The “Nazi racoon” celebrates its 75th anniversary of inhabitation in Germany
The Nazi racoon -as it is called in England’s media- this year celebrates its 75th anniversary of inhabitation in Germany.
Hermann Göring himself is supposed to have taken care for racoons to be released into the wild near the North-Hessian Eder Lake. Allegedly Göring wanted another kind of animal being bred there to please his hunting amusement. This way the racoon got this disreputable nickname.
However meanwhile it is proven that the original German racoons were not marooned on Göring’s behest (as mentioned even in appropriate zoological literature) but furriers are to blame since they released two couples of racoons in the particular area on April 12, 1934. Experts report that the entire Central European racoon population originates fron these two couples.
After the war the German racoon population constitute a few dozens only. In 1970 there already were 20000. Germany’s recent “Nazi racoon” population is numbered with about half a million animals.