Fascist Pigs by Saraiva Tiago;

Author:Saraiva, Tiago; [Saraiva, Tiago]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 2016-10-07T00:00:00+00:00

Performance Tests and the Nazi Bureaucracy

The tight connections between scientists’ concerns and the Nazi food policies expressed in Richard Darré’s diatribes are not difficult to trace. The fattening performance tests developed at academic institutes offered standards with which to evaluate animals’ potential contribution to the building of the Nazi regime. In Darré’s words, “we need animals achieving the highest performance when fed exclusively with homeland feedstuff.”52 Hogs bred according to the results of performance tests would guarantee the nation’s nutritional independence, materializing the “Blut und Boden” dictum.

Figure 4.5 The animal bureaucracy of the Reichsnährstand.

(Albert Brummenbaum, “Die Organisation der deutschen Tierzucht,” Kühn-Archiv 49, 1938: 3–7)

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