The past few years, the world has been faced with new threats to both the ecosystem and everyday modern life. Murder hornets, cocaine sharks, invasive super pigs. It’s crazy, and has left everyone asking “oh great, what’s next?”. Well, we have your answer. Nazi raccoons! That’s right. A recent article on Newsbreak reports that the German city of Kassel has been overrun by over 30,000 raccoons! Now, wait a minute. How can raccoons be Nazis? Well, they really can’t. They’re being referred to as such because of how they got there in the first place. Back in the 1930’s, during the rule of Adolf Hitler, the 3rd Reich’s official hunting master, Hermann Goering, thought that the North American raccoon could ‘enhance the ecology in the area’. He took 2 pairs of raccoons, put them in the woods and said ‘have at it’.
Long story short, and almost 100 years later, the little trash pandas are thriving. They’ve become so much of a problem that officials decided to trap and sterilize them to reduce the population. However, local hunters protest that it’s cruel. The regional government has halted the program in an effort to find an alternative method of dealing with the raccoons. I guess the cute little bandits get to go on stealing trash for a bit longer.
