Adolf Hitler and his government took a variety of measures to ensure animal welfare!
From Wikipedia: ''There was widespread support for animal welfare in Nazi Germany among the country's leadership. Adolf Hitler and his top officials took a variety of measures to ensure animals were protected.
Several Nazis were environmentalists, and species protection and animal welfare were significant issues in the Nazi regime.
Heinrich Himmler made an effort to ban the hunting of animals!
Hermann Göring was a professed animal lover and conservationist, who, on instructions from Hitler, committed Germans who violated Nazi animal welfare laws to concentration camps!
In his private diaries, Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels described Hitler as a vegetarian whose animosity towards the Jewish religion in large part stemmed from the ethical distinction this faith drew between the value of humans and the value of other animals;
Goebbels also mentions that Hitler planned to ban slaughterhouses in the German Reich following the conclusion of World War II.
The current animal welfare laws in Germany were initially introduced by the Nazis!
Surprised?
From VintageNews.com:
In 1933 the Nazis passed laws regulating the slaughter of animals. Hermann Goering announced an end to the “unbearable torture and suffering in animal experiments” and it was said that anyone who treated animals as inanimate property would be sent to a concentration camp.
Hitler in 1942 with his long-time lover, Eva Braun, whom he married on 29 April 1945. Photo Credit
Among other things, the law forbade any unnecessary harm to animals, banned the inhumane treatment of animals in the production of movies, and outlawed the use of dogs in hunting. Cutting the tails and ears of dogs without anesthesia was also banned, and livestock were supposed to be killed humanely.
Strangely, the Nazis were particularly concerned with the suffering of lobsters in restaurants. In 1936, a special law was passed regarding the correct way of dispatching lobsters and crabs and thus mitigating their painful deaths. Pets who were terminally ill were supposed to be euthanized.
It’s well known that Nazi leaders loved animals. Adolf Hitler hated hunting and he adored dogs. He spent his final hours in the company of his dog Blondi.
Joseph Goebbels said, “The only real friend one has in the end, is the dog… The more I get to know the human species, the more I care for my Benno.” Many Nazi leaders were genuinely concerned about the treatment of animals. Horses, cats, and apes were singled out for special protection. The shoeing of horses was prohibited. Nazi Germany was the first country in the world to place the wolf under official protection. And it was also the first country to host an international conference on animal welfare in Berlin in 1934. In 1938, animal protection was accepted as a subject to be taught in public schools and universities in Germany. When the Nazis invaded France, animal protection laws were put in place there and received support from French citizens.
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