Animal Welfare – Animal Rights in Nazi Germany

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Animal Welfare – Animal Rights in Nazi Germany         
https://birthofanewearthblog.com/animal-welfare-animal-rights-in-nazi-germany/

Excerpts:

From the book "The Nazi Treatment of Animals and People".

"Around the end of the nineteenth century, kosher butchering and vivisection were the foremost concerns of the animal protection movement in Germany. These interests continued during the Third Reich and became formalized as laws. Before taking power, the NSDAP had begun to prepare laws to address these issues. In 1927, a NSDAP representative to the Reichstag called for measures against cruelty to animals and against kosher butchering. In 1932 a ban on vivisection was proposed by the NSDAP party, and at the start of 1933, the NSDAP representatives to the Prussian parliament met to enact this ban. On April 23, 1933, almost immediately after the NSDAP came to power, they passed a set of laws regulating the slaughter of animals. In August 1933, Hermann Goering announced an end to the "unbearable torture and suffering in animal experiments" and threatened to "commit to concentration camps those who still think they can continue to treat animals as inanimate property."... The NSDAP animal protection laws of November 1933 permitted experiments on animals in some circumstances but subject to a set of eight conditions and only with the explicit permission of the Minister oft he Interior, supported by the recommendation of local authorities. The conditions were designed to eliminate pain and prevent unnecessary experiments. Horses, dogs. cats, and apes were singled out for special protection...

One law passed in 1936 showed 'particular solicitude' about the suffering of lobsters and crabs, stipulating that restaurants were not to kill crabs, lobsters, and other crustaceans by throwing them one at a lime into boiling waler. Several 'high officials' had debated the question of the most humane death for lobsters before this regulation was passed, and two officials in the Interior Ministry had prepared a scholarly treatise on the subject.

R. O. Schmidt writing from a Buddhist point of view in the periodical The White Flag, praised the New Germany for the humane spirit towards animals:

"Among all civilised nations, Germany is thus the first to put an end to the cultural shame of vivisection! The New Germany not only frees man from the curse of materialism, sadism, and cultural Bolshevism, but gives the cruelly persecuted, tortured, and until now, wholly defenseless animals their rights. Friends of animals and anti-vivisectionists of all states will joyfully welcome this action of the National Socialist government of the New Germany!"

"What Reichschancellor Adolf Hitler and Minister-President Goering have done and will do for the protection of animals should set the course for the leaders of all civilised nations! It is a deed which will bring the New Germany innumerable new elated friends in all nations. Millions of the friends of animals and anti-vivisectionists of all civilised nations thank these two leaders from their hearts for this exemplarv civil deed!"

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