{"id":16087,"date":"2011-12-30T08:06:39","date_gmt":"2011-12-30T08:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=16087"},"modified":"2026-01-25T17:58:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T17:58:53","slug":"czeppan-rudolf-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/czeppan-rudolf-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Czeppan, Rudolf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rudolf <\/strong><strong>\u00a0Czeppan<\/strong> <strong>(1923-2003)<\/strong> was an ardent supporter of <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/spanuth-dr-jurgen\/\">J\u00fcrgen Spanuth\u2019s <\/a>theory of Atlantis in the North Sea. Czeppan proposed that an impact by an extraterrestrial body south of <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/helgoland\/\">Heligoland<\/a> caused the sinking of Atlantis. He also details the unprofessional manner in which so many academics, particularly German, treated Spanuth&#8217;s Atlantis theories.<\/p>\n<p>Czeppan&#8217;s paper, originally in German<sup>(a)<\/sup>, can be read here, interlined with a machine translation in English<sup>(b)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>There have been suggestions that Spanuth was more than a mere nazi \u2018sympathiser\u2019 and consequently may have had access to<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/ahnenerbe-ss\/\"> Ahnenerbe<\/a> files relating to their Atlantis research. This might partly explain why Czeppan,\u00a0 a convicted neo-nazi, was so enthusiastic in his endorsement of Spanuth.<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20230203071934\/http:\/\/vho.org\/VffG\/2001\/4\/Czeppan374-381.html\">VffG 4\/2001: Rudolf Czeppan: Zur Forschung und Ausgrenzung von J\u00fcrgen Spanuth (archive.org)<\/a> (German)<\/p>\n<p><sup>(b) <\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/archive-2301\/\">http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220819134709\/https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/archive-2301\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rudolf \u00a0Czeppan (1923-2003) was an ardent supporter of J\u00fcrgen Spanuth\u2019s theory of Atlantis in the North Sea. Czeppan proposed that an impact by an extraterrestrial body south of Heligoland caused the sinking of Atlantis. He also details the unprofessional manner in which so many academics, particularly German, treated Spanuth&#8217;s Atlantis theories. Czeppan&#8217;s paper, originally in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[163,269,437,54,438],"class_list":["post-16087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ahnenerbe","tag-helgoland","tag-juergen-spanuth","tag-north-sea","tag-rudolf-czeppan"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16087"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66210,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16087\/revisions\/66210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}