This explains so much!

[Bone Daddy]

A woman who served as Adolf Hitler’s food taster has claimed that the Führer was a dedicated vegetarian.

www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-two/9859294/Hitlers-food-taster-speaks-of-Fuhrers-vegetarian-diet.html

"Margot Woelk, 95, said that Hitler ate only the freshest fruit and vegetables during the two and a half years that she was forced to check his food for traces of poison.
During the Second World War, Mrs Woelk, a German citizen whose husband had been sent to fight, was taken by the SS to Hitler’s Eastern Front headquarters in modern-day Poland, known as the “Wolf’s Lair”.
There, she joined a team of a dozen other women whose job it was to protect Hitler from any attempts to poison him.
She said: “Between 11 and 12 o’clock, we had to taste the food, and only after all of us had tried it was it driven to the headquarters by the SS.
“It was all vegetarian, the most delicious fresh things, from asparagus to peppers and peas, served with rice and salads. It was all arranged on one plate, just as it was served to him. There was no meat and I do not remember any fish."

[Arrow]

Hitler, and other Nazi leaders, was actually a big supporter of animal rights in general, and I remember reading that the Nazi party did take some action in that area (Wikipedia has a quote where Göring threatens to send anyone in violation of that to the concentration camps). Him being a vegetarian makes a lot of sense, and I'm pretty sure that was known for a while.

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Heil Horseradish

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Funny Fact: The Gestapo's favorite soup was Gazpacho.

[CMWaters]

So the movie "Salo" lied to us then?

[mcmahonfan85]

Hilter being a vegetarian isn't a secret nor is it new information

[Hulk With A Mustache]

Kind of ironic considering PETA usually calls animal rights violators Nazis.

[TCA]

Hitler being a vegetarian is not true, there's plenty of witnesses to attest to this fact.
Also the Nazi's did not support animal rights seeing as how they were doing science experiments on animals just as much as they were humans.

[SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman]

Isn't that a pretty well-known fact already? Also, I heard that he wasn't originally and adopted the diet due to health problems.

Feb 9, 2013 23:18:34 GMT -5 TCA said:

Hitler being a vegetarian is not true, there's plenty of witnesses to attest to this fact.
Also the Nazi's did not support animal rights seeing as how they were doing science experiments on animals just as much as they were humans.

There are plenty of people in favor of animal rights (myself included) and even activists who accept animal testing as a necessary evil. It certainly beats experimenting on humans right away.

[Toxik916]

No wonder he was an asshole

[A Platypus Rave is Correct]

Feb 10, 2013 2:51:52 GMT -5 SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman said:

Isn't that a pretty well-known fact already? Also, I heard that he wasn't originally and adopted the diet due to health problems.

This is what I had always heard.

[Cranjis McBasketball]

I'm pretty certain this is well established fact.

[TCA]

Feb 10, 2013 2:51:52 GMT -5 SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman said:

Feb 9, 2013 23:18:34 GMT -5 TCA said:

Hitler being a vegetarian is not true, there's plenty of witnesses to attest to this fact.
Also the Nazi's did not support animal rights seeing as how they were doing science experiments on animals just as much as they were humans.

There are plenty of people in favor of animal rights (myself included) and even activists who accept animal testing as a necessary evil. It certainly beats experimenting on humans right away.

Sorry but I am not about to get into a debate with you about animal testing. However, I will say in regards to the Nazi's testing that their experiments were not a necessary evil, no way, the experiments they carried out were just evil overall. There's no defending their particular actions.

Feb 10, 2013 3:14:44 GMT -5 Toxik916 said:

No wonder he was an asshole

Umm... Hitler was an asshole even before he became a flexitarian.