Peter Staudenmaier is Associate Professor of History at Marquette University. He has authored books and articles on the history of Nazi Germany and environmentalism, including Between Occultism and Nazism: Anthroposophy and the Politics of Race in the Fascist Era (2014) and Ecology Contested: Environmental Politics between Left and Right (2021).

• Introduction: the plough and the sword: historical perspectives on nature in Nazi Germany; 1. Back to the land: organic alternatives in the third Reich; 2. To heal the Earth: the Reich league for biodynamic agriculture, 1933–1941; 3. The conscience of the German countryside: landscape advocates and Nazi environmentalism in practice; 4. Rooted in the Soil? Debating nature in Hitler's Germany; 5. A Garden of Eden in the East: environmental ideals in war and defeat; Epilogue: the political ambivalence of ecology and its unresolved past; Bibliography; Index.

'Written with all the urgency the topic deserves, Staudenmaier offers a thoroughly engaging and detailed exploration of environmentalism in Nazi Germany. His discussion of the intertwining of racial and ecological concerns, emphasising 'the political ambivalence of ecology', moreover helps us to comprehend far-right concerns for the environment today. Highly recommended!' Bernhard Forchtner, University of Leicester