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“A year later, the Nazis passed an act that dealt with hunting wild animals. At the time, only Great Britain had any laws protecting wild animals, but they were nowhere near as strong as the Third Reich laws,” says Piper. This law prohibited hunting on horseback, poisoning wild animals, and using traps. In addition, only German citizens and those who met the Aryan racial standards were permitted to hunt.” Historian Matthew Piper from the University of Guelph

The Animal Protection Act established by Nazi Germany also attacked the methods of kosher slaughter done by non-Germans. Pipers says it was described as a cruel practice, something Germans would never do, but that the Jews would engage in. Piper emphasizes that Nazis used the law to demean and dehumanize ethnic minorities and position the Aryan race and German animals as superior and sacred, and others as savages.

The Nazis’ supposed love of animals also revealed their racial mania; even with animals, they were divided into “valuable” and “unworthy” lives. Big cats of prey like lions and panthers…