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martin
Nov 4, 2009, 7:59:18 PM11/4/09
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On Oct 30, 7:32 am, chronicle <Use-Author-Supplied-Address-Header@
[127.1]> wrote:
> "How Green Were the Nazis? - Nature, Environment and Nation in the
> Third Reich" (Amazon.com:http://xrl.us/GreenNazis)
>
> Once we get past the editors' exaggerated claim that their book offers
> "a more nuanced and historically richer answer to the question 'How
> green were the Nazis?' than previous efforts", this volume proves to
> be a valuable contribution to the ongoing study of naturist ideologies
> and movements in modern Germany. Discussion of early-twentieth-century
> German environmentalism has been influenced by decades of
> historiography according to which Germans' allegedly extreme passion
> for nature was essentially anti-modern, anti-rational and anti-liberal
> and thus fed into Nazism. Moreover, some anti-ecology polemicists have
> tried to use the supposed environmentalism of the Nazis to cast
> suspicion on contemporary ecological movements in Germany and
> elsewhere. In a more general sense, the book exemplifies a recent
> trend toward critical scholarship on early environmentalism, of which
> William Cronon's collection Uncommon Ground (1995) (Eco Books:http://xrl.us/UncommonGround) is the best-known example. At issue,
> then, is not only the particular history of the Third Reich, but also
> the ethical character of environmentalism in general...
>
> Continued:http://xrl.us/GreenNazisReview
[127.1]> wrote:
> "How Green Were the Nazis? - Nature, Environment and Nation in the
> Third Reich" (Amazon.com:http://xrl.us/GreenNazis)
>
> Once we get past the editors' exaggerated claim that their book offers
> "a more nuanced and historically richer answer to the question 'How
> green were the Nazis?' than previous efforts", this volume proves to
> be a valuable contribution to the ongoing study of naturist ideologies
> and movements in modern Germany. Discussion of early-twentieth-century
> German environmentalism has been influenced by decades of
> historiography according to which Germans' allegedly extreme passion
> for nature was essentially anti-modern, anti-rational and anti-liberal
> and thus fed into Nazism. Moreover, some anti-ecology polemicists have
> tried to use the supposed environmentalism of the Nazis to cast
> suspicion on contemporary ecological movements in Germany and
> elsewhere. In a more general sense, the book exemplifies a recent
> trend toward critical scholarship on early environmentalism, of which
> William Cronon's collection Uncommon Ground (1995) (Eco Books:http://xrl.us/UncommonGround) is the best-known example. At issue,
> then, is not only the particular history of the Third Reich, but also
> the ethical character of environmentalism in general...
>
> Continued:http://xrl.us/GreenNazisReview
Nazi's were first in passings laws for the protection of
animals.Cruelty
of any type was not tolerated. I recall reading that this policy was
taught to all SS recruites,
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