Angora project

<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151230145953/http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whi/feature/angora">Angora: Rabbit Raising in German Concentration Camps</a> – The Angora project was an SS-administered program to breed rabbits for their soft fur. Discovered by journalist <a href="/facts/Sigrid_Schultz/ToLeCRwz">Sigrid Schultz</a>, the album serves as a stark reminder of a brutal regime that valued animals more than its people. Available on Wisconsin Historical Images, the Wisconsin Historical Society's online image database.</li>
<li><a href="http://wisconsinhistory.org/whi/results.asp?pageno=1&keyword1=angora%2Dzuchten&keyword2=&keyword3=&search_field1=collection%5Fname&search_field2=&search_field3=&boolean_type1=and&boolean_type2=and&subject_broad_id=&subject_broad=&subject_narrow_id=&subject_narrow=&decade=&genre=&genre_text=&wi_county_code=&wi_county_text=&added_within=&sort_by=date&search_type=advanced&results_relevancy=/">"Angora" album on WHS Images</a> – Wisconsin Historical Society digital collection of photographs documenting the angora rabbit wool raising projects operated by the Nazi SS corps at each of the concentration camps throughout German-occupied territory where the corps was in charge.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.wpr.org/news/angora.cfm">Wisconsin Public Radio Online Feature: Himmler's <i>Angora</i></a></li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Edwards, Stassa (2 December 2015). "Nazis Secretly Bred Angora Rabbits at Concentration Camps". Atlas Obscura. Retrieved 22 February 2018. <a href="https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/nazis-secretly-bred-angora-rabbits-at-concentration-camps" target="_blank">https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/nazis-secretly-bred-angora-rabbits-at-concentration-camps</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>"00 – Angora Album Cover". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 5 December 2015. <a href="http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Content.aspx?dsNav=N:4294963828-4294955414&dsRecordDetails=R:IM44239" target="_blank">http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Content.aspx?dsNav=N:4294963828-4294955414&dsRecordDetails=R:IM44239</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>Edwards, Stassa (2 December 2015). "Nazis Secretly Bred Angora Rabbits at Concentration Camps". Atlas Obscura. Retrieved 22 February 2018. <a href="https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/nazis-secretly-bred-angora-rabbits-at-concentration-camps" target="_blank">https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/nazis-secretly-bred-angora-rabbits-at-concentration-camps</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:4"><p>Hammer, Arnold (1999). "Chapter 7: World War II Journal". In Merriam, Ray (ed.). Waffen–SS. World War II Arsenal. Vol. 7. Merriam Press. pp. 52–54. ISBN 978-1-57638-168-7. <a href="978-1-57638-168-7" target="_blank">978-1-57638-168-7</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:5"><p>"Visual Materials in Our Collections". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 5 December 2015. <a href="http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Content.aspx?dsNav=N:1135" target="_blank">http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Content.aspx?dsNav=N:1135</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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