While the anti-Puritan Henry David Thoreau was an outcast of American society that few people paid attention to in the mid 1800’s, the academic halls of Germany were being inundated with anti-Semitic nature Romantics, existentialists, environmentalists, and animal rights gurus. The heart of environmentalism goes back to Germany of the early 1800’s in protest against the French Enlightenment. The very father of German Social Darwinism, Ernst Haeckel, coined the term “Ecology” in 1866. National Socialism absorbed the movement in 1934 when Rudolf Hess placed the green conservation groups under the auspices of the German Labor Front. Aldo Leopold, the father of Deep Ecology in America, traveled to Nazi Germany in 1935 to witness the brand new ecological era that the Third Reich was implementing. After 1935, Leopold moved sharply away from the Roosevelt style of conservationism, which is very different than environmentalism.