>>2270583>first country in the world to ban vivisection in April 1933.>enact the Reichstierschutzgesetz (Reich Animal Protection Act) law in November of 1933, prohibiting the use of animals for filmmaking and other public events causing pain or damage to their health, as well as the forceful feeding of fowls and tearing out the thighs of living frogs.>pass the Reichserbhofgesetz (Hereditary Farm Law) in 1933 to preserve the farming community against the forces of modernization and urbanization, and to preserve the integrity of rural families.>immediately begin passing laws for the regulation of animal slaughter. A law was passed concerning the slaughter of animals; no animals were to be slaughtered without anesthetic and the kosher slaughter of animals was prohibited.>July 1, 1935, another law Reichsnaturschutzgesetz (Reich Nature Conservation Act) was passed to protect all nature.>March 27, 1936, an order on the slaughter of living fish and other poikilotherms was enacted.>March 18, 1936, an order was passed on afforestation and on protection of animals in the wild.>In 1938 animal protection was made a mandatory subject to be taught in public schools and universities.>First country to discover the cancerous side-effects of smoking decades before the rest of the West.>The first country in the world to introduce legislation for the protection of wolves.>The first country to prohibit smoking in public areas.>The first country to prohibit the boiling of living lobsters and crabs.>Himmler made a considerable effort to regulate the hunting of animals and instill a green mindset into the SS.>Hitler himself was a principled teetotaler and animal lover.>The current animal welfare laws in Germany were initially introduced by the National Socialists.Yeah, I dunno anon. The more I learn about these guys the more the propaganda wears off. But yes, seconded, read that book.
