Hold That Thought
Hold That Thought
Washington University in St. Louis
Eating Organic in Nazi Germany
13 minutes Posted Sep 7, 2016 at 8:41 pm.
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Eat plenty of raw vegetables. Avoid preservatives. Breads should be whole grain. These may sounds like words of advice from your local natural foods store, but starting in the 1930s, the same messages were systematically spread throughout Germany by the Nazi party. Historian Corinna Treitel shares the story of the Nazis' obsession with natural foods, and discusses how their ideas about nutrition compare with how we think about food and health today.