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Things You Nev­er Knew About Nature-Lov­ing Himm­ler
Pub­lished: Fri­day, Feb­ru­ary 07, 2014 3:14 PM
It seems he was a Green before there were any.

Giulio Meot­ti
The writer, an Ital­ian jour­nal­ist with Il Foglio, writes a twice-week­ly col­umn for Arutz She­va. He is the author of the book “A New Shoah”, that researched the per­son­al sto­ries of Israel’s ter­ror vic­tims, pub­lished by Encounter. His writ­ing has appeared in pub­li­ca­tions, such as the Wall Street Jour­nal, Front­page and Com­men­tary. He has just prb­lished a book about the Vat­i­can and Israel titled “J’Ac­cuse: the Vat­i­can Against Israel” pub­lished by Man­tua Books.

“Are you a Jew?”, Hein­rich Himm­ler asked a young pris­on­er dur­ing a vis­it to the east­ern front in 1941.

“Yes.”

“Both par­ents Jew­ish?”

“Yes”, replied the boy.

“Do you have non-Jew­ish ances­tors?”

“No”.

“Then I can­not help you.”

That was Hein­rich Himm­ler. The pris­on­er was shot.

Hitler was said to be “mag­net­ic”. Göring was a brave pilot. Goebbels was an extra­or­di­nary dem­a­gogue. Hey­drich was a skilled fencer, an excel­lent pilot and musi­cian. No one has ever been able to find any­thing spe­cial about Himm­ler, not a sin­gle moment of charis­ma and human­i­ty through­out his exis­tence. Among the major Nazi lead­ers he is the most heinous and the most anony­mous. The man who has a track record of unprece­dent­ed crimes does not show char­ac­ter­is­tic signs. Low, flab­by , bald, chub­by , watery eyes, reced­ing chin, limp hand­shake, Himm­ler was dull and pedan­tic .

His fea­tures are so com­mon that in May of 1945 he was not iden­ti­fied by the Sovi­ets and by the British who took him into cus­tody. He did not even dis­guise him­self : Himm­ler just took off his pince- nez . As a gag, Himm­ler wore his glass­es. Beyond that, there was noth­ing. Until now.

“I’m going to Auschwitz. Kiss­es, your Hei­ni , ” Himm­ler wrote to his wife Mar­garet. And again: “In the com­ing days I will be in Lublin, Zamosch, Auschwitz, Lem­berg and then in the new loca­tion. I’m curi­ous to see if and how it will work [to use] the phone. Greet­ings and kiss­es! Your Pap­pi “.

A few days lat­er he left for a two-day vis­it to Auschwitz to see with his own eyes what hap­pens to a trans­port Jew, the action of the pes­ti­cide Zyk­lon B, the corpses, the ovens. Himm­ler gave the green light to the large-scale destruc­tion of the Jew­ish peo­ple .

These are just two of the out­stand­ing let­ters found in Israel and pub­lished recent­ly by the Ger­man news­pa­per Die Welt. Doc­u­ments, cor­re­spon­dence and pho­tographs of the archi­tect of the Holo­caust.

But there is a Himm­ler about whom nobody ever told you.This por­trait gives us a spe­cial look inside the mind of the mod­ern and effi­cient anti-Semi­te.

Himm­ler was the pio­neer of organ­ic food and of the bat­tle against “GM Food”, genet­i­cal­ly mod­i­fied food. “The arti­fi­cial is every­where,” wrote Himm­ler. “Wher­ev­er there is adul­ter­at­ed food, full of ingre­di­ents that make it more durable and beau­ti­ful.”

Himm­ler was an avid read­er of Max Bircher-Ben­ner and Rag­nar Berg, the two main sup­port­ers of organ­ic foods, the first an inven­tor of the famous mues­li. Himm­ler was dis­tin­guished as one of the zealots fight­ing addi­tives, preser­v­a­tives and dyes, and for­bade the use of refined white sug­ar and arti­fi­cial hon­ey. As a big sup­port­er of nat­ur­al reme­dies, the head of the SS was also a bit­ter ene­my of vivi­sec­tion and cam­paigned for the pro­tec­tion of the envi­ron­ment and species under threat of extinc­tion, such as the whale .

