• PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works
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    1 month ago

    Wow, this is impressive research! Thank you for taking the time to be so thorough.

    I was also referencing the Nazis being big on animal welfare overall and passing laws against animal cruelty.

    It’s always been ironic to me that they passed laws banning cruelty to animals, but went out of their way to find more efficient ways of murdering large groups of people. I guess it shouldn’t.

    Apologies for the Wikipedia link, but the fact that some of the laws in place today in Germany came from the Nazis is so weird imo.

    The current animal welfare laws in Germany were initially introduced by the Nazis.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_welfare_in_Nazi_Germany

    • Stabbi@midwest.social
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      30 days ago

      It’s actually an interesting phenomenon. Fascists regimes will commonly do things that appear altruistic at first glance but hide deeper cruelty. Many fascist regimes will run things like food banks, homeless shelters, free clinics. But when you look into them you see things like forcing anyone using a shelter to throw away things they need to live, food banks only giving food to those who participate in “rehabilitation” programs that are really just labor for the org, or free clinics that sterilize those deemed “undesirable.”

      A good example of this is the LDS church, or Mormons. Utah had one of the most successful homeless rehabilitation programs in North America. It was a housing first model where you simply give people shelter, food, and even cash and just trust them. And it worked! This model is now used across the globe and is the most successful method of aiding the homeless. But the LDS church came along and said, “Out of the goodness of our hearts, we will run this program.” And while they did fund it, they returned it to a traditional program that doesn’t help anyone. But what it did do was usher a lot of impoverished people into joining the church to get access to things like the Bishops Storehouse or Church family services which act like the more successful model, but only for tithe paying members at the discretion of bishops (like a local priest)

      If you want, I can Pull some articles for this for you, but I have a killer migraine atm.