Animals under National Socialism
by Jan Mohnhaupt
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Potato beetles as weapons of war and pigs for educating the masses – under National Socialism, animals weren’t exempt from (mis)appropriation. Jan Mohnhaupt tells their stories vividly and with an eye for everyday detail. Dog breeding served the Nazis as a model for their racial fanaticism. In primary school, insects were used to prepare children for war. And the stag was used to buttress the myth of the »German forest«. Mohnhaupt discovers animals and their unique role in National Socialism in diaries and specialist journals, school textbooks and propaganda material. In the style of a historical reportage, he follows in their footsteps, from horses on the Eastern Front to cats in German living rooms. And he makes clear: »The Nazi perspective on the world is reflected with surprising clarity even in this aspect of the Third Reich.«
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English World (Wisconsin University Press), Greece (Gutenberg), Italy (Bollati Boringhieri)
Author Biography
Jan Mohnhaupt was born in 1983 in the Ruhr area. He works as a freelance journalist and author for a variety of magazines and newspapers including Spiegel Online, Zeit Online and PM History. In 2017 Hanser Verlag published his book Der Zoo der Anderen, which was translated into several languages. He lives and works in Munich.
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- Publisher Hanser
- Publication Date March 2020
- ISBN/Identifier 9783446266797
- Pages288
- Publish StatusPublished
- IllustrationWith photographs
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