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Article: Leopold on wilderness. (Aldo Leopold on Germany's landscape)
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- American Forests
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- May 1, 1991
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an invitation from the Oberlaender Trust of the Carl Schurz Memorial Foundation for an all-expenses-paid trip to Germany and other central European countries to study forestry and game management. The Germans had been practicing these arts for centuries and Leopold, who had grown up in a German-American family and was joshed by his schoolmates about his "German soul," was keenly interested to see what they were doing.
Germany in 1935 was already entering the grip of Nazi militarism, a fact that could not escape Leopold and his fellow touring foresters, though it is doubtful that they appreciated the crucial role of forest products in Hitler's mobilization for ...