Nazi Cows Invade Devon!

Wilhelm

Alex, tell me the truth, do you actually get paid for this ?

ndm

A quick gander at Wikipedia indicates that the Guardian headline might not be too far off the mark. Michel Tournier also links Nazis with the "Heck" in his novel "The Ogre," filmed a few years ago by Volker Schlondorff with Gerard Depardieu and John Malkovitch:

-- At the time this incident occurred the father of the aurochs of Rominten was actually at the hunting lodge, where he was a frequent visitor. This was Professor Dr. Lutz Heck, director of the Berlin Zoo. It had been his idea to try, by careful crossbreeding of bulls from Spain, Corsica and the Camargue, improved by selections carried out through several generations, to recreate the original aurochs. The last representatives of the species had died out in the Middle Ages. He thought he had succeeded quite well, and the Master of the Hunt had given him permission to let loose in the Rominten Reserve what he called with pedantic joy Bos primigenus redivivus.

The Master of the Hunt was Goering.

ben

One of the Guardian's own columnists posts a rather entertaining response to the headline:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/apr/23/nazi-culture-film-hitler