Animals in the Third Reich: Pets, Scapegoats, and the HolocaustThis book is a must for all collections in German history and animal rights. It is a deep and profound reflection on the complex and perplexing ways that animals can shape human culture and politics. > |
Contents
Illustrations | 9 |
Foreword by Klaus P Fischer | 11 |
Acknowledgments | 13 |
Why Animals? | 15 |
Animals and the Intellectual Origins of National Socialism | 25 |
Predator and Prey | 27 |
Romantic Terror 3 | 36 |
The Symbolism of Animals in Nazi Germany | 45 |
Treatment Theory Research | 99 |
The Mystical Technocracy | 101 |
Animals Nature and the Law | 110 |
Animal Psychology | 124 |
Sacrifice and Death | 137 |
Slaughter | 139 |
Sacrifice | 151 |
The Hell of Auschwitz | 159 |
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