In National Socialist Germany, there was widespread support for
animal welfare and the National Socialists took several measures
to ensure protection of animals. Many National Socialist
leaders, including Adolf Hitler and Hermann Goring, were
supporters of animal protection. Several National Socialists
were environmentalists, and species protection and animal
welfare were significant issues in the pro-White regime unlike
today’s American capitalism which has little regards for animal
protection. Heinrich Himmler made an effort to ban the hunting
of animals. Göring was an animal lover and conservationist. The
current animal welfare laws in Germany are modified versions of
the laws introduced by the National Socialists. Hereto is the
law regarding animal protection under National Socialism: The
government has resolved on the following law, which is hereby
made known: Cruelty to Animals (1) It is forbidden to
unnecessarily torment or roughly mishandle an animal. (2) One
torments an animal when one repeatedly or