Fascist Pigs: Technoscientific Organisms and the History of Fascism

Figure 3.10 The title page of the proceedings of a1943 conference held by the Biologische Reichsanstalt für Land- und Forstwirtschaft. Note deletion of the swastika under the imperial eagle in this copy. (Virustagung der Biologischen Reichsanstalt für Land- und Forstwirtschaft am 23 januar 1943, Paul Parey, 1943)

Figure 4.1 Richard Darré speaking at a 1937 Reichsnährstand meeting in Goslar under the slogan “Blut und Boden.” (Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-H1215–503–009 / CC-BY-SA 3.0)

Figure 4.2 Gustav Frölich (1879–1940). (Zeitschrift für Schweinezucht, 47.35, 1940)

Figure 4.3 The zoo for domesticated animals of the Agricultural Institute of the University of Halle, 1888 (source unknown).

Figure 4.4 A record of fattening performance. (Jonas Schmidt, Joachim Kliesch, and Viktor Goerttler, Lehrbuch der Schweinezucht. Züchtung, Ernährung, Haltung, und Krankheiten des Schweines, Paul Parey, 1941)

Figure 4.5 The animal bureaucracy of the Reichsnährstand. (Albert Brummenbaum, “Die Organisation der deutschen Tierzucht,” Kühn-Archiv 49, 1938: 3–7)

Figure 4.6 The German pig performance register, 1940. (“Deutsches Schweineleistungsbuch,” Zeitschrift für Schweinezucht 47, no. 15, 1940: 117)

Figure 4.7 Swine fat content experiments with x-rays. (Friedrich Hogreve, “Ausbau eines neuen Forschungsweges zur Bestimmung der Fettwüchigkeit und Fettleistung in vercshiedenen Mastabschnitten beim lebenden Schwein verschiedener Rassenzugehörigkeit,” Zeitschrift für Züchtung 40, no. 3, 193): 377–395)

Figure 4.8 Herbert Backe and Nazi agricultural leaders contemplating pigs in Wartheland, 1943. (Zeitschrift für Schweinezucht 50, no. 1, 1943)

Figure 4.9 Encouraging housewives to mobilize for pig feeding. (Zeitschrift für Schweinezucht 44, no. 25, 1937)

Figure 4.10 Buildings and laboratories of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Animal Breeding. (Jahrbuch der Kaiser Wilhelm Gesellschaft, 1941.)

Figure 4A.1 Portugal’s pavilion at the 1937 Paris World Exhibition, featuring a map overlapping Portuguese colonial possessions (including Angola and Mozambique) with a map of Europe and asserting that “Portugal is not a small country.” The installation suggests the pertinence of perceiving a continuum between European expansionism in Africa and the Nazis’ quest for Lebensraum in eastern Europe. (Fundo Mário Novais, Art Library of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation)

Figure 5.1 A 1942 photo of the main building of the Agricultural Institute for Italian Africa in Florence. (Archivo Istituto Agricola Oltremare, Florence)

Figure 5.2 Coffee cultivation in Galla Sidama, Italian Oriental Africa, 1939. (Annali Africa Italiana 2, no. 3, 1939: 304–305)

Figure 5.3 A map of areas in Nazi eastern Europe cultivated with kok-sagyz. Dotted half-circles denote areas of cultivation abandoned after to the Soviet counter-attack; black half-circles indicate new areas under cultivation in 1944. (Jahresbericht der Gruppe Anbau und Versuchswesen für die Zeit vom 1. Januar 1943 bis 31. Dezember 1943, Bundesarchiv, NS19/3919)

Figure 5.4 Physiological analysis of rubber rich kok-sagyz root. (Jahresbericht 1942/43 der Gruppe Züchtung, Bundesarchiv, NS 19/3919)

Figure 5.5 Experimental plots of kok-sagyz at the Rajsko subcamp, part of the Auschwitz complex, 1943–44. (Bundesarchiv, Bild 146–2007–0095)

Figure 5.6 Aurélio Quintanilha speaking at a conference in 1933. (Arquivo Torre Tombo PT/TT/EPJS/SF/001–001/0025/0310H)

Figure 5.7 The experimental network of the Centro de Investigação Científica Algodoeira. (F. Neves Evaristo, “The assessment of losses caused by insects on cotton in Mozambique,” Agronomia Moçambicana 1, no. 4, 1967: 191–199)

Figure 5.8 Cotton varieties in various regions of Mozambique, 1966–67. (Relatórios, Actividade do Instituto do Algodão de Moçambique nos anos de 1962 a 1967, Arquivo Instituto Português de Apoio ao Desenvolvimento MU/PP/20)

Figure 5.9 Genealogy of cotton varieties cultivated in Mozambique. (P. Pereira de Carvalho, “Breve descrição das principais cultivares de algodoeiro existentes em Moçambique,” Agronomia Moçambicana 1, no. 3, 1967: 149–158)

Figure 6.1 An astrakhan coat made from the fur of Karakul sheep. (Gustav Frölich and Hans Hornitschek, Das Karakulschaf und seine Zucht, F. C. Mayer, 1942, p. 207)

Figure 6.2 Heinrich Himmler (wearing eyeglasses) at a 1941 exhibition dedicated to “Planning and Building in the East.” (Bundesarchiv, Bild 146–1974–079–57 / CC-BY-SA 3.0)

Figure 6.3 The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Animal Breeding depicted as a model settlement, 1941. (Jahrbuch der Kaiser Wilhelm Gesellschaft, 1941)