Name: The Nazi Whaling Squadron
Uploaded: 2020-01-01
Duration: 43 min 16 s
Description: At least 15,000 blue and fin whales were slaughtered by the German whaling squadron between 1936 and 1939. An intervention in nature from which the whale population has never fully recovered. A little-known fact: more than 80 years ago, the German whaling fleet was the third-largest in the world.

At least 15,000 blue and fin whales were slaughtered by the German whaling squadron between 1936 and 1939. An intervention in nature from which the whale population has never fully recovered. A little-known fact: more than 80 years ago, the German whaling fleet was the third-largest in the world.

Explore the little-known story of Germany's rise to become the world's third-largest whaling power before World War II. Through the slaughter of at least 15,000 blue and fin whales between 1936 and 1939, the film reveals how economic ambition and Nazi policy reshaped the Antarctic with consequences whale populations have never fully escaped.

When industry, ideology, and the Antarctic collided in a brutal hunt.

The Nazi Whaling Squadron

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