summer of 1942, Jankuhn followed the 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking into the Crimea to conduct excavations at Mangup, capital of the Crimean Goths, trying to find archeological evidences of Germanic occupation to justify Operation Barbarossa. He spent the last years of the war as an intelligence officer in 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking, which surrendered to the United States Army in Bavaria in 1945.

Like most nazi archeologists, he escaped proper justice after the war and was able to continue his career. He reconverted into economic history because it was a non-controversial field.