Animals in the service of the Nazi regime

Animals in the service of the Nazi regime

Disciplined, loyal and always ready for action: service dogs were portrayed as the epitome of soldierly virtues. Anon., This is what you are, Greif!, printed in: Our Army 1/23 (1942), 12

Animals played a surprisingly diverse role in the “Third Reich” – as tools of work and violence, as objects of racial ideological assessment and as symbols of a natural order. The political animal story makes these functions visible and opens up new perspectives on the rule, everyday life and ideology of the Nazi state.

Published in the winter of 1942

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