Pythagorean Publishers (P.O. Box 8174, JAF Station, New York, NY 10116), 2004. 81 pages, paperback. $10.95. Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Rynn Berry, the late historical advisor to the North American Vegetarian Society, who died on January 9, 2014 after collapsing during a New Year’s Eve jog in New York’s Central Park, established his reputation as […]
Animals In The Third Reich: Pets, Scapegoats, and the Holocaust
by Boria Sax Continuum International Publishing Group Inc., (370 Lexington Ave., New York, NY 10017), 2000. 206 pages, paperback. $19.95. Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Hitler was a vegetarian, probably in emulation of the composer Richard Wagner, Boria Sax asserts, but claims, as vegetarian historian Rynn Berry and others have documented, that “Hitler was probably […]
Hitler’s pit bull
& other dogs worth remembering on Memorial Day “Cry, ‘Havoc!’, and let slip the dogs of war,” wrote William Shakespeare in Julius Caesar (1599), but the most famous dogs of war remain those of World War I––ironically a war in which dogs were not officially used by the militaries of any of the victorious Allied […]