“”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.
The author is not confused. The animal rights law was the first of the green laws passed in Nazi Germany in 1933. On the very night of the Long Knives in 1934, Goering extolled the new green Hunting Law. Sustainable forestry practices began in the Reich about the same time, and by 1935, Hitler signed the Reich Nature Protection Act - the RNG. Furthermore, there is no question that these ‘green’ laws were certainly targeted against Jewish views on nature.
Just for example, the 1933 Animal rights law contained specific provisions against the Jewish practice of ritual slaughter for Passover. The inspiration for such a law was the Anti-Semitic green guru of animal rights going back to the 1800’s, Arthur Schopenhauer, who obsessed over Jewish views on nature going back to Genesis 1 which need to expelled from Europe. Hitler could quote him verbatim as he was his favorite philosopher. Neither was it a coincidence that the Jews were later treated like experimental animals later on during the holocaust itself.