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| chronicle... |
 Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 8:32 am |
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"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 |
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| martin... |
| Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 2:59 pm |
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On Oct 30, 7:32 am, chronicle <Use-Author-Supplied-Address-Header at (no spam)
[127.1]> wrote:
[quote]"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
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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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