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[[File:Grab Wilhelm Teudt (2).jpg|thumb|Teudt's family grave at Detmold]]
Teudt died on 5 January 1942 in Detmold and is buried there. A street was named after him until 1969. In 2010, the city posthumously revoked his status as honorary citizen.<ref name="Detmold"/>
==Theories==
Teudt's interest in "Germanic archaeology", in particular the discovery of Germanic pagan sacred sites, developed in the 1920s. He trusted in his [[paranormal]] faculty of picking up the "vibrations" of his ancestors helping him visualize ancient sceneries of the sites he was researching.
Teudt was particularly interested in the natural stone formation of the [[Externsteine]] near Detmold, which he suggested was the location of a central [[Saxon people|Saxon]] shrine, the location of [[Irminsul]] and an ancient sun observatory. He assumed that the Germanic buildings there had been made from wood and thus left no traces. Teudt was put in charge of the excavations at the site and appointed {{ill|de|Julius Andree}} to head the work done there by the ''[[Reichsarbeitsdienst]]'' in 1934/35.<ref name="Katalog1"/> Teudt thought that the Externsteine had served as an observatory until its destruction by [[Charlemagne]]. He initiated the demolishing of touristical infrastructure (tramway, hotels) and the creation of a "sacred grove" nearby.<ref name="Katalog3">{{Citation | last =Halle| first =Uta| contribution = Wichtige Ausgrabungen der NS-Zeit | year =2013 | title = Graben für Germanien - Archäologie unterm Hakenkreuz| editor-last = Focke-Museum, Bremen| editor-first = | volume = | pages = 65-73| place = | publisher =Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft | isbn=978-3-534-25919-9}}</ref>
In Teudt's view, the Christianisation of the Saxons after 800 AD was nothing less than a cultural genocide. He thought that a highly advanced Germanic civilization had predated contact with the Romans.<ref name="Katalog1"/>
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