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title: "Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) - IVU - International Vegetarian Union"
description: "Adolf Hitler (1889-1945): Some links to articles on the subject: Why Hitler Was Not A Vegetarian by Rynn Berry Hitler's Vegetarianism by Roberta Kalechovsky of Jews for Animal Rights A very brief summary of the conclusions in the above articles: At various times Hitler reduced the amount of meat"
url: "https://ivu.org/history-of-ivu.html?view=article&id=2480:history-europe20a-hitler&catid=60"
date: "2026-11-06T00:04:54+00:00"
language: "en-GB"
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#  Adolf Hitler (1889-1945)

![Adolf Hitler (1889-1945)](https://ivu.org/images/legacy/history/banners/history-europe20a-hitler.png)Some links to articles on the subject:

[**Why Hitler Was Not A Vegetarian**](http://www.vegsource.com/berry/hitler.html) by [Rynn Berry ](https://ivu.org/history-of-ivu.html?view=article&id=5323:people-writers-berry&catid=220)

[**Hitler's Vegetarianism**](http://www.micahbooks.com/hitlersvegetarianism31.html) by Roberta Kalechovsky of Jews for Animal Rights

[ ](http://www.vegsource.com/berry/hitler.html)*A very brief summary of the conclusions in the above articles:* At various times Hitler reduced the amount of meat in his diet, primarily for medical reasons. Sometimes he reduced it a lot but the evidence shows that he never stopped eating meat completely for any significant length of time. Unfortunately many meat-eaters, including historians, use the term 'vegetarian' incorrectly to describe someone who simply reduced their meat consumption. The confusion was compounded by Goebbels, grossly exagerating Hitler's 'vegetarianism' for propaganda purposes.

 See the : [History of the Vegetarier-Bund Deutschlands](https://ivu.org/history-of-ivu.html?view=article&id=2396:history-societies-vbd&catid=48) for more details of how the German Vegetarian Federation closed during Nazi times and re-formed in 1945.

A note on this archive. The history section of this website is drawn from a body of legacy content originally compiled by John Davis, former manager of the International Vegetarian Union. It represents his curation of historical material, and in places includes passages written by him directly.

Over the years, the IVU website has migrated between several different hosting servers. In the course of these migrations, a number of PDF files were unfortunately lost, and **some links to PDF documents may no longer function**. Where this is the case, we have chosen to leave the original link text in place, as it may itself carry information of historical value.

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