Hitler: Neither Vegetarian Nor Animal Lover (Paperback)

~ (Author), Martin Rowe (Introduction) "I AM DELIGHTED THAT RYNN BERRY ASKED me to contribute an introduction to his book Hitler: Neither Vegetarian Nor Animal Lover-a greatly expanded version of..." (more)
Key Phrases: stuffed squab, famous vegetarians, liver dumplings, New York, Adolf Hitler, Dione Lucas (more...)

Product Details

• Paperback: 92 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: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,422,159 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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11 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

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

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

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.

3 of 5 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

By	Ms. Phyllis L. Fischer - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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-

0 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Avoid, February 13, 2009

By	- - See all my reviews

This book is utter non-sense. Regardless of the opinions people may have on Hitler in relation to politics, it is entirely fact that he was a vegetarian during his last 10 years or so of life (he was very concerned about his health and old age). It is also a fact that he was an "animal lover". If anyone researched the origins of animal rights in Western Civilisation, they would notice it comes from Nazi Germany. Still today, Germany is still very supportive of this as a legacy of that, compared to other countries in Europe/related.

Do not pay to be lied to.