The green and the brown : a history of conservation in Nazi Germany / Frank Uekoetter.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-221) and index.

The Nazis and the environment : a relevant topic? -- Ideas : diverse roots and a common cause -- Institutions : working toward the Führer -- Conservation at work : four case studies. The Hohenstoffeln Mountain ; The Schorfheide National Nature Reserve ; Regulating the Ems River ; The Wutach Gorge -- On the paper trail : the everyday business of conservation -- Changes in the land -- Continuity and silence : conservation after 1945 -- Lessons -- Appendix : some remarks on the literature and sources.

This study provides the first comprehensive discussion of conservation in Nazi Germany. Looking at Germany in an international context, it analyzes the roots of conservation in the late nineteenth century, the gradual adaptation of racist and nationalist language among conservationists in the 1920s, and the inner distance to the republic of Weimar. It describes how the German conservation movement came to cooperate with the Nazi regime and discusses the ideological and institutional lines between the conservation movement and the Nazis. Uekoetter further examines how the conservation movement struggled to do away with a troublesome past after World War II, making the environmentalists one of the last groups in German society to face up to its Nazi burden. It is a story of ideological convergence, of tactical alliances, of careerism, of implication in crimes against humanity, and of deceit and denial after 1945. It is also a story that offers valuable lessons for today's environmental movement.

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