Sadat Hussain Rafsanjani :
During the reign of Adolf Hitler, many secret experiments were
carried out. Among them one of the most controversial projects was the creation of prehistoric monster Aurochs. It was the extinct wild
cattle that are considered by many historians as the predecessors of modern cows. In the late 1930s, the Hitler administration tried to restore or reanimate this extinct species.
For such experiment the newborn species were names “Hitler’s Cow.”
Hitler had a different opinion on breeding, whether it is human or an animal. His policy was breeding from the best and killing the rest. Hermann Wilhelm Goering, one of the politicians and World War-I
veterans, was then the second most powerful man in the Germany. He helped Adolf Hitler a lot to gain power in 1933 and founded the secret German police agency Gestapo. Then he was appointed as the deputy of all offices in 1941.
Goering was the finest hunter in whole Germany. A World War I fighter pilot with an IQ 138, his promotion to third Reich got him firm support from the administration.
Goering was a keen hunter and wanted to hunt something big and bad. He was also a hunting champion who instructed to resurrect some old creature but the name was undisclosed at first. It is said that Goering wanted to hunt the beast
to get the huge horns as trophy and use them as drinking vessel.
In a 1937 photograph taken somewhere, it was founded that Goering was surveying a dummy map of a forest and a man was standing beside him named Dr Lutz Heck.
Dr Ludwig Georg Heinrich Heck, commonly known as Lutz Heck and his brother Heinz Heck were prominent zoologist and researcher in the then Hitler administration. They were the directorate at the Berlin and Munich Zoo. Apart from being zoologist, Dr Lutz Heck was very much interested in genetic
engineering.
The Hecks were attracted to Greek mythologies and they got some
initial inspiration from monsters depicted there. The Hecks started to research on wild cattle and initiated a selective breeding program. They thought to breed a pure race, without any mixture. Actually it was a back breeding program where
various successor cattle were to be used to breed the ancestor cattle.
Aurochs or Bos primigenius was a wild beast could be traced back to ancient times to middle ages when it got extinct. Evidence suggests human began to domesticate cattle 8000 years ago. But aurochs were not like average cattle. According to historical texts aurochs were fast, aggressive and so violent in nature that it could attack human in no time if lured. Their height could be 1.8m, taller than average human height. It was a common cattle found in North Africa, Asia and Europe. By the 13th century,
number of aurochs started to fall drastically. They started to disappear from Britain in 2000 BC but remained in Eastern Europe.
The last living Aurochs died in 1627 in Poland suggested by the inscribed text. The cattle were so big that even Julius Caesar depicted it a much like elephant. The male cattle were at least 160 cm and female were 150cm large. It was weighted up to 1500 kilogram and height was about six feet. Aurochs had
significance in their horns, as they could be 80cm in length with a diameter of 20 to 30cm hence the forehead and frontal bones were much wider than the normal cowed. The horns were curved in three directions: inward and upward, upward and outward and
swinging forward and inward.
The Heck brothers wanted to breed backward. They started to
collect wild, aggressive and
independent cows from all over the world. Some of them are Cossack bull for their wild nature, white park cattle, brown Swiss, Corsican cattle, Highland cattle, Black-pied lowland cattle, Hungarian breeds, fighting bull from Sumac and cattle from Scotland were notable. Even Heck imported bulls from North America to start his experiment. In 1932, he made an attempt to reassemble the Aurochs and genetically bred cattle called Glachl. The newborn offspring was a hybrid of five cattle of which 75 per cent was from Corsican and 25 per cent from Gray cattle,
Highland, lowland and Angeln. But produced breeds were weak, smaller than expected, relied heavily on human and shy in nature.
Goering gave full support to Heck brothers. Instead of becoming
disappointed Dr Hecks eliminated the weaker breeds and researched more. He created some new breed. This time he used Spanish bull and high land cattle for their shape
and ferocity.
In 1938 autumn, Dr Heck carried his cattle to 780km far from Berlin to the Goering hunting state. These new breeds were very big in size, violent and genetically unique. The beast was so huge and muscular with big horns that it was used for World War II propaganda posters
to show the strength of Nazi party.
On July of 1941, Poland was attacked by Germans as World War II broke out. The secret police called battalion-322 of German front
started deporting the inhabitants of Bialowieza. It was forest that was then Poland and now situated partly in Belarus and Poland. The forest was the home of European Bison and heaviest animals. It was forest that Goering wanted to use as his hunting zone. Later it was found that the map Goering was looking at was the dummy of this Polish land. According to a recovered war diary, the battalion-322 executed many locales and aboriginals during deportation. But their real agenda was to grab the land. The diary depicted seven days long mayhem, from July 25 to August 1 in 1941. Aurochs found a new home there but local peasant killed them. After the World War-II, no evidence was found that any beast made it
to till the war.
