Title How green were the Nazis? : nature, environment, and nation in the Third Reich / edited by Franz-Josef Brüggemeier, Mark Cioc, and Thomas Zeller

Edition 1st ed Published Athens : Ohio University Press, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 283 pages) Series Ohio University Press series in ecology and history Ohio University Press series in ecology and history. Contents Legalizing a Volksgemeinschaft : Nazi Germany's Reich Nature protection law of 1935 / Charles Closmann -- "Eternal forest-eternal Volk" the rhetoric and reality of national socialist forest policy / Michael Imort -- "It shall be the whole landscape!" : the Reich nature protection law and regional planning in the Third Reich / Thomas Lekan -- Polycentrism in full swing : air pollution control in Nazi Germany / Frank Uektter -- Breeding pigs and people for the Third Reich : Richard Walther Darr's agrarian ideology / Gesine Gerhard -- Molding the landscape of Nazi environmentalism : Alwin Seifert and the Third Reich / Thomas Zeller -- Martin Heidegger, national socialism, and environmentalism / Thomas Rohkrmer -- Blood or soil? the volkisch movement, the Nazis, and the legacy of geopolitik / Mark Bassin -- Violence as the basis of national socialist landscape planning in the "annexed Eastern areas" / Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn Summary Annotation The Nazis created nature preserves, contemplated sustainable forestry, curbed air pollution, and designed the autobahn highway network as a way of bringing Germans closer to nature. How Green Were the Nazis? is the first book to examine the ideology and practice of environmental protection in Nazi Germany. Environmentalists and conservationists in Germany welcomed the rise of the Nazi regime with open arms, for the most part, and hoped that it would bring about legal and institutional changes. However, environmentalists soon realized that the rhetorical attention that they received from the regime did not always translate into action. By the late 1930s, nature and the environment became less pressing concerns as Nazi Germany prepared and executed its extensive war. Based on prodigious archival research, and written by some of the most important scholars in the field of twentieth-century German history, How Green Were the Nazis? illuminates the ideological overlap between Nazi ideas and conservationist agendas. Moreover, this landmark book underscores that the green" policies of the Nazis were more than a mere episode or aberration in environmental history. ((BLURB))--"The environmental ideas, policies, and consequences of the Nazi regime pose controversial questions that have long begged for authoritative answers. At last, a team of highly qualified scholars has tackled these questions, with dispassionate judgment and deep research. Their assessment will stand for years to come as the fundamental work on the subjectand provides a new angle of vision on 20th-century Europe's most disruptive force." John McNeill, author of Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World --EDITORS-- Franz-Josef Brueggemeier is a professor of history at the university of Freiburg, Germany. He has published extensively in the field of environmental history in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe. Mark Cioc is a professor of history at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and editor of the journal Environmental History. He is the author of The Rhine: An Eco-Biography, 1815-2000. Thomas Zeller is an assistant professor in the department of history at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the author of Straße, Bahn, Panorama, translated as Driving Germany Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Environmental policy -- Germany -- History -- 20th century Green movement -- History -- 20th century Environmental policy Green movement Politics and government Ökologische Bewegung Umweltpolitik Naturschutz SUBJECT Germany -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054640 Subject Germany Deutschland Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Brüggemeier, Franz-Josef Cioc, Mark Zeller, Thomas ISBN 9780821441961 0821441965 9780821416464 0821416464 9780821416471 0821416472

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