From Newsgroup: rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
There was widespread support for animal welfare in Nazi Germany among
the countryAs leadership. Adolf Hitler and his top officials took a
variety of measures to ensure animals were protected.Several Nazis
were environmentalists, and species protection and animal welfare were significant issues in the Nazi regime. Heinrich Himmler made an effort
to ban the hunting of animals. Herman G%ring was a professed animal
lover and conservationist who threatened to commit Germans who
violated Nazi animal welfare laws to concentration camps. In his
private diaries, Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels a also
mentions that Hitler planned to discourage slaughterhouses in the
German Reich following the conclusion of World War II.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_welfare_in_Nazi_Germany
That's a side of the Nazis that most people don't know about. Many of
those men were animal lovers and try to extend their pets love to the
inmates. There was many accounts of soldiers allowing their dogs to be emotional support for people in the camp. Many inmates felt an
emotional attachment to these dogs. Of course because of the actions
of a few bad apples, all Nazi guards were painted as evil.
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