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Hunting in NS germany
By: Questioning Date: March 18, 2024, 7:11 am
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I've read on multiple occasions that hunting was effectively
banned in national socialist germany, but i am yet to find good
primary sources, do you have some books or pamphlets from that
time that i could read up on?
Thank you
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Re: Hunting in NS germany
By: 90sRetroFan Date: March 18, 2024, 12:51 pm
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HTML https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1407954/Thanks-to-Hitler-hunting-with-hounds-is-still-verboten.html
[quote]The Fuhrer, a vegetarian, was the pioneer of hunting
bans. His draconian laws were announced in Germany on July 3,
1934, on the grounds that hunting with hounds was 'unsporting'.
...
The same love of animals which he demonstrates in all he has to
do with the animal world also imbues the Reich hunting law of
1934. Indeed it gives this law its deep ethical meaning. In
Germany hunting on horseback, chasing animals with a pack of
hounds, is banned."
The ban provoked howls of anger from the aristocracy which for
centuries had hunted foxes, wild boar, hares and deer on
horseback. Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859-1941), the grandson of Queen
Victoria, was a keen huntsman who enjoyed hunting boar with a
pack of hounds.
The upper classes were powerless to stop the changes. Bernd
Ergert, the director of Germany's Munich-based hunting museum,
said: "The artistocrats were understandably furious, but they
could do nothing about the ban given the totalitarian nature of
the regime." The laws were passed and remain in force to this
day.
...
in 1939 the ban was extended to cover Austria after Hitler's
annexation of the country.[/quote]
HAIL HITLER!
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Re: Hunting in NS germany
By: Questioning Date: March 18, 2024, 2:25 pm
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[quote author=90sRetroFan link=topic=2665.msg25514#msg25514
date=1710784300]
HTML https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1407954/Thanks-to-Hitler-hunting-with-hounds-is-still-verboten.html
[quote]The Fuhrer, a vegetarian, was the pioneer of hunting
bans. His draconian laws were announced in Germany on July 3,
1934, on the grounds that hunting with hounds was 'unsporting'.
...
The same love of animals which he demonstrates in all he has to
do with the animal world also imbues the Reich hunting law of
1934. Indeed it gives this law its deep ethical meaning. In
Germany hunting on horseback, chasing animals with a pack of
hounds, is banned."
The ban provoked howls of anger from the aristocracy which for
centuries had hunted foxes, wild boar, hares and deer on
horseback. Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859-1941), the grandson of Queen
Victoria, was a keen huntsman who enjoyed hunting boar with a
pack of hounds.
The upper classes were powerless to stop the changes. Bernd
Ergert, the director of Germany's Munich-based hunting museum,
said: "The artistocrats were understandably furious, but they
could do nothing about the ban given the totalitarian nature of
the regime." The laws were passed and remain in force to this
day.
...
in 1939 the ban was extended to cover Austria after Hitler's
annexation of the country.[/quote]
HAIL HITLER!
[/quote]
Very good, but it is not speaking of an absolute ban, merely
restrictions as far as i can tell, add to that, there existed a
dedicated group for german hunters "Reichsbund Deutsche
Jägerschaft" which still operated during hitlers government.
Here are a few pictures of Göring posing with dead animals,
thoughts?
HTML https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/06/14/article-2657396-1EBFA41200000578-909_634x910.jpg
HTML https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/06/14/article-2657396-1EBFA36500000578-94_634x362.jpg
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Re: Hunting in NS germany
By: 90sRetroFan Date: March 18, 2024, 5:50 pm
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I believe the laws would have been expanded had Hitler won WWII.
Recall from Goebbels' Diaries:
[quote]An extended chapter of our talk was devoted by the Führer
to the vegetarian question. He believes more than ever that meat
eating is wrong. Of course he knows that during the war we
cannot completely upset our food system. After the war, however,
he intends to tackle this problem also. Maybe he is right.
Certainly the arguments that he adduces in favour of his
standpoint are very compelling.[/quote]
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