Wednesday, March 31, 2010

VEGETARIANISM AND HITLER


I thought this was an interesting piece of work by dadaist John Heartfield. Its title is "Have no fear. . .he is a vegetarian." I wonder how this would be spun today in all of the political correctness wars. If Bush was a Nazi (see previous post), does this mean vegetarians are Nazis?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I found it very surprising, that Hitler was a vegetarian. Moreover he was an extraordanary animal lover! I wondered "how could this be true" and wanted to get to know more about his every day life beyond the political scene.
I found a very interesting book about it, which tells the story of "the young Hitler".
How contradictionary: The Nazis protected helpless animals but mercicilessly murdered helpless children! One of Hitler`s first legislative acts after he had come to power in 1933 was: putting slaughter animals under state protection. Hitler also created the "Reich Animal Protection Law), which granted animals in Germany more rights than in any other country!
The picture you posted, is very frightening, I think.But it also shows how ambivalent Hitler was and that we should take care, that he won`t be underestimated in public anymore, so that such a tragedy could ever happen again.