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The Nazis are credited with having realized that legislative measures were needed in order to protect nature. The link they established between blood and soil, the romantic cult of nature, and the racial hygienism that they championed would have predisposed them to being among the first of the contemporary states to have put into practice an environmental sensitivity. A study of Nazi environmental legislation shows that the bills dated back to the Weimar Republic and that they were never really implemented. Marshlands, forests, and mountains were subjected to Nazi defense and production policy needs. A careful analysis of the fate allotted to these protected zones shows that, like other territories and the people that occupied them, they were totally commodified and considered as sources of energy and matter to be mobilized in the Third Reich war effort.