What about Hitler?

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" Rynn Berry "

 

 

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" Rynn Berry "

Re:Hitler Neither Vegetarian Nor Animal Lover on WQXR

 

 

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Rynn Berry's Hitler Neither Vegetarian Nor Animal Lover reviewed by

 

ERIC ASIMOV NEW YORK TIMES FOOD AND WINE CRITIC

 

 

When vegetarianism is posited as the solution to global hunger, obesity and

pollution, one question is always asked. It is a question intended to stop

any debate on the subject. That question is " What about Hitler? Wasn't he a

vegetarian? " Rynn Berry, an author and advocate of vegetarianism, has set

out to answer that question once and for all. In a new book, Hitler: Neither

Vegetarian Nor Animal Lover, Mr. Berry determines that Hitler's

vegetarianism was completely a myth cooked up by Joseph Goebbels in an

effort to give him what Mr. Berry calls the aura of a revolutionary ascetic.

In fact, Mr. Berry, says, Hitler loved sausages, liver dumpling, stuffed

squab, and caviar. Mr. Berry concedes that Hitler talked a vegetarian game,

even extolling the virtues of a rawfood diet, but he quotes eyewitnesses

like Dione Lucas, the early television chef, who as a cook in a Hamburg

hotel in the 1930s, saw Hitler eating meat. He was as sincere, Mr. Berry

concludes, in his protestations of being a vegetarian as he was in his

protestations of being a peacemaker. While Mr. Berry cites many secondary

sources to make his case and states some debatable points as fact--that

Hitler was a homosexual for example--the main argument his convincing. In

the end though does it mater? Historically, it is immaterial whether Hitler

was a vegetarian, but polemically those who would disparage vegetarianism,

can no longer cite the counterexample--Hitler: Neither Vegetarian Nor Animal

Lover by Rynn Berry is published by Pythagorean Publishers. This is Eric

Asimov of the New York Times.

 

Aired Friday, April 9, 2004

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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