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This top ten article does not support nor condone the atrocious acts of Nazis during Third Reich Germany. What it would like to do is examine the significance of the era and the impact it had on contemporary society. Here are ten things that Nazis were able to advance and we picked up. Unfortunately, the bad outweigh the good and let’s not forget the over 16 million people that lost their lives as a result of their heinous acts.
Vivisection is derived from two Latin words: “vivus” meaning alive and “sectio” meaning cutting. It can be defined as a type of surgery that is conducted for experimental purposes on an animal or living organism with the intent to view its internal structure. Third Reich Germany was the first to ban vivisection in April, 1933. High ranking officials, like Hermann Goring, Heinrich Himmler and Adolf Hitler himself, were troubled over animal conservation, particularly how the animals were being killed.
When the Nazis gained power in 1933, their concerns were not only about the people, but about the animals native to Germany as well. In 1934, they passed a national hunting law (Das Reichsjadgesetz) to regulate how many animals were killed each year and to in order to establish proper hunting seasons. These hunting laws have now been adapted by Western countries.
Hitler was ant-smoking towards the end of his life. He hated it when someone lit up a cigarette in the same room as him and felt obligated to object to it. He began a very expensive movement, one of the most expansive in history, to put an end to smoking. While the movements were a failure in other countries, it was taken seriously in Nazi Germany. Smoking was banned in all restaurants and publictransportation systems. A high tobacco tax was passed and the supplies were rationed.
The Third Reich was home to one of the largest public welfare programs. It was in tune with the philosophy that all Germans should share a standard of living. One of the more famous programs was the Winter Relief program….all high ranking Nazis and common citizens would go out on the street to collect charity for the poor. This was a well-executed movement to generate public support for the people in need.
The name “Volksawagen” translate into “People’s Car”. It was a car that every German citizen could afford. Hitler even desired for it to be resemble a beetle. Thee car was a great success and was made readily available to all citizens in the Third Reich through a savings scheme of 990 Reichsmark, approximately the price of a small motorcycle. As the war resources became scare towards the end of the war, public availability declined.
The person who invented rockets as we see them today was Werher Von Braun. Von Braun was a high ranking official of the Nazi Party and commissioned Schutzstaffel Office. He helped both Germany and then the United States as well in the use of rockets during and after WWII. His most famous achievements were in NASA and the development of the Saturn V booster rocket that helped man to finally get to the moon in July, 1969.
German bakeries were mandated to bake whole-grain bread only. Healthy food was marked with a seal of approval of the NSDAP’s Office of Public Health. Meat vs. Vegetables: “Too much meat can make you sick”, suggesting soybeans as subsitutes for meat, etc. Hitler was a vegan.