Animals in the Third Reich

by Boria Sax

Book Overview

Animals in the Third Reich begins by contrasting Jewish Christian and polytheistic traditions and contemporary German attitudes regarding the treatment of animals. Boria Sax documents how the Nazis manipulated these attitudes to conform to their own symbolic system -- Aryan wolves and horses; Jewish pigs and apes. By equating the Nazi party with "nature", the Nazis reduced all ethical issues to biological questions. Thus predatory animals were exalted...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826414087
• ISBN13: 9780826414083
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.7"