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Hunting in Nazi Germany

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Hunting was a common hobby among the leaders of the Nazi regime, Gauleiters, members of the Nazi extermination squads and extermination camp staff.[1] A non-exhaustive list of hunters among notable Nazis includes: Among Hitler's cabinet ministers: Hermann Göring,[2] Heinrich Himmler,[3][4][5] Joachim von Ribbentrop,[3] Wilhelm Keitel,[6] Hans Frank[7][8]; Among Gauleiters and other senior Nazi politicians: Arthur Greiser,[9] Erich Koch,[4][5] Karl Kaufmann[10][11][5], Max Amann[12]; Among SS and Waffen-SS generals: Reinhard Heydrich,[13][14] Oswald Pohl,[15][5] Odilo Globocnik,[5] Gottlob Berger,[16][5] Sepp Dietrich,[17] Werner Lorenz,[18] Karl Wolff,[3][5] Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski,[5] Otto Rasch[19]; Among top army commanders: Erwin Rommel,[20] Heinz Guderian,[21][22] Eduard Dietl,[23] Adolf Galland[24]; Among the Nazi staff in Auschwitz: Rudolf Höss,[25] Richard Baer,[26][27] Eduard Wirths,[28] Horst Schumann,[29] Victor Capesius[30].

Hermann Göring, was an avid hunter since childhood.[2] He liked to hunt mostly deer and displayed his hunting trophies. He sometimes declared that he wants to shoot "the strongest stag in Europe".[31] For Göring, the hunt and the forest represented the authentic and pure life.[32] In May 1933, Göring was appointed Reich Master of the Hunt (Reichsjägermeister).[33] In this capacity he produced and financed an international hunting exhibition in Berlin in 1937, which Hitler visited on November 6th that year[34].

In early 1933, Hitler gave Göring a special fund through which he could pursue his passions.[35] With this fund he built his hunting estate: Carinhall, in the Schorfheide Reserve.[35][33] The reserve even appeared in legislation for the protection of nature in a way that coincided with Göring's enjoyment of hunting[35]. Goering held many hunting parties in Carinhall. In the last weeks of the war, he spent his time in Carinhall, and ordered his men to shoot the bisons in the reserve[36].

In the Buchenwald concentration camp, the Nazis established a falconry park and a hunting hall in honor of Göring. There was a game reserve in the place where elk, donkeys, wild boars, mouflon sheep, pheasants, foxes and other animals were kept.[37]

Many of those who devoted their working hours to slaughtering people, preferred to spend their leisure hours hunting animals. Hitler himself said in a conversation on September 7, 1942 that hunting for German officers is like jewelry for women.[38] At a meeting held by Martin Bormann, Hitler's secretary, with the Nazi governors in early 1942, the Gauleiters were so eager to tell their hunting stories that Bormann was unable to conduct a discussion of the serious issues at hand.[1] On July 21, 1941, the SS officer and member of the Einsatzkommando, Felix Landau, noted in his diary: "The guys got a day off, and some of them went hunting."[10] At times the hunting of animals could develop into the killing of Jews.[39] The Hocker Album shows images of the Nazi staff of Auschwitz engaging in hunting at their leisure time.[40]

The American conservationist Aldo Leopold visited Germany in and described that: "Every acre of forestland in Germany, whether state or privately owned, is cropped for game."[41] After the occupation of Poland, its forests became hunting grounds for the Germans.[42]

The Nazi regime encouraged whaling. Under Hitler's rule, Germany became for the first time in its history a nation that engages in whaling on a large scale.[43] and Germany's share of whaling in the Antarctic increased from 2% in 1934 to 19% in 1937.[44] Hitler even claimed in 1942 that the whaling industry could provide more products to the German economy, and that it was important to continue developing it.[45]

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  3. ^ a b c Felix Kersten. The Kersten Memoirs: 1940-1945. 1956. p. 112: In one day at Ribbentrop's hunting lodge, "Ribbentrop shot 410 pheasants. Himmler only 91. Karl Wolff 16".
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