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  1. shp :blobshp: (shpuld@shpposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 21-Nov-2020 01:11:38 UTC shp :blobshp: shp :blobshp:
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    • Sorokin Alexei (xrevan86@loadaverage.org)'s status on Saturday, 21-Nov-2020 01:11:38 UTC Sorokin Alexei Sorokin Alexei
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      @shpuld It's not unheard of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_welfare_in_Nazi_Germany
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      1. Animal welfare in Nazi Germany
        There was widespread support for animal welfare in Nazi Germany (German: Tierschutz im nationalsozialistischen Deutschland) among the country's leadership. Adolf Hitler and his top officials took a variety of measures to ensure animals were protected. Many Nazi leaders, including Hitler and Hermann Göring, were supporters of animal rights and conservation. 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. Göring was a professed animal lover and conservationist, who, on instructions from Hitler, committed Germans who violated Nazi animal welfare laws to concentration camps. In his private diaries, Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels described Hitler as a vegetarian whose hatred of the Jewish and Christian religions in large part stemmed from the ethical distinction these faiths drew between the value of humans and the value of other animals; Goebbels also mentions that Hitler planned to ban slaughterhouses in the German Reich following the conclusion of World War II.The current animal welfare laws in Germany are diluted...

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