The Green and the Brown: A History of Conservation in Nazi Germany

by Frank Uekoetter

Book Overview

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 19th 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521612772
• ISBN13: 9780521612777
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"