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The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story Chapter 8

Chapter 8

This chapter is a brief biography of Lutz Heck and an overview of Nazi ideologies regarding eugenics and so-called animal purity.
We suggest the title "What the Heck?"
Heck is obsessed with resurrecting three "pure-blooded extinct species": tarpans, aurochsen, and the European bison.
This obsession with animal purity starts seeping over into human races later on.
Strangely, the Nazis are also "ardent animal lovers" (8.16), and a biologist "was once punished for not giving worms enough anesthesia during an experiment" (8.16).
Have a heart, man. Earthworms have three.

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