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Chouinard, Patrick
Patrick Chouinard is an American writer, former producer of Archaeology TV and editor-in-chief of The New Archaeology Review (NAR)(a) . Chouinard has expressed the view that Atlantis was just a myth reflecting global tales of much earlier civilisations. However, he is happy to allow a range of alternative Atlantis theories to be aired in NAR. The NAR website includes a wide selection of articles dealing with ancient history and also includes free pdf copies of the earliest issues(c) .
Chouinard is also the author(b) of Forgotten Worlds [0864] published in May 2012 in which he reviews several mysteries, including the Deluge, the Mayan Calendar as well as pre-dynastic Egypt, but once again he ‘sits on the fence’ regarding the location of Atlantis. Robert Schoch has written the Foreword to this book.
Chouinard has also written(d) about the Indus Valley civilisation, referring to it as “the Atlantis of the east?”
He is also the author of Lost Race of the Giants [1424] in which he refers to “Pre-Adamic times that were controlled by a lost group of proto-Aryan giants.” A more condensed version of his idea of Atlantean giants as a race having an ante-diluvian global presence can be found in a chapter of Lost Civilizations [831] edited by Michael Pye & Kirsten Dalley.
In 2019, The Barnes Review, an extreme racist publication, published The Rise of the Aryans [2116] by Chouinard that offered numerous instances of where his sentiments really lie. I offer two short quotes, the first (p.183) describes The Master Plan by Heather Pringle, as “typical work of Jewish-inspired propaganda”. On page 195 he adds “Himmler continued to investigate Scandinavia even through the onset of the war. Himmler deserves credit for his ambition and motivation, and for giving our people the hope of finding our true past. I intend to continue to update my readers on the works of the Ahnenerbe and the wonderful work they did and the revealing truths and facts they have discovered.” (g)
Chouinard has also uses the name Patrick Fox(e)(f).
In 2025, Chouinard continued his commentary on Giants and their connection with Atlantis with the publication of Giants of Atlantis [2115].
(a) https://web.archive.org/web/20071002211906/http://www.newarchaeologyreview.com/
(b) https://www.innertraditions.com/forgotten-worlds.html
(d) http://newagearchaeology.weebly.com/the-indus-valley.html
(e) Interview with historian and author Patrick Fox – Divine Truth Ministries (archive.org)
(g) Rise Of The Aryans : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Paulsen, Peter
Peter Paulsen (1902-1985) was a German professor of archaeology, who belonged to the Ahnenerbe-SS and was heavily involved in the plundering of museums and libraries in Poland after the German invasion. Heather Pringle records his wartime activities in great detail in The Master Plan[0032.196].
He had a keen interest in Norse mythology, which led to the publication of Axt und Kreutz in 1939[1364]. So it is not surprising that after the war when Jürgen Spanuth published his theory of a North Sea Atlantis and identified the Sea Peoples as the ‘North Sea Peoples’, Paulsen was quick to describe Spanuth’s work as “very significant and valuable research which should in every way be supported.” Another former member of Ahnenerbe, Professor Otto Huth is also recorded[1339.217] by Felix R. Paturi as supporting Spanuth’s work.
Elsewhere(a) we are told “After the war Peter Paulsen did his best to bury his past and in 1981 landed a prestigious job as a medieval expert in Würtemberg”.
Atlantis of the North
Atlantis of the North [015] was the third book written by Dr Jürgen Spanuth on the subject of Atlantis. His first book[016] published in German, led to court action by Spanuth after being labelled ‘a peddler of lies’. The matter ended when his detractors, ten professors, admitted that their objections to his work were groundless.
Spanuth’s book controversially locates Atlantis in the North Sea near Helgoland and attributes its destruction to the consequences of widespread natural catastrophes that the world experienced in the 13th century BC. These disasters led to large-scale migrations, one of which was from Scandinavia into the Mediterranean where Spanuth insists that the migrants were known as the ‘Sea Peoples’, or as he calls them ‘North Sea Peoples’ and portrayed on the walls of the temple of Medinet Habu. He claims that there is considerable agreement between Plato’s Atlantis story and the carvings at Medinet Habu.
Furthermore, Spanuth identifies a cometary impact with the Earth as the cause of these upheavals. He claims that this impact is preserved in mythology as Phaëton by the Greeks and others as Typhon, Sekhmet, Anat, and Tistrya etc. Incidentally, the Carolina Bays visible today have been linked with this event.
It has been pointed out that much of the material used by Spanuth seems to have been drawn from the research archives of the Nazi Ahnenerbe-SS. The result is a closely argued work that is worth reading, however unacceptable the Heligoland location is now seen.
In 2015, Spanuth entered the world of controversy again when The Mystery of Atlantis Unravelled[0127] was published by Amazon’s self-publishing department, CreateSpace, with a new title The Mystery of Atlantis and the author’s name changed to ‘John Lock’! This is simply a badly scanned copy, blatant plagiarism and possibly breach of copyright as Spanuth only died in the 1998!