Animals in the Third Reich: Pets, Scapegoats, and the Holocaust - Brossura

Sax, Boria

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0826414087 ISBN 13: 9780826414083

Casa editrice: Continuum Intl Pub Group, 2002

Riassunto

Contrasting Jewish, Christian and polytheistic traditions and contemporary German attitudes regarding the treatment of animals, Boria Sax documents how Nazis manipulated these attitudes to conform to their own symbolic system - Aryan wolves and horses, Jewish pigs and apes. By equating the Nazi party with "nature", the Nazis reduced all ethical issues to biological questions. Thus predatory animals were exalted along with their human counterparts - party leaders and functionaries - while enemies were identified as sheep destined for slaughter. This history untangles paradoxes such as the Nazi's rigorous laws regarding the humane transport of cattle in the same railroad cars that carried suffocatingly packed human victims to death camps.

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L'autore:

Boria Sax received his doctorate in Intellectual History from the State University of New York, Buffalo. He has been a consultant to many human-rights organizations including Amnesty International, Helsinki Watch, and the International League. He is founder of the nonprofit organization Nature in Legend and Story (NILAS, Inc.), which is dedicated "to promoting understanding of traditional bonds between human beings and the natural world." He is the author of several books and many articles, and lives in Westchester County, New York.

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• Editore: Continuum Intl Pub Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0826414087
• ISBN 13: 9780826414083
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 208