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Raccoon invasion of Germany (sopuli.xyz)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Everybody loves raccoons, the animal embodiment of one’s indomitable, anarchic trash-goblin spirit!

(5 seconds later) We regret to inform you that the presence of raccoons in Europe is a legacy of Hitler

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

That might not be as far from the truth as you might think. In 1945, a few individuals escaped a pelt farm (fuck humans) near Berlin due to an unknown cause and some hypothesize a bomb dropped during an air raid could have destroyed an enclosure.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

IIRC, encouraging raccoon farming was a specific NSDAP policy, and may have started in the Nazi era.