Animals under the Swastika

Never before or since have animals played as significant a role in German history as they did during the Third Reich.

Ultimately, the ways in which Nazis conceptualized and used animals reveals much about their racist and bigoted attitudes toward other humans. Drawing from diaries, journals, school textbooks, and printed propaganda, Mohnhaupt focuses each chapter on a different facet of Nazism by way of a specific animal species.