Hitler: Neither Vegetarian Nor Animal Lover [Paperback]

Rynn Berry (Author), Martin Rowe (Introduction)

Product Details

• Paperback: 81 pages
• Publisher: Pythagorean Books (February 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0962616966
• ISBN-13: 978-0962616969
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 6.2 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,513,264 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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14 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars cooking an old chestnut, August 13, 2007

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Ian Wright (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews

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The book makes short shrift of the old characterization of Hitler as a vegetarian. I first had doubts about this point after watching Triumph of the Will. In that film, Hitler and all of his minions were pudgy and sweaty, tell-tale signs of carnivorousness dining habits. Meat eaters generally appear unhealthy and their midsections look as though someone stuffed a dodge ball down their shirts. The author draws from multiple sources to prove that Hitler had vegetarian phases in which he gave up meat in order to gain a little relief from flatulence and profuse sweating before proving that he had no convictions beyond this. In addition to favoring liver dumplings and squab, he was partial to stamping out vegetarian organizations in occupied countries of Europe.

I dinged the author a star on his slight tangent on whether Christ was a vegetarian or not. Vegetarians sometimes go to extremes in defending a healthy and humane diet. This includes torturous turns of reasoning to make Christ into a vegetarian even though he himself gave fish to the hungry. (American fundies do the same thing when trying to reconcile Christ's creation of wine from water as well as his use of wine at the Last Supper.) Being the Son of God, he could have summoned delicious tempeh dishes, but he didn't. It's unlikely that there were many Semites of classical antiquity who would have practiced vegetarianism. Even John the Baptist ate locusts for protein despite his extreme asceticism.

6 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars puts the myth of hitler's "kindness" to animals to rest, August 30, 2008

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Ms. Phyllis L. Fischer - See all my reviews
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I am sick and tired of hearing that hitler loved animals and was a vegetarian- neither fact is in evidence, and is argued well in this book- it deserves a space on the shelf-

1 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Seeing is still believing, isn't it?, June 21, 2011

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Frank J. Daniele (Squaresville, USA) - See all my reviews
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Vegetarian? Non-smoker? Maybe, maybe not, but I've personally seen many film clips of Hitler petting, rubbing, hugging (and maybe even kissing?) his German Shepherds... what do you have to do to qualify as an animal lover? I haven't done any research (I have to work for a living), but I imagine that some vegetarians are the sweetest people you'd ever want to meet, and others are terrible human beings.

Tell people about the benefits of eating fruits and vegetables (it probably is best) don't resort to propaganda like the Nazi's you decry... these days, more and more people can see right through it.