🧵Nazi Conservation WWII

“The conservation effort, which spanned 1933 through 1944, was one of the longest projects carried out by the Nazi regime, Dr. Blewett said.

Often, when people think of the Nazis, she said, they envision well-known individuals like Adolf Hitler or Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi propaganda chief. They think of judges, police officers and other officials in uniform.

What they do not think about, she said, is “what somebody in a studio could do with a church register.”