In 2010, similar back breeding process was adopted by a group
of scientist but the results remained undisclosed. Some similar species also exists today. They
are approximately 1.4m in height and weighted 600kg. Still now it is believed that roughly 2000 cross breeds of Hecks cows exist
in Europe. n
During the reign of Adolf Hitler, many secret experiments were
carried out. Among them one of the most controversial projects was the creation of prehistoric monster Aurochs. It was the extinct wild
cattle that are considered by many historians as the predecessors of modern cows. In the late 1930s, the Hitler administration tried to restore or reanimate this extinct species.
For such experiment the newborn species were names “Hitler’s Cow.”
Hitler had a different opinion on breeding, whether it is human or an animal. His policy was breeding from the best and killing the rest. Hermann Wilhelm Goering, one of the politicians and World War-I
veterans, was then the second most powerful man in the Germany. He helped Adolf Hitler a lot to gain power in 1933 and founded the secret German police agency Gestapo. Then he was appointed as the deputy of all offices in 1941.
Goering was the finest hunter in whole Germany. A World War I fighter pilot with an IQ 138, his promotion to third Reich got him firm support from the administration.
Goering was a keen hunter and wanted to hunt something big and bad. He was also a hunting champion who instructed to resurrect some old creature but the name was undisclosed at first. It is said that Goering wanted to hunt the beast
to get the huge horns as trophy and use them as drinking vessel.
In a 1937 photograph taken somewhere, it was founded that Goering was surveying a dummy map of a forest and a man was standing beside him named Dr Lutz Heck.
Dr Ludwig Georg Heinrich Heck, commonly known as Lutz Heck and his brother Heinz Heck were prominent zoologist and researcher in the then Hitler administration. They were the directorate at the Berlin and Munich Zoo. Apart from being zoologist, Dr Lutz Heck was very much interested in genetic
engineering.
The Hecks were attracted to Greek mythologies and they got some
initial inspiration from monsters depicted there. The Hecks started to research on wild cattle and initiated a selective breeding program. They thought to breed a pure race, without any mixture. Actually it was a back breeding program where
various successor cattle were to be used to breed the ancestor cattle.
Aurochs or Bos primigenius was a wild beast could be traced back to ancient times to middle ages when it got extinct. Evidence suggests human began to domesticate cattle 8000 years ago. But aurochs were not like average cattle. According to historical texts aurochs were fast, aggressive and so violent in nature that it could attack human in no time if lured. Their height could be 1.8m, taller than average human height. It was a common cattle found in North Africa, Asia and Europe. By the 13th century,
number of aurochs started to fall drastically. They started to disappear from Britain in 2000 BC but remained in Eastern Europe.
The last living Aurochs died in 1627 in Poland suggested by the inscribed text. The cattle were so big that even Julius Caesar depicted it a much like elephant. The male cattle were at least 160 cm and female were 150cm large. It was weighted up to 1500 kilogram and height was about six feet. Aurochs had
significance in their horns, as they could be 80cm in length with a diameter of 20 to 30cm hence the forehead and frontal bones were much wider than the normal cowed. The horns were curved in three directions: inward and upward, upward and outward and
swinging forward and inward.
The Heck brothers wanted to breed backward. They started to
collect wild, aggressive and
independent cows from all over the world. Some of them are Cossack bull for their wild nature, white park cattle, brown Swiss, Corsican cattle, Highland cattle, Black-pied lowland cattle, Hungarian breeds, fighting bull from Sumac and cattle from Scotland were notable. Even Heck imported bulls from North America to start his experiment. In 1932, he made an attempt to reassemble the Aurochs and genetically bred cattle called Glachl. The newborn offspring was a hybrid of five cattle of which 75 per cent was from Corsican and 25 per cent from Gray cattle,
Highland, lowland and Angeln. But produced breeds were weak, smaller than expected, relied heavily on human and shy in nature.
Goering gave full support to Heck brothers. Instead of becoming
disappointed Dr Hecks eliminated the weaker breeds and researched more. He created some new breed. This time he used Spanish bull and high land cattle for their shape
and ferocity.
In 1938 autumn, Dr Heck carried his cattle to 780km far from Berlin to the Goering hunting state. These new breeds were very big in size, violent and genetically unique. The beast was so huge and muscular with big horns that it was used for World War II propaganda posters
to show the strength of Nazi party.
On July of 1941, Poland was attacked by Germans as World War II broke out. The secret police called battalion-322 of German front
started deporting the inhabitants of Bialowieza. It was forest that was then Poland and now situated partly in Belarus and Poland. The forest was the home of European Bison and heaviest animals. It was forest that Goering wanted to use as his hunting zone. Later it was found that the map Goering was looking at was the dummy of this Polish land. According to a recovered war diary, the battalion-322 executed many locales and aboriginals during deportation. But their real agenda was to grab the land. The diary depicted seven days long mayhem, from July 25 to August 1 in 1941. Aurochs found a new home there but local peasant killed them. After the World War-II, no evidence was found that any beast made it
to till the war.
In 2010, similar back breeding process was adopted by a group
of scientist but the results remained undisclosed. Some similar species also exists today. They
are approximately 1.4m in height and weighted 600kg. Still now it is believed that roughly 2000 cross breeds of Hecks cows exist
in Europe. n
