The Rise of the Fourth Reich - ThereAreNoSunglasses

282 THE RISE OF THE FOURTH REICHperiod when it’s impossible to form an idea of the shape the world of thefuture will assume. But there’s one thing I can predict to eaters of meat:the world of the future will be vegetarian.” Many Germans followed Hitler’sdream of a meatless society. About 83,000 voluntarily participated inhis vegetarian-lifestyle program.But Hitler was also a consummate politician. Although he disdainedboth hunting and eating meat, he did not attempt to force his ideals on hisfollowers, for purely pragmatic reasons. “Personally, I cannot see whatpossible pleasure can be derived from shooting. . . . I have never fired at ahare in my life. I am neither poacher nor sportsman. . . . [But] if I excludedpoachers from the Party, we should lose the support of entire districts.”In viewing the reality behind benign, if tyrannical, government effortsat social control, Robert N. Proctor correctly concluded, “The Nazi campaignagainst tobacco and the ‘wholegrain-bread operation’ are, in somesense, as fascist as the yellow stars [worn to identify Jews] and the deathcamps. Appreciating these complexities may open our eyes to new kindsof continuities binding the past to the present; it may also allow us betterto see how fascism triumphed in the first place.”TH E FA SCIST GLOBA L ISTS , in addition to making unconscionable profitsfrom tobacco and dangerous drugs such as aspartame, may be promotinga program of population reduction.As previously noted, Third Reich Nazis, as well as their prominentAmerican business partners, were greatly interested in the field of eugenics,the study of scientifically applied genetic selection to maintain andimprove ideal human characteristics, which grew to include birth andpopulation control. The concept grew from the writings of the Victorianscientist Sir Francis Galton, who after study reached the conclusion thatprominent members of British society were such because they had “eminent”parents.In 1925, after more than a decade in which at least sixty thousand “defectives”in the United States were legally sterilized, Justice Oliver WendellHolmes, writing for the majority in a Supreme Court case, stated, “Itis better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate off-