<<Louise said, “Lorenz is an Austrian zoologist and ethnologist. He’s become the darling of the Nazi intelligentsia, if that isn’t, in itself, an oxymoron. After joining the Nazi Party, the NSDAP, he was offered a University chair at the same time Jewish professors were being summarily sacked without cause. His study of wolves led him to argue that invariably a pack leader emerges who is superior to the rest. Apart from the female wolves who the alpha male takes for his own, the omega males are deemed inferior and through fights and snarls kept in their place. The Nazis have embraced his assertions as a justification to support their xenophobic beliefs in the natural order of German society. With their alleged superior Aryan genes, they rank themselves above the supposedly inferior races such as Jews, Gypsies, Slavs, and I’d guess pretty much everybody else. The Party now calls these superior citizens Herrenvolk. This directly translates as master race.”
James replied, “I wonder if that’s even an accurate description of wolf pack behaviour. Who’s to say an aggressive wolf is smarter or hardier? He may just be a nasty piece of work, demented, or even rabid. Despite the fact that Jews and Romas represent less than 1% of the German population, Hitler has apparently selected both as convenient targets.”>>
Konrad Lorenz and Wolves
