I'm surprised to see this sort of thing showing up in this venue, however.
Gordon
Ken Hanly:
> If Hitler viewed people as animals then why the difference between his reaction
> to animals killing people=animals (equanimity) and people (animals) killing
> people (animals) (can't stand it). Both are animals killing animals.
> And if he can't stand people killing people how can he stand war or killing
> jews, gypsies, and communists. And if he can't stand the human treatment of
> animals how can he stand his own treatment of jews, gypsies, gays, etc. who are
> after all animals? This set of quotes shows
> only that Hitler is a bundle of contradictions. By the way who were these
> vegetarian Aryans. I expect they exist only in the fertile imagination of Reich
> pseudo-historians or was there something of this sort?
> Cheers, Ken Hanly
>
> Dace wrote:
>
> > From: Michael Pugliese
> >
> > > There is a great book from Sue Coe, the radical artist, on the meat
> > >packing plants, that depicts the (almost said dehumanization!) brutality to
> > >both the cattle, pigs and chickens, and the human workers, mostly Central
> > >American and Mexican living in Nebraska and Iowa (hopefuly the UFCW is
> > >making inroads, read a good piece on this in all places, US News & World
> > >Report a whille ago).
> > > And last night found an article in German, on a debate between Singer
> > and
> > >Peter Sloterdijk. Anyone (maybe Johannes) wanna translate?
> > > Michael Pugliese
> > >
> > >
> > *Dead Meat* by Sue Coe, including an essay by Alex Coeburn, "A Short,
> > Meat-Oriented History of the World from Eden to the Mattole." Here's a
> > selection from the essay:
> >
> > Nazi leaders were noted for love of their pets and for certain animals,
> > notably apex predators like the wolf and the lion. Hitler, a vegetarian and
> > hater of hunting, adored dogs and spent some of his final hours in the
> > company of Blondi, whom he would take for walks outside the bunker at some
> > danger to himself. He had a particular enthusiasm for birds and most of all
> > for wolves. His cover name was Herr Wolf. Many of his interim headquarters
> > had "Wolf" as a prefix, as in Wolfschanze in East Prussia, of which Hitler
> > said "I am the wolf and this is my den." He also liked to whistle the tune
> > of "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf" from Walt Disney's movie of the
> > Depression, about the Three Little Pigs.
> > [...]
> > A maharaja gave Hitler films that displayed animals killing people. The
> > Fuehrer watched with equanimity. Another film showed humans killing
> > animals. Hitler covered his eyes and begged to be told when the slaughter
> > was over.
> > [...]
> > Central to this equation was the composer Richard Wagner, an ardent
> > vegetarian who urged attacks on laboratories and physical assault on
> > vivisectionists, whom he associated with Jews (presumably because of kosher
> > killing methods). Identifying vivisectors as the enemy, Wagner wrote that
> > vivisection of frogs was "the curse of our civilization." Those who failed
> > to untruss and liberate frogs were "enemies of the state"... He believed
> > the purity of Aryans had been compromised by meat-eating and mixing of the
> > races. A nonmeat diet plus the Eucharist would engender a return to the
> > original uncorrupted state of affairs...
> > The Nazis abolished moral distinctions between animals and people by viewing
> > people as animals. The result was that animals could be considered higher
> > than some people.
> > [...]
> > Aryans and animals were allied in a struggle against the contaminators, the
> > vivisectors, the undercreatures.
> >
> > Ted
>