How Green Were the Nazis?: Nature, Environment, and Nation in the Third Reich (Ecology & History)
“An invaluable English introduction to the history of conservation in the Third Reich.”Journal of Contemporary History“Instead of courting controversy,How Green Were the Nazis?both draws on, and contributes to, recent trends in the historiography of the Third Reich. It treats the regime not as a ‘historical aberration’ but as a barbaric mutation of modernity that displayed ‘a mixture of atavistic and avante-garde ideas’ in environmental as in other policy areas.”Environment & History“The environmental ideas, policies, and consequences of the Nazi regime pose controversial questions that have long begged for authoritative answers. At last, a team of highly qualified scholars has tackled these questions, with dispassionate judgment and deep research. Their assessment will stand for years to come as the fundamental work on the subject and provides a new angle of vision on 20th-century Europe’s most disruptive force.”John McNeill — author ofSomething New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World