| Book Review | Environmental History, 9.4

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Book Review

Imagining the Nation in Nature: Landscape Preservation and German Identity, 1885–1945. By Thomas M. Lekan. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. 334 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, index. $49.95.

In the years immediately preceding the Second World War, Thomas Lekan suggests, German landscape preservationists believed they were living in a "golden age of environmental concern." The Reich Nature Protection Law (RNG) of 1935 appeared to be "the most stringent and comprehensive environmental protection law in the world" (p. 168). It established more than eight hundred nature protection regions, covering almost three thousand square kilometers, and fifty thousand natural monuments by 1940. For German environmentalists, the RNG seemed to confirm "the advantages of Nazi authoritarianism over Weimar democracy" (p. 170). The law was, moreover, "surprisingly free of references to race or blood" (p. 192).

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