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Killgore Trout4/21/2009 10:56:35 am PDT

Now here’s an important story….
Nazi supercows at Devon farm


CATTLE bred by Nazi geneticists can be spotted in Britain for the first time, peacefully wandering around a farm in the Westcountry.

Before the Second World War, Adolf Hitler recruited zoologist brothers Heinz and Lutz Heck to breed back into life the mighty aurochs.

The huge rhino-sized beast features heavily in Teutonic folklore, but had been hunted to extinction in Europe by 1627.

Seen as a symbol of German oppression and efforts to build a master Aryan race, the Heck cattle created at zoos in Berlin and Munich were largely destroyed after the defeat of Nazism in 1945.

But aspects of the experiment survived, and 13 Heck bulls and cows have now been shipped from a nature conservation park in Belgium to sloping acres of field at Broadwoodwidger, near Lifton, on the Devon-Cornwall border.