Call for papers
Call für Articles on the Question "Green Were the Nazis?"
We are planning a collection of articles on the topic of "How Green Were the Nazis?" Obviously the National Socialists inherited a diverse and thriving nature-protection and environmental movement in Germany, and one that ran the full political gamut from left to right. We are looking for articles that examine one or more of the following questions:
1) What aspects of the pre-1933 environmental movement did the Nazis co-opt
and what aspects did they suppress;
2) To what extent did they use the rhetoric of nature protection and the
environment in their public discourse, and how effective was it?
3) What was their record on environmental policies in concrete terms, as
regards forest policy, river management, etc.?
4) What (if any) specific protectionist practices emerged between 1933 and
1945, i.e. did the Nazis articulate a distinct environmentalist ideology
(one that clearly distinguished itself from its predecessors), or did they
largely inherit (and continue to rely on) pre-existing approaches and attitudes.
We are not primarily interested in confirming or refuting Anna Bramwell's claims about the right-wing origins of today's Green movement (though this is a topic that someone might want to explore in an article). We are chiefly interested in exploring the lines of continuity and discontinuity in environmental protection policies from 1871 to 1945 by a close examination of the Nazi era.
Below are several topics of potential interest to us. These are merely suggestions. Feel free to propose your own:
1) The impact of the Nazi's "civilization critique" or "technology critique"
on environmental or nature-protection policies.
2) Martin Heidegger's environmental ideas
3) Alvin Seifert and the Autobahn
4) Land policies in the occupied East
5) Nazi energy policies
6) Nazi agricultural policies (Walter Darre and others)
7) The 1935 Nature Protection Law
8) Forestry Policy during the Third Reich (possibly focused on Hermann Goering
as Minister of Forests)
v 9) The Chemical Industry under the Nazis
10) Fritz Todt, Albert Speer, and the Nazi Economy
If you are interested in contributing to this anthology, please email a brief synopsis of your topic or idea to Mark Cioc (cioc@cats.ucsc.edu) or Franz-Josef Brueggemeier (brueggfj@uni-freiburg.de). We would like to have all contributions completed by December 31, 2001.
Copyright ©1996-2002, H-Soz-u-Kult · Humanities · Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte