The Nazis imbued plants and animals with a higher moral value than the lives of 6 million Jews. In their minds, it made perfect sense, like arguing that Obama supports business, America, patriotism, etc.
“”Neither did they apprehend that the sweeping Nazi environmental laws of 1933-35 were an implicit Anti-Semitic precursor for the racially charged Nuremberg laws”
The author is getting confused about Hitler’s 1933 decrees and the Naturschutz laws implemented in 1935-37.
Hitler’s 1933 decrees had nothing to do with wiping out Jews or saving the environment. (Most of those decrees about killing Jews were done in secret and the world had no idea what Hitler planned.) The 1933 decrees were a series of cheerleading fascist decrees to get German citizens cheering Hitler’s planned conquest.
I’ll be more than happy to post about this period, but it’ll take weeks to transcribe my notes. And when I’m done, less than 1% will read it. That’s not a good return for a ton of work.
Warning people about the imminent take-over of America by fascists has cost me a bunch of money. I’m done. The dragon is at the gate threatening your money and liberty. You deal with it.