The Green and the Brown
A History of Conservation in Nazi Germany
Part of Studies in Environment and History
- Author: Frank Uekoetter, Forschunginstitut des Deutschen Museums, Munich
- Date Published: October 2006
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521848190
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This study provides the first comprehensive discussion of conservation in Nazi Germany. Looking at Germany in an international context, it analyses the roots of conservation in the late nineteenth century, the gradual adaptation of racist and nationalist thinking among conservationists in the 1920s and their indifference to the Weimar Republic. 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.
Read more- Topic has disturbed environmentalists for quite some time, and links historical analysis with a discussion of possible lessons
- Based on extensive archival research, with most of the material being used for the first time
- First monograph on the topic in either German or English (as opposed to two collections of essays available at present)
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- Date Published: October 2006
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521848190
- length: 246 pages
- dimensions: 233 x 158 x 20 mm
- weight: 0.457kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. The Nazis and the environment: a relevant topic?
2. Ideas: diverse roots and a common cause
3. Institutions: working towards the FĂĽhrer
4. Conservation at work: four case studies
5. On the paper trail: the everyday business of conservation
6. Changes in the land
7. Continuity and silence: conservation after 1945
8. Lessons.Instructors have used or reviewed this title for the following courses
- Global Environmental History
- Problems in Modern German History
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