There was widespread support for animal welfare in Nazi Germany among the country's leadership. Adolf Hitler and his top officials took a variety of measures to ensure animals were protected.
Lab animals giving the Nazi salute to Hermann Göring for his order to ban vivisection. Caricature from Kladderadatsch, a satirical journal, September 1933. Göring prohibited vivisection and said that those who "still think they can continue to treat animals as inanimate property" would be sent to concentration camps.
Göring sitting next to a deer he killed. ca 1935.
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Ecofascism, sometimes spelled eco-fascism, is a term used to describe individuals and groups which combine environmentalism with fascism. In older literature, eco-fascism was viewed as a hypothetical
Animal welfare in Nazi Germany
…Friends of Nature was officially non-partisan, but activists from the major rival party, the Social Democratic Party, were prominent among its leaders. Ecofascism Savitri Devi…
Title page of Grant's book The Passing of the Great Race (1916)
Savitri Devi's avowed Nazism, combined with her advocacy of animal rights and vegetarianism, has made her a figure of interest to ecofascists.
Ted Kaczynski AKA "The Unabomber" in a mug shot taken shortly after his arrest in April 1996
Pentti Linkola's advocacy of "Lifeboat Ethics" is cited by commentators as an example of ecofascism.