>Several Nazis were environmentalists, and species protection and animal welfare were significant issues in the Nazi regime.>Heinrich Himmler made an effort to ban the hunting of animals.>In his private diaries, Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels described Hitler as a vegetarian who was contemptuous of Judaism for the ethical distinction they drew between the value of humans and the value of animals>Goebbels also mentions that Hitler planned to discourage slaughterhouses in the German Reich following the conclusion of World War II>A total ban on vivisection was enacted on August 1933, by Hermann Göring as the prime minister of Prussia.>He announced an end to the "unbearable torture and suffering in animal experiments" and said that those who "still think they can continue to treat animals as inanimate property" would be sent to concentration camps.>The current animal welfare laws in Germany were initially introduced by the Nazis
