“It has always seemed curious to me,” Ford Madox Ford once wrote, “that the four fiercest of all animals, the bull, the stallion that is more terrible than the bull, the rhinoceros that is a charging castle, and Mr. Hitler, should all be vegetarians.”
In fact, Hitler was not a vegetarian, at least not consistently. Various accounts mention the Führer’s fondness for Bavarian sausages, liver dumplings and stuffed pigeon, and he banned vegetarian organizations. Why does that matter? Why should we care what Hitler did or didn’t eat—or, for that matter, what music he listened to, what he hung on his living-room walls, or what his favorite color was?
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