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While Germany has historically revered its forested landscapes, decades of maltreatment have begun to take their toll.Germans have always had a fascination and love for forests and trees.
In the works of such writers as Rainer Maria Rilke, trees stand undaunted in the mysterious German forest, permanently providing shelter and succour, wilderness and nature.
Virtually every German town has woods on its outskirts, originally planted to provide timber for construction.
As one forester put it: "The woods are not some remote ideal to be approached in literature or hiking boots but an intimate part of even the most urbanized life."
"Forest fascination" is associated with the nation's treasury of sagas and fairy tales, where robbers hide out in the woods; bad wolves devour grandmothers and little girls in red-riding hoods; and children lose their way in the woods and stumble into the hands of evil witches.
Mythical glorification of the ranks of trees first reached its zenith in the songs, prose and paintings of the Romantic period. The Nazis were likewise obsessed with the forest.
In 1935, Hitler's deputy Hermann Göring, from his forest hunting retreat, said: "We have become used to seeing the German nation as eternal. There is no better symbol for us than the forest, which was and always will be eternal. The eternal forest and an eternal nation – they belong together."
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