Animal Rights Concerns

Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust

Author: Charles Patterson
ISBN-nr: 1930051999
Category: Animal Rights Issues
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Foreword by Lucy Rosen Kaplan, Esq.

I: A Fundamental Debacle

Chapter 1: The great divide - Human Supremacy and the Exploitation of Animals.
Focuses on the enslavement ("domestication") of animals and how it became the model and inspiration for all the oppressions that followed.

Chapter 2: Wolves, apes, pigs, rats, vermin - Vilifying Other People as Animals.
Discusses how seeing humans as animals inspired and justified slavery and genocide.

II: Master Species, Master Race

Chapter 3: The industrialization of slaughter - The Road to Auschwitz Through America.
The chapter is about the slaughter of animals in America, beginning with the Spanish conquest of the early 1500s and the English and Dutch settlements in North America.

Chapter 4: Improving the herd - From Animal Breeding to Genocide.
Describes how animal breeding became the inspiration and example for eugenic efforts to upgrade the human population in both the United States and Germany.

Chapter 5: Without the homage of a tear - Killing Centers in America and Germany.
Describes features which American and German killing centers have in common, whether they be a slaughterhouse or death camp.

III: Holocaust Echoes

 

Chapter 6: We were like that too - Holocaust-Connected Animal Advocates.
Describes animal advocates who are Holocaust survivors, children and grandchildren of survivors, people who lost relatives in the Holocaust, and those who have given thought to the lessons of the Holocaust.

Chapter 7: This boundless slaughterhouse - The Compassionate Vision of Isaac Bashevis Singer.

Chapter 8: The other side of the holocaust - German Voices for the Voiceless.
Opens with a discussion of people who began their lives in Nazi Germany and are now animal advocates in the United States.

 

About the author:

Charles Patterson is a social historian, Holocaust educator, editor, therapist, and author.

Other books from Charles Patterson:

• From Buchenwald to Carnegie Hall (University Press of Mississippi, 2002) --co-author with Marian Filar
• Anti-Semitism: The Road to the Holocaust and Beyond (Authors Guild Backinprint Edition/iUniverse.com, 2000; originally published by Walker, 1982, paperback 1989)
• Marian Anderson (Authors Guild Backinprint edition/iUniverse.com, 2000; originally published by Franklin Watts, 1988)
• Hafiz al-Asad of Syria (Authors Guild Backinprint Edition/iUniverse.com, 2000; originally published by Julian Messner [Simon & Schuster], 1991)
• Animal Rights (Authors Guild Backinprint Edition/iUniverse.com, 2000; originally published by Enslow, 1993)
• Thomas Jefferson (Authors Guild Backinprint Edition/iUniverse.com, 2000; originally published by Franklin Watts, 1987)
• The Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages, Norman F. Cantor, ed. (Viking, 1999)--contributed 140 articles
• Oxford 50th Anniversary Book of the United Nations (Oxford University Press, 1995)
• The Civil Rights Movement (Facts On File, 1995)
• Eating Disorders (Steck-Vaughn, 1995)
• A Legacy Recorded: An Anthology of Martyrdom and Resistance (Martyrdon and Resistance, 1994)--contributor
• Ancient Greece and Rome: An Encyclopedia for Students, 4 vols. (Scribner’s, 1999)--contributor
• The Middle Ages: An Encyclopedia for Students, 4 vols. (Scribner’s, 1996)--contributor

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