[4] While building a coastal fort at the southwestern coast of the Marka peninsula for the Atlantic Wall some of his soldiers dug into the Grønhaug, a large viking age tumulus 3 km southeast of Vestbygd.
[3] But two other large tumuli on Marka, Engelshaug and Tuptehaug, two of the largest prehistoric monuments of Norway, were destroyed without any investigation during those same fortification activities.
The book titled "...Und zeugen von einem stolzen Geschlecht" [...Bear witness to a proud race] was published in 1945 by the SS-Ahnenerbe.
Directly after his return to Germany in autumn 1947 he was appointed full professor of European Pre- and Early History at the University of Kiel and held the post until his retirement in 1958.
[Ernst Sprockhoff was a real man and an important scholar, as reliable in his scientific work as towards his fellow human beings]He died in Kiel on 1 October 1967.