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Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: March 18, 2024, 05:50:21 pm »

I believe the laws would have been expanded had Hitler won WWII. Recall from Goebbels' Diaries:

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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.
Posted by: Questioning
« on: March 18, 2024, 02:25:22 pm »

Quote from: 90sRetroFan on March 18, 2024, 12:51:40 pm
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1407954/Thanks-to-Hitler-hunting-with-hounds-is-still-verboten.html

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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'.
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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.
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in 1939 the ban was extended to cover Austria after Hitler's annexation of the country.

HAIL HITLER!
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?

Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: March 18, 2024, 12:51:40 pm »

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1407954/Thanks-to-Hitler-hunting-with-hounds-is-still-verboten.html

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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.
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in 1939 the ban was extended to cover Austria after Hitler's annexation of the country.

HAIL HITLER!
Posted by: Questioning
« on: March 18, 2024, 07:11:52 am »

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