German Forest

[3] This practice helped cut down on deforestation, though like the majority of the western world at this time, did not completely work.

[2] This was partly due to the extensive manicuring of the forests, including the rigid structure of growing trees in rows and clearing any underbrush.

Musicians such as Johannes Brahms, Richard Wagner, and Franz Schubert have also written works about German forests.

The Nazis used the phrase Naturgemäße Waldwirtschaft ("forestry according to nature") to explain that they were merely restoring Germany back to its purest form.

Propaganda, political symbolism and landscape planning drew on this as a central theme for the period after a German victory.