More on Hitler

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Aside from his most well known idiosyncracies, which happened to result

in the large-scale extermination of "you know who", .Here are some more

facts on Hitler:

 

Hitler not only kept a special vegetarian cook to prepare his meals for

him, but held strongly that eating meat or any cooked food was a

pernicious habit which had led to the decay of past civilizations.

'There's one thing I can predict to eaters of meat, that the world of

the future will be vegetarian.' /[//Hitler's Table Talk/, p. 125 ( 11

November 1941)] Source: Hitler: A Study in Tyranny. Contributors: Alan

Bullock - author. Publisher: Harper & Row. Place of Publication: New

York. Publication Year: 1962. Page Number: 388.

 

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While Hitler stuck to his rather tasteless vegetarian diet, he offered

his guests simple, well-prepared German / Hausmannskost/. He asked his

major domo Artur Kannenburg to serve his guests meals that were similar

to his own meatless fare. He had the good sense not to recommend a

vegetarian diet for his troops, although he told Goebbels in April 1942

that he would tackle the vegetarian problem after the war. ^ 125

<http://www.questia.com/78811087> Privately, however, Hitler scorned

meat eaters, calling them corpse eaters, and extolled the virtues of

vegetarianism. He postulated that carnivorous animals were inferior to

herbivorous animals, that elephants were stronger and hardier than

lions, and that the strongest men on earth were vegetarians--Japanese

wrestlers and Turkish porters. ^ 126 <http://www.questia.com/78811087>

From his own experience, he reported that when he ate meat he had to

drink four liters of beer and six bottles of water, and sweated

profusely. Since he had become a vegetarian he needed a swallow of water

only once in a while. ^ 127 <http://www.questia.com/78811087> He

reflected that, if a child was offered meat or fruit and cakes, it

invariably would choose fruit and cakes. ^ 128

<http://www.questia.com/78811087> He praised a polenta diet, ^ 129

<http://www.questia.com/78811087> yet the unbalanced polenta diet of

poor peasants in the Po Valley causes pellagra. Hitler reflected on the

possible role of meat in the etiology of cancer ^ 130

<http://www.questia.com/78811087> before any scientific knowledge on the

subject existed.

 

Source: Hitler: Diagnosis of a Destructive Prophet. Contributors: Fritz

Redlich - author. Publisher: Oxford University Press. Place of

Publication: New York. Publication Year: 1999. Page Number: 128.