In 2009 Dereck Grow, a farmer from Devon, in the south-west of the United Kingdom, had an idea as strange as it was promising in appearance: he imported from Belgium a dozen giant “Nazi” cows and bulls, also known as Heck cattle. He did it – he explained at the time very proudly to media such as the BBC – because he was convinced that they would help to conserve British prairies. The attempt went frog. Six years later, Grow was back in the news because he had been forced to slaughter half his herd due to the aggressiveness of the animals.
The experience of Grow and his cows from the Third Reich sounds like a Saturday afternoon movie script; but the truth is that it is real and is related to one of the most delusional projects of the already delusional Nazi Amenia: the attempt to recreate in the Białowieża Forest, in Poland, an ecosystem based on the philosophy of Lebensraum, the idyllic German living space; and in the medieval epic poem Nibelungenlied. For
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