Accord­ing to Himm­ler, you had to ban vivi­sec­tion in order to “awak­en and strength­en the spir­it of com­pas­sion as one of the high­est moral val­ues ​​of the Ger­man peo­ple.” A Himm­ler proud to define the Ger­man peo­ple as “the only one in the world to have a decent atti­tude towards ani­mals.”

This most zeal­ous mur­der­er of a chil­dren ‘s sto­ry even wrote a book of fairy tales, in which rats unearthed in the homes of the Ger­mans are not killed, but tak­en to court for tri­al, “treat­ed with human­i­ty.”

On Himm­ler’s wall hung approved guide­lines for the trans­port of ani­mals and he host­ed inter­na­tion­al con­fer­ences on ani­mal pro­tec­tion in Berlin. Himm­ler pro­mul­gat­ed a reg­u­la­tion for the slaugh­ter of fish and oth­er cold-blood­ed ani­mals. Himm­ler once asked his physi­cian, a well known hunter: “How can you, you, Dr. Ker­sten, enjoy shoot­ing from a shel­ter at the defense­less crea­tures that roam the for­est, unable to pro­tect them­selves and free from all sus­pi­cion? It is’ a real crime . Nature is tremen­dous­ly beau­ti­ful and every ani­mal has the right to live ”

Mean­while, Himm­ler’s SS pur­sued and felled the Jews in the forests of Poland and Ukraine.

Himm­ler also decid­ed to out­law Jew­ish rit­u­al slaugh­ter, which does not allow one to anes­thetize the ani­mal. The kosher tra­di­tion was stig­ma­tized by Himm­ler because it was “against the refined sen­si­bil­i­ty of the Ger­man com­pa­ny” and even as “unnec­es­sary suf­fer­ing.”

Himm­ler hat­ed tobac­co, which he defined “lung mas­tur­ba­tion”. The Reichs­führer who urged his sol­diers not to show pity in shoot­ing and gassing women and chil­dren , banned smok­ing not only among his SS, but also in many work­places, gov­ern­ment offices, hos­pi­tals and on trains and bus­es of the city.

Himm­ler rec­om­mend­ed a break­fast of raw leeks and min­er­al water, and spent part of his activ­i­ty on the “prob­lem of boiled pota­toes,” even fund­ing research on the sub­ject

Himm­ler hat­ed hunt­ing and called it “a crime against inno­cent human beings killed in cold blood.” It is the same Himm­ler who spon­sored the med­ical exper­i­ments in the exter­mi­na­tion camps.

The archi­tect of the Holo­caust ordered the pro­duc­tion of med­i­c­i­nal herbs and organ­ic hon­ey in the con­cen­tra­tion camp at Dachau, where Dr. Fahrenkamp ran a sort of green par­adise in the mid­dle of the camp. At Auschwitz, Himm­ler had ordered them to cul­ti­vate a spe­cial plant from east, the kok-saghyz , which he believed had spe­cial heal­ing pow­ers. In the net­work of twen­ty con­cen­tra­tion camps, Himm­ler orga­nized the largest Euro­pean cul­ti­va­tion of med­i­c­i­nal herbs.

He even for­bade the use of arti­fi­cial plas­tic flow­ers at funer­als and was proud to make Ger­many the first Euro­pean coun­try with nature reserves. The let­ters by Himm­ler to his wife are full of ref­er­ences to flow­ers, one of his obses­sions. In a let­ter, Himm­ler told her he shipped 150 tulips from the Nether­lands: “Of one col­or, two col­ors, you do not find these in Ger­many”.

Accord­ing to Himm­ler’s racist belief, “native species” orig­i­nate in a cer­tain place and that is where they “belong.” In sim­i­lar terms, accord­ing to Himm­ler’s heirs, in the West and in the Islam­ic world, Israel’s “col­o­niza­tion” threat­ens the “orig­i­nal” Arab envi­ron­ment (a bend­ing of the facts, as the Jews are the indige­nous peo­ple of Israel). In Iran’s Himm­ler­ian rethor­ic, Israel is a “rot­ten tree”.

Himm­ler’s unknown sto­ry reveals that hatred, death and anti-Semi­tism can also come from polit­i­cal­ly cor­rect minds.

Ecol­o­gist. Ani­mal lover. Dar­win­ian. Enlight­ened.