Trees... they loved trees.
Posted on 07/10/2011 5:00:16 PM PDT by AustralianConservative
“In 1934, a year after the Nazi seizure of power, the Rhenish regional planner and Heimatschutz member Wernher Witthaus declared that the Third Reich had ushered in a new era of environmental stewardship,” explains Thomas Lekan in How Green Were the Nazis?
It didn’t take him long. Witthaus the National Socialist preached, “Die ganze Landschaft soll es sein!” Or: “It shall be the whole landscape!”
The debate was over. Green was in – and therefore green central leaders. For dear leader Hitler, the vegetarian, was taking Germany into a greener, cleaner period.
As well, for Witthaus, the “total state” in this period “was fundamentally related to the way we perceive and want to see space and landscape. The relationships to the landscape have developed beyond specialized knowledge; they want to create the whole.”
The organic-first planner was certainly not alone. As Lekan notes, for planners “Germany seemed to be entering a golden age of environmental concern, characterized by a total approach to planning that recognized the interdependent relationship between land use, ecology, social stability, and national identity.”
Die ganze Landschaft soll es sein! Die ganze Landschaft soll es sein! Die ganze Landschaft soll es sein!
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Trees... they loved trees.
Oh my – Hitler trees?
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