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In 1934, Nazi Germany hosted an international conference on animal welfare in Berlin. [ 22] On March 27, 1936, an order on the slaughter of living fish and other poikilotherms was enacted. On March 18 the same year, an order was passed on afforestation and on protection of animals in the wild. [ 13] On September 9, 1937, a decree was published ...
Adolf Hitler at a dinner table. Near the end of his life, Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) followed a vegetarian diet. It is not clear when or why he adopted it, since some accounts of his dietary habits prior to the Second World War indicate that he consumed meat as late as 1937. In 1938, Hitler's doctors put him on a meat-free diet, and his public ...
The scientific reputation of eugenics started to decline in the 1930s, a time when Ernst Rüdin used eugenics as a justification for the racial policies of Nazi Germany. Adolf Hitler had praised and incorporated eugenic ideas in Mein Kampf in 1925 and emulated eugenic legislation for the sterilization of "defectives" that had been pioneered in ...
The social policies of eugenics in Nazi Germany were composed of various ideas about genetics. The racial ideology of Nazism placed the biological improvement of the German people by selective breeding of "Nordic" or "Aryan" traits at its center. [ 1] These policies were used to justify the involuntary sterilization and mass-murder of those ...
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany is a book by American journalist William L. Shirer in which the author chronicles the rise and fall of Nazi Germany from the birth of Adolf Hitler in 1889 to the end of World War II in Europe in 1945. It was first published in 1960 by Simon ...
Seneca the Younger The Twelve Tables of Roman Law, established early in the formation of the Roman Republic, obliged citizens by law to immediately kill any "dreadfully deformed" child. [b] And so selective infanticide seems to have been comparably widespread in Ancient Rome as it had already long been in Athens. Furthermore, according to Tacitus (c. 56 – c. 120), a Roman of the Imperial ...
While he prepared the expedition, Schäfer used the term "Schaefer Expedition 1938/1939" on his letterhead and to apply for sponsorship from businessmen. [3] The official expedition name had to be changed by order of the Ahnenerbe, however, to German Tibet-Expedition Ernst Schaefer (in capital letters), "under the patronage of the Reichsführer-SS Himmler and in connection with the Ahnenerbe ...
Reichserbhofgesetz. The Reichserbhofgesetz, the Hereditary Farm Law, of 1933 was a Nazi law to implement principles of blood and soil, stating that its aim was to: "preserve the farming community as the blood-source of the German people". [ 1] As farmers appeared in Nazi ideology as a source of economics and racial stability, the law was ...