Farmer forced to cull 'Nazi' cattle

"A farmer in Devon has been forced to slaughter half his herd of Heck cows after they repeatedly tried to attack his farm workers.
Farmer Derek Gow said that the Heck cow descended from cattle specifically bred by Nazi scientists between the world wars. The Heck cow was renowned for its fearsome horns and extremely aggressive nature.
Fearing for his life, Mr Gow said that he had no choice but to destroy 20 of his most aggressive cattle."
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Heck cattle was bred by Nazis as propaganda tools. In the 1930s, Nazi second in command Hermann Goering asked geneticists Heinz and Lutz Heck to re-create the extinct species. A keen hunter, Goering instructed them to develop a genetically engineered species by back-breeding from auroch descendants.
The Heck brothers - working independently - crossed Spanish fighting bulls with Highland cattle, along with primitive breeds from Corsica and Hungary. The result - Nazi super cows. They were used for propaganda material during WWII - their bodies were huge and muscular, with massive horns - an illustration of the strength of the party.
Heck cattle originated in Germany in the 1920s and 1930s in an attempt to breed back domestic cattle to their ancestral form: the aurochs (Bos primigenius primigenius). In the first years of the Weimar Republic, the brothers Heinz and Lutz Heck independently started their extensive breeding-back programmes. Heinz was the director of the Hellabrunn Zoological Gardens in Munich and Lutz of the Berlin Zoological Gardens. Only twelve respectively eleven years later, just as the Weimar Republic was drawing to a close, they each announced their success. Both brothers used a different selection of cattle breeds in their breeding-back attempts. For example, Lutz Heck (Berlin) used Spanish fighting bulls, while Heinz (Munich) did not. The Berlin breed seemingly did not survive the Second World War, so all modern Heck cattle go back to the experiments of Heinz Heck in Munich. Those ancestral breeds include:
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[@obiwahndagobah9543]

It is very tiring that the British and Americans always denounce them as Nazi super cows. They are just an ordinary breed of domestic cattle and you can find much more impressive breeds in southern Europe. They are very well suited in managing natural graslands for nature conservation all year long, so this exaggerating bad press is hindering progress there. They are ment to be free ranging and self sustaining and not to be pets, if you want docile cattle just buy another breed.

[@HexaDecimus]

Its not as if these cattle willingly swore fealty to the nazi party.

[@ChristopherMSFish]

Everything's a Nazi when it comes to the America and most of Europe!

[@mariocassina90]

they were aggressive cause the guy was trying to milk the bulls

[@randomstuff7541]

That sounds like it would make one happy bull

[@obiwahndagobah9543]

@@randomstuff7541 But not by a guy, except there is a gay bull ;)

[@MaureenLycaon]

The Heck cow doesn't really resemble the aurochs any more than some other European cattle breeds. I'm not sure why Gow hasn't contacted the TaurOs project instead.

[@heckdi]

BULLSHIT
The Heck cattle was breeded by the Heck brothers in the twenties

[@dakruise1]

They were still Nazis

[@Fortify2030]

@@dakruise1 only one of them, the another brother was a communist actually, and was released from prison only cuz of protection if his brother who was funded by Goering

[@vintagesavoiur]

Aggressive? So,,, leave them be.

[@rhysgriffin9374]

The mighty Aurochs have returned

[@someguy2291]

I don’t know if they were nazi cattle or just created for food or even scientific research but you have to admit they are quite beautiful.

[@yerman0564]

Of course. It's like calling descendants of people who fought for Germany in World War 2 Nazis. These cattle are impressive looking animals no doubt.

[@cherepaha3]

Spanish fighting cattle admixture is what makes them aggressive.

[@lb540]

No the ones with fighting cattle mixed into then didnt make it through ww2, all modern heck cattle are decendant from swis brown and other alpine breeds alongside highlands.

[@RomulusTheWild6693]

I read about heck cattle the breeding of this breed included alot if Spanish fight bulls and tudanca cattle two breed known for extreme aggressive behavior

[@colorado9125]

Beautiful animals!!! Would love to see them.

[@ethanjohnston5747]

You don't get sausages from cows

[@helgijacobsen1497]

look more bulls then cattle

[@jhulvincentcalabia2162]

waffen ss bulls lol.

[@C172Pilotdude]

They look like highlands.

[@robert3302]

Should have sent them to Spain for fighting.

[@vanillaexplosion99]

Yep what I was thinking. Those matadors might take quite a beating.

[@the_medicine_peddler8324]

Well they do have Spanish bull in them that's what gives them their nice black coating and aggressiveness.

[@johnnypopper1071]

cool story bro, let me tell you about my unicorn heard...

[@andreacampani924]

beautofull

[@salsalero1277]

Hey, did you hear the one about the Democrat cow,it blames the sheep for her failure's.