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Of course Hitler's interested in Atlantis.
In the Critias, Plato writes about Atlantis:
In the first place, they dug out of the earth whatever was to be found there, solid as well as able to be smelted, and that which is now only a name and was then something more than a name, orichalcum, was dug out of the earth in many parts of the island, being more precious in those days than anything except gold.Orichalcum is a marvellous metal than can be refined as easily as copper, but worked as hard as bronze or iron. It has a rich reddish colour like copper, and can be beaten into thin sheets like gold for decorative purposes. The citadels, temples, and other public buildings of Atlantis were richly decorated in orichalcum which, being an expensive metal, flaunted immense wealth as well as beauty. Orichalcum could also be alloyed with copper and tin to produce a form of bronze with properties far superior to normal bronze - probably what Hitler is after for his Nazi war machines. Besides all this, the metal may also have magical properties...
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