Animals under the Swastika

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-0-299-33800-8
Verlag: University of Wisconsin Press

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 158 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 435 g

Never before or since have animals played as significant a role in German history as they did during the Third Reich. Potato beetles and silkworms were used as weapons of war, pigs were used in propaganda, and dog breeding served the Nazis as a model for their racial theories. Paradoxically, some animals were put under special protection while some humans were simultaneously declared unworthy of living. Ultimately, the ways in which Nazis conceptualized and used animals—both literally and symbolically—reveals much about their racist and bigoted attitudes toward other humans.
 
Drawing from diaries, journals, school textbooks, and printed propaganda, J.W. Mohnhaupt tells these animals’ stories vividly and with an eye for everyday detail, focusing each chapter on a different facet of Nazism by way of a specific animal species: red deer, horses, cats, and more. Animals under the Swastika illustrates the complicated, thought-provoking relationship between Nazis and animals.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mohnhaupt, Jan Wolf

Mohnhaupt, Jan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Naturwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Tierhaltung
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Faschismus, Rechtsextremismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction: The World behind the Wire
- 1 Blood Ties
- 2 Digestive Affinities
- 3 Drawing the Curtain on Larval Stages
- 4 Morituri
- 5 Raufbold
- 6 Not Really Stroganoff
- Conclusion: Until the Last Dog Is Hung
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index

Über Autor(innen)

J.W. Mohnhaupt is a journalist based in Magdeburg and Vienna and the author of Der Zoo der Anderen (The Zookeeper’s War). His work has appeared in Der Spiegel, Die Zeit, and PM History, among others.

John R. J. Eyck is an independent translator and scholar based in New York City.