| Book Review | Environmental History, 9.3

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Book Review

Naturschutz und Nationalsozialismus [Nature Protection and National Socialism]. Edited by Joachim Radkau and Frank Uekötter. Frankfurt am Main and New York: Campus Verlag, 2003. 487 pp. Notes, list of contributors. 49.90 Euro.

In Germany, the environmental movement and green politics have a uniquely strong presence as well as a long and rich history. One of the founding fathers of global awareness and ecological thinking—environmentalists at times point out—was the Prussian scientist Alexander von Humboldt. Yet in Germany's historical past we encounter other "environmentalists" with whom today's Greens would prefer not to be bracketed, namely members of the so-called "green wing" of the National Socialists, who initiated a number of animal and nature protection laws. How to deal with this ironic and in some ways unpalatable fact that the "bad guys" did such "good things"? A number of recent studies have addressed the situatedness within German history of Nazi nature preservation. In Imagining the Nation in Nature (2004), Thomas Lekan looks at landscape preservation and German identity for the period 1885-1945, examining among other things the link between the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich. Also Christof Mauch, in Nature in German History (2004), includes an attempt at locating Nazi concern for flora and fauna.

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