How Green Were the Nazis?
11:00 a.m., Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2008
Webster Hall Auditorium
Admission: free

This presentation examines why one of the most violent regimes in human history, Germany’s Nazi dictatorship, displayed concerns for natural environments. Using specific examples, the presentation will show the ideological overlap between conservation and Nazism and assess to which extent the rhetorical attention to nature translated into action.

Dr. Thomas Zeller is an associate professor of history at the University of Maryland, College Park. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Munich in 1999. For this presentation, he draws on the 2005 volume How Green Were the Nazis? Nature, Environment, and Nation in the Third Reich, which he co-edited.